Softball

I joined a softball team at work this spring. I think, due to the layoffs, they are getting desperate. So I paid my $40 and then went to China and missed the whole season. I then joined the summer league, which our tight wad company actually paid for (must have been a tax break or something in there). Whoever runs the organization put us back into the competitive league despite our failure to finish a single game without being 10-runned.

So we won our first game but have been painfully spanked every time since. The fact that the other team didn’t show up for the first game is in no way any indicator that we would have actually lost the game if it had been played. Tonight was our last regular season game and it was against a team with actual uniforms, bat bags, and who completely slaughtered us the last time we played them. I don’t know what drove it, but we were kicking butt. We started off with several runs and held them well. It was in the 5th inning (usually when we have the game called because we can’t score the 15-20 points we need to stay in the game) and we are up to bat and down by only 4. I finally make some reasonable use of the bat and get a double. Then, the umpire who had been making calls by flipping coins or rolling dice all night, called a blatantly obvious “ball” a “strike”. Even the other team agreed it was a really bad call. So one thing leads to another, the guy I hit to 3rd gets thrown out of the game and then the umpire calls the whole game.

We finally play like a real team, against a team that is very good, and get kicked out only to lose. We had only one out and had already scored 2 points that inning.

Oh well, we’ll talk about that game for a while to come. I hope the umpire made it to his car safely, some of the guys were pretty upset.


Fej.