I’m not sure if it was the three weeks we’ve had off, the missing players (due to the weather, traffic caused issues for a few players getting to the field and the darkness caused “happy-nappy” for a handful of others) or if it was the looming storm that became an ever more present and possibly dangerous distraction but we lost last night. We hung with the GBU until their yellow softball became quite invisible in the pitch-darkness of the clouds and adding insult to injury, once they started winning, GBU regressed back to being just the “Bad and the Ugly” side of über-competitiveness.
You are probably asking yourself: Why on Earth (and the Navy Base) did we continue to play? Unfortunately, we were playing a woman and an attorney down so quite frankly (read: automatic out every time that person comes up in the line-up), we should have forfeited (although we did have both a woman and attorney show at the end of our five-innings of play) we were barely had ten players at game time-thanks Renee for bringing your stuff and changing from fan to player so quickly.
“And the Thunder Rolls” Look I knew that despite the dark, looming clouds that looked as though they were straight out of a Garth Brooks video, GBU was pushing us to play through the weather to the top of the fifth (so they could get a complete game in) and to be honest, I wanted to get that complete game in as well because (for the record) the process of rescheduling the game and then starting the game from where we left off- being we were a considerable number of runs behind them-would have became a huge hassle (for Donn) and I know they would have cried foul when we didn’t have the exact same line-up of people at the make-up game. That being said, personally I wanted to get the game over with because of GBU’s inability to maintain a certain level of comity on the softball field. I know, I know, the young lion has grown up and yadda, yadda, but honestly, it is, as it has always been, just a game.
Just as shocking as the lightningWe will be making up our game against Seekings’ team (the Usual Suspects) tomorrow night at Orange Grove! Dain is flying back to town tomorrow and I am playing to his vanity to get him to come out and play but regardless, I think it time for us to get back into our groove. Donn will run the show tomorrow night as I expect to be sipping martinis while flying to South Africa for the World Cup aboard my G-5 (everyone should dream) or I could very well be chained to my desk with actual duties to complete tomorrow. Either way, forget last night’s game and get out there tomorrow and play some great ball.
-Trabert
