Opening Day Cancelled: Lakewood officials cancelled Opening Day due to “field conditions”. What’s your prediction on why Lakewood REALLY cancelled the game?
1. Broken scoreboard (still)
2. Tax cuts eating into league’s chalk budget
3. Date conflicted with National Blind Umpire convention
4. Day of Remembrance for Rusty Machine
Three-peat?: The Conundrums open the 2012 campaign on Monday April 16..errr...April 23 (maybe), with an eye on capturing their third consecutive Lakewood Leisure League title. The Softball Writers Association of America (Brian Richie) predicts a 4th Place finish for the Puzzlers saying, “the team could use a defensive upgrade at 1st base”.
Sell Out: Although no tickets remain available for the Opening Day game, fans can still watch for free in the standing-room only seats behind the outfield wall. The team requests that fans return any HR or (more likely) HR-O balls promptly to the field of play.
Down Goes Eddie: All time strikeout king Eddie Layton retired after a 9 year, run-of-the-mill, career which has been hailed by brass as “somewhere between mediocre and ordinary”. Eddie (a/k/a “Red Rover”) will forever be known for his highly publicized, unsuccessful, attempt to run through a chain link fence...face first. The team would like to thank their legendary catcher, insomniac, fence facial proponent, all around good guy, for his service to the team and the Lakewood community.
Free Agent Failure: The Conundrums got off to a slow start in the free agent market this year, choosing not to make any deals at the League’s winter meetings. Attempts to sign Ben Somethingoranother fell through at the last minute as Somethingoranother’s agent and the Conundrums bickered over contract terms.
Free Agent Success: Somethingoranother’s loss was certainly the Conundrum’s gain, as the Puzzler’s inked unheralded and unknown Gil Solano from…uhh…well, we’re not sure who he played for before. In fact, we’re not sure if he owns a softball glove. Anyhow, Solano writes humorous emails, and takes his fair share of digs at his supposed relation Sean, so the assumption is that he’ll fit in perfectly.
3 comments:
Softball glove? No one said anything to me about a softball glove.
Bob, see if you can get Eddie's glove. It still has plenty of life left! I would say try Sat's glove but he buried that in his garden for mulch.
No glove required. Just roll Cricket style and catch the ball like a man.
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