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Mon, 18 Jul 2005

The 0fers
I play on a softball team every Monday night. The team is comprised of a bunch of dentists and myself (the coach, an orthodontist, invited me to play). We are named the '0fers' (zero-f-e-r-s) because we have yet to win a game in league play.

I don't mind. I just like to play. I don't make any pretense that I'm any good. But if I once was good, I certainly have lost a step or two. Oh well.

Today, one of the players had his little-league-age son in attendance, fresh from a game of his own as he was still in uniform. He sat on the bench in the dugout and hardly moved... except when his Dad came up to bat. Then up this little boy would spring and press his face against the fence and grasp the chain-link with his young hands. Clearly he was interested in seeing his old man swing the bat. His dad usually made an out (like the rest of us on the 0fers), but the little boy and his old man would always exchange a smile when he made his way back to the dugout. Then down the little boy would sit until his old man was up to bat again.

I've got about six or seven years to work on my game.

:: Posted by rus on Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:02 pm
:: Filed under /daily_journal/2005



       

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