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Games between innings

Back when the Cubs had so-so years I remember playing a drinking game with my friends called "ball on mound". The best as I remember is that after the inning was over who ever was the last to touch it will throw the ball back to the mound. Some time’s it would stay on, some times it would roll off, and that’s when you were to drink. Are me and my friends the only fools who did this? And if this was a drinking game what are the rules or any other games people do to pass the time between innings? Dont ask me why I have to know this I was talking to someone about this and they looked at me as if I was on glue.

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I do stuff like this

Lots of people do your ball/mound thing but instead of drinking bet money. Me and my friends pass a hat around and you put in a buck for ever batter. Whoever has the hat when someone gets a hit gets the money, and then you start over again

by JimboJet on Jan 13, 2009 8:11 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Yup

Play this often except its usually a cup in our case…usually play at AAA games when there are more oportunities for friends to be present.

by StevenABQ on Jan 14, 2009 12:31 PM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Not a drinker

But I’ve sat with people in the bleachers who played exactly this game. The key is, the ball almost NEVER ends up on the top of the mound, so….much drinking ensues!

Fontenot (fon-te-no): Cajun for "scrappy"

by zambranofan on Jan 13, 2009 8:18 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

That's probably the point.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Jan 13, 2009 8:23 PM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

ball on mound

It certainly is a standard game. I have been to parks where the announcer or scoreboard kept track of the results.

It is not as interesting these days because the player who ends up with the ball after the last out invariably tosses it into the stands. The game is not as exciting when it is the umpire rolling the ball from behind home plate.

WhistlerWilliams

by WhistlerWilliams on Jan 13, 2009 8:38 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I used to like drinking games

Then I just got sick of waiting to drink.

The worst beer I had was pretty good.

by Worf on Jan 13, 2009 9:36 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

+1

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by dtpollitt on Jan 13, 2009 10:13 PM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

It's like playing the board game Pass Out.

After a while you just kind of ignore the board. ;+)

by NWIowaCubFan on Jan 14, 2009 9:32 AM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Our Rules

I’ve seen it played 1,000 different ways but here is how we play:

Ump Rolls Ball on Grass – 2 Drinks
Ump Rolls Ball on Dirt – 5 Drinks
Ump Throws Ball to Pitcher – 10 Drinks
Ump Rolls Ball, Ball is Touching Rubber – Finish Drink

by slumpbuster17 on Jan 13, 2009 9:55 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

What are you drinking?

If 10 drinks from the same cup isn’t enough to finish?

The worst beer I had was pretty good.

by Worf on Jan 13, 2009 10:08 PM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I believe...

most drinking games go off the 16 drinks per beer guideline.

Free Ronny Cedeno

by Kansas25 on Jan 13, 2009 10:46 PM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

That's using the imperial system

10 drinks if you’re playing metric.

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by Fuk-U-Meter on Jan 13, 2009 10:56 PM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

16 drinks per beer?????

What, are you drinking steaming hot cocoa????

This is why I watch games at home. Between innings, I fix another sandwich, let the dogs out, go to the bathroom or flip around to other channels.

And I drink my beers in 5 gulps.

The worst beer I had was pretty good.

by Worf on Jan 14, 2009 7:27 AM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Most drinking games...

rarely deal out 1 drink penalties though. Most deal anything from 4 drinks (1/4 beer) to the full 16.

Free Ronny Cedeno

by Kansas25 on Jan 14, 2009 11:28 AM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

That's a pretty popular game...

…although I’ve always heard it referred to as “mound ball”.

My preference is for what we call “hit cup”. That’s where you put a dollar in a cup and if the batter makes an out, you pass it to the next participant who then puts in another dollar, and so on. When a batter gets a hit, the person holding the cup gets the money. It certainly makes the official scorer’s decisions more interesting.

