Last Thursday my team lost, 8-3, to the worst team in the league. It was their first victory and they were very happy. We played terribly. No one was hitting. Scoring just 3 runs in 7 innings of slow-pitch softball is just pathetic.
Today we beat a better team, 20-13. I cannot explain how a team can hit so poorly one day and hit so well a few days later. Everyone was hitting. Just inexplicable.
I played an early game as a pool player, then played my team’s game. Two games, 8 at-bats, one walk, three singles, two triples and two home runs. I can’t recall the last time I hit a home run. Two in one day? Inexplicable. And 7-for-7? As Vizzini says in The Princess Bride, inconceivable.
A good day of softball. But can I hit that well consistently? Not a chance. Inconsistency is the name of this particular game.
Murder She Wrote musings
I often go to sleep watching Murder She Wrote on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel. It is very much like Perry Mason in that there is often an intricate plot and I invariably fall asleep before the end, so I can watch the same episode multiple times without knowing the outcome.
But Perry Mason is set in LA while Murder She Wrote is set in Maine (mostly). It isn’t surprising that the weather is always good (or at least not cold) for Perry. But why is there not a flake of snow in any Maine episode of Murder She Wrote? Why are the characters never bundled up? Have the writers never been to Maine? If they were concerned about accuracy, the majority of the episodes would be filmed in knee-deep snow.