But, if you take some time off, you might miss your chance to see Jimmy Paredes play right field!
And you might miss a play as spectacular as Elwood's today. For the majority of you who didn't see it please know that Elwood was in normal relay position, ten yards or so into the grass in shallow left, maybe a bit more. Barnes delivered him a good throw and it looked for all the world that Hendricks or whoever it was was going to be out at the plate. Instead Elwood manages to throw the ball nearly into the dugout. Just imagine that. The circle of dirt around the plate is, what, ten yards in diameter? The ball didn't come anywhere close to traveling over the home plate area dirt. It basically sailed over the on-deck circle.
When I was on the school's basketball team in junior high some idiot found a jar of stickum. We all thought it was great fun to smear it all over us and palm a basketball, waving it around like were were Dr J or something. Well, a couple of these rocket scientists never bothered to wipe that shit off before the game, or they didn't see the need, one. This one fellow, I can't for the life of me remember his name although I can picture him clearly, he had a wad of it all over his hands and in the opening minutes of the game he tried to make a normal pass to a teammate up the court. The ball stuck to his hand and went flying out of bounds damn near perpendicular to where he was trying to send the ball. The coach was furious, of course, and called time out immediately to take this goon out of the game. Meanwhile of course there are four guys out there on the court furiously wiping their hands on their shorts, socks, whatever they can think of, all with alarmed expressions on their faces.
That was the first thing I thought of when Elwood's throw sailed into the great, yawning nothingness. This idiot must have pine tar on his throwing hand.
