tournaments are fun

even with a team that is not always there and with some players who simply do not listen and a coach that does not show up and does not teach anything or have functional practices, tournaments are fun and i wish i had the chance (and time) more of them... we played seven games this time around... we won the first two which were round robin games and finished 6th in the seeding for the tournament... we lost the first game of the tournament after waiting around for six hours so we started the second day at 8am and won the first two games on the second day by run rule (10 or more rules) and the third game (i forget the score as time ran out) on the second day... we should have won the fourth game, but the team simply is not in good enough physical condition to play four or more games in a day (or a tournament, for that matter), so we lost that fourth game by a few runs and we were done... finishing 5-2 for the tournament isn't bad considering this was the team's first tournament, but we have such glaring weaknesses, especially a few players who simply do not listen and repeat the same mistakes over and over, which leaves me very frustrated...

just getting home (flew up saturday morning and flew back tonight)... so all in all, not enough exercise for me, not enough teamwork, not enough stamina for most of the others (and they are decades younger than me, but insist on going out drinking and staying out late not caring really about teamwork and winning... that is what i don't understand... they can go out drinking any night, any weekend, and we can only win a tournament a few weekends a year and they don't have the discipline to get rest and drink the right kind of fluids and eat healthy the day weekend of a tournament)... still, more fun than sitting home...

seventh place out of twenty two teams is not terrible...

narf...