… wander off to left field

I am not good with these sports metaphors. And they get kicked back, bounced off, and swung around. Everywhere. Seven o’clock in the morning, I got hit by a writing prompt. Wander off to left field. I am not sure what sports this is. With a field. So I am wondering. I can never hear whether someone said wondering or wandering. He was wandering wondering. He was wandering down the mountain path, wondering why he went up in the first place. But fields and wandering … Mostly people talk about baseball, football, basketball. Does it have to have balls? In it. Which of these has a field? It has to have a field, so they can wander off. Let’s try this by elimination. Basketball doesn’t, there are no baskets on the field. Not anymore. Just tractors. And they don’t go left field. They go in circles. Corn circles. Now, that’s not the point. Must be one of the two others. Again. For one they use an egg, for the other they have bats. That I know. I just know it. I don’t understand it. With the bat, I have seen more people stand behind a door or go neighbor hunting, than I have seen them on a field. Maybe, they should be on the field more often, then less people get hurt.  With the egg … I don’t know. So I won’t comment. They can kick or throw the egg during the short times when they are not on break, I think. I guess you can’t make these guys work any harder. Kick the egg once. Rest for 23 minutes. Oh, here is the egg in a position where you like it … The coach calls and does not even ask whether you are rested sufficiently after a mere 23 minutes!  I don’t know. Does egg kicker go back on the field? Or do the batters thrush the ball across the field? Both or none? Any others? There is field hockey, but no-one ever talks about it. Maybe no metaphors in common parlance? I like winter sports. They have mountains. Up and down. Mostly down. Downhill. But no fields. And here they hardly show this on TV. Especially not in winter, I find. So, no fields. No TV. No metaphors.  No nothing. No wandering off. Not in these sports. But I wandered off to left field.

This was some writing practice late last year. I had fun …