i must be mad

telling jackson and the sunday afternoon team i would play with them this season, i must be mad... just one game and i remember the same annoyances that made it such a relief to stop playing sunday afternoons, especially in the summer... there is the rains, which rained out every game in the past two weeks... except tonight... but what is most annoying about this league is that it is the most expensive and offers the worst umpires and just one bad ump per game, mediocre fields, and a lot of bad sportsmanship (helped by alcohol on the field)... it's not a sofball players league, which is why a lot of macho morons go join because they can bully the poorly trained umps and intimidate other teams... and then there is the team... people who do not try and do not hustle and worst of all, people who are simply too lazy to bend over or play their position... a second base person who does not cover second base allows the other team to stretch any outfield single into an easy double... why come out to play softball if you don't really want to play the game by the simplest of fundamentals...

but i told jackson i would play the season and i love her, so i will... tonight was the championships game for the lower division for the previous season and we lost 11-10 even though the other team only should have had a few runs at most... i hit like crap, too long away without playing or going to the batting caages but worse, the back was aching making swinging very challenging... i did score once... and i pitched well and we would have won if not for so many errors and had someone playing second who just went to the bag after the balls was hit so the other team didn't automatically get doubles... the umpire paying attention to the game and being consistent would have helped as well...

sigh, i hope jackson can handle my frustration... and i hope i can put away my competitive drive and stop paying attention to what is happening around me without being too obvious...

narf...