h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Interested? Just let me know what position you want...

but don't forget to check the roster first.......positions are given out on a first-come-first-served basis

Well, I know diddly-squat about softball - and it's taken me *this long* to work out that it doesn't matter!

Please sign me up, Coach. There's already a psychiatrist, but is there room for a Personal Brain-Care Specialist and Scorekeeper?

Wait, no, better still: Personal Brain-Care Specialist and Tea-Boy. Much more appropriate!

Hi TV's Frink - pardon me for having too many bats drop on my head but I'm about to ask a really stoopid question. Does this Softball Team exist IRL, and if so, where? In the US, as a counterpart to the UK's Rounders games on Clapham Common? And *if* in the US, anywhere near Cal-i-forn-i-a? I'd love to be on the Softball team as the Batperson, but would find it hard to get a lift to the matches if the team is East-Coast based.

Hope this doesn't prevent me enjoying my TVRs in the Saloon...

Welcome, JZGYK. You have a colorful home page, by the way

Hi Dandelion Pegleen! Sadly, the softball team only exists within the boundaries of H2G2. We have members in England, Canada, Australia, the U.S., and possibly other countries as well. If I had lots and lots of money I would fly everyone to one location for a game, but unfortunately I haven't won the lottery yet. I reside in south texas myself, where we can play softball year-round, and I do so for a company team.

However, I have signed you up as our batperson. Welcome!

What does "TVR" stand for, by the way?

As far as I can tell, Mr. Frink, you do not have all of the outfield filled. I volunteer to play the position I covered through elementary and high school--deep, deep, deep, right field. But due to my lack of coordination, I may be more useful as a backstop.

Thanks!

Hi there

I see that you have no security type person. Can I be him? Please?

I know you have a tough guy, but what is he being tough about? Is he in the security dept.? You know, by having a security type person, your insurance premiums will go way down.

Thank you!

Astrodome "Don't mess with my softball team!" Goth

Well, you know, I just blu-tacked a few of my favourite things to the walls to brighten it up a bit

Can I be the team Yogic Flyer? Very, very, very outfield.

Hey! I notice you don't have a hot pie vendor yet.
Or a "Purveyor of Quality Crusted Products to the Gentry" as we in the trade like to call ourselves.

I could walk up and down amongst the bleachers in my striped piemans uniform, yelling "Git yore 'ot poyz 'ere!"

Huh? Whaddya think, huh? Can I? Cani?!? *Indescribable excitement*

ahem... I noticed that you have no cook... or kitchen "tweenie"... or general loiterer of the grounds.... could that be me? please? *in a very small voice*

I'd like to be on the softball team, provided I can be in charge of something fun, like costumes. Just the clean ones. After they're used they can be someone else's job, don't want to hog all the positions.

And scorekeeping perhaps. I'm quite good at writing down numbers.

Oh, and you'll want to know as you consider me for the job that I've got a hat. A hat that says "SCOREKEEPER" in big letters that light up so you can keep score after dark when it's cooler on the field.

All right, off I go then. Just wanted that said.

Wow, this really is a revolution
Thanks for the interest everyone! I'll be adding all of you in the next day or two, and I'll let you know personally when I've done so. Exciting, no?

Now off on some non-softball-related business.........

Send me in, coach! Send me in!! I can...Well, I can't catch...And I can't throw...And I can't hit...I know! I can hold everybodies' towels while they're on the field! Just call me the towel-girl. And moral support!

Where's the beer man?? You can't have a ballgame without someone being able to shout, "Hey, beerman!" and have a guy with a brew show up instantly!!!

I volunteer my services as the official beer man!

- Jimi X

Ok Jimi X, welcome! Beer all around

I'll pour!!

And before accusations fly, I am not taking any work away from the official bartender - it's just that walking up and down the steps in the bleachers with a large tray of lager is my life's ambition!