You know we often use sports as a metaphor and sometimes it pretty damn corny. This morning I was listening to the radio and heard this story...
http://www.iht.com/...
With two runners on base and a strike against her, Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon University uncorked her best swing and did something she had never done, in high school or college. Her first home run cleared the center-field fence.
Problem is she missed first base and stopped and turn to go back and touch it. Unfortunately this blew out her knee and fell in a heap to the ground. She managed to crawl back to first writhing in pain. Than the umpires, invoking a stupid rule that needs to be changed, said the she had to touch all the bases including home and couldn't be helped by her coaches or teammates. She could get a pinch runnner but than her home run would turn into a single. Then...
Then, members of the Central Washington University softball team stunned spectators by carrying Tucholsky around the bases Saturday so the three-run homer would count — an act that contributed to their own elimination from the playoffs.
Central Washington first baseman Mallory Holtman, the career home run leader in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, asked the umpire if she and her teammates could help Tucholsky. The umpire said there was no rule against it.
Watch the video and tell me you don't get a little misty eyed.