Today was the Chicago Marathon. Two years ago there was record heat and they had to cancel the race. Last year it was 85 by noon. Today, it was in the low 40's. WTF??
Friday we were supposed to be playing softball in Indianapolis, but it rained all day and the fields were unplayable. Since we pulled the first time slot in the blind draft, we had to play at 8 a.m. Saturday morning. It was cold, the sun was directly behind home plate and the field was in miserable shape. At least four guys wiped out running the basis in that first game. It was dangerous, but the tournament director didn't seem to care. Still, it was a close game until the sixth inning when we were down by 2. They had two outs and a couple of guys on when they hit a lazy looper to center. One of our best players jogged under it and just as he was making the catch, he lost it in the sun. By the time we got the third out, 8 runs had scored. Ugh. As Bartman was not to blame for the Cubs collapse in the NLDS in 2003, neither was our center fielder. There were many chances for people to make plays and get out of the inning, but we just couldn't make a play.
The weekend started off ok though as we were welcomed on the hotel lobby chalk board. Next to it was this map of Indianapolis. For some reason I thought it was cool.
As we entered the park, this welcomed us. Nice.
Our second game started at 4 and the fields were much better by then, but still had some puddles of water around them. Definitely more playable though. Unfortunately we only scored 5 runs in a 9-5 loss. Just an awful tournament for us. The little consolation I can take from it is that I was 3 for 3 in the first game and 2 for 3 in the second game for a robust .833 OBP. A small sample size, but still good. My defense was a bit shaky though.
Do you remember the Billy Joel song "We didn't start the fire"? Very fast paced song with a bunch of images and historical references. Check out the Wikipedia page on it for further information on all of the references made in the song. Pretty cool.
2 comments:
Yes, I knew that about Columbus... or at least always assumed that.
Sounds like a miserable weekend for softball. It snowed here on Saturday, melted by the end of the day, and today it's snowing again. I heard we could get 3 - 5 inches. Couldn't really play softball in this weather! ;-)
It's got to be getting cold for softball!
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