Warning: Author in Typing Mood

Ahhh Spring! Finally the rain is clearing...not sure for how long but it's clearing! The days are nice, the squirrels are about (mainly because I missed 14 flippen times with my new gun...yeah I need to work with the sights BEFORE going hunting), and baseball season has struck again. Now here's my story of the month (because I havent done it daily or weekly).

Jonathan and I are umpires, you shee...an' we aint take no talk. For example, lemme tell ya a story.

Jonathan and I got hooked up with minor boys...little, innocent, cute boys who just want to have fun. Sounds like a good ending but no. The coaches were a guy named Randy (who I remember from last year as a jerk, yelling at kids insultingly even when they werent his own), and a dude named Tim (very strict...need I say more?). So the game went so, so with me hearing Randy complain about Jonathan's strike zone, "but who doesnt?" I thought to myself...
Well anyways a play comes and someone throws the ball to first base. As umpire in the field I have to watch VERY closely how the first baseman is touching a base on a reach (reaching for the ball, making him fall off the base, making the runner safe). Well the first baseman caught the ball on a reach, but the thing is that his foot was on the base for JUST a split second. The kid, to make sure, ran back to the base but didnt beat the runner. But still I called the runner out for obvious reasons. Turned out not too obvious because Randy was coming at me like a hurricane. I just gave him sarcastic comments practically saying I've got two eyes and the job to say that I know what I'm doing. So the game continues on one play later and Randy is trying to show me how the kid didnt show the base, like silent gestures. So I say to him "Oh, do you want me to act what I saw?" and Jonathan yelled "plays over!" so he just stopped and mumbled "I was just showing my kid"...so I laughed at that and thought that was the end of all judgements. Boy was I wrong...

Intermission (Go take a potty break! Get some popcorn! Refresh yourself in anyway! There is still more left!)

Well so a kid on Randy's team hit a nice hit out into the outfield and many kids were running home, the play was near over and Tim (the other coach) tells the pitcher to call for an appeal and to hit home plate, the pitcher does and Jonathan calls time. Turns out one of Randy's kids didnt tag home plate. So Jonathan and I conclude that the runner is out of play...Then Randy comes running and screaming his head off. He said the catcher was in the way, causing an obstruction (which is correct, but the catcher wasnt an obstruction in any way). Well he got close to Jonathan and whispered (or said with clenched teeth) "That's two calls, Blue" so of course Jonathan returns the comment with some yelling and a warning. On his way back to the dugout, Randy starts riling the crowd, so they start yelling rude comments and Jonathan calls time. He talks to me and I told him to give em a warning. He goes right up to the stands and yells "Alright, that's your first warning, any more comments and you forfeit the game and therefore lose..." This shut them up and we had a (somewhat) peaceful game, with little back-biting comments that went away ignored and such. Too bad...Randy's team won too, darnit.

Yes thanks if you read it all. But this was a pretty eventful thing this year. Very eventful indeed, I cant wait to ump Randy's next game

Week 3 Interesting Week that was...It was the same old things, but, going to St. Stephens on Thursday brought something interesting. Upon entering St. Stephens parking lot from the Danas. I was preparing my lunch/dinner, and coming out of the saburban, I saw something that caught my eye. Yes, my friends. Kaleb was not wearing his usual black attire! He had jeans on and was even wearing a light-blue under armor shirt! Yeah, at first I thought it meant the end of the world, but Kaleb was back to goth again... Then came Saturday, the day of the jamboree. That was a so-so day. The end.

Week 4. Ok I'm done! I've gone too crazy for anything! I cant even think right! I- What? It's Sunday?! Well toodle-doo I'm outta here! Time to party before week 5 comes!

Sorry for the bad subjects...after Easter I'll hopefully have better ones.
:-) But for now one question (which will probably never be answered)...Why are guys who never play volleyball so much better than girls who do play volleyball on a weekly basis? Oh I'll answer that actually, it's because we dont get emotional in sports and keep a cool head. Hence, victory!