Rick Reilly passing down the wisdom he's learned
after 324 years as a sportswriter:
The best sports are the ones you invent.
Agreed!
Via my memoirs:
The other game we came up with during those years was a game that
involved a crushed Coke can as a “ball.” We’d play behind the shed,
wherein one of us would pitch the can and the other would try to hit it
over the shed for a home run. Hits the roof it’s a triple, over a
certain line a double etc etc. Needless to say, after about 18 seconds
the “ball” is basically a shredded disc of aluminum. You know what wins
in a battle between shredded metal and human skin? Needless to say our
hands would be shredded and bloodied almost immediately; also probably
needless to say at this point is that of course it wouldn’t stop us from
playing for another 3 hours. Though I did have to give up my idea for
salt mittens.
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