early games, less sleep

yeah, so while sleep would have been good, i was up early this morning to head out to softball cuz i love the game and must get more exercise into my life...

the morning double header saw our brand new team with all but two players having very limited softball experience and half of those not having any knowledge of playing the game actually won a game, hip hip, yeah, yay... we played a team that was also winless and they remained winless and we didn't... the second game was the reverse, so we gave that second team their first win... but improvement is definitely happening... four or five of the players are pretty much automatic outs and errors giving up bases and runs (say maybe they'll get on base 1 in 20 times if luck is with them and it was in the first game as the opposing pitcher walked at least ten batters in the four innings we played) and three of them did not play that first game... we scored 16 runs and held the other team to 7 or so)... all of them played the second and well, we scored only 6 or so and the errors let ground balls turn into home runs a few times, so we gave up a bunch...

except for those four or five who will need a whole lot of work and instruction and time for improvement, there is a lot of potential in this team... since we have fourteen players and only ten play each game, we can put nine players with good potential on the field and they have good hitting potential as well, so by the end of the year there should be a pretty good team... we do play everyone, to be fair, so some weeks we'll be easy marks, but even the really poor players will improve some...

now, a brief nap and then, off to the afternoon game where our record is 6-1 and we will lock up second place with a win today (though we play a team with just one loss) and will finish first if the undefeated team loses today (and they play a team who only lost once when they forfeited (did not show for the game) to us... yay for winning, but even more, yay for exercise and fun...

hope your day is fun too :)