Let me first say that I had a great time at the event and it was really cool of the guys to allow three of your buddies attend the event. The MJH/ESPN crew did a nice job of running things. There was no confusion or chaos to get from one place to the next. I might have a few things to say that may sound negative, but it's just some criticisms for next time they may want to think about.

Alright, so I was one of the unlucky bastards that had an early tee time (7:48am) for this long ass day. I got there about 20 minutes before tee time. ESPN had a table at the side of the clubhouse and bag boys waiting to grab our clubs and stuff. They handed out the tickets for the day to me and then asked me too see if I had an X on the back of any of my tickets to see if I had won the free soft cooler....I did so an early score for me.

Got to our carts where they had our stuff set up. First time I had used GPS on a golf cart to track how far away your ball is from the hole...very cool. We had coolers on our carts where our "Free Miller Lite" was. There were a total of two Miller Lites in the cooler on each cart. Everybody got one Miller Lite....uhhh what?! I saw a tub with more Miller Lites and a buddy of mine and I decided to stock up where a Miller Lite rep was like, "no dude, you're set. Beers are in the cooler." I checked with others and everyone had just 2 in their cooler. My buddy and I went ahead and grabbed quite a few more. I thought that was kind of cheap of Miller Lite to do that the way this event had been advertised and talked about on air.

The golf course was awesome. I parred the first two holes thinking I'd end up shooting very well. Oh no...I ended up shooting a 104. Yea, I know that's god awful, but the water lined fairways can be a bitch if you aren't always hitting the ball straight. Either way, I should have shot better. Jurko was a three groups ahead of us which ended up being funny as hell because throughout the entire day about every two holes I'd hear Jurko's recognizeable voice go "God Damn It." It was hilarious because it was like every 25-30 minutes...like clock work. You'd swear the guy ended up shooting a 120 the way he sounded all day. He finished with a 91 I believe.

Afterwards talked to him and he was meeting the group I had brought. One of my buddies names said his name was Scott and Jurko goes, "Did you say Jimmy?" Ha, now we see why had so much trouble calling that woman from Connie's pizza Ambrosia (He referred to her as Gretchen for the entire day when she brought pizzas to MJH one day for those of you who didn't hear that story on the show). Talked about our round and Jurko told us he should have shot far better but "mayonaisse" had ruined his day. He was eating a sandwich and mayo got all over his hands. He attempted to dry them off, but apparently didn't get them clean and he about lost his "tree-iron" in the air on the first shot after that. Apparently couldn't get a good grip for the next couple of shots. Delevitt said this was Jurko's story about why a shot would be bad after I would hear a "God Damn It" on the course. From what I could gather I don't think Harry actually played the entire 18...just kind of took shots here and there...of Tequila. Thing is, he seems to not be affected by that stuff whenever I've seen him drink it. He must be immune to it. Mac had a late tee time and no one really saw much of him as we pretty much all went to the horse races after Mac had washed up after his round.

On to the buses, yea I said buses. For some reason they got two charter buses for 40+ people. No complaining here as every man had both seats to themselves. MJH didn't hop on the buses due to wanting to have their cars for the end of the day. I could understand that with two guys living in N'West Indiana and Jurko having to do a live show the next day. I think it would have made the bus trip a bit more entertaing with everyone on the same bus plus everyone from the station as well. Miller Lite came back strong with pretty much as many beers as you can drink from Woodridge to Arlington.

Horse Races up next and I will admit, I wanted to watch Harry be in his element. I think he was mad at me though when we talked in the morning due to our continued Kevin Kline disagreement and the fact that he was most mentioned when I sent in all of our predictions of the Manniversary to the guys to read on air Thursday. I told him we kid because we love...but he was like "Ehhh, harry here...ehh." This was the event I think, along with Mac I might add, should have been done differently. There was no tent for the group as it had been talked about on air, or at least it felt like that was discussed on air? We all had our own sections to sit at. This made the event not that social friendly at all. As Mac said to me earlier, "I thought we'd be able to fraternize more at the races." Free food and a pop at the races. No free alcohol. Again, I kind of thought this was an all day event of freeness and Miller Lite was going to pony up the entire day. A lot of people were kind of surprised by that. Again, no necessarily bitching because there was so much free fun throughout the day, but the way the event was talked about kind of sounded like Miller Lite was going to take good care for us. Maybe they didn't want anyone puking? Still bought some drinks with my own money. I did enjoy the races and sat by Harry for some of it. I knew a little about racing, but he ended up teaching me how to read a program correctly. So many damn big and small numbers of jitterish when explaining each horse. Harry did a ncie job of breaking it down. I won my first race betting win, place, and show (dif $ amounts) on one horse. After that, I took Harry's advice once and saw my horse die the last few seconds of the race. The other race I had the same horse without knowing Harry did as well and the horse sucked ass big time. I gave Harry some shit for it, but I still could tell he did know what he was talking about. Again, no tent to chat it up with everyone and knock downa few beers. I thought this would be the event wear it'd be more party like with the drinks flowing and knockin' downa few shots in a reserved tent with our own tellers...again, I think Mac thought that's what was going to go down as well. Later at the Sox game, he offered the idea of going fishing instead jokingly...or was he?

