and there is softball

one team plays to win most of the time and we enjoy the game... another team doesn't show up for practices or games regularly and too often gets a ridiculous beat down by other teams that want to flex their muscles against weak competition as if that proves they are better than they are, but most people are ego weak and delusion strong, after all... so many frustrations come from simply being taken advantage of and lack of respect because i am a nice guy who is loyal to a coach and a team even when i am dumped on without justification... like when i have the best batting average on the team most seasons and still am near last in the batting order with nearly automatic outs before and/or after me simply because the others have egos too fragile to handle batting low in the batter order... and even subs who can't play are put at the top of the lineup which makes no sense when the point of the summer league is to give our team more playing time... but when two players from the actual team show up and everyone else is a sub and i find myself batting eighth, i've got to wonder why i continue playing with that team...

so we won 20-8 one night and we lost 14-4 the next night... i was on a five game winning streak until the fiasco of nobody showing up and playing with very weak subs... and thanks to trusting the firday night coaches, i lost my friday night softball because they did not register the team in time and all the spots are taken for next season... obviously i bring it on myself by being so easy and casual and, alas, letting the body get older and slower so my choices are more limited... shhhh, it's just a phase, cha cha cha...

when will the wake up return... shhhh, age is just a number... and cliches are free...

sigh :)