Humble pie city:<p>
<pre>
    Homers             1  0  0  0  0  1  0  1      3
    Voodoo Toad Fury   0  2  0  0  6  0  0 lots    8+
</pre>
The JPL C League softball season unofficially opened and closed with the
Voodoo Toad Fury's thrashing of the Homers by at least 5 runs.  In response to
this disaster, team manager Richard Chen posted to the Usenet newsgroup
jpl.gripe and promised the following:
<UL>
<LI>Six different types of soda and water at every game.
<LI>The abolition of quotas on hard hit line-drives
<LI>No run deficits.
<LI>Term limits for team management.
</UL>
JPL management deemed the effort very reengineering (to adjective the word),
promised to deliver it within 100 days, and named it "the Contract with NASA."<p>

The starting lineup for the Homers was Richard (SS), Scott (P), Karen (2B),
Jeff (RF), Ron (CF), Tim (1B), Don (LF), and Robb (3B).  Mary showed up near
the end of the game to join all the team but Tim at Fuddrucker's.<p>

The game started promisingly enough for the Homers with a leadoff home run 
from Richard, but that was it for offense for a long, long time.  Karen ended
up with three hits, but mostly the Homers contented themselves with giving the
Toads stiff necks from watching the trajectories of the pop-ups.  Robb played
good D during his stint at third base.<p>

No schedule exists yet.  A reminder:  we will average less than 1 game per
week for the first two months and will make up the missed games in the second
half.<p>

Not that we should panic, but I would like to have a practice this weekend.
If you're interested in getting together Sunday (or Saturday), send me 
e-mail.