Scoreboard Gourmet

Israel Baseball League Update

I really wish I had some specific IBL food details for you (and me). For now we'll have to live with Mark Mackinnon's Globe and Mail story So there's no Hebrew word for home plate.

I chose this report over others because it has a funny bit about one of the league's players, a 25-yr old Canadian who "confessed that his best Israel moment to date was finding a very non-kosher McDonald's so he could have an oversized cheeseburger after weeks of little but schnitzels and hummus in the cafeteria at the players' quarters."

I didn't realize they were only playing 7 innings, and deciding ties by HR-derbys.

IBL regular season ends August 15th. Playoffs are the 16th and 17th. Championship game 19th.

I'm having a hard time with pictures. Have to work on that.

Israeli Baseball on WLIW21 Right Now!

advertising comes up in Hebrew but commentary is in English. production quality is pretty high-school, as is the bleacher seating. I'm waiting to see something about food -maybe an ad or a player favorite (they're flashing random info on the batters) - but I Had to post before the end of the airing.

Grizzlies reinvent the Slider

Independent Frontier League?s  Grizzlies (Sauget, IL) expand their creative food concessions list annually. It started in 2004 with Baseball?s Best Hotdog, a 1/5 pound, 8-inch, all black angus dog topped with bacon, sauted onions, sauerkraut and cheddar cheese sauce.

The following year they added the Swiss Brat, bratwurst, swiss cheese and sauerkraut.

Then came Baseball's Best Burger, a seemingly normal bacon-cheddar burger on a Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut bun. See above photo. This burger has received much attention, as many of you likely know.

So what's new for 2007? Baseball's Best Slider, a breaded and fried White Castle cheeseburger. Breaded and fried. $4 for two. This 600-ish-calorie snack will debut on May 23, when the Grizzlies take on the Southern Illinois Miners in their season opener.