The Arrow's Path

OBSTRUCTION is the act of a fielder who, while not in possession of the ball and not in the act of fielding the ball, impedes the progress of any runner. Rule 2.00 (Obstruction) Comment: If a fielder is about to receive a thrown ball and if the ball is in flight directly toward and near enough to the fielder so he must occupy his position to receive the ball he may be considered “in the act of fielding a ball.” It is entirely up to the judgment of the umpire as to whether a fielder is in the act of fielding a ball. After a fielder has made an attempt to field a ball and missed, he can no longer be in the “act of fielding” the ball. For example: an infielder dives at a ground ball and the ball passes him and he continues to lie on the ground and delays the progress of the runner, he very likely has obstructed the runner. Sorry, Red Sox fans, but the Umps were right . Maybe if you played in a league that didn't use Church League Softball rules...

This is why I cannot support same sex "marriage." Once you go all "equal protection" and "civil rights," you have absolutely no recourse to say that this is wrong and that this leads to complete societal breakdown .

I found this gem on a major news website: "So, you think that the CNN comment board is a snapshot of America's 315,000,000 residents? That's a good one. 99% of these boards are full of trolls living in basements. It's easy to forget that when reading all these dumb comments below." Priceless.

"The weakness of liberal theology was that it conceded to the world the right to determine Christ's place in the world."  -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Wonderful blogpost from a priest about " his side of the confessional. " Really good stuff.

I have been slow to blog for a while now, due to some personal issues. I got laid off from my job (you can directly thank Obamacare), so I have been beating the bushes for jobs and unemployment benefits. With my penchant for running into incompetent bureaucrats, let's just say the latter has been a blessing that I hope I may never be blessed with again. Case in point: after being told it may take up to 6 weeks to process my unemployment benefits and then there is a waiting week where I file for unemployment but no benefits "are ever paid during this period," I figure I'll be at least a month into my next job before the government gets around to actually doing its job. The good news is I am virtually certain I will be offered a job today. It's a bit of a commute, but I think small business/private enterprise is a better job for me than being a desk jockey filing medical claims, which is a whole other level of bureaucracy. This is not to say bureaucracy scares me....