Draft Day II Dominicano!!!
All right, to fully capture the spirit of the Dominican crowd (which basically was basically somewhere between a dance club in a sketchy neighborhood and a knife fight), I’m going to go straight to the video. i will say, i had a blast, but at no point did i feel 100% confident that i would not be injured or killed in a giant gang war. Each inning the crowd got more and more raucous and by the end, the security guards had one finger on the trigger at all times, but it was a good game, and afforded us the opportunity to have the lovely YouAreMyFantasy.com spokesmodels pull the draft order for us.
we also had one domincan who was quite a borracho who kept accusing us of being aussies and throwing out anti-aussie insults at us. it’s really weird having someone try to insult you based off of a misunderstanding they have about who you are. i would give a funny “for instance”, but that might offend missle mike. anyway, my response to el borracho’s exhortations about kangaroos was “no soy aussie, soy dominicano!!”
btw, this guy wasn’t dominican (like me) but he meant so much to BP that i just wanted to give him a shoutout.
it’s these kinds of relationships that make the draft so special.
