I suppose I gave it away in the thread title but Vandy beat Western KY in their game which was moved to Bugtussle, KY since no one from Kentucky is allowed to come to Tennessee by Government Ukase.
As you recall (likely not because nobody really reads these things, but at least Junior has fun writing them -- he has nothing else better to do, unfortunately,) Bugtussle was chosen because it's about as close to the TN-KY border and equidistant from Bowling Green and Nashville as one can get. They also needed the infusion of tourist dollars because so far this year they had zero tourist dollars accumulated in the town kitty fund and they were in dire need of a new 4-way stop sign which has been shot so many times that all that's readable is "4 top s."
The game, played on the local Sandlot due to Bugtussle not being big enough to have their own high school, was quite entertaining. All the local gang of kids were there to view the Big Guys playing on Their field. Although some may think the 5th kid from the left looks exactly like Junior did at that age, Junior swears he's never dated a girl from Bugtussle. Believe you, he'd remember if he had.
First base was a trash can lid. Second was a bicycle tire. Third was an empty bag of Red Hots held down with a big rock. Home plate was a real dinner plate. The on-deck circle was a rusty former Gulf gas station sign which was ripped from what remains of the only former gas station left in Bugtussle. The rest had long since been burned down by bored teenagers. The mound was only 2 inches higher than the rest of the dirt infield (scattered with clumps of weeds) but this proved to be no problem for Ethan Smith, the Dores starting pitcher, who, after the game told Max Herz,
"It was just like playing in the backyard with dad when I was little. I struck Dad out almost as much as I struck out Western."
[If you're wondering why Max has a big "A" on his shirt it's because Max worked in the Cape Cod League for the Chatham Anglers. Max has lots of jobs -- Vandy radio guy, Vandy color guy on the field, Vandy Star of the Game Interviewer, Vandy Women's basketball something-or-other, Nashville Soccer broadcaster, and on the weekends he cuts hair at Sports Clips. He had to give up his job as a night watchman at Radnor Yards because one night, while he slept, somebody stole a freight train and all it's contents which turned out to be Respirators and Surgical Masks. Max resigned before he was fired so as not to blemish his resume in case he needs another job later.]
[P.S. Junior believes that Max will succeed Joe Fish as "Voice of the Commodores" should Joe ever hang it up. Which he may not for a long, long time. But Max is young; he can wait. But Junior may not be able to wait 'cause he's old, old, old. Did you know that every single person in Nashville who has died of the COVID-19 virus is a male over 60 years of age? Junior knows.]
Now back to Ethan. Not having received any official confirmation about what Ethan said about his Dad Junior decided to let it slide and not challenge Ethan seeing as how Ethan is much, much tougher than Junior as well as 3 inches taller and 20 pounds heavier and has lots more muscles.
Off on a Tangent
He's also about 50 years younger so that was the deciding factor in Junior's decision not to challenge him because Junior has always been undersized compared to his opponent each week at Fight Club, something he's been attending since he was in college, and he has finally learned that sometimes it's just to best to let things slide especially when you're flat on your back and bleeding profusely about the neck and head. All you have to say is "Stop." Short, simple, sweet, to the point. [In his real life Junior is never short, often simple, sporadically sweet, and never, ever to the point other than in a round-about way.]
Off on a Tangent Ray
Junior only found out about Fight Club because his Bugs, his boyhood friend since the 3rd grade, told him about it. Bugs, of course, wasn't his real name, unlike Waymon Buggs, but Bugs stuck because he always had bugs flying around him, likely because he reeked and the bugs thought he was dead meat or something.
Truth be told, Bugs was never introduced to deodorant until he became a senior in high school. It was a transformation in his life because he soon got a girl pregnant and had to get married and drop out of school. We still let him come to Class Reunions, however, because we like to tease him unmercifully about being called Bugs. Not really. Technically, a person who makes it at least through the 10th grade can officially be called an "alumni/alumna" [Latin is very specific with their words] of a high school. If you didn't know that then you do now. Your welcome.
