AW1Steve
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ORIGINAL: bobogoboom umm what is adapted floor hockey I don't dare start, bobo, or I'm likely to wander off into one of my comedy routines that nobody thinks is funny and offends everybody. In Minnesota, it's a way to let the "physically and emotionally challenged" play a version of hockey, only they don't use skates and whack away with sticks that are about as stiff as soft-drink straws at a puck that is approximately the same hardness as a Hostess Twinkie fresh out of the wrapper. And they play it indoors, so that the little darlings don't have to get their challenged tootsies cold. They go whole hog for this kind of thing up there (I consider it one of the consequences of living someplace where half your brain cells are frozen, and you drink the other half to death). They have leagues, and even a state tournament. Here's a team pic of one of the recent champs:
down here we just let them play normal baseball. That's because if you watch Texas teams, you won't know the difference! Why do you think they call a short pop fly a "Texas leaguer"? For the benefit of our Euro-friends and non-baseball payers out there , A Texas leaguer is a term for a pop-fly ball that is so pathetic and anemic that it doesn't get out of the infield (that's the diamond that has the four bases). It's such a short , wimpy hit that the players have to run in for it, and they can seldom catch it. Due to a vaguarity in statistics keeping , it's treated the same as a "line-drive", a good , solid respectable hit. The phrase is also used to mean looks good on paper, not in real life.
< Message edited by AW1Steve -- 6/9/2009 7:39:06 PM >
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