"Some people will look at a glass of water and say it's half-empty, while another guy will look at it and say it's half-full. A Cubs fan looks at the same glass and asks, "When's it gonna spill?" - Mike Royko

by LaddieRenfroe on Jan 13, 2009 10:19 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Up in section 529 we have a game....

Since our tickets are in row 1, we will often throw a peanut on the ground in the aisle. We then cheer for it to be kicked to one side or the other. Occasionally when someone drops a mustard packet, we predict whether it will squish to the right or to the left when someone steps on it (not that we would ever purposely drop a mustard packet, because that can ruin a shoe, etc)

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by Fuk-U-Meter on Jan 13, 2009 10:32 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Aisle 529 sounds NUTS.

See what I did there?

Brian McRae's 5 o'clock shadow

by PurpleLineToWrigley on Jan 14, 2009 2:54 PM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

One from the vault... (yes, I'm slipping in a dead reference there)

actually the SI Vault. from the Scorecard section, October 13, 1997.

Of all the low moments in the Chicago White Sox’ 1997 season, one was particularly disturbing to Doug Rader, the Chicago third base coach who resigned last week. Rader recalls a mid-August home game when Sox vice chairman Eddie Einhorn phoned the dugout from a team box to—we are not making this up—dictate that a Chicago pitcher leave the ball on the mound rather than the infield grass at the end of the inning. Einhorn, a part-owner of the club, had made a small bet with a buddy that that was where the ball would end up. “It was the seventh or eighth inning of a game we’re trying to win, and a game we didn’t win,” Rader told the Chicago Tribune. “But after the game [Einhorn] came down and was laughing about it.”

Einhorn was not available for comment, but according to White Sox publicist Scott Reifert, Einhorn “realizes it was inappropriate, and it won’t happen again.”

I remember when that first came out. Doug Rader went up several notches in my Respect poll when I read that.

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by ballhawk on Jan 13, 2009 10:58 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

WOW!!!!

ballhawk you rock ! I dont ever remember hearing that story !

by jtsurf on Jan 13, 2009 11:14 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Back during the Dusty years...

my friends and I noticed the producers penchant for constantly showing us Tony LaRussa during cardinal games. He’d be in the dugout contemplating making a pitching change just to get the 2nd strike on a batter or whatever. Everytime they showed TLR you would take a drink. Everytime they showed Dusty, you would top-off, refill your drink. Any mention of how TLR and Dusty are good friends but this rivalry has taken its toll on that friendship and you finished whatever was in your cup.

by CubFan81 on Jan 14, 2009 9:39 AM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

other games

inning ending DP lottery buys a round

lottery for first BB by a Cub pitcher buys a round

buy a round for each Cub run (could be cheap or expensive)

Piniella: "This is a tougher job than I thought it would be, I'm going to be honest with you."

by Ivy Walls on Jan 14, 2009 10:17 AM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Interesting.

I had no idea these baseball-oriented drinking games existed. The only one I ever played with any regularity was quarters.

RIP Ron Asheton (1948-2009)

by dat cubfan daver on Jan 14, 2009 11:21 AM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Dollar game

My group plays the dollar game at every Cub game. Pretty simple, one guy starts and puts a dollar in the cup. Pass the cup on outs, next guy puts dollar in. Clean the cup on base hits and pass to the next guy. Put and extra dollar in for a DP. Everyone pays the holder an extra dollar on HR. We’ll play some side bets like attendance game or whatever sounds good. Keeps everyone in the game and we actually have to pull for an opponent to get a hit but hope the next guy can hit into a DP. We had a game recently when Z and the other starter went like 5 hitless innings. The guy holding the cup won like $30. We had to put in an excessive celebration rule!

This is only the beginning....Lou Pinella end of '07 season and Chicago Transit Authority (the band when they were really good).

by mrcubsfan on Jan 14, 2009 1:15 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I've done the same

But we just play when the Cubs are at bat. Whats the fun in cheering for the other team?

by delorean80 on Jan 14, 2009 3:33 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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