Report from the Nachoman's hiatus -- the art of bad punning

Yes, the Nachoman takes his yearly hiatus from early September, when the New Boys arrive at Woodberry*, until the intense fall schedule dies down in November or December. That's why you won't see regular posting for a while.

But that doesn't mean that the Nachoman doesn't keep up with playoff baseball. Congratulations to the Devil Rays and Wife Beaters**, who start the World Series after bedtime on Wednesday night.

This morning, I perused the major internet sports sites for reaction to the Devil Rays victory. Nearly universally, it seems, these sites hire the nerdy "I'm smarter than the teacher" kid from Mrs. Johnson's seventh grade class -- you know, the one whose parents make sure he gets to skip spelling lessons every week to go to Gifted Ed -- to write their headlines. We had:

Amazing Rays
Rays the Roof
Happy Rays
Hip Hip Hoo-Rays
Hoo-Ray

Apparently, just "Rays Win" or "Rays Beat Sox, Series Bound" doesn't cut it any more.

Congrats to the St. Petersburg Times for the simple headline, "We Did It!" Of course, the pronoun "We" implies that the Times, and their readers as well, somehow contributed to the Rays pennant. Nevertheless, I'll take that any day before the onslaught of bad punning.

So enjoy the World Series. Only a few more Rays of baseball left this season.

Groan.

-- NM


* The Nachoman's day job is as a physics teacher and football coach at a boys' boarding school.
** Even though I lived in Philadelphia for four years, I can't root for a team that employs Bret Myers. Kinda like I have to disown the Bengals this year for hiring Chris Henry and the rest of Cell Block E.