Ahhhh, the Weekend

For the second week in a row, my "weekend" has come a day early. I won't be making my usual Tuesday trek to Auburn, because my services are needed much more on Thursday, when the state softball tournament starts at the South Commons here in town.

For those of you that don't know, Columbus is sort of "Softball City, USA." When the 1996 Olympics were in Atlanta, Golden Park hosted the softball tournament, and since then, the city has built this great softball complex at South Commons. It was once home to a pro women's softball team, hosts a huge college tournament every year, and of course, the Georgia State Softball championship. Funny thing is, Georgia's kind of behind the times as far as softball goes. There are dozens of schools that still haven't made the transition to "fast-pitch," so the state association still offers state championships in both fast- and slow-pitch.

Anyway, the tournament starts on Thursday (my usual day off), so I'll be spending the day at the South Commons, shooting video of the half-dozen or so teams from our area that are competing for the state title. This is a big deal. How big, you say? Well, Jennie Finch is throwing out the ceremonial first pitch, so there's bound to be hundreds of hormonally-motivated men in attendance. Sure, she's a hell of a softball player. But if she looked like every other softball player in the world, nobody would know who the hell she is.