Stuff happens. Not a good mistake to make, but stuff does happen. Ičve
already had a couple of similar brain farts this year as well. Hence, if
this is worst that happens to you this season, then you are truly having a
good year!

Chet


On 5/1/08 10:39 AM, "Patsy Jones" <bptjones@...> wrote:

>
>
>
> after my fubar last night, which can only be explained by an
> apparent case of severe cerebral flatulence.
>
> LL softball, and I'm all alone, top of the 5th inning, 2 outs, R2
> and R3. Batter fouls a ball back to the backstop. It takes the
> catcher a minute or 2 to chase down the ball. During that minute or
> 2 my brain apparently left the ballfield and went somewhere far, far
> away. Catcher makes a bad throw back to the pitcher in the circle,
> ball hits end of her glove then hits the ground and is rolling
> around on the ground. Runner from 3rd comes home and, shame of all
> shames, not only did I let her come, I freakin' called her safe...
> and didn't catch it until well into the next batter, nor did either
> coach. At this point the score was 6-2 (one of those 2 being the
> run I allowed to score illegally) and I'm thinking, actually
> praying, oh God please don't let this game come down to that 1
> run.... Final stayed at 6-2, so I dodged the bullet, but left the
> field seriously thinking I should stay off the field and go back to
> the pressbox where I can fix mistakes with an eraser.
>
> Fire away...
>
>
>


--
Chester R. Cooper, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Youngstown State University
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Youngstown, Ohio 44555

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