Monday, October 10, 2005

Slaying the Dragon

A wild weekend in Aussie sports activity, as Peggy and I were both in action with our respected competitions. Peggy made her international cricketing debut on Saturday, playing for the University Womens Cricket Club’s opening round and scoring two, count ‘em two runs and being what they call, ‘not out’. As in, the game ended while she was still at-bat. She reports that she was given a standing ovation (everyone was standing up already, but the thought was there) for scoring her first run. Unfortunately, her side lost 229-74, but hooray for Peggy! We’re going to try to go and watch the ‘Super Series’ here in Sydney, which pits the 11 best players in the world against Australia’s national team in a one-day match.

Meanwhile Australia’s oldest baseball team, the Waverly Waves notched their first win with an 18-13 shootout against the dreaded St. George. This was the first time that I’ve ever seen someone warming up for a baseball game both shirtless and with a cigarette in their mouth. He just exhumed ‘athlete’ with every puff. I didn’t do to poorly, knocking a double and scoring a run. Still no pitching, but I feel as if I’m getting close to being thrust upon the mound. Given the high score of our game, it only lasted three innings, so there were not many opportunities to get some work in.

We both find that it is as much of an amusement to travel to these nameless suburbs (usually down south) and see what different slices of Sydneysiders are out there. Each weekend presents a different myriad of directions, highways leading to streets leading to suburbs, all which we have never heard of but would otherwise never know existed.

posted by ncawthon at 9:19 AM