Schedule

So we had the 9:30 pm game on Friday night and didn't get to leave the ballpark until after midnight.  Then we had the 9 am game on Saturday morning.  We had won both games.  So we had to wait around all day for the winners bracket semi-finals that evening.  I went home which was an hour away and had a nap.  We didn't actually get to start the game until 10 pm.  The game wasn't over until midnight and we lost.  So we had to play our next game in the loser's bracket on Sunday morning at 8 am.  We had to be at the ballpark at 7 am to hand in our rosters for the game.  We won the 8 am game and played again at 11:30 am.  We lost that game but we qualified for the World Tournament which we our goal.

Roads Out of Town

We played the 9:30 pm game on Friday night and didn't get to leave the park until after midnight.  I had stayed around after the game while the guys had a beer or two.  Then on the way home, I ran into the RIDE program where the police were checking everyone for drinking and driving.  I guess they had blocked off all the roads out the small town and our guys all got stopped no matter which way they were going.  I think they all had to get breathalized and may have been given tickets.

Safe Parking

A couple of years ago, I had the back window of my car blown out by a homerun at a tournament. So now I always try to find a safe place to park at the ballpark.  I was at a new ballpark in Monkton tonight and was driving around looking for a safe parking spot.  I was just about to park and then I noticed that everyone was looking at me.  Then a foul ball bounced in the empty parking spot beside me.  So this was definitely not a safe parking spot.  So I drove out of the parking lot and parked down the street from the ballpark and walked back.

Long Walks

I read somewhere that one way to make your walks more interesting and walk for longer than usual is to have a destination or errand to do during your walk.  So I regularly walk to the bank downtown or to other places downtown.  And when I walk down by the river in the park downtown, there are lots of geese and ducks.  The geese are kind of scary because they hiss at me if they are near the walking path but the baby ducks are cool.  They are very little but they can swim really fast from the shore to their mother and father in the river.  It is quite neat to see.

Contact List

I was trying to transfer our contacts from our old phone to our new Androids.  It was taking a long time because I had to do them one at a time.  I was putting in my sister's number in the Android and accidently pushed the wrong button and called her by mistake.  It was 11:45 pm. So I hung up right away and hoped that I didn't disturb her or wake her up.  Then I accidently phoned her again thinking I was hanging up.  I hung up again.  Then a couple of seconds later I got a call from my sister asking if everything was okay.  She was worried that something was wrong because she got these strange phone calls.

The Chase

We were hoping for a quick final series in the NHL Playoffs because I only had 2 players left and was in second place.  I was being chased by two other guys and they had 3 players each.  I was hoping Las Vegas Knights would win not only because I had 2 of their players but also because they were a first year franchise and nobody thought they would have any chance this year.  If they had won, which they didn't, the bookies in Las Vegas would have lost millions of dollars.  So anyway, the Washington Capitals won for the first time in their history and I finished second in the hockey pool and won $60.  I took Barb out for dinner at McDonalds to celebrate because I had used her strategy to pick my players.

Beaver

I was sitting around on a Sunday afternoon and got a text message which I thought was from Barb. I don't know Barb's cellphone number by heart.  The text message asked if I was playing tomorrow.  I said no I was playing on Wednesday this week.  Barb doesn't really keep track of my fastball schedule so I didn't think it was unusual for her to ask.  When I told Barb about getting her text message, she said she didn't send me any message.  She looked at my phone and checked the number and realized it was from Patricia Beaver asking her if she was playing pickleball tomorrow.  Barb had not given Beaver, her new cellphone number.  So Beaver texted Barb's old cellphone number which was now my cellphone number.