Is Dolly Parton in the House?

Ali plays softball for the worst team in the league. Sometimes it's fun. Sometimes it's just a drag to lose every single week.

Some teams are classy about beating them. Some teams aren't. The team they played this Tuesday night embarrassed them, but it wasn't quite the same.

Every year when they play the Snyder team the Snyder pitcher starts the game by wearing a horrendous, Dolly Parton-style wig. Some years she also wears a very long skirt. The person on Ali's team who makes the third out has to wear the wig all during the next half of the inning. The wig then moves on to the next person who makes the third out – and so on.

In Ali's league, if you are down by 20 runs at the end of the third inning the game is over. It's 15 runs at the end of the fourth and 10 at the end of the fifth. On Tuesday night, if the Snyder team got close to run-ruling Ali's team they all started batting left handed. The pitcher switched positions with the short stop and they let the score tighten up just a little bit.

It's one of the few games that Ali's team plays that is actually fun. It's still embarrassing, but it's an embarrassing they can deal with!

Ali, after making the third out in the third inning. Oh, and by the way, despite the extra measures taken not to run-rule them, Snyder still won 20-4 in the fourth inning.