Wheeling at the ballpark

Took my daughter to the Texas Rangers game last night at their Arlington ballpark. Can't say either of us were disappointed as the Rangers rallied from an early 6-3 deficit - their starting pitcher Alexei Ogando stunk - to a walkoff 7-6 win. I spent most of the last two innings standing and shouting, usually at both managers for not doing what I thought they should do. The Rangers manager won despite my advice.



All's well that end's well. Anyway, enough baseball. Back to game shows. Wheel of Fortune, to be exact. One of the between-innings gimmicks on the stadium TV system was a live version of Pat and Vanna's game, played by some randomly picked fan and hosted by one of the Ranger's tee-shirted cheerleaders.



Just as in the real bonus round, they spotted the fan R, S, T, L, N and E. That filled in TE--S LE---ER. Since the category was "baseball term" (surprise) the fan had little trouble guessing "Texas leaguer." She only got to pick two more consonants and a vowel, instead of the standard three consonants and a vowel. But that didn't bother her.



Can't remember what she won. It wasn't $100,000. But I never expected Wheel to roll all the way into a baseball park. That show has worked its way deep into the pop-culture weave.