softball follies

yeah, i need to vent a bit, so move along to the next entry if you don't want to hear it... a team does it's best when everyone is contributing the best they can contribute, everyone is trying their best, and everyone is in the right place based on their skills and knowledge... a team that does not do that is frustrating for me...

twenty minutes before the game, when i find out that we are home team, i start encouraging people to take the field and warm up because we are not a great early morning team (and it is a 9am game) and because we can be very slopping in the field when we do not warm up... typically it takes two or three innings before most of the fielders are actually ready to field and throw... nobody listened... the coach was not around and they played deaf as they often do - mostly because they are lazy... laziness and sports do not go together well, so they frustrate me... the coach showed up two minutes before game time and i asked about warming up and he nodded... we didn't warm up... he counted five errors in the first two innings... he didn't count five wild throws... there were about twenty errors in the game due to not bending over, lack of hustle, and casual throws... but the game recap will say that the pitcher gave up 9 runs and about 20 hits... they don't count errors or earned runs, they just blame the pitcher for all the errors behind him...

it doesn't help (or make sense) that they just added a new assistant coach who just started playing the game, does not know the fundamentals, and is not a leader, but that's another story... so we do not play as well as we could on the field because laziness is accepted and our coach makes mistakes... that (and the published stats) keeps me from taking the game and statistics and team page and the "team" seriously because it is not the team who is held accountable, it is the pitcher... i still have fun doing the best i can as long as i don't expect much and ignore the fact that they ignore me and don't utilize me and misrepresent me on the web... i am 12 for 15 on the season with four or five doubles and a triple... i bat ninth with the weakest batter behind me... i still scored at least a half dozen times... i love statistics because i love playing with numbers... i respect statistics because accurate statistics represent actions, achievements, and empirical reality...

i hate lies because they are a waste of time and worse, misrepresent people...

inaccurate statistics are lies...

barf...