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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 11:52 AM
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Washington wins college softball world series!
They upset #1 Florida, beating them 2 games to 0.

If Michigan can't win, I'm glad it was Washington (and glad Florida didn't win). However, it always cracks me up what they call their female athletes: the Husky Women.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 12:26 PM
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1. The Natinals beat the Marlins?
:wow:

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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 12:33 PM
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3. Well, if you think that Nats and Marlins are softball teams
Then, I guess, yes!
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 12:26 PM
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2. Connecticut calls their women The Lady Huskies...
...maybe with the crappy weather in Seattle they are all husky???
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 02:28 PM
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4. The NCAA has got to stop this 'lady' shit. And it's stoooopid that women are relegated to soft/slow
ball and cannot play baseball.

And it's absurd the players in the field do not wear hats.
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 02:37 PM
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5. I agree; I don't know why they can't just be the Huskies, too
On the other hand, I like fast-pitch softball. It's a good game and you have to be a good athlete to play it. The dynamics are so different from baseball - it's so much about pitching. It's amazing to me to see those pitchers go two games in a row on the same day - apparently, the pitching motion is not as hard on your arm as it is in baseball, so they can go day after day.
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 02:40 PM
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6. Hats off to your hats off comment!
Except that they are called caps.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 02:45 PM
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7. Half the women in DC are wearing ballcaps of some kind and the NCAA doesn't want women in softball
to wear them? I wonder why?
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 03:13 PM
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9. Lady Vols, Lady Tigers...
...it's an epidemic.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 04:12 PM
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10. 'Lady' Monarchs. Is Queen Elizabeth a 'lady' monarch? It's almost uniformly a southern thing. nt
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 04:55 PM
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11. True..and in a way it's sort of degradiung because you don't say Gentleman Vols
because you assume the Vols are male unless stated otherwise.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 04:56 PM
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12. EXACTLY! A continuation of women as the 'marked' sex. nt
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 05:11 PM
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13. Yup, you assume athletes are male, so you have to distinguish when
they're female.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 03:09 PM
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8. YAY!
I was rooting for the Huskies. It was a good game last night! :bounce:
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