Why because it snowed, the Pac 10 opener between the University of Oregon and the University of Washington was snowed out. Take a look at the view down NE 45th near U Village near the campus around 2pm. The athletic facilities for the University of Washington are to the left of this photo. Mixed snow and rain. They gave up after an hour or so, they can only wait so long before the Oregon team has to dash to the airport to get to LA. Besides, as Susanna pointed out, a lot of wet heavy snow covered the tarp, hard to remove without damaging the tarp.
The Pac 10 teams are organized into traveling partners, but because there are no programs at Washington State or USC, Washington and UCLA are partnered. That means that, once during the season, the other teams have to travel to Seattle and Los Angeles in the same weekend.
Afterwards, we joined the team at the Red Robin down at SouthCenter. Grant and I discussed next week's tailgate. We've gone from renegades to respectable in a very short time. Our reward? Putting on breakfast for 100 people next Sunday morning as part of the softball alumni weekend. Outside. He's got a tailgate grill get up. He's figuring french toast and ham. I'll do the fruit. Operating out of a hotel room....or maybe Susanna's house. I'm thinking of hacked up watermelon, whole strawberries from Costco, maybe cut up bananas.
To give you an idea of what it MIGHT have looked like, here's a shot from one of last year's games. The introduction of the players. The first 4 players are subs for that game, Susanna (#1)'s leadoff and the beginning of the starting lineup. This year, she would have been one coaches standing to the right down the first base line as student assistant coach. If it had happened.
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