Friday, February 13, 2015

By Her Bootstraps


Think of Valparaiso Indiana as Buffalo New York West.  When the winter wind blows off Lake Michigan, it snows to the point of human despair.  Yesterday, we had sun all day in beautiful Berwyn, but Valparaiso, 75 minutes away in good traffic, was under a blizzard warning.  Not that Clare really cared.

No, the de facto graduate assistant for Valparaiso softball is now official, picture on the website and everything (with bio to come).  When the team found out, the players started chanting “Coach Clare, Coach Clare,” and the girl in question loved it.  Her first official job was to look at some pitching tapes.  “I want to be able to say it’s more than her release point if there’s a problem.”  Of course, having Elmhurst College’s all-time homerun hitter study pitching is a little like Ronald Reagan reading the Communist Manifesto.  What will anyone get out of it?

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