FoodBozo.com » Gum http://foodbozo.com Experiences, education, opinions, culture, & fun with food! Sat, 19 May 2012 19:15:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Batter’s novel use of a wad of gum http://foodbozo.com/2011/04/batters-novel-use-of-a-wad-of-gum/ http://foodbozo.com/2011/04/batters-novel-use-of-a-wad-of-gum/#comments Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:12:39 +0000 bozobouffe http://foodbozo.com/?p=3207 Pittsburgh’s Matt Diaz appears to find a new purpose for bubblegum in a baseball game.

You have to like how Matt Diaz(notes) of the Pittsburgh Pirates wasted nothing in preparing for his pinch-hitting appearance Friday. Not only did he take several dry hacks in the on-deck circle — like anybody would coming off the bench — but he got in one live round by spitting out a considerable wad of gum and swinging at it.

Matt Diaz will heretofore be known as “Mr. Perfect”!

Did Diaz hit the gum? The video evidence is inconclusive. But it definitely didn’t help him in his eighth-inning at-bat; He struck out (looking) against Chicago Cubs left-hander John Grabow(notes). Perhaps, if he had swung … or the ball had been made of bubble gum.


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SINGAPORE (AFP) – Singapore on Thursday stuck to its 18-year ban on the import and sale of chewing gum, which has become an international symbol of the city-state’s image as a strict society.

“The government stands by its decision to ban chewing gum,” Maliki Osman, parliamentary secretary at the Ministry of National Development, told parliament.

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