(INDIANAPOLIS) - In a league where Nolan Ryan's ERA would likely approach 10, a 5-2 game qualifies as a pitcher's duel.  Emmis starter David Zivan held the league's most prolific offense to just five runs, but saw his bats scratch across just a pair of runs in support.  Emmis could not string hits together and left men on base in almost every ( Read more... )

(INDIANAPOLIS) - A furious comback came up one run short as the clock ran out on the Emmis softball team Tuesday.  Trailing 16-8 in the bottom of the 5th inning and with just eight minutes left on the one-hour game clock, Emmis sent ten players to the plate and scored eight of them to tie the ballgame and send it to a 6th inning locked in a 16-16 ( Read more... )

(INDIANAPOLIS) - As Wee Willie Keeler once opined, it's easier to win if you "hit 'em where they ain't".  Such was the strategy of the Yellow Book softball team Tuesday night in a 17-11 win over Emmis.  In an emergency spot start, pitcher Ryan Marshall had a tough night and was felled by a number of line drive smashes which were misplayed by Emmis ( Read more... )

Anyone have a bunch of fonts on their computer (other than the standard ones which come with MS Word) which they'd be willing to share with me?  Or can someone direct me to a place where I can make one click and download a whole bunch (instead of having to go one by one)?

I'm slowly re-learning how I must do common things like walk, sit and drive now that I have stitches in my rear end.  If all goes well, they'll come out in about two weeks and I'll be able to be relatively active again.  For now, it's laying on my stomach as much as possible for a couple days to try to let everything set and heal as it's supposed ( Read more... )

So finally, after some delays, the cyst is removed today at 2 pm.  I'll be happy to have it out and be healing.  Oddly, the thing that I'm least looking forward to is the needle which will anesthetize me.  Once that's over, I'm told there will be a burning sensation for a minute or two.  However, after that I should feel nothing and be relatively ( Read more... )

All of a sudden, I find myself overcome by the changes around me.  Either I'm noticing more things or life is going by faster than it ever has before.  I also find that emotions are harder to keep in check.  I used to not get very up or very down about any given situation, but it now seems that I'm more excitable than I ever have been.  Things ( Read more... )

(INDIANAPOLIS) - A promising start to the season for the Emmis softball team turned into a full-fledged offensive slowdown Tuesday night.  Emmis was behind 4-0 before it even came to bat and would never recover, failing to score until a bases loaded sacrifice fly in the bottom of the second made the score 5-1.  Emmis has now scored just four runs ( Read more... )

So the cyst comes out a week from today.  I'm very anxious to just have it over with, not bleeding and infected and beginning to heal.  Better still, I don't have to miss any softball games because it'll come out during the time we have a 12-day layoff due to July 4th falling on a Tuesday.  The big question is whether I'll be able to sit for ( Read more... )

It's once again time for summer media league softball, and I promised myself I'd be more diligent about updating on Tuesday night or Wednesday following games.  Here's the wrap-up of our first game last night ( Read more... )