This love is dancing in the wind like a major league knuckle ball. A very special kind of pitch where the pitcher leaves the path of the ball up to the elements. It travels much slower than a regular picture and the thrower surrenders his control of the ball to wind speed, air temperature, and chance. It requires patience, discipline, and letting go of what might happen. I’ll admit that I have not been very confident in my ability to work with the knuckle ball and all that tension I put on myself made it hard to relax. But a good “knuckler” knows to relax. I’m on the 60-day disabled list with a dislocated shoulder, but I am ready play ball with you.

I love our knuckle ball and I love you. Would you like to go dancing in the wind with me? —The Chicago Cub

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  1. Who’d da thunk one would find Phil Niekro writing Loves on the Coast. Keep at it OL don’t knuckle under.

  2. Sweet Love, OP:) Plus you got Reg’s attention AND you got Ivan to show a little more of that hippie side he usually keeps closeted [;)]….I’d keep pitchin’ in the direction that suits your fancy dude, you seem to be on a nice roll:)

  3. Shesang – I’m so deep in the closet I’m finding next years Xmas prezzies. >: )

    Lashings of thanks Reginald. Your name came up at the summit several times. You have quite the following amongst the Halgonquin Round Tablers

  4. Shesang – you are absolutely adorable! So happy to meet you, I really enjoyed our chat.

    I’d love to see Reg, SHITD and poop show up at one of the Summits.

  5. I forgot to mention, I always over-spun my knucklers with my fingers so that rather than flying all scatter-like with no rotation, it had backspin and dropped by almost a foot at the last second. I could never learn to throw a curve so this was my second (and only) line of defense.

  6. I just may do that ms. painy–sounds fun! I love to surf warm waters;) Hope the day is being kind to you:)

  7. Well if batman went skeet surfing than I guess it’s ok.
    Seems a lot like something that they’d do in Florida.

  8. Btw Pvt., wasn’t that actually one of the deleted scenes from Apocalypse Now that they aired in the Redux version, or are you just a thinly veiled hippie;)

  9. Hey Zed! This is for you, cuz I think you’ll really dig it, seriously….and the Pvt. may wanna take a gander as well—LOVE the Butthole Surfers (very NON-SISSY type guys;))!!! Enjoy the vid dudes;)

    http://youtu.be/CNAkbbKycCM

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