Angel Stadium Breaking Another Guinness World Record
by Rev Halofan on Nov 3, 2011 4:00 PM PDT
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First Snuggie night, then Wrestling Mask night... and now...
20,000 Orange County Third Graders are slated to take over Angel Stadium of Anaheim for a World Record-Breaking History Lesson. Caroline Sunshine, co-star of Disney's hit series Shake it Up, will emcee this record-shattering event. A press conference immediately following event to confirm the world record.
An estimated 20,000 Orange County third-graders will learn history while making history when they converge upon Angel Stadium of Anaheim on Tuesday, November 8 for what is expected to be a world-record shattering event. The educational program, named The Gift of History, will teach students about the rich history of Orange County and include presentations from celebrities, elected officials and regional education leaders. Officials from the Guinness Book of World Records will also be on hand to certify the event as the largest history lesson ever to take place during a post-event press conference.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 10 a.m.
Currently scheduled program presenters include:
- Caroline Sunshine, star of Disney Channel's hit comedy Shake it Up
- Gail Eastman, Anaheim City Councilmember, author of Anna's Home by the River, and Chairman of the Children's Education Foundation of Orange County
- Bill Habermehl, Superintendent, Orange County Dept. of Education
- Gaddi Vazquez, former Ambassador to the Vatican and member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors
- Stan Oftelie, author of Nothing Rhymes with Orange
- Jose Mota, Angels broadcaster and former Major League Baseball and Cal State Fullerton player
- And Mickey Mouse!
The Gift of History is a partnership between the Orange County Education Foundation and several key sponsors including: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the Disneyland Resort, Kaiser Permanent, the Orange County Education Foundation, Orange County Department of Education, the City of Anaheim, Ingram Micro, UPS, American Career College, West Coast University, the Honda Center, Orange County Water District, and Schools First Credit Union.
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"The Gift of History"
Somebody in the marketing department mailed that one in.
What do you need a fancy suit for, Charlie, you ain't got no job to wear it to.
OMG "Shake it up"
is my favorite show……………………..to shut off the TV
good luck to the ushers
I take it you don't have the DOV Secret Decoder Ring
You need to drink more ovaltine
-Quad Fin Rider
whats with the stupid gimmicks? Does anyone even buy the Guinness Record book anymore?
it cant really include all these BS stunt records can it?
by Balls and Strikes on Nov 3, 2011 4:13 PM PDT reply actions
I thought David Copperfield was going to make it disappear
i did not know you could block out the stadium with the ticket offices/front entrance like that pic shows.
Seems to be aided by the fish-eye lens.
by Halowitz on Nov 3, 2011 4:16 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
hell, that's nothing
The FO made the season ticket holders disappear
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
by Moondoggy on Nov 4, 2011 6:45 AM PDT via iPhone app up reply actions
These kids better pay attention. Don't want this happening again:
Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.
Who will serve as color commentator for Ratón Mickey
All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.
by Quad Fin Rider on Nov 3, 2011 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions
You don't think Mickey Mouse can talk about how the Germans invaded Poland back in '39?
He was around for it, ya know?
Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.
by Commander_Nate on Nov 3, 2011 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
At least I know which game NOT to attend.
Bring on the OREO Line!
by angelskid2210 on Nov 3, 2011 4:20 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Haha whoops. Right over my head.
Still won’t be attending. Lol
Bring on the OREO Line!
by angelskid2210 on Nov 3, 2011 4:57 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Can we see how well Caroline Sunshine catches fly balls?
Dipoto! Get on that!
Defending maligned chants since 2009
is that a stage name?
I take it you don't have the DOV Secret Decoder Ring
You need to drink more ovaltine
-Quad Fin Rider
But none of those presenters are TEACHERS.
Could we have possibly conceived of a roster more emblematic of today’s educational problems than this???
A person who has yet to complete her own grade school education…
A politician who is a consultant who works on behalf of history book publishers…
A politician overseeing an educational complex wherein he had coaches getting illegal kickbacks…
A politician who helped run a County Government into what was then the largest governemnt-sector bankruptcy in history, who then purchased for himself a political appointment…
A transportation official embroiled in a nepotism controversy…
A broadcaster who proudly refuses to practice proper diction of the local language…
and…
Mickey Mouse.
The only way they could redeem themselves would be if they collectively teach the attendees the history Reagins’ tenure as GM of the Halos, and the consequences that have resulted. They can caption the lesson “In The Immortal Words of George Santayana”
Jerry DiPoto - god of WAR?
That also sounds like the lineup for most presidential debates (for either party).
Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.
by Commander_Nate on Nov 3, 2011 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, but in the case of "politicians",
you KNOW that they are corrupt nincompoops, running as corrupt nincompoops, for the chance to be professionally paid corrupt nincompoops with authority to do corrupt nincompoop things.
