Opening Day Rainout
By: Nick Bikoff
5/1/23
Do you have a younger sibling who played baseball or softball at the RBB fields, or the yellow field, red field, green field, or blue field? Maybe even you? The fields are now owned by EYS, or Ellettsville Youth Sports, who started to run the baseball fields after RBBYS did poorly. "We are a non-profit organization, made to make people happy. In fact, I'm happy to be helping," president Ken Bikoff responds when asked what EYS is. They just hosted Opening day, which ended up raining out. Read on to find out more about Opening Day, and other changes to the baseball fields.
Opening day started out by announcing that the concession stands were open, one major thing that got changed, adding more food and better food. They also announced that there was a stand to buy games, including a game called Chuck-A-Duck, the homerun derby, and a ground-ball knockout. However, Chuck-A-Duck was the only one of these games that was able to be played, as it was right after the first pitch of the season. More on that later.
Your friendly neighborhood writer is high fiving the 3/4 league.
After the announcement, people started to walk into the red field, where all of the ceremonies were going to be. The first stop most people made was the games station, as people knew that the game tickets would sell out the fastest. However, I should explain what Chuck-A-Duck actually is. Chuck-A-Duck was a new game where you bought a duck, and when they yelled, “Throw!” You would throw your duck. If you hit the target, you would win a $100 Chicago’s Pizza. I liked the Concessions were changed a lot since RBBYS was running baseball. There is now a lot better food, and just more food in general. They added Cotton Candy(which is homemade), fresh-off-the-grill Burgers, Cheeseburgers, and Hotdogs.
They added two new sodas to the list, Mountain Dew© and Dr. Pepper©, along with adding Twix©, Hersheys©, and M&M©’s. The concession’s staff is also majorly better, with Jimmy Lirot, the person who runs Lirot Construction, running the stands.
When Chuck-A-Duck was done, the 7/8 year olds went to the Green Field to do the Ground Ball knockout. They only got through two people, before the skies opened up. It started out as just a drizzle, but then ascended into something much more than a drizzle. It started to rain harder, and harder, and harder, until there was minor flooding. The thing is, it was still sunny out. This could only mean one thing, a rainbow. The rainbow was a full one, with each color more vibrant than the next. It even evolved into a double rainbow eventually, which was very cool. "Opening day is not going to be rescheduled," says Bikoff, on the fact that a rainout did happen. Unfortunately, the rain didn’t slow down, and we had to go. However, I got a nice picture of the rainbow, down here:
The rainbow that nobody saw.
It was a nice moment, and almost no one saw it. Unfortunately, it was downgraded as a photo, but was great in person. The new additions to the baseball fields are great, but do you have any suggestions? They may even get approved! Type them out down here:
Contributor Bio:
Nick Bikoff is a 6th grader at Edgewood Junior High School. He did taekwondo and got up to a green belt. He enjoys the potatoes at China Star Buffet. He also plays the alto saxophone and read all summer about embouchure and fingerings. He plays piano and is currently taking lessons. He knows a little bit of guitar.