RUBBERY SHRUBBERY Post 55
This is the Rubbery Shrubbery blog, where you’ve been learning how Yachats (YAH-hots), Oregon, acquires a Major League Baseball franchise. To learn more about Yachats and its inhabitants—called Yachatians (yah-HAY-shuns)— please go to this page or go to GoYachats.
Now for something completely different.
Eric Sallee is busy playing senior baseball these days, and Dave Baldwin is busy contemplating Yachats’s annual Triple Play Baseball Festival. So, it’s time for a blog change.
We won’t forget about the Smelt, of course (no one forgets the Smelt), but we will be bringing you news about Triple Play, mostly. And from time to time, we’ll bring you news about how Eric’s superlative pitching is dominating old-folks baseball leagues in Washington state. And sometimes we will have a guest blogger for your enjoyment, too.
With this new game plan in mind, we start off with a quick description of Triple Play. Yachats held this festival in July 2012 and it was a resounding success. That encouraged Yachatians to do it again in July 2013. The festival consists of three parts—a presentation by an expert speaker about some obscure or unique aspect of baseball, a baseball game (T-ball) for tykes and toddlers, and a baseball game for everyone who wants to play (except for tykes and toddlers).
The slide presentation this July 19th will be given by Debbie Shattuck at 6:30 PM at the main auditorium of the Yachats Commons. Everyone will be welcome (you don’t even need to know what a baseball is). No admission will be charged but donations are accepted to cover costs. Here’s Burgundy Featherkile’s cool poster:
Burgundy Featherkile’s cool poster #1.
Then on July 20th at 1:00 PM on Rubbery Shrubbery Field behind the city’s financial district (bank) we will have the T-ball game and the game for everyone else. Once again, everyone will be welcome and you don’t need to know what a baseball is. Batters keep swinging until they hit the ball in fair territory. Thus far, everyone has managed to hit the ball.
Repeating a crowd favorite at last year’s games, we will have a concession stand set up in the picnic shelter adjacent to the playing field. Hot dogs, peanuts, popcorn, and other baseball fare will be available, as well as Smelt baseball caps and Smelt T-shirts. Here’s Burgundy’s cool poster #2:
Burgundy Featherkile’s cool poster #2.
Center field at Rubbery Shrubbery Stadium. Perfectly safe.
Please note that the swamp does NOT have any crocogators anymore. Here, you can see for yourself.
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Dave, there has GOT to be a story about where all the crocagators went. Global warming? Bounty hunters? All their prey got eaten already? They’ve all been hired by Monsanto? They moved into the river? Is there something you’re not telling us…??
Tom, you are absolutely right. Our in-depth analysis of the Yachats swamp (aka wetlands) omitted certain undeniable facts about the crocogators. Perhaps these should be covered in the next post! Thanks for keeping Rubbery Shrubbery on its toes.