On a mission from … Day 4

For the fourth day of this little mission, The Jon is going to take it easy and deal with one of The Jon’s favorite pastimes — while on break from work on The Jon’s own personal computer, yeah, that’s it — let’s restart the sentence to avoid awkwardness. The Jon is going to take it easy and deal with one of The Jon’s favorite pastimes, looking on youtube to find obscure baseball videos.

Give The Jon a break, this is four days of posting and counting. Stepping right up is another high-top fade Ichiro commercial from The Jon’s Motherland.

Here’s a breakdown, translated from The Jonpanese, of course:

Road to the Title Part 2: A video history

The Jon remembers when it was a Dad weekend. For the 80 percent of us that have had to deal with divorce in the early ’80s, a Dad’s weekend was every other week when you go to a house where a man you hardly knew lived and didn’t have to do anything but watch TV and see topless women on HBO.
So here is The Jon and The Jon’s Dad is excited to show The Older Sister who actually knew The Jon’s Dad when he was married to The Mom and he and The Older Sister walk to the TV. Under it is this big rectangular plastic box. There was nothing on it except plastic buttons and a LED clock.

Now back in the early ’80s, LED was known as the word “digital.” Ooooh, that sounds futuristic.

So The Jon is looking at this scene where The Older Sister is flipping out and getting all excited and all The Jon can think (yes think, The Jon didn’t talk that much as a kid, maybe because of the whole divorced thing that The Jon’s Dad could have tried to explain instead of wasting his time buying a damn VCR. Yeah, thanks Dad) anyways, let’s repeat:

So The Jon is looking at this scene where The Older Sister is flipping out and getting all excited and all The Jon can think of is “Wow, what a cool digital clock.”