Show Sr C c i xe I E b. b S I c- c J 4 m ti e c a c. c e 7 c g 1 3 f u i To the Editor I have lost my faith in one of the greatest movies of all time If you build it they will come is isa isa isa a great line from the movie Field of Dreams The voice tells Ray Kinsela that if you build a baseball field that old time ball players will come and play He did and they came This is obviously a fantasy because we built it and they didn't come built a beautiful softball facility that is arguably one of the best three facilities in the state It has hasa a meticulously groomed infield and grass so green it almost looks fake There are bleachers and a Scoreboard that says Bruin Softball on it According to sources in the athletic athletic athletic ath ath- ath- ath letic department there at one time was a coach hired to watch over this field and guide many Bruin softball teams to victory on the new field Just like in the movie years passed and no team appeared The field stood empty with an occasional interruption from a county softball team or intramural play but it was never used by its rightful owner for its intended purpose Years passed and nothing hap hap- Faith in the slogan began to waiver an and the slogan gradually changed to if you build it they wont won't come The coach got tired of doing remedial work waiting for her hert t team to arrive and take their place on the field of dreams But they never did She moved on to bigger and better better better bet bet- ter things with a broken heart having never seen a Bruin team take the field Years passed and other sports were introduced as varsity sports Every time the keeper of the field got gother gother gother her hopes up that a new softball team would occupy the vacant field It never happened as introduced new sports such as women's volleyball volleyball volleyball volley volley- ball and mens men's baseball With the introduction of a baseball baseball baseball base base- ball team there was hope that the field would be expanded and that it would soon be filled with dreams not of softball players but of existing baseball players Hopes were high and plans made but the keeper of the field loved it so much that when other sites were proposed for a baseball baseball baseball base base- ball field she suggested it be built on those sites in order to keep her field of empty dreams One by one the proposed sights for the new baseball field were replaced by visions of a new science building and a parking lot Soon had a softball field and no softball team and a baseball team and no baseball field If you build it they wont won't come And if they come they arent aren't the right kind of ball players so so they cant can't play on the field The baseball team was forgotten and the proposed field was eventually eventual eventual- ly to be built on a new campus away from the main athletic facility The new baseball field wouldn't be built for many years For now the baseball team would play on a foreign field without the name of Bruin Baseball on the Scoreboard The field is located located located ed miles from any campus and has no locker rooms or clubhouses or any any- thing Its It's just an ordinary empty field and not a field of dreams For now the field of dreams stands empty and the empty field stands full has no softball team but has a softball field They have no baseball field and a baseball team Rumors abound of efforts to acquire a softball team to fill the field of empty dreams Rumors have it that uniforms and equipment are already bought but for now they are just rumors I have lost my faith It you build it they wont won't come Or maybe if you hold out long enough and campaign and whine they will come Corey Bullock Former student Editors Editor's note This letter first appeared in Horizon as Coreys Corey's s last In III Left Field He sent it back to its us after he read about the softball softball eam team being added |