same old sunday softball

alas, we almost pulled off the surprise victory, but we will rarely beat a decent team because we do not have the fundamentals of catch and throw in our toolbag and good teams will beat us on our errors and sluggish play... so they scored 14 runs and the online recap that software the coach uses will point at me and even the scorebood he keeps will not show half of the errors, but i know they should not have scored more than four or five runs... we were playing for first place because we were tied for first place... we simply gave away too many runs on easy ground balls that should have been easy outs (or double plays after the first error let a runner get on) and on very slow outfielders who do not have the fundamentals of cutting a ball off and any ball that gets by them is a home run and some get by them between their legs, yes, in the outfield... i've just got to vent about it because it's been years and there is no improvement, no practicing the fundamentals, no getting the ball in fast and back to the pitcher fast...

what bugs me the most is how cocky they are... today they were mocking the team playing before us while standing right next to the dugout and the other team's coach called them out and said you could mock us further away so you don't bring us down... that team will not be rooting for our opponent at every game and the word will spread... egos way too big for their skill level... and so we beat the really bad teams, play close with the better teams, and get beaten badly by good teams... there are no good teams in our league and we have a short memory when it comes to tournaments (wgos are like that), so the mouths talk and the poor play continues... and after the game i hear several voices talk about how well we played... it's a fifty-fifty shot at getting an out on slow ground balls and lower on anything to the outfield and they thing that is playing well... every game - if we did not throw the ball erratically when we should not have thrown the ball at all (because too many think they can throw accurately when they cannot) or if the outfield just got the ball in to the pitcher immediately after picking the ball up (which they don't do because they stop and look and take a few seconds or longer to think about where to throw the ball while the runners advance an extra base... it's the same thing with running the bases, they slow down to look for the ball instead of paying attention to base coaches), we would win every game in this league and do better in tournaments, but egos rule and bad habits get more and more ingrained with each passing season...

stll, it's the most organized league in town and it is one of the best teams in this league and jackson loves this team, so i shut up and bite my tongue and watch the same old sunday softball follies and i ignore the egos bragging about how good the are...

my bat was was way off today, but that's another story... a little exercise, that's what matters most...

narf...