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TOPIC: Dreaded call from Hodde |
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| gopher
May 4, 2008
8:23:58 AM
Entry #: 2737301
| What a gut wrenching feeling it is to get that call from Hodde at 8:15 am on a sunday...
NO GAMES TODAY
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| RyMan
May 4, 2008
12:13:14 PM
Entry #: 2737473
| I hear you gopher. Its a horrible thing. I experienced the 5 stages of softball game cancellation myself:
1. Realization "Fuck its raining!"
2. Hopefulness "Maybe its only raining at my apartment"
3. Anger "Oh what the hell, I have a voicemail from Chip!"
4. More anger "Games are fucking cancelled over a few drops of rain"
5. Acceptance "May as well go back to bed and hope my game tomorrow doesn't get cancelled"
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| Brian Stevens
May 4, 2008
1:17:09 PM
Entry #: 2737521
| or...
1. wake up on the living room floor with a splitting head ache.
2. look outside and thank God that it is raining.
3. grab the cell phone and pray for a text from Ian saying that the games are cancelled.
4. sleep until 11:55 and go to get a bloody mary.
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| mikeyd
May 4, 2008
1:32:51 PM
Entry #: 2737533
| my softball cancelled sunday goes as follows:
1. come to under my bed for some odd reason and think i see rain
2. shake the hooker off my tip and steal my wallet back from her
3. wipe the drool and throw up off myself and hit my self with the defibulater paddels again
4. get the call there is no softball
5. proceed to do cartwhheels and down the rest of the whiskey in the bottle and chase the hooker out of my driveway and ask her if shes in the mood for a daily double
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| Littleguy
May 4, 2008
1:56:27 PM
Entry #: 2737557
| Or depending on what stage you are in on the Evolution of the softball player it may go like this..
1. Getting up at 8 pumped you are getting out of the house to play softball at 12.
2. Wanting to punch a hole in your monitor when you come to the website and it states.. NO GAMES TODAY!
3. Wanting to punch that stupid smirk off your wife's face as she asks you.." Not getting ready for softball?"
4. Realizing that the only hope and dream you look forward to every week is now flushed down the toilet and you are stuck with a note from "The Wife" stating... Since you are going to be home all day do you think you can..
1. Do the laundry
2. Wash the rugs (They need it!)
3. Pack the kids lunch and supper and meet e at my parents because we are going to the mall to look for a new outfit because god forbid if they wear the same goddamn outfit for about the 20th birthday party/communion/funeral/whatever the hell happens to come up when there is no softball!!!.
So I say to you Mr. Smitty! Thanks Buddy!
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| RyMan
May 4, 2008
5:35:04 PM
Entry #: 2737748
| Tis a sad story, Littleguy. From what I continue to hear about these "wives", even the ones who allow softball lay quietly in wait and ready to pounce at the first sign of a cancelled game, and the first thing they do is imasculate you with womanly chores. Ryno has become Martha Stewart for god's sake (minus the insider stock trading). I have a scientific theory that it is the collective hatred of softball and their disdane for their husbands having any enjoyment in life from these "wives" that actually causes rain. More information as experiments develop.
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| RyMan
May 4, 2008
5:36:11 PM
Entry #: 2737753
| Tis a sad story, Littleguy. From what I continue to hear about these "wives", even the ones who allow softball lay quietly in wait and ready to pounce at the first sign of a cancelled game, and the first thing they do is imasculate you with womanly chores. Ryno has become Martha Stewart for god's sake (minus the insider stock trading). I have a scientific theory that it is the collective hatred of softball and their disdane for their husbands having any enjoyment in life from these "wives" that actually causes rain. More information as experiments develop.
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| Ryno
May 4, 2008
8:13:59 PM
Entry #: 2738030
| Once again Ryman you make incorrect assumptions about my wife. She has yet to reveal herself as "THE WIFE". That change is inevitable, but for now all is well. My day went like this.
1. 12:00am I am looking out my office window and see downpours.
2. 3:00am I walk over to another building. The rain is light but the flooding has started.
3. 5:00am I walk back to my office and it is still raining lightly.
4. 6:30am Do I chance there are no games and go home? Or do I go crash on my fathers couch and hope it clears up?
5. 7:00am It's crunch time. I decide to go home. 15 minutes later I am driving through a monsoon like rain in Western Coventry.
6. 8:00am. Home and in bed. The wife wishing I was playing ball so she could clean the house without waking me up.
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| ARTIEKARATE
May 4, 2008
8:30:10 PM
Entry #: 2738061
| hahahahaha you OAWMF's !!! Who says tournament guys don't tough it out . We played this morning in a B NIT at Woodlake . We lost but I went 3 for 3 . I think I'm going to picked up by Laser Vision !! A little mud never hurt anyone .
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| RyMan
May 4, 2008
9:44:18 PM
Entry #: 2738175
| Artie, anyone who knows me knows I'd play in any weather. If it were up to me whether or not to call games, we would've had a lot of soggy softball players today.
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| RyMan
May 4, 2008
9:57:54 PM
Entry #: 2738201
| She's got you brainwashed Ryno. Notice how she only wishes you were playing softball so she could get something done? Its always about them! And riddle me this, Ryno:
Rain = 4 letters
Wife = 4 letters
...my research continues.
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| EW33
May 4, 2008
11:09:32 PM
Entry #: 2738273
| Ryno do you wear ear plugs to sleep? I worked the first 8 years of nights without using anything and used to curse the phone, lawnmowers, neighbors, dogs, kids, and especially my wife. Then i started using ear plugs 4 years ago and i sleep like a baby all day with them in. I have another method that involves tequila, vicodin and ear plugs .... that can sometimes result in 3 day gaps of unaccounted for time. While the second method is highly recommended proper planning is required.
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| Ryno
May 5, 2008
1:21:34 AM
Entry #: 2738381
| Use a fan. In the winter just point it away from you and keep it on low. You quickly get used to the steady humming noise and won't notice anything else that isn't really really loud.
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| EW33
May 5, 2008
2:29:44 AM
Entry #: 2738410
| I have 2 kids and an ignorant wife. The fan trick worked when i was single. It stopped working when the first evil minion was formed.
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| lb4lb
May 5, 2008
6:08:24 PM
Entry #: 2739133
| ERN sleeps DURING some games..sometimes whole tournaments ..YES!, another " 2005 Turkey Trot blown by Ernie ( and Kid Softball..or whatever Doug Case's nickname is )reference "
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| Ryno
May 5, 2008
6:27:54 PM
Entry #: 2739168
| I'll be switching to tylenol pm and earplugs when little Ryno's start running around.
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| EW33
May 5, 2008
11:12:47 PM
Entry #: 2739615
| Somehow some way those references never get old lb4lb. Ryno, good plan.
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