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I was worried I wouldn’t be as nerdy as Dan, but I was.
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Unfair Advantage
Yes, that’s right. I am, or rather, we, the Softball Band, are, an “unfair advantage” for the Michigan softball team. After Michigan defeated Northwestern twice last week to win the Big Ten championship, the Northwestern coaches apparently filed a formal complaint saying that it was an unfair advantage to have a band playing the fight song and that the rules should be changed for the Big Ten tournament. First of all, the whole point of winning the regular season championship is that you get home field advantage during the tournament. Apparently, 10 out of 11 schools agreed that the band was an unfair advantage. That would be the 10 schools that don’t have a band. They were invited to bring their own bands, but of course, none of them did. They are also allowed to bring a CD so that when they score a run the pressbox will play their fight song. The “new rules” will only allow the fight song to be played after a run or at the end of the game. We were contemplating before the game last night how many songs we could come up with that weren’t “The Victors” but had some part of it in the song, like “Hoover Street Rag”, “Calyptors”, and even “Winter Tunes”, our arrangement of “Walking in a Winter Wonderland”, which can have “The Victors” inserted into it very easily. But it turned out it didn’t matter. A couple guys went and talked to the Big Ten officials, who said to do whatever we wanted and we said we’d follow the official NCAA rule (also put in place because of us.) It’s rule 13-9.4 or something like that. We had lots of fun at the game saying things like, “Cheering is an unfair advantage!” and “Hey, she’s too short! That’s an unfair advantage!” (There’s this one MSU player who is incredibly short. I don’t think she has a strike zone.) If we play Northwestern again (it would have to be in the final game on Saturday) we might have to follow their stupid rules, because they would probably complain. I’m sure we can find ways to make up for it, though. At any rate, I think it’s cool that people consider us an unfair advantage. Go Blue!
Also, Happy Friday the 13th, everyone.
South Park People
There is this website where you can create your own South Park character. Dan posted his on his blog, and I thought it was neat (even though I don’t really watch South Park), so I made them for me and Morgan, too. Here is me:
and here is Morgan:
Aren’t we cute? If you want to make your own South Park character, go here.