{"id":18542,"date":"2011-07-22T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=18542"},"modified":"2012-07-12T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T21:17:10","slug":"tpr-v-nym-bittersweet-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/22\/tpr-v-nym-bittersweet-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"TPR vs. NYM: Bittersweet Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family:courier\">\n<pre>\r\nTeam    |1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9    Total\u2028\r\nTPR     |5|2|2|4|2|6|0|0|1    22\r\nNYM     |1|6|2|0|0|0|4|0|0    13\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>A preface: on Saturday morning we played <\/em>The Wall Street Journal<em>, and in classic capitalist fashion they brought their own umpire. Suffice it to say we lost, although not that badly. (13-8 sounds about right.) <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2011\/07\/how_wendi_won_the_day_and_why.html\">We can\u2019t all be Wendi Deng<\/a>. For our sake and yours, let\u2019s move on to Monday\u2019s game against <\/em>New York<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Without our lovable leader Stephen Andrew Hiltner (away on official summer business) the duties of captain fell to me, which only meant making sure we had enough people at the game. This proved harder than it seemed. (A few of our regulars were out of town.) With the help of a few ringers, though, I managed to assemble the greatest softball team this side of the <a href=\"http:\/\/simpsons.wikia.com\/wiki\/Springfield_Nuclear_Power_Plant_softball_team\">Springfield Nuclear Power Plant<\/a> squad of \u201992. <em>New York<\/em> managed to stay close for a few innings, but there was no chance they could keep pace with our top-to-bottom offensive juggernaut. There weren\u2019t any lucky bounces or close calls\u2014we hit everything hard. The usual suspects were up to their old tricks (\u201cSonny\u201d Jim Rutman hit a laser off the scoreboard for an automatic home run), and the new blood didn\u2019t disappoint (props to Tom \u201c<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/a-week-in-culture-tom-nissley-writer-and-game-show-contestant\/\">Jeopardy!<\/a><\/em>\u201d Nissley and to someone known in my notes only as \u201cThe Ringer\u201d). The only blemish on the game was when I tripped rounding third base, falling flat on my face, in what was surely the highlight of the day for the other team.<\/p>\n<p>Up 21\u20139 in the top of the seventh inning, we assumed <em>New York<\/em> would be eager to call it a day. It was a pleasant surprise when they insisted we play a full nine. We cruised through the last few innings, aided by a dominant pitching performance from Marco \u201cThe Barber\u201d Roth. Former deputy editor David Wallace-Wells was conspicuously absent (perhaps he was afraid to face his formidable former colleagues). As the game ended, the rain\u2014which had held off until then\u2014began to fall in a most unpoetic fashion. A few of us retired to a nearby tavern where we sipped whiskey and considered the Oxford comma into the wee hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>In our last six games we\u2019ve outscored our opponents by twenty-seven runs, yet we\u2019ve won only three times. This particular win is bittersweet, both a validation of our talent and a reminder of what could have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team |1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9 Total\u2028 TPR |5|2|2|4|2|6|0|0|1 22 NYM |1|6|2|0|0|0|4|0|0 13 A preface: on Saturday morning we played The Wall Street Journal, and in classic capitalist fashion they brought their own umpire. Suffice it to say we lost, although not that badly. (13-8 sounds about right.) We can\u2019t all be Wendi Deng. 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