A Relishing Tragedy

2003-08-27

Party Marty is the guy who gets the crowds going at the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball games. Tonight though, he didn�t seem to be himself. It was pretty obvious that Party Marty wasn�t in the party mood. In fact he seemed to be pissed at something or someone. Half way through the game he reappeared in the stands to do his job and pump up the crowd. Few minutes later it was time for the Hot Dog race, a favorite of mine. The competing amateurs were people dressed as hot dog with relish, hot dog with mustard and regular one. As they set off from the starting line, regular and mustard couldn�t master their running technique resulting into bumping each other down leaving Relish running for the home stretch. Out of nowhere comes Party Marty heading straight for Relish and with full force knocking the wind out of it. Relish got up dazed but continued for the line. Few minutes later everyone forgot about it all till the announcement came on, that due to Marty�s stupidity, Relish was out of the running giving Mustard the first place. That wasn�t the end of it. Turns out, Relish was Party Marty�s 100 pound ex girlfriend whom he fought with before the game. Naturally she called the cops on him and in the 7th inning, Party Marty was hauled off by the gracious NYPD with a 2nd degree assault and a guaranteed job loss. Truth is, Party Marty is a celebrity down in Coney Island but I can only say one thing about that, the party is over.