Open is a verb. It is not a lifestyle.

Players arrive with a nickname they learned from a broadcast. The plaza turf does not know the nickname. It knows whether the leading edge is willing to enter frozen ground without skating, and whether the camber still lets the club out in April pudding.

The wall map is paper on purpose. If we cannot put a pencil mark on it, we do not stamp the wedge.

Maeve will send a 'versatile' sole back out the door. Versatile usually means it fails two seasons politely.