For years, two of my good friends and I played First Base, Second Base, and Pitcher for the Coneheads. Respectively, Me, Larry and Joe. You can conclude what you want about the resemblance or semblance to the real Three Stooges (that makes me Moe). Woop woop woop woop!
It just so happened that like the comic Stooges, we are all of the Jewish persuasion - not all that religious (as far as I know none of us ever missed a Conehead game because of a Jewish holiday), but our heritage like it or not. In fact we sometimes refer to our team as the Cohenheads. If you knew us, you would have to conclude for yourself if we are stooges or not - the jury is still out on that (I did play on a team called the Stooges but that's another post).
As you may or may not know, there are certain plays that are very frustrating in slow pitch softball. But none more than the swinging bunt - after all, this is slow pitch softball, and everyone should hit the ball hard, but sometimes it just comes out so slowly, there is almost no way you are going to get the batter out.
The most frustrating of all is the one that goes between the pitcher, the second baseman, and the first baseman. The pitcher doesn't know if he should try to get it and risk the first baseman also going for it, or go cover first if it is by him. The first baseman knows he probably has the best chance to get there first, but then no one would be covering first in time. And the second baseman could charge it but it is hit too slowly - the runner would beat any throw from him unless he was really slow. The ball just gets lost in the middle, and it is like the Bermuda Triangle eating planes and ships. On the Coneheads, we call it the BerJudah Triangle. In one game a ball in the BerJudah Triangle cost us a run or two, and there was nothing we could do about it. Luckily though I think we won that game.
And don't believe everything you hear - the rumor simply isn't true - none of us wears Bermuda shorts any more.
It just so happened that like the comic Stooges, we are all of the Jewish persuasion - not all that religious (as far as I know none of us ever missed a Conehead game because of a Jewish holiday), but our heritage like it or not. In fact we sometimes refer to our team as the Cohenheads. If you knew us, you would have to conclude for yourself if we are stooges or not - the jury is still out on that (I did play on a team called the Stooges but that's another post).
As you may or may not know, there are certain plays that are very frustrating in slow pitch softball. But none more than the swinging bunt - after all, this is slow pitch softball, and everyone should hit the ball hard, but sometimes it just comes out so slowly, there is almost no way you are going to get the batter out.
The most frustrating of all is the one that goes between the pitcher, the second baseman, and the first baseman. The pitcher doesn't know if he should try to get it and risk the first baseman also going for it, or go cover first if it is by him. The first baseman knows he probably has the best chance to get there first, but then no one would be covering first in time. And the second baseman could charge it but it is hit too slowly - the runner would beat any throw from him unless he was really slow. The ball just gets lost in the middle, and it is like the Bermuda Triangle eating planes and ships. On the Coneheads, we call it the BerJudah Triangle. In one game a ball in the BerJudah Triangle cost us a run or two, and there was nothing we could do about it. Luckily though I think we won that game.
And don't believe everything you hear - the rumor simply isn't true - none of us wears Bermuda shorts any more.
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