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WIFFLEBALL?....REALLY? BY MICHAEL SEAY
Being this is the first column written on this site, I had a wide
array of classic column
topics I could do. The Olsen twins
are now legal, spinner rims on Cadillac's, Taco Bell drive thru
stories, or maybe Sammy Hagar vs David Lee Roth. But this is a
Wiffleball site so I really should start off with something about
Wiffleball (sorry!).
Whenever somebody hears I play in a Wiffleball
league many questions come to their mind. Well,
Okay, not many questions but there are a few, such as:
Actually the most common reaction I get is a
polite smile and head nod. But I just know that they're thinking
"I knew he was a dork but wow, I had no idea".
Okay, I'll concede that an adult playing Wiffleball
is a bit on the geek side but it shouldn't be considered any worse than
playing Softball. Like Softball, Wiffleball is just a modified
version of Baseball. But Wiffleball has the element of pitching
that Softball (well slow pitch anyway) doesn't have. In Wiffleball
you have all of the pitches that Baseball has plus a couple extra ( the
"Cadiwampus" is very popular). Softball mostly just has the "Toss
it up there so the girl from Service Deli can hit it" and the "Huck the
holy hell out of it" pitch.
Softball does have the fact that the ball is close
to being hard as a baseball and you need an aluminum bat, like college
Baseball (ohhh yes, aluminum bats in college Baseball, I smell another
column). Also, your not going to get hurt with a Wiffleball like
you could a Softball. Although if you've been hit square in the junk
with a Wiffleball ,like most of us have, you wouldn't say that!
But a major stumbling block for making Wiffleball considered a less
dorky sport is the whole "played it as a kid and then I discovered there
are these strange creatures called girls" thing.
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Now that I have managed to fool a girl into marrying me, the fact
that Wiffle is considered a kids game is one of it's selling points.
Every time we play I get a little flashback of when I played as a
ten year old. Those summer days of going from morning
till dinner, no matter how damn hot it got (by the way, an August
Fresno day feels like Heatmiser himself is lurking about).
There isn't many things I can say that about anymore. But I do
have to say a well timed fart or belch can still take me back. |
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I hope that one day Wiffleball can break out of
that kid/geek stigma and I will be waiting with ball and banana bat in
hand. Maybe an Olympic sport some day?...no? Yea, I probably
have a better chance with the Olsen twins.
6-15-04
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Michael Seay is the head
writer for the Fresno Wiffleball League website and is considered an
all around good guy when he's not being a jack-ass.
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