1. If you DVR a postseason baseball game and start watching about 55 minutes into it, you will catch up to live right as the game ends.
2. Mondale might be able to take out middle-aged bosses and American novices in Conkers, but when a nine year-old girl challenges him and "Seabiscuit" to a match during recess, he is no match. It was beautiful. Girl Named After a Season had deadly accurate aim. I knew Mondale wouldn't concede anything to the kid. There were twenty children gathered around cheering the proceedings. After five minutes or so, Mondale wound up and let loose a hard hit. Unfortunately for him, his conker shattered in an explosion of broken dreams. It was a sight to behold.
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Sorry I missed that. It would have been the highlight of my week.
It was an incredible sporting moment.
People have asked me, "Did you let her win?" The thing about something like conkers is that it's almost impossible to let someone win (unless you deliberately keep missing). Added to which I would never dream of letting anyone win anything, how outrageously patronising would that be?
I will never forget the look on her face when she won, she was speechless, mobbed by her peers and completely speechless. I think she may have been close to tears (of joy).
Later in the day a first grader strolled up to me in the hallway and said "I heard there's a rumour going round the school that 'Seabiscuit' got beaten and died".
It was a very cool day.
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