Seeing as how Huston Street isn't able to pitch right now thanks to his right elbow, he's got a lot of extra time on his hands. On Thursday night he used all that free time to sit in with Glen Kuiper and Ray Fosse in the broadcast booth during Oakland's 3-2 victory over the Mariners.Street spent about four innings in the booth, and it was quite entertaining. In fact, I recommend FSN Bay Area gets him up there more often. Huston shared a lot of anecdotes and stories about his personal life, including how he proposed to his girlfriend.
The man bought her 1,500 roses. Not fifteen, not fifteen dozen, not even 150. One thousand five hundred roses. That's a lot of damn roses. Street did go on to say that he got sick of having them around the house all the time because of the smell, but said his fiance wouldn't throw them out. She'd get rid of them as they died, but when they were all dead, she made him clean them up.
Ah, married life.
To learn some of the other things Huston shared, follow me after the jump.
Some of the other things Huston did while up in the booth.
- The promos for the Build-A-Bear night on July 8th in which the A's will give away a bunch of stuffed Stomper the Elephants.
- Gave away four free tickets to the first caller to go to Stomper the Elephant night.
- Explained why Nick Swisher was the greatest roommate ever because he got free cable, a free fridge filled with soda, and a free ping-pong table.
- Called Swisher's home run in the sixth inning.
- Lobbied to get a Chad Gaudin bobblehead night because Chad had been complaining in the clubhouse he was the only guy without his own bobblehead.
Previously at The FanHouse:
Huston Street Is Bionic
