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Free Fallin'
If you weren't there, you didn't miss much.
The semi-annual softball game Saturday morning, which was part of a larger event to celebrate the passing of summer into fall, ended with The Times Herald staff on the short end of a 33-15 final.
If you were there, you are probably saying the scoreboard said something different. I believe it was 33-21, but someone was being generous by giving us extra runs here and there.
No thanks.
I can't speak for anyone else on the paper's team, but I don't want charity. What I do want is a level playing field at Latshaw/McCarthy or any other place they set us up like bowling pins to knock us down.
The game pitted The Times Herald against ... Norristown. That meant a team of firefighters. And police officers. And anyone who works for Norristown Rec. And anyone who works for Norristown, period.
Why not throw in the Norristown Agents from the Perkiomen Valley Twilight League and the varsity baseball and softball teams from Norristown Area High School?
Maybe they could have also called in any and all local members of the U.S. National Guard who happened to be home from fighting in a needless, senseless and costly war.
What should be done is this: Make it a daylong tournament of, maybe, four teams. For the sake of time and sore limbs, the opening round could be five-inning games and the final game -- as well as the consolation contest -- could be seven. Have a big picnic in the middle of the day (it's always about the food).
But it makes too much sense and, since this is Norristown, it probably won't happen.
If they remember to have a game next year -- in 2007, following the tightest game of the series the previous year -- they conviniently "forgot" to invite us to play.
But we'll be back -- and swingin' -- for the next massacre.
I guess, at this point, I'll throw in that I was 3-for-3 with two RBI (it would be three, but a snail of a teammate was thrown out at the plate). Two of the hits came with two outs to keep "rallies" going and two of the three may have been doubles had I not had an uninspired baserunner in front of me.
Stan Huskey, who took it upon himself to manage us into the ground (after my managerial skills kept us close in 2006), left me stranded at first all three times.
However, the joke is on me. My back was so sore Sunday that I couldn't even move for what is really important in life -- watching the Eagles win a big game!
The semi-annual softball game Saturday morning, which was part of a larger event to celebrate the passing of summer into fall, ended with The Times Herald staff on the short end of a 33-15 final.
If you were there, you are probably saying the scoreboard said something different. I believe it was 33-21, but someone was being generous by giving us extra runs here and there.
No thanks.
I can't speak for anyone else on the paper's team, but I don't want charity. What I do want is a level playing field at Latshaw/McCarthy or any other place they set us up like bowling pins to knock us down.
The game pitted The Times Herald against ... Norristown. That meant a team of firefighters. And police officers. And anyone who works for Norristown Rec. And anyone who works for Norristown, period.
Why not throw in the Norristown Agents from the Perkiomen Valley Twilight League and the varsity baseball and softball teams from Norristown Area High School?
Maybe they could have also called in any and all local members of the U.S. National Guard who happened to be home from fighting in a needless, senseless and costly war.
What should be done is this: Make it a daylong tournament of, maybe, four teams. For the sake of time and sore limbs, the opening round could be five-inning games and the final game -- as well as the consolation contest -- could be seven. Have a big picnic in the middle of the day (it's always about the food).
But it makes too much sense and, since this is Norristown, it probably won't happen.
If they remember to have a game next year -- in 2007, following the tightest game of the series the previous year -- they conviniently "forgot" to invite us to play.
But we'll be back -- and swingin' -- for the next massacre.
I guess, at this point, I'll throw in that I was 3-for-3 with two RBI (it would be three, but a snail of a teammate was thrown out at the plate). Two of the hits came with two outs to keep "rallies" going and two of the three may have been doubles had I not had an uninspired baserunner in front of me.
Stan Huskey, who took it upon himself to manage us into the ground (after my managerial skills kept us close in 2006), left me stranded at first all three times.
However, the joke is on me. My back was so sore Sunday that I couldn't even move for what is really important in life -- watching the Eagles win a big game!
posted by Gordon Glantz at
1:17 PM
6 Comments:
Stop whining! You lost!
Whining? You mean like this guy?
LOL!
Whining instead of winning.
GG=Typical Democrat.
Gordy - Start now - walking and then running around the block a couple times per day. Next year you will not be stranded on first because Stan, if he manages your team, will know you are a #1 Runner and will be able to make it to Second, Third or maybe HOME. As the saying goes it's a "Win - Win" procedure.
Gordy ... Anonymous had a great suggestion on the need for more exercise during the year. You also need to take that uninspired baserunner with you on your daily around-the block exercise.
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