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Comments (8)
I would have quipped "Walk-on day at _______ Tech" if it wasn't for that "Heavenward... angel" part.
Posted by Terwiliger | April 25, 2012 6:54 PM
Posted on April 25, 2012 18:54
Yep, angels need caressing, too!
Posted by Zeroth | April 25, 2012 8:45 PM
Posted on April 25, 2012 20:45
Keith Olbermann, the early years.
Posted by GarandFan | April 25, 2012 9:39 PM
Posted on April 25, 2012 21:39
When I was a kid, I played right field.
Or maybe it would be more accurate to say it played me.
I much would have rather played left out.
Posted by Dr. Bob | April 25, 2012 11:43 PM
Posted on April 25, 2012 23:43
I think it was spring, 1979...
I had just moved from the inner city school of Southern California to a small country town in the mountains above Bakersfield. I was the skinny kid with acne who was good at math and computer programming. Naturally, being the unknown, the "cool" kids, when setting up an opposing team that they thought they could beat, made sure to put those people they thought couldn't catch/run/throw in those positions where they knew they would hit the ball. The PE coach allowed this only because it seemed he was also the coach of the baseball team. That means I found myself in LEFT field.
Two straight catches and a throw-out to first base and the "cool" team was ready to kick my butt. If they had asked, I would have told them that I played left field at the school I had just left both in seventh and eighth grade, I had been selected for the junior varsity team...
It was kinda fun having them try to threaten me with bodily harm because I was actually an "athlete"...
Posted by Johnny Logan | April 26, 2012 10:36 AM
Posted on April 26, 2012 10:36
HEY JL
Those are my favorite anecdotes; The Kid From Nowhere Makes The Locals Look Stupid. Good stuff.
The fact you didn't mention your baseball prowess showed a certain coolness that probably made your days there more interesting than if you had bragged and then bagged.
Posted by John Cox | April 26, 2012 1:10 PM
Posted on April 26, 2012 13:10
Homage to Linus of Peanuts?
Posted by kalashnikat | April 26, 2012 1:58 PM
Posted on April 26, 2012 13:58
HEY Kalashnikat
Very perceptive. I wanted to portray an introspective kid stuck out in right. Linus-like, indeed.
Posted by John Cox | April 26, 2012 2:58 PM
Posted on April 26, 2012 14:58