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katsterI got a new pair of batting gloves yesterday. Blue, black, and white (it is my curse to like blue and hate the Dodgers, I guess...).
Today I decide to test them out, so I pull a bat out of my baseball gear and go to swing a couple times on the back porch. They'll be nice when I can actually get into a game of softball. Anyway, the dog wanted to play, and I didn't want her to feel bad with me swinging the bat, so I got the bright idea to grab a couple of tennis balls of hers and hit them out into the backyard for her to chase.
A few swings later, they're over the fence and gone. Metal bats and tennis balls don't work well together. :)
So when it cools off a bit, I'll go attempt to retrieve them, I hope my neighbors aren't too upset.
And it makes me wish we had a lot of land so that I could let her loose offleash to retrieve them and not worry about knocking 'em over a neighbor's fence.
Today I decide to test them out, so I pull a bat out of my baseball gear and go to swing a couple times on the back porch. They'll be nice when I can actually get into a game of softball. Anyway, the dog wanted to play, and I didn't want her to feel bad with me swinging the bat, so I got the bright idea to grab a couple of tennis balls of hers and hit them out into the backyard for her to chase.
A few swings later, they're over the fence and gone. Metal bats and tennis balls don't work well together. :)
So when it cools off a bit, I'll go attempt to retrieve them, I hope my neighbors aren't too upset.
And it makes me wish we had a lot of land so that I could let her loose offleash to retrieve them and not worry about knocking 'em over a neighbor's fence.
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Date: 2003-06-07 08:01 pm (UTC)I admire anyone who's willing to go out and purchase sporting equipment and then actually use it, no matter what the amount. The semester that I played intramural softball for the Society of Physics Students team at UMBC, I basically just grabbed a glove from the pile we had lying around the office. To this day, I don't know *why* we had baseball gloves lying around the office.
I actually had fun that semester. I'm a far cry from being anything remotely athletic, but I did learn what pitches to swing at and what to let pass. Too bad I couldn't get any distance on what I did hit.