May 29, 2010

Prepare for Intense Levels of Decency: Instead of kicking the shit out of a team that had just been formed out of kids who'd never played the game, didn't have a full set of equipment, and only loosely understood the rules, Roncalli High School's JV women's softball team forfeited the game in order to use the time to teach the new team how to play, then took up a collection to help them buy equipment and hooked them up with a former coach to help advise the program (via MetaFilter).

posted by rcade to baseball at 03:59 PM - 3 comments

I thought it was a great article, until the last paragraph:

Anyway, it's not an important story, just one that squirts apple juice right in your face. And who knows? Maybe someday, Marshall will be beating Roncalli in the final inning, realize how far it has come, and forfeit again, just as a thank you.

WTF? Is that a phrase I'm unfamiliar with?

And why would Marshall forfeit if they played again? Wouldn't Roncalli want Marshall to beat them fairly, as proof of how far they've gone?

posted by grum@work at 05:31 PM on May 29, 2010

That line struck me as odd also. Squirts what in what?

posted by rcade at 09:29 PM on May 29, 2010

I've had three glasses of wine, so I might have this wrong, but perhaps it's a reference to Guys and Dolls?

Kind of a reach there. Anyway Great story.

posted by lil_brown_bat at 10:26 PM on May 30, 2010

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