BTW, he still goes by Bugs because, in an odd way, everybody likes having a nickname, even if it's a desultory one. Bugs doesn't know what desultory means because he had to drop of school. But he did join the Air Force and traveled the world, met tons of interesting people, went to many exotic places, and his stories regale the Reunion Crowd ever year to the point that Bugs has become BMOC despite never having graduated because he left campus early.
The real BMOC in high school now pumps gas at a Kwik-E-Mart and has rotting teeth.
Life sometimes turns out differently that we all thought it would in high school, doesn't it?
Back to Baseball
In any event, the game ended up 8-1 and was called after 7 innings because it got dark and the only lights around were the Christmas tree lights still up on a local shack where the Mayor lives that overlooks the field.
In the game exactly 8 balls ended up in the pond/swamp in right-center field. They actually ran out of baseballs and some local guy contributed his ball signed by Babe Ruth.
AMar
had to change cleats 3 times in the game due to slogging in the muck and mire to catch several fly balls. On one hilarious play IT
actually fell face first into the muck and lots of yuck-yucking ensued from the VandyBoys dugout which was actually just comprised of a old '56 Chevy and '45 Dodge welded together by somebody who had nothing else better to do but knew how to wield an acetylene torch. That is a common occurence in Bugtussle. Nothing better to do, not wield a torch.
The Dores move to 26-8 on the season and Corbs is all fired up.
They entertain South Carolina this weekend somewhere as yet unannounced because no one knows if anybody will be allowed to come to Tennessee from South Carolina. South Carolina will let anybody come "in" to the state but they don't always let everybody go "out." It's possible the game may have to be played somewhere on the Cherokee Indian Reservation on the other side of the Smoky Mountains.
Conclusion
Junior will not be able to cover the series this weekend as he's got some family medical issues to attend to. Hopefully someone else will not let SEC Fantasy Baseball die this weekend. It's had such short life it'd be a shame if it died an early death. OTOH, maybe not. Junior supposes the same could be said for most anybody or anything if you think about it.
Alas, such is the Circle of Life as someone famous once sang
and made tons of money doing so.
But if it does die then Junior can only say, "que sera sera." Junior doesn't exactly know what that means because he barely speaks English much less German but he sure did like the way Doris Day sang it to Rock Hudson. Did you know Rock Hudson was gay? Things are not always as they seem it seems.
Ancoris Sublata! fellow Vandy Fanatics.
As you recall (likely not because nobody really reads these things, but at least Junior has fun writing them -- he has nothing else better to do, unfortunately,) Bugtussle was chosen because it's about as close to the TN-KY border and equidistant from Bowling Green and Nashville as one can get. They also needed the infusion of tourist dollars because so far this year they had zero tourist dollars accumulated in the town kitty fund and they were in dire need of a new 4-way stop sign which has been shot so many times that all that's readable is "4 top s."
The game, played on the local Sandlot due to Bugtussle not being big enough to have their own high school, was quite entertaining. All the local gang of kids were there to view the Big Guys playing on Their field. Although some may think the 5th kid from the left looks exactly like Junior did at that age, Junior swears he's never dated a girl from Bugtussle. Believe you, he'd remember if he had.
First base was a trash can lid. Second was a bicycle tire. Third was an empty bag of Red Hots held down with a big rock. Home plate was a real dinner plate. The on-deck circle was a rusty former Gulf gas station sign which was ripped from what remains of the only former gas station left in Bugtussle. The rest had long since been burned down by bored teenagers. The mound was only 2 inches higher than the rest of the dirt infield (scattered with clumps of weeds) but this proved to be no problem for Ethan Smith, the Dores starting pitcher, who, after the game told Max Herz,
"It was just like playing in the backyard with dad when I was little. I struck Dad out almost as much as I struck out Western."
[If you're wondering why Max has a big "A" on his shirt it's because Max worked in the Cape Cod League for the Chatham Anglers. Max has lots of jobs -- Vandy radio guy, Vandy color guy on the field, Vandy Star of the Game Interviewer, Vandy Women's basketball something-or-other, Nashville Soccer broadcaster, and on the weekends he cuts hair at Sports Clips. He had to give up his job as a night watchman at Radnor Yards because one night, while he slept, somebody stole a freight train and all it's contents which turned out to be Respirators and Surgical Masks. Max resigned before he was fired so as not to blemish his resume in case he needs another job later.]
