You cut out the: Longshot: confirmed already? You cocky bastard! You are gonna jinx us to the cellar! It sounded redundant. I would have had to put "still long shot" which sounds dumb. DISCLAIMER: this will be a long shot until they actually manage to do it.
The fans in right field were absolutely GIVIN' IT to the right fielder. He took the bait several times...seemed to be getting irk'd. 40,000+ people yelling AYYYYYYYYY JAAAAAYYYYYYYYY AAAAAAAYYYYYYYY JAAAAAYYYYYYYY was a lot of fun too