The 3rd Annual Baseball Challenge, for the benefit Cocoon House and the Ronald McDonald House of Western Washington , took place yesterday at Everett Memorial Stadium. The Cocoon House team won again this year, 11-5, despite my contribution of an 0-for-3 afternoon at the plate. The game featured participation by some of the Cocoon House kids, my older son and two others getting hit by an errant bat, several folks (including yours truly) on the PA (I was introduced for my last at-bat by my grandson,

If this post looks familiar to long-time denizens of this space, it's most likely because you read this one last year. What follows is a shameless solicitation, directed towards my friends and colleagues in the Puget Sound region and throughout the country, to provide financial assistance to some of the most innocent, wonderful people you will ever meet. If this particular type of conversation is not your pint of porter , so to speak, feel free to move on to the next entry. No harm, no foul. August