{"id":26027,"date":"2025-11-18T12:44:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=26027"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:44:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:44:52","slug":"take-us-out-to-the-ballgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2025\/11\/take-us-out-to-the-ballgame\/","title":{"rendered":"take us out to the ballgame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fine cold morning saw 6 pax posting to one of the most uninspired and uninspiring preblasts yhc has ever created.<\/p>\n<p>had devised a plan to get down to ballpark, get around it and back.<\/p>\n<p>mission and core principles were recited.<\/p>\n<p>we warmed up even though flatline doesn&#8217;t usually do that, b\/c yhc needs to warm up getting older.<\/p>\n<p>ssh, hillbillies, ist, forward and backward ast, abe vigodas usually 11 of each<\/p>\n<p>we moseyed to ballpark mostly down 2nd street. there was a bit of grumbling it was like 2 miles to the ballpark but actually its only 0.8.<\/p>\n<p>we did at each full intersection (traffic 4 ways): a<\/p>\n<p>grand slam (that is 4 burpees)<\/p>\n<p>so that was roughly maybe 10 times, 5 on the way there and 5 on the way back<\/p>\n<p>at the ballpark, making our way around we stopped several times and did<\/p>\n<p>change up merkins (pulse merkins, 3 count down, 1 up, maybe 20 of these<\/p>\n<p>knuckleball flutters (no rhythm, no counting), maybe 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>yhc saw the bridge and we moseyed out to that and facing traffic did maybe 20-30 monkey humpers<\/p>\n<p>there were some questions about whether we were protesting, etc, alas not<\/p>\n<p>dr. toot correctly guessed that was a bonus exercise not part of the original plan<\/p>\n<p>continuing our way around the ballpark we did near the batting cages:<\/p>\n<p>nolan ryans, 20 each side<\/p>\n<p>double play burpees, a burpee with 2 merkins, dr. toot thought we should do 11 so we did<\/p>\n<p>up near the home stretch coming back toward first street to return we did<\/p>\n<p>shortstop shuffle &#8211; that&#8217;s apollo ohnos, maybe 20 each side?<\/p>\n<p>then to the green monster. run down to parking lot. go to the largest hill.<\/p>\n<p>green monster &#8211; carlton fisk&#8217;s (yes yhc created most of these names)<\/p>\n<p>5 merkins at the bottom. run to the top, 5 star jumps (carlton fisk waving the ball inside the foul pole in 1975 and celebrating when he saw it was a homer).<\/p>\n<p>run down or crawl bear down.<\/p>\n<p>5 trips. decrease star jumps by 1 each time. 5 merkins each time. we finished at top of hill.<\/p>\n<p>return to start via first street, grand slams at each major intersection<\/p>\n<p>mary:<\/p>\n<p>11 ish of each<\/p>\n<p>penguin crunches, mutton crunches, ww2&#8217;s, heels to heaven, ring of fire merkins starting with 5<\/p>\n<p>all enjoyed the workout<\/p>\n<p>we moseyed \/ ran 1.95 miles<\/p>\n<p>announcements<\/p>\n<p>yhc has wib on thurs, location tbd. trader joes, publix, graylyn were thrown out as options<\/p>\n<p>sat loading truck at alcatraz, yhc is the q it is for toys for kids. 200+ boxes lots of fun pls come out sat to river oaks \/ alcatraz.<\/p>\n<p>sign up for samaritan ministries see drip<\/p>\n<p>prayer requests<\/p>\n<p>lamb chop m wife&#8217;s bridesmaid<\/p>\n<p>pax and m \/ family of pax with health \/ medical issues<\/p>\n<p>nmm<\/p>\n<p>folks seemed to like the format, lots of mumblechatter about derrieres, suppositories, most all of it appropriate enough but most of it not repeatable<\/p>\n<p>really enjoyed this group of guys coming out today<\/p>\n<p>lamb chop and drip kept us entertained<\/p>\n<p>boo boo hung with yhc when yhc was behind, which was most of the time, and had to get to work soon after<\/p>\n<p>dr toot and bootsie were up there pushing the pace, the WB and the WD!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fine cold morning saw 6 pax posting to one of the most uninspired and uninspiring preblasts yhc has ever created. had devised a plan to get down to ballpark, get around it and back. mission and core principles were recited. we warmed up even though flatline doesn&#8217;t usually do that, b\/c yhc needs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bootcamp","category-flatline"],"acf":{"q":"crash","date":"2025.11.18","pax":"dr. toot, boo boo, lamb chop, drip, bootsie, crash"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26028,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26027\/revisions\/26028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}