If you’ve been following along, you’d be aware that there was no official investigation into a complaint I filed about a sexual harassment charge levied against an umpire in a Softball Leinster game; however, there was an unofficial, private, anonymous, secret, confidential investigation, and it has yielded… an apology. “Hi Judy,I would like to apologise
Sometimes it is useful to boil things down to their most basic components, in order to get some clarity. I filed a sexual harassment complaint.A league administrator suppressed it, and nothing was done.The national governing body thinks this is fine.No one has been held accountable for either instance of serious misconduct (the sexual harassment, or
Before this season started, I made a declaration: I would only field a 5&5 (or 5&4 short) team for the entire season. Many team captains agreed this was a good thing. More than lip service, I wanted to show we are committed to having gender equality in the sport, as the WBSC rules want the
Players change teams for lots of reasons, most all of them valid. Maybe you want to play with your friends, or on a specific night of the week, or in a particular division against better or worse competition. Maybe you moved to a different neighborhood, or changed jobs, or your job moved across town, and
Fourteen calendar days: that’s the time during which Softball Leinster (SL) has to complete an investigation into a complaint (aka “request for disciplinary action”) once that complaint has been submitted. This is according to their own rules, which they published on their own website, in a document called “Captain’s / Team Guide” — but rules
Who would have thought that being a whistleblower would have invited so much abuse, personal attack, lies, slander, invective and vitriol? Probably every whistleblower, ever. Well, it had to be done. The good thing is the ramifications were negligible: no job loss, no jail time, no fine, no real penalty. And like in most all
When Rob Atkinson and I pushed to enter a team from Castleknock into the Premier division, there were a few things we needed to do differently. First, we were going to commit to playing at a high level. That’d include practicing (what?), showing up on time (another rare event in our league), quite simply taking
The idea of needing to spend a lot of money to get a lot of watch is an idea Casio has been destroying for years. Honestly, how often are you diving, rescuing trapped miners from a kilometer underground and underwater, logging trees in the Pacific Northwest, or launching an amphibious attack against hostile forces in
The classic G-Shock square has made it’s way into my collection three times, and since the features are all very similar, there was no real need to review and cover the same ground. The square is just so good: the right size, great features, indestructible, inexpensive. All the standard G-Shock amenities, like multiple alarms, snooze,
Waiting for parcels to arrive post-Brexit, post-Christmas, and mid-COVID-pandemic is exasperating, but there’s nothing to be done about it. Fortunately, though slowly, the postal services are moving, and a number of items have arrived for the Street Beast. So what upgrades have we made lately? We’ve got: new Maxxis Holy Roller 2.2″ tyres a new