Subject :  The softball fiasco....
--- Philip Rippa wrote:

Short Verison - we forfeited the first game and lost the 2nd game 31-4

Long Verison
This is why I hate coed softball. We had to forfeit the first game because you have to have a 5/5 split of males/females. Well, 3 of our girls showed up late. Mind you, two of them lived 2 blocks away, came a half an hour before the game and said "Oh, I just have to go home and shower and change." I guess forgetting that softball was an athletic event.

So anyway, we  forfeit the first game and just scrimmage until the girls show up. Then we begin the 2nd game. Our pitcher struck out the first batter.... it went all down hill from there.

We played one of those professional softball lawyer teams. Where the team has been together for like 8 years and has never lost a game. And they were an entire team of Kevin Youkilis'. They never swung and the ump was being amazingly anal-retentive with the strike zone. So after getting 2 outs in the first inning - we gave up 14 runs. OH! Our league has the bizzaro rule that if a guy walks - everyone gets 2 bases. I guess because it is supposed to be embarrassing to walk a guy or something.

Meanwhile - all their girls could play. Or I should say werent afraid of the ball. Our girls - different story. We had one girl who played softball in school. So she was good (and hefty). Our idiot manager though just kind arbitrarily put people in positions - which included putting the girl who couldn't catch and was afraid of the ball at FIRST!!!!!!! (I was assigned third for the record).

So in between the parade of walks - there were countless errors. Twice I had my throws dropped by our first baseman. Its pretty sad when I am the best  athlete on the field. The defensive highlight for me was I made a running catch in foul territory, against the fence on a pop out. That is when I  proceeded to peg the guy in the head with my throw because I gunned it right down the line.

Back to the game - so they score 14 in the first. Since we had never played and because our manager is an idiot - he just randomly put people in batting slots (it had to be boy/girl). I get slotted into 9th. No chance I am batting in the two innings. So the 2nd rolls around and the other team scores ANOTHER 14 runs. The game has been going on for nearly a hour. So there is no way we are playing a full game. It was getting annoying as the ump refused to call strikes - even though the other team was up 25. And the fact that they were still taking pitches pissed me off. Not as much as the guy who legged out a Inside the Park HR and ran through two coaches stop signs in the process (All the while yelling "FUCK NO! I ain't stopping).

I finally get to bat in the Top of the 3th. I work the count full, and if the game was close, I so would have drawn the walk. Instead, I rip a bullet up the middle and don't stop until I get to 2nd because I saw I immediately hit it two of their replacement girls. No chance they are throwing me out. I am 2nd, fending off the impending heart attack, when with two outs, the only other decent guy on our team lashes a single. Since its two outs and we are down by about a million, I rumble around third and score.
 
By the time the Top of the 4th comes, we have taken so long they are calling the game after our a bat. So, we actually get a rally going. My turn comes to bat.... and I am replaced so some other guy who hadn't played at all can bat. At least, he drove in a run or I would have been really pissed.

There is a chance I am going to be moved to first for the next game because I am one of about 4 people on the team who can catch. But I forgot how much I hate playing co-ed sports as my teams always have the girls who claim they will play but never actually show up.

So very bitter.