Pre-Memorial Day Games

Evers queried me on the ride home from Bowie as to what today's blog would contain, for which I replied, "don't know, it just comes as I type". Knowing so many of us have served our country in the Army, Navy and Marines, I have chosen a theme based upon our upcoming Memorial Day. What we do today in no way equates to the strenuous sacrifices made by those that we honor on Monday but our efforts are analogous to the tasks our Veterans attacked. If not for the supreme sacrifices of our honorees on Memorial Day we might be speaking another language and competing in European football or playing ping-pong. God Bless our Veterans! Now for today's skirmish... With a decimated regiment we had to attack Silver with our infantry and light artillery. If our heavy artillery gunners (Fred, Bob & Tom) had seen the short fence they would have been salivating but, alas, they chose to sail their Battleship Iowa somewhere else. Our 105 split-trail howitzers had to get the job done for our grunts, jarheads and 60mm mortars as the only 155mm gun was Jim who could reach the fence. Facing Silver's newest Big Bertha gun, who parked two, and their precision volleys of t'weeners we fell flat and lost game one 12-5. Never say die Blue rallied in game two and found the rhythm and stroke. Multiple double plays, key hits, Tinker elevating with his 4" vertical leap and blazing speed to leg a triple, and Al finally learning to touch second base propelled Blue to a 13-5 victory. As we are facing the "commie Reds" on Wednesday, 5 Star General Evers has provided special disposition for our AWOLS as we need you. Now for Al's travails: don't despair, as I researched that crisp umpire's shirt and hat and found that it is available from zoogstercostumes.com and he is one of Silver's player's brother-in-laws! And for you anxious followers, the next trivia question will appear between now and Tuesday May 30th.