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July 14
We swept our doubleheader with two one-run games! First win vs. a team we should have handily beat but played close and won 5-4.  Second game against a team who would beat us 98 out of 100, but everything came together for a (slightly less than) perfect 13-12 win!  GO KIRKWOOD WARRIORS SOFTBALL! The afterparty was free pizza, wings, and beer at one of our teammate’s bar (where this picture was taken, only 7/12ths of the team).  Can’t beat that. valeriepeters: Softball team afterparty!! 2 wins tonight!

We swept our doubleheader with two one-run games! First win vs. a team we should have handily beat but played close and won 5-4.  Second game against a team who would beat us 98 out of 100, but everything came together for a (slightly less than) perfect 13-12 win!  GO KIRKWOOD WARRIORS SOFTBALL!

The afterparty was free pizza, wings, and beer at one of our teammate’s bar (where this picture was taken, only 7/12ths of the team).  Can’t beat that.

valeriepeters:

Softball team afterparty!! 2 wins tonight!
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“ Never say ‘I’m friends with the owner.’ Restaurant owners don’t have friends. This marks you as a clueless poseur the moment you walk in the door.

I need to tell everyone who complains at the restaurant I work at this exact statement.  They are all “friends of Dave,” and they all will get us fired because they “know Dave” if we don’t do what they say.  Dave only cares if they live or die because if they die he loses a revenue stream.

13 Things Your Waiter Won’t Tell You (via livejamie)
July 13
Slow Sunday, so here’s a picture of a duck.
Slow Sunday, so here’s a picture of a duck.
July 11
“ This time it’s not a text message. NFL Live’s Chris Mortensen is reporting that Brett Favre has asked for his release from the Green Bay Packers. Apparently, the Packers really didn’t want him darkening the Lambeau hallways anymore and are set to move ahead with Aaron Rodgers. If the Packers grant him his release, Favre will have the option to play with another team. All indications are that Favre still wants to play and will search for employment elsewhere.

Brett Favre: Buffalo Bill!

Brett Favre Asks For Release From Packers: Brett Favre Asks For Release From Packers, Wants To Play Elsewhere

*Ahem* Arthur Blank…make the damn call.

(via shorterexcerpts)

(via peterwknox)
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Creamer shoots 60 in 1st round of Farr - Golf - Yahoo! Sports

Tumblr needs more Paula Creamer - my fav female athlete ever.  Not only is she an unbelievable golfer, she’s nice (or at least tolerant - I met her at a tournament and, starstruck, asked for autographs (pps - she signs in pink sharpie)),  and obviously very easy on the eyes.

valeriepeters:

Yay Paula!
July 10
“ Well sir, I am not a bigoted Cro-Magnon, nor am I uneducated, BUT, a woman has NO business running a pro men’s sports team. And if she did, it would need to be a large Irish-American girl who could beat you arm wrestling! Seriously though, it’s a man’s sport, played by men, it should be managed by men, coached by men, and no bat girls either, period. That is what softball is for!
Jack Martin
Escondido, Calif.

Oh wow.

At the Letters: Gender barrier - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
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Bonus points for those awesome Reebok pumps. peterwknox: On my way home, my train passed through the 80s.

Bonus points for those awesome Reebok pumps.

peterwknox:

On my way home, my train passed through the 80s.
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“ But, alas, they had no idea just who would come — youthful Wiffle ball players, yes, but also angry neighbors and their lawyer, the police, the town nuisance officer and tree warden and other officials in all shapes and sizes. It turns out that one kid’s field of dreams is an adult’s dangerous nuisance, liability nightmare, inappropriate usurpation of green space, unpermitted special use or drag on property values, and their Wiffle-ball Fenway has become the talk of Greenwich and a suburban Rorschach test about youthful summers past and present.

Of relevance because we have a wiffle ball field, albeit in someone’s yard.  The people complaining in this article are the worst kind of assholes.

Our Towns - Build a Wiffle Ball Field and Lawyers Will Come - NYTimes.com
July 9

Yes; delicious, spicy battles.

livejamie:

Oh General Tso, one can only assume you must have fought some delicious battles.
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“ Increasingly disconnected from the “adult” world of tradition, culture, history, context and the ability to sit down for more than five minutes with a book, today’s digital generation is becoming insulated in its own stultifying cocoon of bad spelling, civic illiteracy and endless postings that hopelessly confuse triviality with transcendence. LA Times, via Instapaper