Chipwiches For Everybody!

Tonight being Thursday, we had a softball game, and it was against one of the less successful teams in the league so we really wanted the win. Dave, who bills himself as our General Manager, is one of the Spectrum (our sponsor) folks that comes to cheer us on, and tonight he announced that he wanted a win so bad he would buy us all Chipwiches if we won. We played the best defense of the year and actually had a few good scoring innings and managed to hang on for a 8-7 win, and Dave stayed true to our word. Eight of us followed him to the nearest gas station and cleared out a very surprised clerk's supply of Chipwiches. It felt like I was back in Little League, only with less snow cones.

Some Fun Baseball Notes

Last night, Don Ursillo, the play-by-by guy for NESN, made a very nice catch on a ball fouled out of play. Fielded it cleanly in the air and everything. I wish I could have been watching NESN for that. I'm sure Jerry Remy laughed about it for five minutes or until he started choking, whichever came first.

David Ortiz officially became a naturalized American citizen yesterday, which is cool I guess. So congrats, Big Papi, go get yourself a big-ass SUV to celebrate!

Chipper Jones is more than a third of the way through the season and still battingway too far over .400 to be sane. I think it was like .419 as of last night. I know there's a lot of season left, but it's still a remarkable accomplishment to make it as far as he has. It's also great to see a baseball achievement that can't be immediately attributed to steroid use. Swinging harder really doesn't get you much when you're swinging for a high batting average.