The trip to the fair on Saturday made me forget completely about the news from Friday night until I was riding in on the train this morning. As mentioned here on Friday, I attended my second Brooklyn Cyclones game down at Coney Island, a pitcher's duel which resulted in the Cyclones beating arch rivals the Staten Island Yankees 1-0. After the game they were interviewing the winning pitcher and showing it up on the big screen, but about halfway through the interview they cut away to display an image of Relish, the racing hot dog instead, and we all went crazy. See, they have a hot dog race (among many other races and bonus entertainment which make minor league baseball the family fun fiesta that it is) where they show the hot dogs (or maybe people dressed up as hot dogs) emerging from nearby Nathan's on the big screen, and then they come running into the ballpark by the visiting bullpen and race down the third base line to the cheers of the fans. Evidently whenever they play the Yankees the Yankees' bullpen goes over and throws cups of water on poor Relish, who we later found out has a long history of screwing up somehow and losing every race; they showed him as 0-31 on the big screen before the race, but reader Mike A. heard that he had, in fact, NEVER won a race. On this night, however, when he got in front of the Yankee pitchers he pulled out a super soaker and thoroughly wetted them, to the delight of the crowd, and then sprinted quickly past Ketchup and Mustard to end the losing streak in dramatic fashion. Plus there were fireworks after the game, and then we went over to Coney Island proper, where I won enough tickets for a bottle of bubbles AND a ping pong ball. Here are two stories I've found detailing Relish's previously sorry career: here it's the 2nd story down, and this one even has a photo of Mustard instead of our hero... the guy just couldn't catch a break, until Friday night. Tonight the Cyclones finish up their series against the Batavia Muckdogs and then close out the regular season with three games vs. the Hudson Valley Renegades, and with the Renegades only 1 game back the pennant race is going right down to the wire. Go Brooklyn!