A number of sports, we all know, have an element of time. In fact, when considering things like the length of time before a pitcher delivers in baseball, almost all sports have rules about time. The clock can run at a normal, even pace, like a cross country time of 20:37 takes exactly 20 minutes and 37 seconds to perform. It can also be distorted, like the last ten seconds of our boys basketball game with Westview that lasted five minutes (an increase of 3,000 percent). But even then, the scoreboard clock is a banana slug to its kangaroo cousin, the wall clock.
(Awkward metaphor, I know.)
This is my attempt to reverse that trend. While Bethany's athletic year in 2008 and 2009 took 10 months to play out, I will try to condense it into the month or so between now and the end of the countdown to fall sports. It won't always be fun, or easy to read; but then, neither was the season that took place for the Royal Blue and White teams scattered around northern Indiana. Chronological order I hope to maintain, as well as a little bit of what I was feeling, the sort of thing that was intentionally edited out of most of the posts during the year. The usual schedule will involve posting the next installment on Tuesday or Wednesday followed by Saturday or Sunday, but that may change if I need to catch up or take a break. (For example, there will likely be only one piece next week due to the Mennonite Church USA convention.)
With apologies to John Feinstein, Robert Montgomery Knight, et. al., this is The Season In A Blink.
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