May 24-June 3

I recently noticed the total pageviews on this blog had surpassed 26,000 since it started in November of 2010. I've always said I appreciate my audience although I really don't know who reads the useless tripe and drivel I talk about. Here of late the posts have been infrequent simply because: what do you write about when there just isn't a whole hell of a lot going on? The last week of May had one major event that really had little to do with me. Jenny is in town often to babysit her friend's daughters, on Saturday her friend moved into a new address. The old apartment was on the extreme opposite side of town from where I am, the new place is less than a mile away. It's much nicer all the way around since Jenny won't have three flights of steps to deal with at the new place and for me it's much better simply because it's only about a five-minute drive on streets that generally have light traffic. The ironic part of it all is that the new place is literally across the street from where Jenny's brother lives, his wife is Jenny's friend's aunt. The month of June arrived on a Tuesday, noteworthy because it was the opening date for the county Midget Baseball league. The league did not operate in 2020 because most every team uses school facilities that were not made available thanks to THE BS (capital letters intended). The Midget level is 17-and-under, the teams are basically each participating district's high school team minus the graduated seniors plus any players from non-participating districts added on a "co-op" basis. Case in point: the McCaskey team (officially known as the Lancaster Junior Tornado) has two players from Manheim Township and one each from Manheim Central and Columbia since those districts are not playing in the league this time around. It's a twelve-game schedule, each team plays each opponent once. On this night the Tornado opened league play on the road in Mount Joy against Donegal. The Donegal school district is one of the county's smaller jurisdictions, in high school play they and McCaskey are seldom opponents. I made the trip northwest about fifteen miles from the city because it was an opportunity and a pleasure to be out of the house in the evening for a change, unfortunately the results were not kind. The Tornado fell 11-3 in a game called in the sixth inning due to approaching darkness. The Good Guys tallied twice in the fourth on a two-run single by Alex Rodriguez scoring Landis Fluck and Alex Ruiz, in the sixth Tobe Kuntz hit an over-the-fence home run to left-center for the third run. Orion Frailey was the pitcher of record with relief help from Rodriguez and Ty Jenkins. The team was scheduled for games on the 3rd and the 8th, both are postponed because the opponents are still involved in high school district playoffs. As it stands the next game isn't until the 15th at McCaskey. Take care, thanks for reading.