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Anyone ever play Fascination? I don’t think there’s many of those games left. There’s a hole in the wall Fascination place in Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio. Sure wish they would patch the place up, but there’s probably no money in it. Anyway, it’s kind of like bingo. There’s 5x5 grid of holes that you roll these racquetball size slightly heavier rubber balls at. The middle hole is plugged and a free space. The object is 5 in a line like bingo. But there’s a V shaped ramp in between you and the grid. So, the screws up its path. Then the ball could have its path impacted depending on how it travels amongst the holes. So, it looks easy, but there’s definitely luck involved. As the game goes, there’s a “scoreboard” on your lane showing you what holes you’ve gotten. Games ends once there’s on player with a line of 5. It might last around a minute depending upon how many people are playing. I think this place has 36 or 40 lanes, but as I mentioned, it’s a hole in the wall, so some of the lanes are unplayable.

They got drunk, stood on the table, and tried to defend their end of the board.

Yes, I remember that, too. We used to go to some FOE when I was really young and they had one of these tables. It’s was kind of like fine sawdust.

I was one of those unfortunate pitchers with not quite fast enough reflexes. Line drive off of the left side of my midsection. It bounced off of me and rolled in the direction of the 1Bdude. He went to the bag as I went for the ball. I barehanded it and tried to underhand it to him in one motion. I didn’t let go in time and it sailed over his head. I’m pretty sure I could have gotten him out. This was the first inning. To finish off the second inning, another line drive come backer, this time to the right of me. It wasn’t going to hit me, and I instinctively reached out with my bare right hand (dumb, dumb, dumb). I knocked it down, and with more calm and patience than before, grabbed it and threw him out. I went to LF for the rest of that game. Next day I wake up, and I have a bruise on my left side. A very nice outline of the softball complete with some stitch marks from the softball.

But you have to jump up on top of there and sweep? Seems like a bad idea.

Nah, my hair is brown. You know that.

Well played, oblong, well played.

So, I stay on bike trails as much as possible. I know the law is that bikes have a right to the road. But the law of physics also determines that I will likely lose any disagreements about space between myself and a vehicle. And if I am on a road, it’s only a two lane road, and I’m in the wrong lane facing traffic. I want to see if I need to bail or not. I don’t know what I’d do in a big city. Keeping in mind that the neighborhood we live in has direct access to a nice trail and parks which was more or less the reason I got a bike to begin with, I don’t know if I’d bike as much without that easy access or not. I’ve taken my bike to another spot or two just a very few times. It’s just so much easier to get home from work, change clothes, and zip out for an hour without loading up the bike and getting back into the car and driving to a biking area.

The first few times in the spring always seem like starting over again. I tend to start out short and build up. I guess it’s like anything else, if you don’t use it, you lose it. I don’t bike for a few months and then start back at square one. One of the things that I’ve noticed I cannot do now that I used to could do the is ride without holding onto the handlebars. Can’t do that now at all. I slow down to go one handed if I’m adjusting what I’m listening to on my phone or grabbing the water bottle for a sip.

So awesome. Thank you for sharing.

That’s it? Well, clearly I’m an idiot.

Way to recover from the IE% debacle.

I like riding my bike in the summer. We have a rails to trails that goes through our neighborhood and it goes to a couple of different parks. I’ve been riding since we moved into this house. In fact, we moved in late Sept about 10 or something years ago, and I made it a point to get a bike next spring. I’ve been tracking distance and times beginning in 2021. I’ll go 10 to 20 miles, done a couple of 30s. I don’t know why I track it, but I do. Over 1,000 miles is the goal this year.

Notice that they waited to join the MAC until after Pudge the Cat graduated from BGSU.

Fans are getting into load management of their own?

I’ve watched approximately 2,812 hours of curling this past week. I still have no idea how the scoring works.

Sacramento State, newest football member of the MAC? Sure, why not.

The 1Bdude lived through that play, probably has looked at the replay several times, and is probably still not expecting that kind of throw was physically possible from a D1 2B. Or maybe the poor kid is related to Steve Sax or Chuck Knoblauch?

Musical chairs with Mario and Rod.

Aight, here we go, bases juiced after a walk. This field is all turf, but the batters instinctively dig into the box anyway. It’s kind of funny, Oh no, loud single to the left field wall ends it. UMemphis 5, UToledo 4. What do you mean I have to do a ****ing game recap. Do we really need to do a ****ing game recap? Uh oh, is this on? Are we live? Oh no, sorry folks.

UToledo takes a 4-3 lead into the bottom of the 10th. The Rockets’ pitcher graduated a year ahead of my eldest. He’s not having a good day. Gave up the tying run in the bottom of the 9th. Just allowed a leadoff hit and stolen base. Productive ground out to the right side moves the tying runner to 3rd with one out. You know, now that I think of it, there hasn’t been a gambling ad this whole game. Not a single one. It just kond of dawned on me. Intentional walk to set up a game ending double play. Runner steals 2nd on a 1-2 ball. Now it’s a full count. Ugh.

I watched curling earlier this week. I think I may have hit my capacity. Same with skeleton.

I think I’ve heard of that concept before. There’s a 48+ years old softball league around town here. I’m thinking about joining. There are some modified rules, like 11 gloves on the field, ground balls hit through the infielders are automatic base hits.

Update. Game is in extra innings, 3-3. No runner at 2nd to start the extras, at least the 10th. The game was moved up a few hours due to weather concerns, so of course, extra innings. The aluminum bat “PING!” isn’t too annoying today. I guess I’m just glad to see any kind of baseball.

Cool Papa Bell wasn’t on the list? Seems a massive fail.