Hitting is Hard

Connecting a thin plastic bat with a thrown wiffle ball is hard to do. So is driving. Especially in Oakwood.

This week's edition of the Oakwood Register has a front page story about an 8-year-old child on an bike struck by a car. I know nothing of this incident other than what is in this story.  The story indicates that the child, taken to Children's Hospital, will make a full recovery. I'm sure the driver of this vehicle feels terrible. But this article, and the Police official quoted, seem to place all fault for this incident on the child.

That simply can't be how we govern ourselves in 2015 in Oakwood. It can't. I do not want to live in a place that is that unconcerned about the safety of people out in the community.

Driving in Oakwood is hard, people.  Look at this diagram:

Intersection of Forrer and Shafor

Picture yourself driving the car that is the yellow oval. Stopped at a stop sign, waiting to proceed. The red arrows are potential directions another car could be coming from.  The green arrows are potential directions that a person on a bike or a person on foot may be coming from.  Remember that a lot of runners in Oakwood run in the street against traffic. Pushing strollers, no less!

Drivers HAVE TO LOOK at every one of these possible conflicts and YIELD to all of them! Remember, the driver is the one at the controls of the two tons of steel that could kill someone.

Not the 8 year old child.

Slow down. Pay attention. Wait.

Eric, JD, Matt, Pete - 3 runs, 12 hits
Andy, Bob, Kurt, Tim L. - 3 runs, 16 hits

HR: none.

Final Score: Eight-to-Nothing to See Here

Just your standard, run of the mill blowout game today.  8-0 was your final as eight wifflers, including Chris Anderson (!) played in some heat at Nance Bradds.

Many teachers were going in and out of Smith School, heralding the end of Summer. This made Peter sad.

Stats are up to date.

The Tag Up Game

Goodness!! Is this really the first blog post since my day as Commissioner?? Time to get off my duff.

Today was an ideal game to break in a rookie. Everyone, meet Dewey Darden. 

Dewey, everyone.

Today's action featured 7 wifflers, a lot of hits, some good pitching, and a lot chatter from the rookie. A LOT.

Everyone drove in at least 1 run, and everyone got some hits. But MOST MOST significantly, the TAG UP RULE WAS USED!!!!!

TWICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First by Andy "Gamer" Evans who called his own tag up from the batters box for the third of his 4 rbi.

Second by Peter "Warming up to it" Berwald who had the TAG called for him by Matt "Heads Up" Lindsay.

So once for each team, and these guys saved an AB and each got an RBI.

But speaking of Matt... let me tell you why Andy won't be sending Matt a birthday card this Yom Kippur.

Andy hit a homer today - an impressive screaming liner over Dewey's head. He also hit a majestic, soaring shot to straightaway center field that carried seemingly forever. It was in the air so long, that Matt had time to run under it and catch it one handed, on a dead run, back to the plate. Think Willy Mays. Think Renaldo Nehemiah. Seriously. It was stupefying. He was no more than 15 feet from the gate.

It was the greatest catch in Wiffle history. And it came on the same day as the greatest wiffle picture ever. Wow.

Adrian, Andy, Hansoo -6
Dewey, JD, Matt, Peter -8

HR - Evans (5)