lennynatural's blog post - Bad timing, or, honey I really NEEDED that beer

Last week a guy from Minnesota travels to Chicago with his girlfriend and they go to a ball game at historic Wrigley Field. Unknown to her, her young man has made arrangements with the good folks at the ball park to flash "Erica, will you marry me?" on the electronic message display on the scoreboard. I don't know if he knew just when the message would come up but the announcers in the broadcast booth knew and so did the camera crew. The message comes up and the announcers tell the television viewers what is about to happen and the camera shows the message and then shows the couple, except there was no couple, just the guy sitting there next to an empty seat looking bummed. The message goes off and in a few moments later she is seen returning to her seat with the beers. Yup, she made a beer run and missed the proposal!

All's well that ends well though. At the end of the inning the message comes back up, this time the guy makes sure she is at her seat, he points to it, gets on his knees and offers her the ring.