[P.S. Junior believes that Max will succeed Joe Fish as "Voice of the Commodores" should Joe ever hang it up. Which he may not for a long, long time. But Max is young; he can wait. But Junior may not be able to wait 'cause he's old, old, old. Did you know that every single person in Nashville who has died of the COVID-19 virus is a male over 60 years of age? Junior knows.]
Now back to Ethan. Not having received any official confirmation about what Ethan said about his Dad Junior decided to let it slide and not challenge Ethan seeing as how Ethan is much, much tougher than Junior as well as 3 inches taller and 20 pounds heavier and has lots more muscles.
Off on a Tangent
He's also about 50 years younger so that was the deciding factor in Junior's decision not to challenge him because Junior has always been undersized compared to his opponent each week at Fight Club, something he's been attending since he was in college, and he has finally learned that sometimes it's just to best to let things slide especially when you're flat on your back and bleeding profusely about the neck and head. All you have to say is "Stop." Short, simple, sweet, to the point. [In his real life Junior is never short, often simple, sporadically sweet, and never, ever to the point other than in a round-about way.]
Off on a Tangent Ray
Junior only found out about Fight Club because his Bugs, his boyhood friend since the 3rd grade, told him about it. Bugs, of course, wasn't his real name, unlike Waymon Buggs, but Bugs stuck because he always had bugs flying around him, likely because he reeked and the bugs thought he was dead meat or something.
Truth be told, Bugs was never introduced to deodorant until he became a senior in high school. It was a transformation in his life because he soon got a girl pregnant and had to get married and drop out of school. We still let him come to Class Reunions, however, because we like to tease him unmercifully about being called Bugs. Not really. Technically, a person who makes it at least through the 10th grade can officially be called an "alumni/alumna" [Latin is very specific with their words] of a high school. If you didn't know that then you do now. Your welcome.
BTW, he still goes by Bugs because, in an odd way, everybody likes having a nickname, even if it's a desultory one. Bugs doesn't know what desultory means because he had to drop of school. But he did join the Air Force and traveled the world, met tons of interesting people, went to many exotic places, and his stories regale the Reunion Crowd ever year to the point that Bugs has become BMOC despite never having graduated because he left campus early.
The real BMOC in high school now pumps gas at a Kwik-E-Mart and has rotting teeth.
Life sometimes turns out differently that we all thought it would in high school, doesn't it?
Back to Baseball
In any event, the game ended up 8-1 and was called after 7 innings because it got dark and the only lights around were the Christmas tree lights still up on a local shack where the Mayor lives that overlooks the field.
In the game exactly 8 balls ended up in the pond/swamp in right-center field. They actually ran out of baseballs and some local guy contributed his ball signed by Babe Ruth.
AMar
The Dores move to 26-8 on the season and Corbs is all fired up.
They entertain South Carolina this weekend somewhere as yet unannounced because no one knows if anybody will be allowed to come to Tennessee from South Carolina. South Carolina will let anybody come "in" to the state but they don't always let everybody go "out." It's possible the game may have to be played somewhere on the Cherokee Indian Reservation on the other side of the Smoky Mountains.
Conclusion
Junior will not be able to cover the series this weekend as he's got some family medical issues to attend to. Hopefully someone else will not let SEC Fantasy Baseball die this weekend. It's had such short life it'd be a shame if it died an early death. OTOH, maybe not. Junior supposes the same could be said for most anybody or anything if you think about it.
Alas, such is the Circle of Life as someone famous once sang
and made tons of money doing so.
But if it does die then Junior can only say, "que sera sera." Junior doesn't exactly know what that means because he barely speaks English much less German but he sure did like the way Doris Day sang it to Rock Hudson. Did you know Rock Hudson was gay? Things are not always as they seem it seems.
Ancoris Sublata! fellow Vandy Fanatics.
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