prophetic, perhaps

and we finally finish the second game an hour late and it was the expected farce we anticipated... we waited for the first game to be over as it was delayed by poor organization and we played our game, winner to play another game right after... we hit poorly but were ahead 3-1 in the fifth when we opened up to a 10-1 lead and we shut them down in the sixth and that was game as time ran out... one umpire, not ASA, for the playoffs in the most expensive league in town and every other less expensive league provides two ASA umpires for every game and three for playoffs...

and then came the second game, a rematch of the game we lost last week due, in part, to the other team intimidating the very novice umpire (i vented about it in some long past entry)... and we once again hit very poorly and the other team did their best to intimidate the umpire but tonight was a slightly more seasoned amateur umpire who i spoke with before the game to prepare him for the intimidation, which started right on the first pitch and got worse all game... really squashes the fun when a social recreation league becomes testy and rude and the umpire cannot enforce good sportsmanship... anyway, our team reacted poorly and was tired, three people got injured, one had to leave the game, and we found ourselves down 12-4 as we entered our last inning... we came back to score seven runs with runners on first and second (and the poor sportsmanship and childish attempts to intimidate were ridiculous by the other team as they started panicking) and that is how it ended, so they mkove on to the finals and we hugged and praised each other for not giving up and not giving in to the cheap crap the other team was spitting out...

we talked a bit and then jackson and i headed home...