No, Harry and Mac did not have any scary embraces like the one seen on these boards.

From Arlington to US Cellular Miller Lite provided...NOTHING! No beer at all to drink for this hour and a half drive so even if you had a decent buzz it was gone by the time you got to the game. I'm not sayin I was trying to get completely hammered, but I thought again Miller Lite kind of dropped the ball there for what this day was dubbed to be.

The Miller Lite Party Deck we were at was pretty fuckin' sweet. We got beer tickets (yes, Miller Lite gave you two beers for the game, joy!) and sucked those down in no time. The area had a billiards table, a bar, video games, a dance floor and free food. The deck is lower suite level near the left field foul pole. You'd never notice from the outside what was all offered in that area. This was where the most fraternizing took place. Good times and the beer started flowing then even if it was out of your own pocket (I mean, I wasn't going to be a cheap ass!) No real stories of puking or anyone doing anything stupid. Jurko was cracking me up with some of his stories from the days he lived in Jacksonville. He used to have part ownership in a cigar shop before he found out it was a front for storing and trafficking cocaine. Everyone also thought he said they were whorring out checks as well but later Jurko explained he said humidors...even though we all heard whors. Anyway, the sherrif had pulled him aside and told him the situation of what went on there and Jurk to his cigars and humidors and busted out "d'air."

Jurk mentioned Pastor a bit briefly with me and chuckled at the name he was given by Feder. He said Pastor wasn't much of a decision guy on his own as he usually looks up to the uppers on what to do in situations...cough Mac and Harry. Sounded to me like there was a possibility this could have been completely handled in house with ESPN really caring what took place. Seemed like Spaceball was trying to do the right thing through all of this as I had suspected earlier, but his hands were tied.

Jurko also mentioned to me why he was late for the game (I believe it was a third inning arrival by the Good Kid). He missed two exits to get to US Cellular said the hell with it because he was too hungry and grabbed some donuts at Dunkin' Donuts. He apparently was still up for donuts as he told me he'd be right back because he needed to grab a donut. He came back and had a hot dog with relish.

Harry seemed like he had worked up a pretty good buzz during the Sox game as i saw him drinking beer. I think beer may actually be what hits him harder as he started to look a little clueless from time to time and couple sentences said to me didn't quite make much sense.

I know I didn't really have anything juicy, but I'm not going to just make things up so good dolphin can get off on the gossip and info. It was a pretty tame crowd and MJH behaved themselves well. I do wish I had asked Mac if I could get an honest opinion on our new favorite show to beat down Salisbury and Rosenbloom, but forgot. He probably wouldn't have said anything alarming, but I wish I would have at least asked him point blank if he though Sean was the worst arguer of all-time since he never actually makes a point and just tries to make anyone else feel insignificant around him. What an idiot...I did drop the ball on that. But again, it was about having a fun day off. Again, it was a great day and I thank all of those guys over there for having me there and putting on a great event. We continued the night back in the 'burbs, but didn't last long. It was one long ass day. Glad I was a part of it. Would have been a hell of a lot more interesting if 40 people from this board had attended. I can't even imagine the stupidity that would have went down.

Thanks for the detailed update, WR! Sounds like it was a great time. Very surprising that Miller would only pony up for 48oz. of beer per man ---sounds like the only real downer in an otherwise great day.

I have to say that I printed out all 4 pages of your post and read it on the can this morning with the sports section. I looked forward to reading your summary of the Manniversary more than what our city's sports writers and columnist had to offer on this All Star Tuesday. I must be a board regular now!

I am not a golfer or Sox fan, but it still would have been fun.

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Ryan had been waiting for Silvy and Carmen to show all day. By the 9th inning he was feeling like a jilted date on prom night. Then suddenly from across a crowded room he saw the two objects of his affection. Their eyes met and Silvy silently mothed "do you want to dance?" Ryan looked around the room and, seeing no one else around, pointed to himself and mouthed "me!" Carm and Silvy nodded in mutual agreement.

They all crossed the room onto the dance floor. The anticipation made the moment seem like an eternity. Then, finally, they met in the middle of the dance floor. Their hands clasped onto each others in an unbreakable circle of trust and love. The mere touch of hand sent shivers down WR's spine. He could tell by the looks on S and C's faces that they shared the same feeling.

As the band played Unchained Melody Silvy and Carm pulled WR close to them. Their warm breath felt good on WR's neck. As the three came closer their cologne combined to form a pastiche of Paco Raban and Old Spice. Each knew of the others unspoken pain caused by unrequited love...but those painfull moments were over.