Jerry DiPoto - god of WAR?
You also forgot to say
“…and a Catholic.”
This is a sig.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Nov 3, 2011 4:49 PM PDT up reply actions
To be honest...
the thought of conflating education with religion DID cross my mind for a split second. But Catholicism has been far more compatible with the modern sciences so I let it go.
Jerry DiPoto - god of WAR?
I was saying it more as a joke
Catholicism’s compatibility with history and social studies, on the other hand… :-X
This is a sig.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Nov 3, 2011 5:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't knock Mickey Mouse.
His English usage is good as is his pronunciation, plus he probably knows more about Orange County history than the rest of them together.
He’s the only reason I’d be happy to attend if I were a 3rd grader. Orange county history? Really?
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
Public Schools are jobs programs for teachers....
….more than they’re education programs for kids.
I wouldn’t be shocked if the kids DID learn more from the celebrities at the baseball stadium.
That's a pretty damned offensive generalization.
How many kids do you currently have in public schools?
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
thinking the same thing
I had three kids go through public school – two are in college and one is applying for med school. The public school system did ok by us
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
by Moondoggy on Nov 4, 2011 6:48 AM PDT via iPhone app up reply actions
I went to public school....
My kids went to public school. We all did fine.
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
I went to public school too, and I was very involved with my kids' schools as a volunteer, classroom aid, and through PTA.
I was one of several people invited to sit on district committees just to shut up our local group of parents who objected to some nonsense that our school board tried to institute. They backed down after we did our own study, canvassed the entire district by ourselves to prove their numbers were wrong. It is that involvement that let me see what goes on in the classrooms, and yes, there are a few poor teachers I can point to in my kids’ education but the vast majority were very good.
My three kids attended public schools and went to Cal Poly Pomona, UCI, and Cal State Long Beach but they were offered some juicy scholarships to private colleges. The middle child got some really nice offers from NYU and Mills College. All of them wanted a program that the state schools offered and that were more highly rated than the ones at the private colleges.
My older niece was really interested in one of the Claremont colleges (McKenna?) and at their Senior info fair the students running the booth turned up their collective noses when she told them the HS she was attending. “We don’t usually take students from Temple City.” Turned out they were from Arcadia. She laughed at them because she knew that a significant chunk of graduating seniors from the previous year went to some pretty big name schools, like Harvard and Princeton. She didn’t bother to apply, went to Cal Poly because she like the school, and her little sister went to Yale on a full ride scholarship, from public school education.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
Yeah, younger daughter got offered an academic scholarship to BU
But wasn’t enough to make up the diff between there and UC. We appealed (medical grounds — Sue’s ALS), and they said, “We’d give you more, but we’ve spent everything for this year.” Hence, UCSB.
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
Same here with UCI.
The money offered by Mills merely leveled the playing field between them and UCI, but Mills isn’t for everyone, and while the money and work/study offered by NYU was much better, when we sat down and worked out how much airfare and housing was going to cost, it was a push too. UCI had the third highest rating for her major among all US schools, and it rose to second the following year.
We still lived just south of Oakland so she was far enough away that she didn’t feel like we were breathing down her neck. I don’t remember ever doing that with her, though. It was her little sister who got that treatment.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
All of the scholarships offered to our kids were academic ones except for NYU,
which was a combination of academic and audition, The Tisch School of Fine Arts scholarship or grant or whatever they called it.
They still got some independent scholarships based on academics that they could use for the state schools but they were about enough to buy the books for first semester.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
The Future of K-12 Education
20,000 kids per class.
by Rock Island Line on Nov 3, 2011 4:43 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
Of our previous world records, you left out highest paid salary for an outfielder ever.
Vernon Wells 2011 Stats (.218/.248/.412) and 2010 road stats (.224/.299/.400). The front office shouldn't have been surprised.
Manny Ramirez got more
Whether he was an outfielder or not is questionable, however.
Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.
by Commander_Nate on Nov 3, 2011 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Did he get more in a single season than $23m?
That’s right, the dumb dodger contract. How about world record for the highest paid OF with an OBP under .300?
Vernon Wells 2011 Stats (.218/.248/.412) and 2010 road stats (.224/.299/.400). The front office shouldn't have been surprised.
I'd stick around if only the lesson was
by Torii Hunter and it was “How to identify imposters”
or Erick Aybar’s “Baserunning for idiots”
or Soth’s “Challenges in implementing rigid flowcharts into fluid situations”
Jim Bowden on Tony Reagins.
Style: Authoritative, brilliant baseball mind who works well in the trifecta with owner Arte Moreno and manager Mike Scioscia. Builds teams on pitching and defense up the middle. Active at trade deadlines, will trade prospects and has the resources to acquire All-Stars
by MH252525 on Nov 3, 2011 4:52 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
No thread for this but...Trumbo won the player's award for Rookie of the Year.
