Last night we went to the DVLL 11’s All Stars Championship game. It’s not like we get enough baseball in this 100+ degree heat. The majors have been knocked out and they were expected to do well. The minors have been knocked out and they were expected to go far. The one team that no one really gave a chance to do much was the 11’s and look at them, playing for the Distrist 2 Championship. Congratulations boys on making it this far.
During the game, Arrowhead goes up 4 in the bottom of the second. Over the next couple innings, DVLL came back to go up 5 to 4 on Arrowhead in the middle of the fourth inning. Over the loudspeakers, a woman’s voice was heard, “Last call for the 50/50 pot. It’s standing at $179 right now and we’re trying to get it up over $200 before we draw the number.” Damn, I looked at Carol. “$179, I might have to do that.” I never do 50/50 pots. But Grandma won $32 the other night at one of the games we went to so I figured at $179, I couldn’t pass that shot up. So I spent the $5 to get six tickets. I donated my $5 to the league.
The bottom of the fourth has Arrowhead coming up to bat and they end up scoring a run to tie the game up at 5. Damn, we’ve got us a game here I thought. In the distance over the loudspeaker we hear they’re going to call the 50/50 pot that finished up at $201. Cool, I look at my numbers and stick the tickets back in my pocket. “The winning number is, 419228.” Son of a gun, I won. I looked at Carol and said as calm as could be, “That’s my ticket.” “You Wish!” she exclaimed. I pulled the tickets out of my pocket and pointed to the number and started walking to the scorers table. I just won $100.50. I walked by Sutton sitting on the bleachers and he looked at me, “Where you going?” “I won.” “Alright Gavin! Let’s go Deer
I turned my ticket in and they handed me the cash, $100.50. I thanked the nice lady and stuffed the money in my pocket. As I was walking back by Sutton, he asked again, “So you really won?” I said, “Yea.” He said, “Drinks are on Gavin.”
If it wasn’t for the 11’s making it to the Championship game, we wouldn’t have been there to see how well they do play and I wouldn’t have won the $100.50. Thanks for a great night boys. Thanks for stopping by. Take care and I’ll be typing at you later.