The crowd dispersed in a drunken glory after a White Sox victory...but the outcome had not been determined yet for the three boys. As the last people at the party left they could see WR wearing Silvy's officer's hat and the three joined as one slowly swaying to the sounds of Misty.

good dolphin, you're sick

damn, GD....you should write them Harlequinns...haha!

I was just looking to spice up your story a little.

It sounded like a good time. I'm sure Miller was requested not to overserve early on as it was going to be a long day. However, as soon as I only saw two in the cart, would have filled a plastic bag with ice and jammed in as many road colas into the bag as would fit.

Also, it sounds like MJH treated it like they were guests at the outing they hosted.

North Shore J - Glad I could pass the time.

I agree with you that Miller had the brakes on as far as overserving people.

I told the story when Boers and Mac took about 40 of us up to Milwaukee for a Sox game years ago and Hamms beer was the sponser and they brought about 8 cases on the bus..We all made the bus driver stop at the liquor store and stocked up on Vodka and about 20 cases of Miller and Bud..The Hamms was never touched.

You guys should of stopped and stocked up Ryan ..

It was pretty cool that MJH did go out and do an event like this..I don't see B&B or North doing such events..They don't like hanging out with listeners period..

Glad to see you had a good time WR..Hopefully we can all get together soon at some Chicago venue and break bread as well.

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Awesome Manniversary summary!!!!

Thanks Ryan!

thanks WR for the play-by-play. Sounded like a good time. Not an easy golf course... I went through 2 sleeves of balls on that track. Glad y'all had a good time.

Coach, did I say the Sox lost somewhere in my recap? If so, obviously wrong. Minor detail I messed up at 2:22am this morning, ha. I couldn't believe I saw a homerun by freakin' Coco Crisp in that game.

I forgot to include the words "Based On Actual Events."

Ah yes, again thanks to good dolphin for his warped mind to go into detail of his burrito fantasies. Good work.

I find it odd that Miller was being bogarts on the beer..I just was thinking about the last two events that I've attended and they were sponsered by Vodka companies..I was at the Western Open on Saturday and my wifes company had a VIP tent on the 18th hole sponsered by Grey Goose Vodka..They could not give you enough vodka and gave away bottles of leftovers. I don't even drink anymore but they kept asking me if I wanted to try the vanilla, orange, raspberry and any other flavors they have.They had two very HOT Grey Goose girls pushing the product all afternoon.

I was at the Chelios & Roenick golf outing last year and Kettle-one was doing they same thing..They had modles making vodka with lemon-ice slushy's and passing out shots left and right.They had about 20 cases left over and people were asked to take what was left .

Push the hard stuff but go cheap on the beers..Maybe the vodka people have to push more or are just bigger drinkers, I don't know..

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Slapshot, I agree. Almost every event I've been to where it was dubbed as free alcohol they usually are trying to give you more than you want. Like I said, I couldn't quite figure out the reason behind it. Maybe ESPN 1000 set a limit in hopes of no real horror stories from their event? Not sure. Either way, had a great time.

so no bus puking then.......damnit

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This event sounds like it was as lame as I thought it was going to be. Doesn't seem like there was much opportunity for mass socializing until the end of the day--and the dearth of alcohol is unforgiveable. The whole affair sounds like the fun was planned out of it, like it was so meticulously regimented that Mac forgot that the purpose of the Manniversary was to CELEBRATE the show WITH listeners, not to keep them occupied with a series of isolated and isolating "busy work" leisure activities. I think it's telling that Ryan's account focuses mostly on logistical and bureaucratic details rather than memorable stories generated by the day itself.

TM, while I get what you say I still was very appreciative of the day. No one else in town would have an event like this and there was plenty of socializing at the sox game. Good times

I think you had a better time in good dolphin's version of events....

WR,

Tall Midget would find fault with God. TM is short form for Killjoy.

Thanks for the taking the time to post an update about the Mannivesary.

well....sounds like it was a good time overall. i wish i could've gone, but the angel of death was calling....

btw...
tom arraya of slayer dedicated mandatory suicide to our troops..


....nice.

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You mean your god, Jesse, right?

Sorry, but his faults are obvious to everyone except you....

for some reason i think midget's god would look something like this...

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Ha, good stuff. I always enjoy posts by TM. Good sense of humor and he gets really into back and forth blows some times. Good times. Gotta get TM at this outing.

...I worship at the altar of Mr. Pickles...

Woodridge -

I gave up on you, but you pulled through anyway with a nice update. It is good to hear you had a nice time. I have to agree with the several others that said that Miller probably had to cap their supply. I don't think it's a cost thing. I think it's a liability concern and probably a good idea.

Hey Doug, don't be dissin on Eddie or Iron Maiden.

Probably the best concert I ever saw: Maiden opening for the Scorps at Alpine Valley on the Number of the Beast / Blackout Tour.

I also played Asteroids with singer Bruce Dickinson (and WON I might ad) and hot tubbed with guitarist Dave Murray.

Hit button #48 for me McWarrior will you?