But it’s his job, so nothing to be suspicious about. This is just a belated update about the softball tournament Nick was covering last Saturday and Sunday. One of the teams he was following, Montesano, won the whole thing to become the 1A state softball champs.

During the tournament, one team lost their first game because a girl who hit what would have been a game-winning home run didn’t touch first base. They were very upset. So I was telling Nick about the technicality horror stories coaches always used to tell me, and how I got myself a lot of warnings from coaches (and officials) for stepping on the white line inside the track.

That very day the girl who won the Washington state 4A (I think) 3,200-meter run was disqualified for running on the line for three consecutive curves. All her competitors felt bad and passed their medals up and whatnot, according to a Spokesman story. I’m not sure how I feel about the whole thing, because I think it’s totally irrelevant rule in a race that long, and at the same time a major part of sports is following arbitrary rules. It sucks for her, definitely, and for all the other runners who were cheated out of a fair race they could feel good about. Too bad she didn’t have good coaches to tell her horror stories she’d still remember years later.

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