Life can be a curious thing; life can take some unusual twists and bends. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but when I look at the news I seem to always find a story that amazes me.
In the news today, a New York property developer is offering the uber-wealthy the opportunity to buy a condo parking spot for a cool $1 million - merely six times the value of a typical American home. The 10 parking spaces are for sale at 42 Crosby Street, the luxury apartment building under construction in the SoHo neighborhood, in Lower Manhattan. Based on the $1 million price tag, the spots are probably the most expensive residential car spaces in the country.
A manatee called, “Little Joe”, now has a home at Disney. Joe was rescued in 1989 along the Halifax River, near Daytona. Kept in captivity, Lil Joe would be bottle-fed by President George H.W. Bush at Sea World in Orlando and sent to wow audiences in San Diego, Cincinnati and Tampa. After being released again into the wild, it was determined that the 1,900 pound, 10 and a half foot long sea cow could not survive on his own. He now makes Epcot his home.
A groom narrowly avoided death on top of a cliff after an apparent stumble. The happy couple almost experienced “until death do us part”, way too soon. As the couple took their vows at the top of a precipice, the groom slipped and almost fell. His bride quickly grabbed his arm and saved him from falling over the side of the mountain.
Softball games can be like a microcosm of life, full of twists and turns and unexpected story lines. Just like life, softball can be curious thing. Just look at today’s WHSS action; first let’s start with the teams.
The Hitting team had these players: S. Hill, Laffoon, Zelazny, Edwards, Giordano, Reagan, Mohan, Moots, Thompson, G. Baker and Ayala. We will call this team the SoHo Millionaires, because they had a million dollar line-up and parked quite a few hits in the outfield.
The Sitting team gets the “Little Joe, the Manatee” moniker, mainly, because one of our players works at Epcot, also, because our bats rescued us in today’s game. This team had the following players: Gonzalez, Farinas, Witmer, Denny, Coffman, Hite, Marino, Matta, Simon and L. Baker. (Bob Hite is our Epcot rep).
The Bride and Groom team was the Fielding team. Their bats must have been on a honeymoon, because they were not used in the game today. This team’s batting average fell off the cliff, there was no saving them in today’s game. The Fielding team consisted of Dampier, Chrest, Constantine, Jacobs, Butler, Herb O, D. Hill, Wells, Bess and Merritt.
Here are the funny twists and story lines from today’s game.
Ron Thompson started off the game pitching a no hitter for the first two innings, (for the Hitting team). He mowed down six, of the first seven batters, he faced. Ron struck out two batters and allowed a walk, in the first two frames. He did not win the game though, as the Sitting team’s bats came to life, late in the game.
Here is another bizarre story concerning today’s game. With the bases loaded in the 6th inning, Jimmy Laffoon hit a sharp ground ball to first, where Greg Denny was positioned for the Fielding team. (Greg was a substitute first baseman). Greg cleanly fielded the ball and tagged out Jimmy, at first base. The force play was now off. Ron Thompson was the base runner on third base trying to score, since he was no longer forced, Ron tried returning to third, after coming very close to the home plate commitment line. However, there was another base runner who had already advanced to third. The catcher tried making a play at third base, but the ball was thrown into left field and Ron scampered home safe.
Rich Marino was involved in the longest hit of the day. Rich hit a ball to deep right, however, Rich was thrown out at home, trying for an inside the park home run. Rich also had the shortest hit of the day, tipping the ball off his bat just a few feet in front of the plate and running it out for a single.
We had a few star fielding plays to jazz up our game today. Bob Hite, (Sitting team), made a pair of nice catches, while battling the wind in left center field.
Don Witmer, (Sitting team), caught a sinking line drive at shortstop.
Lee Baker, (Sitting team) caught a towering pop foul behind the plate.
Freddy Gonzalez had the hardest hit ball all day, only it did not fall in for a hit. Freddy hit a screaming line drive to deep left field where Bobby Reagan made a nice grab for the out.
As for the scoring, the Sitting team won a close game when they came from behind and scored 5 runs, in both the 5th and 6th innings. Batting at the bottom of the line-up, Simon and Matta went a combined 8/8 to help lead the charge.
That's senior softball for you.
Final score: Hitting team 10- Sitting team 13- Fielding team 3.
WP: Matta
Leading Hitters:
Hitting team:
- S. Hill: 3 / 4.
- Laffoon: 3/ 4.
- Zelazny: 3 / 4.
- Moots: 2/ 3 and a walk.
- Thompson: 3/ 4.
- G. Baker: 2 / 3.
Sitting team:
- Gonzalez: 2/3 and a SF.
- Denny: 3 / 4.
- Coffman: 2 / 2 and two walks.
- Matta: 4 / 4.
- Simon: 4/ 4.
Fielding team:
- Chrest: 3 / 4.
- Constantine: 3 / 4.
- Bess: 1/ 2 and a walk.
submitted by Nick Matta
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