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Royal Flush
My small company got acquired some years ago and the executives visited us for a summer BBQ and friendly get-to-know-you whiffle ball game.
The CEO came up with 2 on and 2 out with us up 1 in the last inning and he crowded the plate. I brushed him back, and he crowded the plate even more.
So being stupidly competitive and with a number of beers in me, I did the only thing I could in that situation.
I drilled him in the head.
He went down and got back into the box and stood off the plate so I thought, ok, slider away and he flails and I’m out of the inning.
Threw a good slider, but he stepped into and pulled it over 150 foot tall pines in left for a homer.
At the BBQ line later, his CMO and best friend sidled up to me and said “I prolly should’ve told you, but he was a D-1 all-American for 2 years at baseball.”
Lesson: if you’re going to bean your new CEO, make sure he wasn’t a division 1 all American athlete first.
The CEO came up with 2 on and 2 out with us up 1 in the last inning and he crowded the plate. I brushed him back, and he crowded the plate even more.
So being stupidly competitive and with a number of beers in me, I did the only thing I could in that situation.
I drilled him in the head.
He went down and got back into the box and stood off the plate so I thought, ok, slider away and he flails and I’m out of the inning.
Threw a good slider, but he stepped into and pulled it over 150 foot tall pines in left for a homer.
At the BBQ line later, his CMO and best friend sidled up to me and said “I prolly should’ve told you, but he was a D-1 all-American for 2 years at baseball.”
Lesson: if you’re going to bean your new CEO, make sure he wasn’t a division 1 all American athlete first.