softball sunday episode a lot

sometimes everything goes wrong... most times some things go wrong and some things go right... and sometimes everything goes right... today was the latter two... in the morning tournament was hot and cold... the organization, very cold... the were supposed to sort through the players who signed up and divide them up evenly by skill set between all the teams... they did not... i may have already complained about this in meaningless complaints... or here, even... whatever, they set up the teams they wanted to contend and dumped on the rest... C players are better than D players, which is why they have C and D divisions in softball... B players are better than C players... and A players, better still... one or two teams had an A player... a few teams had a B player... most teams had C players and a couple of D players... and the team i was put on had 4 C players and 8 D players, four of whom have not played softball in some time... so not just D players, but poor D players... of course we lost both round robin games and the first single elimination tournament game and we were done... everybody else got to play another game and a couple of teams got to play two more games... to be fair, the other teams paid more by buying mulligans... mulligans, in case you did not know, are like cheats... for $5 you can buy a card that allows you to advance all runners one base or undo a defensive play... there are a lot of different mulligans and for the $5 you get to pick a card at random and hope for a really good one... yeah, whatever, so the other teams bought a lot more than we did and they used those mulligans to score runs and win games... as if they needed it against a less skilled team... not very satisfying to play a tournament that us rigged in favor of the house players... anyway, i pitched well when i pitched (but only pitched about seven or eight innings out of the eighteen to twenty of the three games... i played first base a couple of innings and catcher for the rest of the innings... what went right was the pitching and fielding, though few fielding chances... what went wrong, besides the tournament set up, was the hitting... i hit poorly... likely due to fatigue as i did not sleep much between party and the tournament... and that was the morning that was...

lots of softball, but not enough... lots of heat and humidity and sweat (and a little blood and whining, but no tears)... lots of fun mostly... a playoff game in a few hours in the afternoon league...