Playoffs?!?! I’m just trying to win a GAME!

I wanted to take this time to reflect on my softball season so far.

Sure we have not won an official game and at some point something has got to give. As weeks turns to months which inevitably turn to end-of-season and not a 1 in the W column, this would certainly make any competitor lose sight of purpose, but to fully appreciate purpose one must be aware of the ebb and flow, fluctuations if you will, of the season itself.

The season is far from over so why I am writing this monologue about the state of the season? To be frank, I myself was not too concerned with the introspection of all the games thus far but as I drove home last night it occurred to me that in spite of all the losing, I was indeed having fun this season. (Now don’t get me wrong, there have been moments of transgression in which I have not displayed my vested interest by applying full effort in playing, but I digress.)

So to complete the thought, I was going through the series of events of last night. I was not having fun because of my fielding errors, such as dropping a bunny fly ball out in center and dwelling on such; to be so infuriated by my own error I lost sight of the objective of showing up to the games, to have fun. By focusing in on things such as fielding errors and meatballs being thrown, my general mood began to sour and it had a negative effect on my approach to the game, but to be even remotely bothered by such is rather superfluous. As a group I do not believe we are dwelling on all the losing and this in turn has lit a fire under my a$s, because mediocrity is unacceptable, but this approach is grossly unnecessary in the realm of company softball.

As a competitor this kills me, but realizing that I do indeed plan my weekdays for softball, I am in fact, showing up not to WIN softball games but in actuality I am showing up to PLAY softball games and this invokes a quote a saw in a movie (can’t remember the title but I remember the line), “You know, happiness is in the doing, right, not in the… getting what you want…” Winning is always the primary objective in terms of what you want out of playing the games but to allow negative feelings to manifest themselves in the execution as a result of the losing is clearly in no ones best interest.

(Clearly you all see I have way too much time on my hands at work but rest assured I am writing this while something compiles in the background…… yep yep!)

P.S.

Good to see Maceo out there taking some swings, where have you been?!!