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For whatever I have been lazy with keeping my office cam up.  It is online now however.  You can check out my current facial hair.

For some reason I was thinking about which sporting “moment” I have experienced has been greater or more enjoyable.  Just on a general basis. 

In bowling, there was the instant when your hard hooking ball hits perfectly in the pocket, resulting in a satisfyingly loud bang, accompanied by all 10 pins getting blown back into the pit.

  With golf it’s when I hit a ball off the tee that comes off so smooth you hardly feel the impact.  The shot starts a little right but from the spin it swoops back to the left and upward, winding up near the middle of the fairway two or three hundred yards away.

  In basketball, which I never played that much of, it was hitting a shot from far away that hits nothing but net. Playing tennis that moment came when I managed to get all the angles right to hit a screaming hard serve in bounds that was by my opposition before they could even take a step. Another sport I played a little of, racquetball, had a similar moment when I would hit a serve as hard as I could and it would come off the wall low and hard, burying itself towards a back corner resulting in the other player lunging in futility.

 In football it was running wildly down the field with the ball, faking out one opposing player while running over another as well as being the QB that could throw a ball deep to a racing target, maintaining a perfect spiral. 

  With baseball there were two things that were on equal level.  Striking out a guy with a hard fastball that he swings late on as the ball makes that wonderful snapping sound as it hits the catcher’s mitt.  The other time is hitting a homerun, a real homerun that goes far and high.  As you round third base you just feel like Superman.

  In volleyball the moment is always hitting, especially hitting a ball through or over a two man block.  When the ball hits the ground clean and hard with an appropriately high rebound, it just feels great. A hard ace serve and digging a very hard hit by the opponent into a point for your team is very satisfying as well.

Why did I bring this up? I dunno.