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Skriven 2009-09-12 11:58:04 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av BOB GEARHART
Ärende: RE: Family Friendly???
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Hey Bobfer!

->  
->  There is a park across the street from my house, and looking out my 
->  dining room windows gives me a great view of the ball diamond, from 
->  about 450 yards distant of home plate.  Kids in the 14 to 16 year old 
->  league play there four evenings a week from April until June.  They 
->  play while I sit at my table and eat supper watching their games.
->  
->  So as I enjoy watching them play baseball, why am I angry at baseball 
->  in general.  Because the park used to be shared with kids in the same 
->  age range playing soccer.   The local baseball club decided to many 
->  local kids were getting interested in a game where they were active 
->  for the entire game. This is a baseball and hockey town.  It has no 
->  use for any other sport, so the council happily allowed the Baseball 
->  club to dig a road through the park, destroying it's use as a soccer 
->  field to put in a warning track in front of their temporary home run 
->  fence.  The mayor and his council claimed the fence could be taken 
->  down and park used for Soccer after the baseball season ended in June.
->  That was how it worked, but you can't have kids running full tilt 
->  through what amounts to a stinking ditch cut diagonal to the field.
->  
->  That was sick action by a bunch of pretentious S O B's.
->  
Sure sounds like it, I'm sure someone could mount
a drive to have the ditch filled in and a decent 
venue for soccer as well as baseball would result.
Of course that would require action from the general
population in the form of putting some political pressure
on the council members...which usually means it ain't gonna
happen. Soccer is big here as well. There are some conflicts 
but for the most part the two sports manage to co-exist 
without too many problems. 
->  
->  HN> Diff'rent strokes for different folks! I enjoy 
->  HN> both myself, but find college baseball or 
->  HN> even little leauge play more enjoyable than
->  HN> any form of softball, fastpitch included. 
->  HN> chat with you soon!
->  
->  Little league, high school games, great.  All kid sports!  But when 
->  someone gets a free degree or outlandish wages to be a rich mans toy 
->  playing with their balls, I turn off.
-> 
You're entitled to do just that. Me, 
I like watching baseball, and if I coulda
made a living doing it I would have. Free
degree or buckets o money not withstanding.
->  
->  I better find something good to make up for this rant.
->  Stay with balls.
->  
Meatballs, cheeseballs, fishballs, or 
even melon balls...all good stuff!
chat with you soon!
hap 
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