Trips Right to Warsester

Jumping through hoola-hoops to find the field did not spark positive attitudes in the initial arrival, until, Averion’s bats went bananas from the first batter in the line up to the last. Riding on a 2 game win streak, we were not going to take an 0-7 team lightly, even Jens slapped on some batting gloves.

Where to start, so many highlights running through my skull, first, I must say that their outfield strategy may have given us some extra bases, but I will not apologize when yours truly was having a field day with their right fielder, you would think that having hit to the right side the entire game would indicate where I was driving the ball next, suffice to say, the lead off man batted for 1.000 and 2 home runs (this was my first multi- home run game since little league, so let me enjoy it people!).

Not to be topped, Coach Sully’s bat also went batsh*t crazy as well, with 2 homers with the first one blowing the game wide open.  JJ had an especially strong offensive output in the middle innings, essentially bridging the top order with the bottom half of the lineup stringing together monster hits after monster hits to extend our offensive innings.  Kudos to JJ!

The middle to bottom of the lineup also held their own, Jens leading the way with timely hits and advancing runners with said base hits.  Paula did a tremendous job as a fill-in and quickly got settled into the lineup by refusing to utilize the small girly ball!  As it turns out, when Katie accepted to use the small ball, she quickly climbed out of her self-professed ‘slump’, if only for a game

On the defensive side, meh…same ol’, same ol’, Jimmy was throwing some heat and I did however make an error though, but I was really, really hoping to make a balls out bananas catch, oh, well, we’ll get some jewelry for your mama.

It was almost unfair for the other team as our offense was freakin’ ON, in one inning, Sully hit a HR to center, JJ cleaning up the bases, Jens advanced a few runners and then the lead off came up again to which the pitcher replied, ‘How is HE up again?!,’  one pitch later, boo yeah!

So as it turned out, traveling to Worcester provided us with the nicest field played on all season and a huge confidence booster going into tonight’s game.

Three is for Me.

-Randy

PS

I do not have paula’s email, please forward.

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?!!