second sunday softball

well, sunday team two, the afternoon team, did not show up... or too many showed up... one guy who is late to every game (and jackson rewrites the lineup a couple of times at the last minute almost every week because of him) was late again, this time very late... we held up the game 10 minutes waiting for him because jackson was re-writing the lineup again and somehow someone on the team convinced her that putting him back in and having 13 players hit was the right idea... rarely is having 13 players in a lineup a good idea, especially when half are weak hitters... rallies are squashed way too easily... unfortunately, i added to that by hitting poorly... blame it on the knee i tweaked which was seriously affecting batting, but also include the fact that i was suddenly told i was up at bat two batters ahead of where i though i was because of the last minute lineup change... timing was way off even more than in the morning game since i didn't have a couple of warm up swings and felt rushed to the plate... wah wah wah, excuses suck...

so we scored 2 runs and lost 4-2 cuz we made some errors... i added to that playing horrible, making two errors and let the "don't lose him" calls influence me when instinct told me to walk a guy and the guy hit a home run... i think this team has a 2-2 record now... the most competitive girl on the team did not like the fact that jackson had her take a walk in the last inning, but it was the right move since she became the tying run on base and the #4 hitter was due up... unfortunately, he, like almost everyone else, was hitting poorly and that was that... it was not a pretty site at the end of the game as most everyone was not happy and disappeared from the field fast... it did not help that the umpire ended the game after 45 minutes when we were supposed to play an hour... he pointed out that our late guy was the reason we started late... i was not in the mood to argue, but i voiced disappointment that the most expensive league in town was also the shortest games... after many years, we are closer to not renewing this league than we've been... though we have $200+ to put to the next season so i suppose i will sign the team up and do my best to talk jackson into coming back to run the team...

anyway, jackson and i worked out the frustration after the game and the grumpy girl texted her to apologize (she left the field without congratulating anyone as is the custom) and maybe she'll be back for one more season... people are such strange people sometimes... as is softball...