Text 15040, 40 rader
Skriven 2005-10-21 21:53:30 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 15022 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
Ärende: looters in NO
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21 Oct 05 21:26, Dan Ceppa wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>>> I've never been a baseball fan.
 DC>> I used to be.  But that's when I was very young and still played
 DC>> the game.
 RW>> Not even then. We didn't have enough kids in the neighborhood to
 RW>> form two teams, so we played 500 or over the line.
 DC> Never heard of them...

I thought it was exclusive to where I lived, but when I moved to San
Diego, they hold and have held a city wide 'over the line' tournament
every spring for at least two decades before I moved there. That's been
going on for something like 60 years now. The names of these teams are so
raunchy, they can't even tell you who one on the TV/Radio news.

In San Diego, they do it slightly different in that they have a team
member do the pitching and that's from the side of the plate to the
batter. We just threw the ball in the air and hit it. No strikes are
counted, there are no foul balls, unless it goes behind the batter
(seldom happens). A fly ball is worth 100 points, a three hopper is worth
75, a two hopper is worth 50 and a ground ball is worth 25 points. The
first person to gather 500 points gets to bat next. If no one catches it,
there are no pointes awarded. In the over the line game, you have the same
thing but the whole team, three people, change sides. We had maybe 7 or 8
total kids, so there were plenty of people in the field, wanting to bat
and the competition was pretty heated.

 RW>>> What else is there to do while they're cleaning up the mess on the
 RW>>> track? They show every angle from different points of view.
 DC>> What gets me is the hour it takes to play the last 2 minutes of
 DC>> a football game!
 RW>> Time for a nap...oh hum...
 DC> Well, it's a shorter time than between pitches!

They pitch more than once?


Roy
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