I'm on an ex-pat baseball team in a league here. Apparently some mlb teams scout the upper division, like the brewers- no wonder they suck . . . Ex-pats really seem to lose it mentally after a little while. For instance: the guy who runs the team picks us up in this little VW hippy van and always brings his 8 year old son to the game. I sat shotgun with the guy last week, he's got a bottle of jack on the seat between us. we're at a railroad crossing waiting to go and he takes a pull and hands it to me to finish off. he says to me as i'm sitting there with a broken seatbelt, "i usually take a valium on game days in the morning, there's just so much pressure and shit for me to deal with. but i didn't have any more so i had to go straight to the booze today." he also teaches the 4th grade.
how do you meet these characters?!
ReplyDeletemaybe you should quit your degree and become a freelance travel writer type person, in my humble opinion you write really well and it's always very entertaining. Makes me want to go back to Chile pronto though. chao pescao!
i knew it! joe is running your baseball team and is actually doing tfa in argentina. that sly fox.
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