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Things That Gladden The Heart

Pathetic Shark said:
I had the chance to play softball when I retired from British baseball in 2000 but chose to concentrate on golf. I achieved everything I could as a hitter, pitcher and then manager. It was time to hang up the spikes and glove for good.
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We had a coed intramural softball league back in college, strictly a fun, beer league thing.
I remember that we had the first artificial turf field in Boston back in the 60s. [Not particularly a fan. Especially of the old, original kind.]

I was catching and we had this pretty but ditzy second base-woman, maybe 19.
The other team's first baseman was batting, a big left-handed hitter, maybe six-three or four.
He hit a rope of a line drive straight to second.
I looked up, and our second base-lady had her head looking down, glove held between her knees, as she was rolling a joint.
The ball grazed the button on top of her cap as it flew by.

We weren't even using the balls that we were supposed to be using.
We were using higher compression balls to feed our egos by hitting them farther.
Our second base girl almost got herself killed.

She did finish rolling the joint in time to take the cutoff throw, however.
That in itself was pretty impressive.
 
Pathetic Shark said:
I used to work with a guy who always called it that just to wind me up. We had a work softball event and he kept going on about it so I offered to pitch to him. I was playing in the British Premier League at the time and could bring it around 80 mph and threw one pitch right past him. His underwear changed colour pretty quickly and he didn't call it that again.
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Ok I'll stop calling it rounders. Would I have ever tried to wind a mate of Homer up ?

Are you still into American rugby ?
 
Sending off the email this morning to formally confirm that I will leave when my current contract expires on 30th Sept. That's me "resting" for the foreseeable, if not forever.

Although, reading the above, maybe there's a vacancy for Head of Marketing at the British Baseball Premier League? I didn't know it existed and I suspect I am not alone!
 
williamalex1 said:
The forecasts for our golf jolly, playing Roxburgh and Cardrona GC this weekend is excellent.
I have a double ensuite room all to myself , happy days :D. .
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Are you actually staying at Roxburghe?

Enjoy. I've only played it in strong wind, I'd like to give it another go on a calmer day. This weekend looks ideal.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Are you actually staying at Roxburghe?

Enjoy. I've only played it in strong wind, I'd like to give it another go on a calmer day. This weekend looks ideal.
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No.
6 of us are playing the Roxburgh GC Sunday 1.30 [ 2x3 balls, room for 2 more bodies] staying over in Peebles Sunday night playing Cardrona GC Monday lunch time.
We've 3 buggies booked for both days , phew !!
We have 2 spare Golf Show vouchers for The Roxburgh, only have to pay a £10 green fee, if anyone wants them
let me know ASAP, but they must be used by May 31st at the latest.
Update- the vouchers are gone .
 
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williamalex1 said:
No.
6 of us are playing the Roxburgh GC Sunday 1.30 [ 2x3 balls, room for 2 more bodies] staying over in Peebles Sunday night playing Cardrona GC Monday lunch time.
We've 3 buggies booked for both days , phew !!
We have 2 spare Golf Show vouchers for The Roxburgh, only have to pay a £10 green fee, if anyone wants them
let me know ASAP, but they must be used by May 31st at the latest.
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I would have loved to have snapped your hand off but sadly I'm committed to family things. Fabulous price to play a seriously good course.

I will quiz you afterwards to see how your trip went. It could be an interesting option for me at some point but I know nothing about Peebles or Cardrona.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I would have loved to have snapped your hand off but sadly I'm committed to family things. Fabulous price to play a seriously good course.

I will quiz you afterwards to see how your trip went. It could be an interesting option for me at some point but I know nothing about Peebles or Cardrona.
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No probs I like quizzes :D , TBH both these courses are way too long for me. But with Cardrona GC being free and Roxburgh GC only costing us £10 pp using our Golf Show vouchers , it was a no brainer.
add £35 per buggy.
Fingers crossed the forecast is correct :eek::unsure:
 
Orikoru said:
One of my PS4 controllers gave up the ghost the other week. So I wouldn't be able to play two player Borderlands with my wife. Thought I'd order a cheap one off Ebay, I figured I don't care if it is a fake as long as it works. Turns out not only is it fake, it doesn't actually function properly at all so I'll have to go through the bellyache of trying to get my money back now. Don't know why I bother trying to save a few quid. It's just paying £45 for a controller for a superseded system to only use it rarely just seemed like such a waste of money.
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I posted the above the other week in Random Irritations - he waited a week after I asked for a return and finally give me a Royal Mail delivery label to return, so I did. The tracking came back saying the address doesn't exist so they're returning to sender. The reason I'm posting it here though and not Random Irritations is because I contacted Ebay on chat yesterday and they immediately ruled in my favour and issued the refund anyway. Fake controller has just arrived back at my door and the money is on the way too. :LOL: I don't know why people try it on through Ebay really. Scammers would have better luck on Facebook marketplace where basically anything goes.
 
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