Next up MLBs Rookie of the year.
November 14th for Rookie of the Year award from MLB.
Pattimelt gave me the info.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
Will they be playing their recorders?
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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Rumor is...
… he will be teaching a CERA class — just for old times sake.
by YouthofToday on Nov 3, 2011 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I think it's only elementary school kids bro.
Not ITT Tech, Phoenix University and beauty school dropouts.
YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF THE DARKSIDE.....
Luis Polonia may show up, however.
"I'm Tony Reagins. People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks. Years later, a doctor will tell me that I have an I.Q. of 48 and am what some people call mentally retarded."
What a load of crap.
Falling just short of outright exploitation, and well on the bad side of idiocy, this gathering is a mockery of education.
First off, Orange County history? Sure, it might be important in a general sort of way to talk Yorbas (I knew some Yorbas, nice folks!) and Segerstroms and Irvines and oil pumps and oranges, but to third-graders? Come on, what a colossal waste of everything involved in this absurdity.
And let’s talk about the “educators”: Hacks, functionaries, a minor celebrity, Mickey Mouse and Mushmouth Mota. Those third graders won’t know what hit them, and they won’t remember what they “learned” anyway.
This isn’t education, and it doesn’t help any kid, and it provides a stage for the aforementioned luminaries to get their mugs in the paper.
Shit, what uselessness. A goddamn waste in every respect, and a goddamn shame.
The Angels are ill-served by a front office that willfully disregards both modern and classic performance measurements when it comes to Jeff Mathis. Astonishing, and nearly unforgiveable.
by LittleCupcakes on Nov 3, 2011 11:18 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
OC history is what you learn in 3rd grade.
This sounds like it would be a smashingly fun field trip for the kids
Really?
We learned California history in 3rd, but that was back in the Dark Ages.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
I think my kids did too,
I know they all built missions back before the kits came out. Not much local history taught in Riverside 3rd grades other than the stuff about orange groves. I don’t think they even mentioned the canals, without which there would have been no orange groves.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
I thought it was 4th.
I went to school in Santa Ana (Mildred Morrow Elementary, anyone), and in 4th grade we did Japan for the first semester, and CA history for the second.
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
You know, you're right. It was 4th.
I just realized it was Mr Korf and not Mr Black who made me do a report on missions.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
It's a waste of money
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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by SportsChicken on Nov 4, 2011 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions
The only thing I want to see in Anaheim Stadium
is the Halos hoisting another championship banner.
From Jeff Mathis' TOPPS card: "Jeff is a defensive catcher, but he can rake it when it counts." Jeff has a lifetime .199 MLB batting average
My wife will be taking her class there
She asked me if I wanted to help chaperone her class, then I thought “damn, it would be like being DOV for a day” so I opted out, rather go to my job.
CONGER, CONGER, CONGER !!!
There will only be 20,000 kids there....
That’s only half as many kids as DOV has dude. Get over yourself.
YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF THE DARKSIDE.....
She has 32 in her class
so I would have to monitor probably 8 kids, hyped up on sugar and going on a field trip. That seems like a normal DOV day.
CONGER, CONGER, CONGER !!!
do what i do
let them run about and give them food
Food slows them down and gets the tired
if they break anything run away
lastly I ONLY HAVE as many kids as i remember to wake up in the morning
I take it you don't have the DOV Secret Decoder Ring
You need to drink more ovaltine
-Quad Fin Rider
by DAD OF VLAD on Nov 4, 2011 8:43 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
My strong human instincts of self preservation
and the hope to hold on to the last little bit of sanity I may have left, are over ruling my wife’s request. The same thing happens when she want to know if I want to go to a “teacher get together” which seems to happen once a month or so. I can only go to about 4 a year as my “Estrogen Shields” need time to recharge. (Though I do have fun butchering the english language in front of them and watching the horrified looks on their faces.)
CONGER, CONGER, CONGER !!!
Sneak away, and have a personal tour of the stadium
Find out the baby(ie)‘s names that live under Thunder Mountain.
See if they have any Oh Boy hot dogs, or lasagna, in the freezer.
Find any clues as to why Mathis is still on the roster. I’m sure he left his camera behind.
No men teachers at all?
They were becoming scarce at the lower grades when my last one was that age, but we had a few as well as a male principal.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
No male teachers in 3rd grade at her school
I think 1 male teacher in 4th and 1 in 5th. Female principal and asst. principal. The ones who are married, their husbands only show up to some of the get togethers (we have an unwritten agreement). I know way too much “teacher lingo” as it is.
CONGER, CONGER, CONGER !!!
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