Popularity of Softball in your state, gaining or losing?

[BobInMadison]

I want them all to be true. you need to steal Sluggers avatar..

I will post the correct answer after dinner.

Seriously, the Washington Post thought the incorrect one was true. Some of my friends were upset at my mother for correcting them.

In the meantime, I am emailing people like crazy because I found 2 really good pictures of DD #3 on the web site of another TB team she played back in June, and a third one where she MIGHT be pitching, but you can't see the pitcher, but I can tell the SS is not my DD. That game had everything: rain, lightning, what we thought was a tornado siren (it was a 6:00 call to dinner for that town), game called for the day, and cold weather the next day. The teams are wearing different uniforms for the end of the game, and the other team is wearing jackets. DD # 3 was the lead off hitter, SS most of the game, and relief pitcher.

Fortunately no tornado that day, although an F2 hit the house of one of the girls on the team a short time later,
NOT home at the time.

The other team has a great photo section on their web site. They were a great group of girls, and it was nice when the other team put on some music and started dancing when play was suspended, so the girls from DD's team came to join their opponents in a dance session. Nice pictures of DD #3 with the other team's pitcher, who has the same last name. The 5th inning of that game was the only game I've see so far where both pitchers had the same last name.

 

[cuzmail]

Bob, I find your posts offensive

Oh Gosh, the world must come to a complete stop take two paces backwards and turn around 180* to change direction !!!!!!! Someone said they were offended.


Carry on. Softball is alive, well, and growing here in SE Texas.

 

[JJsqueeze]

I will post the correct answer after dinner.

Seriously, the Washington Post thought the incorrect one was true. Some of my friends were upset at my mother for correcting them.

In the meantime, I am emailing people like crazy because I found 2 really good pictures of DD #3 on the web site of another TB team she played back in June, and a third one where she MIGHT be pitching, but you can't see the pitcher, but I can tell the SS is not my DD. That game had everything: rain, lightning, what we thought was a tornado siren (it was a 6:00 call to dinner for that town), game called for the day, and cold weather the next day. The teams are wearing different uniforms for the end of the game, and the other team is wearing jackets. DD # 3 was the lead off hitter, SS most of the game, and relief pitcher.

Fortunately no tornado that day, although an F2 hit the house of one of the girls on the team a short time later,
NOT home at the time.

The other team has a great photo section on their web site. They were a great group of girls, and it was nice when the other team put on some music and started dancing when play was suspended, so the girls from DD's team came to join their opponents in a dance session. Nice pictures of DD #3 with the other team's pitcher, who has the same last name. The 5th inning of that game was the only game I've see so far where both pitchers had the same last name.

I don't always post my friends....but when I do....I prefer DFP...

keep em coming Bob, I am really enjoying your experiences. I'm hoping that being from Madison you have some nuggets about a short Jewish troubadour who passed through there a few years back.

 

[Sweet Lou]

I'm not sure if Bob is a character or a caricature, but his posts are entertaining.

 

[BobInMadison]

I don't always post my friends....but when I do....I prefer DFP...

keep em coming Bob, I am really enjoying your experiences. I'm hoping that being from Madison you have some nuggets about a short Jewish troubadour who passed through there a few years back.

I haven't heard those stories yet. I will have to ask around. Probably more interesting than anything I can come up with.

 

[BobInMadison]

I'm not sure if Bob is a character or a caricature, but his posts are entertaining.

I have been accused of being a character.

 

[BobInMadison]

I will give away the answer now:

The lie is B. For some reason, someone who had attended Bill and Hillary's wedding thought I had played the piano. My mother told the fact checker I had never played the piano at a wedding.

I did used to play the piano. My parents would have to drive me 1 1/2 hours each way through narrow, windy mountain roads to get lessons with a retired nun in a convent in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A truly gifted teacher. (And you thought softball parents were the only ones that crazy?)

My parents attended the wedding and reception, but didn't consider the reception to be boring. I got the boring part because a few years later I attended a surprise birthday party Hillary threw for Bill. Excruciatingly boring. I found a picture of the party in Bill's autobiography, but I am not in the picture. At one point I ran off to the Sonic Drive-In with some girls who were also escaping the party. Trust me, the Sonic Drive-In is FAR more interesting than a surprise birthday party for a politician.

Keep that in mind next time you are at some fast food place with your DD and her team. You are having a lot more fun than if you were at a party with the Important People, many of whom will only talk to you until they find someone more important than you.

 

[starsnuffer]

If I had to live in Wisconsin, I'd hope I'd have interesting stories to tell from a time before I had to live in Wisconsin. My deepest condolences, sir.

-W

 

[BobInMadison]

Thank you for your kind concern. We muddle through, somehow.

However, my Siberian Husky approves of the Wisconsin winters. I have learned to adjust my personal definition of "cold" to accommodate my doggy. Sub-zero temperatures are fine for walking the dog, but do tend to put a damper on softball practice for some reason.

 

[SoCal_Dad]

... At one point I ran off to the Sonic Drive-In with some girls who were also escaping the party. Trust me, the Sonic Drive-In is FAR more interesting than a surprise birthday party for a politician.

That really depends on what the politician's doing when you surprise them...