Oh, the batting cages make me happy
On the second glorious county batting-cage day of the year, you're the only customer. In his high school track hoodie, the booth kid thinks no one knows they've reopened yet. Besides, it's a Sunday morning, and the county is soggy. Thank God for an hour we get just this rainy mist.
The kid hands you a helmet, and you find a beat-up bat on the rack. You smile when you ask about your old tokens. Of course they're still good! What's a batting-cage token machine going to do? Change?
You take 120 pitches, finding a new swing about 40 balls in and liking the bat's sting. You switch to the right side of the plate for the final 30 or so after your lefty backswing keeps snagging in the net. When the red light blinks out, you whack a ball sitting at the backstop, grab your coat off the fence and leave feeling the opposite of the cold gray day.
March 15th, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Did you finally use the tokens?
March 15th, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Duuuuh, of course you did. My reading comp. is low after 7 hours of solo site management.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Used those three, bought three more for a dollar each. Can't beat the price. Left me wanting to go to the sketchy arcade next to the movie theater but I resisted.