Tuesday's Game Cancelled

Our Tuesday night match with Old Skool has been cancelled. Well, maybe postponed is a better word for it as it will eventually be made up.

In the biggest crime on the softball field since our loss to Majority Rules, someone vandalized the lights at the field and stole all the wiring. Now, I don't want to accuse anyone of the crime, but I'm pretty sure Old Skool is behind this whole thing. What better way to get in more practice time before playing the Solid Gold Hits than by stealing the wires to the lights?

Actually, my first idea to catch the criminals was simply to drive around and find someone putting up new stadium lights in their backyard, but apparently I was way off base.

I guess copper wire is a valuable commodity. You can actually take old copper wire to a recycling center and get like $3 a pound for it.

$3 a pound!

Upon learning this, I immediately began scheming. After doing the research, I learned that a penny weighs approximately .005 pounds. So 200 pennies - two dollars at face value - weighs in at one pound. So, in theory, you could take your two dollar pound of pennies to the copper recycler and walk out of there with three dollars! Sure, it's not worth it for one dollar, but what if you have a whole bucket full of pennies? To quote Z when that poor girl struck out "Cha-ching!"

Unfortunately, my research also revealed that today's modern pennies are made of 97.5% zinc which, and yes I looked into it in a desperate attempt to keep the dream alive, only comes in at about 35 cents a pound at the recycler. I was shattered.

Anyhow, the point is that we don't have a game this Tuesday and that I wouldn't be surprised if you saw a weighed down Old Skool team bus headed to the copper recyclers.

We'll resume the season on April Fool's Day at 8:30pm versus our old rivals, the Luck Dragons...who, it should be mentioned, think they're better than us.