Monday (Great Baseball Road Trip wrap-up) edition: Wha' Happened?

To round out the Great Baseball Road Trip, we offer a quiz covering our two days in the Quad Cities of Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island and Moline. We will offer a bunch of scenarios. You will have to determine if they are things that DID or DID NOT happen in Quad Cities. Sound good? Answers will be at the bottom: 1) Driving around a park area of Davenport down by the river, trying to find a golf course, only to discover that it no longer exists.

2) Copious use of the words [redacted] and [redacted] at the Old Chicago in Bettendorf during the USA vs. Ghana World cup match, much to the dismay of many around us.

3) An intro song and video for Rascal, the official mascot of the Quad Cities River Bandits Class A baseball team, set to the tune and theme of the intro of "Fresh Prince of Bel Air."

4) Consumption two consecutive nights of a delicious footlong grilled hot dog -- the first night with bacon, mustard, cheese and hot peppers.

5) Driving the rental car into the river and bribing the tow truck guy by dropping Clarence Swamptown's name.

6) Diddy winning a prize during the post-game tennis ball toss onto the field at Modern Woodmen Park, even though he was aiming for a completely different target.

7) A baseball field named Modern Woodmen Park, featuring a visiting team called the Cougars. Parking on the trip: Milwaukee -- $15/game; Chicago -- $23/game. Quad Cities -- $2/game, which is given back to you immediately in the form of "Bandit Bucks" that can be used at the concession stand. A 24 oz souvenir cup of Fat Tire? $6. Prime seats for $9 with a view of the bridge and the river. Our love of minor league baseball and ballparks is born again.

9) Post-game night number 1: A trip to one of the "riverboat" casinos; the announcement of "immediate seating for 3-6 Texas Hold 'em" right after the trip to the ATM. A pair of quick wins for The Proprietor, including a flush on the river, keying the start of a plus gambling night that we actually walked away from ahead. Rocket walks away a little bit ahead, then turns down an offer of $10 for the ridiculous giant foam River Bandits hat he has been wearing all night.

10) Post-game night number 2: Sensing Rocket wasn't keen on the plan to hit the Rock Island entertainment district, he is dropped at a different casino while we head with Diddy across the river. But the casino has a bunk poker room, so Rocket walks between 3-4 miles to a different casino. In the mean time, we have discovered a cover band called FNR playing an outdoor show in the middle of Rock Island's two-block entertainment district. This is good. FNR entertains us and the approximately 27 bachelorette parties going on, most of which manage to get on stage during the set. They put the Rock in Rock Island. Diddy discovers a thirst for Landshark. The night ends with him making small talk in the bathroom with the FNR lead singer and trying to convince him they need to learn "Hot for Teacher." 11) Two rounds of golf in two days at two different courses. The first a tight little Par-33 nine-holer that has a hole playing directly into a busy road if a righty hits a sliced tee shot. The Proprietor is a righty that -- when his game falls apart, which is often -- tends to slice a drive. Two tee balls in the street later, we are thankful nobody has been struck. All the while, by the way, some sort of air show is going on and fighter plans are dipping to the horizon all around us. The second course: a nicer 18-holer, but we only play 9. Diddy grinds out his second round of golf ever. Rocket can't buy a decent shot. We're spraying the ball and battling a balky back that we somehow injured trying to put on socks. It is 90 degrees out, but it feels like it's 110. That's golf.

12) A waiver mistakenly signed, a secret ballot, and 24 hours later Diddy has been elected the emergency mayor of Bettendorf.

13) Drunk on his power, Diddy oversteps his political bounds and orders, as his first act, that Team USA must allow Ghana players to run free and score goals.

14) A four-run ninth inning by the River Bandits in Saturday night's game, capped by a bases-loaded double with two outs that scores three runs, gives Quad Cities an 8-7 victory over the Kane County Cougars. This means that, while we only had a really vested rooting interest in two of the five games of the trip, it has taken until the very last inning of the very last game for a team we at least had a slight rooting interest in pull out a victory.

16) Total trip mileage: 1,200. Total games: 5. Total states: 4. Total golf outings: 3. Combined number of magicians and cover bands seen: 2. Team USA's World Cup record during the trip 1-1. Number of times we used the word [redacted]: Priceless. Things that happened: Everything but 5, 12 and part of 13.

And this is the Great Baseball Road Trip.

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