Sunday, July 11, 2004

Getting a big butt kicking

I got up and headed to Seattle early in the morning to make sure I would be back in time for softball.  With going to bed sort of late I was already tired.  Away I went.  I actually made good time back to Seattle.  When I got home I went into my room and started to get ready to play softball by getting my uniform on. 
 
I drove to the field and parked close to it.  I thought I would park far enough back that the backstop would stop foul balls.  I was wrong.  During the game a ball went foul and hit the bed of my truck.  It put a small dent in it.  That sucked.
 
We started the first game.  We had four girls to start.  Brenda showed up late and started to play in the second inning.  I was pitching okay, but the other team was hitting the crud out of the ball.  They went up for a few innings the we played catchup.  It was tied eight to eight for about an inning and then they started to tee-off.  sadly, we were not able to keep up.  Part of the problem was that I would tell the outfielders to play a different way, shift around or whatnot.  They would not listen to me.  It was terrible.  We could have made some outs if they were willing to listen to me.  We lost eight to twenty-three.
 
We had a five minute break and then went at it again.  I let Mark start pitching.  I sat on the bench.  We were getting shelled and we were not able to get any runs scored.  In the second inning they batted round twice and were working on their third time round when I changed pitchers.  They hit a few more times before we finally got out of the inning.  What was dumb is that the outfielders were not adjusting to the other teams' hitter.  One girl could not hit it much past the infielders.  Yet the outfielders chose to play ten feet back from the grass rather then getting to the gassy/dirt edge.  After a while that team had crushed us.  They kept pouring it on.  They beat us and then continued to thrash on us.  Not very sportsman-like of them.

After the game a few of us went to a bar.  We played some pool and drank beer.  Talked about the game and a few other things.  It was nice to relax after the game.  We stayed there for about two hours and then we headed home.
 
I got home in time to grab dinner.  I chatted online for a while and watched Six Feet Under as well as QaF.

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