Who knew laptops were Powerade-resistant?
Daniel Susac made his Major League Baseball debut for the San Francisco Giants on Thursday in style, going 3-for-3 in a 7-2 win over the New York Mets.
After the game, he joined NBC Sports Bay Area’s Kylen Mills and Shawn Estes when teammate Willy Adames snuck up behind him and doused everyone in a bath of orange Powerade.
While it made for some classic baseball hijinks, there was a casualty in the surprise attack. Mills’s laptop, which was sitting on a stand just out of view in front of her, got absolutely wrecked by the tsunami of energy drink, folding backward and presumably soaked in all the liquid.
Mills said afterward that while she survived the orange-hued onslaught, her computer did not.
NBC Sports doesn’t seem too upset about the lost hardware, as they highlighted various angles of the carnage on their social media feeds.
Believe it or not, the laptop does still work. Mills spoke with Gabe Fernandez at SFGate and said it somehow turned back on the next day.
“Amazing news — the laptop dried out overnight and turned on this morning!” she said via text. “It was initially on after the splash zone incident, then the screen was doing a weird flashing thing, and then it wouldn’t turn on and went black. I left it out to dry overnight, and it appears to be working. Dell should pay to use that footage for a commercial.”
Mills also said the Giants offered “right away” to replace the laptop, though it sounds like that won’t be necessary. At least this time.
“We’re at Oracle for a postgame show next week. I’ll have my poncho ready,” she added.
About Sean Keeley
Along with writing for Awful Announcing and The Comeback, Sean is the Managing Editor for Comeback Media. Previously, he created the Syracuse blog Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician and wrote 'How To Grow An Orange: The Right Way to Brainwash Your Child Into Rooting for Syracuse.' He has also written non-Syracuse-related things for SB Nation, Curbed, and other outlets. He currently lives in Seattle where he is complaining about bagels. Send tips/comments/complaints to sean@thecomeback.com.