tuesday's play

so the first day of the actual world series (as opposed to the first day of the trip which was the aitport and hotel experiences summed up in previous entries... do you remember where i ate?... i don't, but i am pretty sure i ate a lot... anyway, back to the first day of the world series) was stupid in the morning and got more fun during the mid-day period when we played two games and won one and tied one and then got more awkward and stupid as the day turned into night... first, no organization at all... less than an hour to game time and i am trying to get the field people to open the batting cages because they could make a lot of money and i really wanted to hit the cages because i felt rust because i hadn't played in a couple of weeks due to rain outs and being between seasons in two leagues and being forced to use bats i do not like and have never practiced with but the coach calls me over and wants to warm us up his way which does not work for me and it showed in my crapping hitting for both games but beyond me, the team finally showed up and gathered about 40 minutes before game time and that was the first time i found out we actually did have ten players (and only ten, so nobody can rest or get hurt) and i finally got the team jersey... so much for prepared and being a team...

meanwhile, pitching was fun as the umpires were giving a very high arch so the first game was 16-3 until the bottom of the last inning when i let the other team have some fun and five runs later, we won 16-8... by bat sucked and the best i could do was sacrifice to move runners, but others were carrying the hitting... the second game everybody's bat sucked and we were down 1-0 going into the bottom of the fourth inning... they got their run on an error... we tied it in the bottom of the fourth and then several errors in the top of the sixth left us down 4-1 going into the bottom of the sixth which was, due to time, to be the last inning... i did get a hit in that inning and we scored three runs, but we left the winning run on base and settled for a tie... as crappy as we played and as disorganized as we were, it was a very successful day on the field... the non-team dispersed immediately following the game... i chose to hang out, eat some crappy concession food, and support another orlando team the rest of the afternoon and then, rush hour traffic made the twenty minute ride a seventy minute ride...

shower and out for mexican food and then my vacation roommate wants to go to a club to meet someone he met online and so i dropped him off downtown (25 minutes there, 25 minutes back) and here we are... so much fun it is to write (but it is, really, cuz i imagine someone caring to read so i feel a whole lot less alone... hey, everybody has a delusion or few they depend on, ya know?)...

narf :)