Plenty of Joy in Mudville

Here’s a picture of the postgame prayer after the last game of the season for my father and kid brother’s Sunrise Baptist softball team. Dad, praying, is indicated with a halo below, and an arrow points to the kid.

For beer leaguers and those of you who’ve never been to a church league game, that’s how it works…

The two teams fight it out for seven innings and then they get together and somebody, usually the pastor, gives thanks to God regardless of the outcome. Thus an ultimate spiritual equality is asserted that trumps an inequality of talent, bad luck or worse umpiring.

Fortunately, the Sunrise team needed lest succor than most this year. They lost the last game but finished well above 500.