Today was nothing but softball. Unfortunately, our tournament was played on just one field. I believe there were eight teams so our schedule was: play game one at 10 a.m.; game two was at 1 p.m.; game three was at 4; game four was at 7 and then every hour from there on. This is the problem with playing on only one field: we had played only three games in the first 9 hours that we were out there. If you remember two weeks ago in Champaign, we played 6 games in 8 hours....much nicer.
You might think that we'd like the rest and sometimes and hour off is good, but it's really easy for the muscles to start tightening up if you're in a multi hour layoff. Really, just playing back to back to back is much better than over 9 hours. Plus, if (heaven forbid) you lose twice, you still have the rest of the day to do stuff.
Well, we went 3-2, which doesn't sound impressive, but it got us third place. The two teams that we lost to were playing in the championship game, so that's some consolation. We didn't have a full squad though and didn't play as well as we should have played. While sometimes brutal in the field and sometimes spectacular, I was 13-18 at the plate for a robust .722 average, including 6-7 in our final two games. Not a bad day at all. Lots and lots of sun!!!
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Better be careful. If you continue to do well, the team may decide that, because of your advanced age that your trade value is peaking and send you off to some loser team for an infusion of young talent.
I remember sunlight... it's what breaks up all the rain here.
"Sunshine is good and have a beer" so says my brick outside of Wrigley.
I'm watching my back el supremo. There have been overtures of a trade, but I'm invoking my no-trade clause......thankfully.
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