[nfbwatlk] double header

[Bennett Prows]

Carl,

Well, I understand about your addiction.  I suffer from a similar baseball 
sickness.  And, that's precisely why I suggested you not listen today.  Now 
that I've made the suggestion, the Mariners are leading the Yankees at the 
moment, which says something.  They don't need to know whether you are 
listening.  Don't tell anyone until the game's over.  that's all I ask.


Bennett Prows
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Jarvis" <carjar at olypen.com>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] double header


> But Ben, that's like asking me to give up sugar!  I blush to say it, but 
> say
> it I must; I am a baseball junkie.  Back in the Dark Ages, the 1950's, I
> could reel off most players and their vital statistics, the standings for 
> a
> dozen years or more...of course there were many fewer teams in those long
> forgotten days, 8 in each league, and I thrilled when Seattle finally, at
> long last captured a major league franchise.  The Seattle Pilots.  I
> attended at least a dozen games even though I'd recently become blind.  We
> sat in the Robert Lee Hardwick rooting section of the old Rainier ball 
> yard,
> a lovely old, down at the heels triple A park that I'd spent my best 
> Sundays
> cheering the Seattle Rainier's on to defeat in those wonderful double
> headers that rolled on and on, far more worth while than sitting in 
> church,
> but about as meaningful.
> The Pilots hold the record for being the shortest franchise in the modern
> game of baseball.  Us poor Fans were robbed.  Deceived by the money
> manipulators.  The Soriano brothers  and their kind.  To this very day I
> snarl whenever I hear the name, Milwaukee Brewers.
> But in all of that, I have never thought of myself as having the power to
> influence the outcome of a game merely by listening to it.  Naturally, if 
> I
> am sitting with my legs crossed just as a Mariner hits one out of the 
> Park,
> I am forced not to change positions until the end of the inning.  And if
> nothing else works, I can sometimes get them jump started by switching the
> radio off and on three times in quick succession.
> By the way, this even works on rebroadcasts.
>
> Carl Jarvis
>
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