Special Olympics maybe?

[His High Holiness]

All,

It has been a long time since I have been here but I had something happen in a game that I thought would bring a chuckle to the board.

Varsity baseball, triple A, which is supposed to be the best high school ball in Virginia:

The home team is awful. Truly horrible beyond belief!!! (Fortunately, all of the coaches are perfect gentleman. I guess they know how awful their team is and aren't about to blame the umpires.) The home team pitchers cannot find the strike zone. The batters lower than 5th in the order have no clue how to swing a bat, much less hit the ball. Routine plays are routinely booted.

Early in the game with all starters still in the lineup, a fly ball is hit to right field which F9 somehow catches. The coach comes out and asks for the ball so that he can present it to F9 as a souvenir. This is the very first ball that F9 has ever caught in any game !!! ( and we are late in the season). He is a starter, no less!

F9 booted all the rest of the plays that came to him. And no, this is not a handicap school. My partner did ask me if we were doing Special Olympics, however. It took over two hours to play this farce which ended in 5 innings with the mercy rule.

Peter

P. S. Do not get me started about the second string players.