The city of Cleveland was powerless this afternoon thanks to the Great Power Outage of 2003. An hour from the city, our whole town was without power for five hours, which in retrospect now looks like nothing much more serious than a run on ice. It took me four tries to find a place that still had some, and the convenient store that did have a couple bags left let me have them for free, since they were melting anyway. I experienced only the early pangs of Internet withdrawal.
But for Indians fans, the "Day the Power Went Out" will have to share the date with "The Day Hafner Hit For the Cycle". The 6'3' 240 lb. Hafner legged out a triple in the eighth inning, much to the delight of his teammates, who had been trying to figure out where the slow-footed first baseman would have to hit the ball in order to get all the way to third. (The right-centerfield alley, as it turns out.) By the way, good guys win, 8-3.
Posted by dan at August 14, 2003 11:28 PM