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The Shell Shockers

Yesterday we played a team that spawned from ours this year. Last year we had a player on our team that left unexpectedly. After a game one day she, lets call her Miss Piggy*, left a message on the other captain's voice mail saying that she wasn't going to play anymore and that we were just gonna have to deal with it. And that was it. She wouldn't return any of our phone calls.

It was no real secret that I was not a fan of Miss Piggy, so I wasn't to sad she left. So fast forward to the coaches meeting at the beginning of the season. She and her boyfriend, lets call him Beaker**, wouldn't even make eye contact with us. They also snaked our pitcher from last year too.

OK, so there is why we have a bit of tension between the two teams. So the first game we win due to forfeit since they can't field a team. So technically we won that game. We wait around for about an hour and they are finally able to field a team by cherry picking from other teams. We allow them to play with only 8 fielders (normally you need 10) and they will only take 1 ghost out instead of the 2 that they should take. So we are making an effort to at least be civil. We even give them one of our players to play catcher.

So anyway. The game starts, and we are doing ok. Then the bottom of their line up comes up which they have chosen to stack with 3 guys in a row, when it is supposed to be boy-girl batting. Since they only have 3 girls playing not much we can do. So this game was barely legal. So they get up 3-0 first inning. At this point neither Miss Piggy nor Beaker have gotten on base, which makes me happy. Second inning we tie it up to 4-4. Third inning we didn't score so bottom of the third with like 6 minutes left they score 2. So they are over there gloating their win. So i'm pretty upset about this game.

And to put the icing on the cake Miss Piggy and Beaker don't even bother doing the whole good game high five thing with some of our players.

So we still have a tied season, 3-3. But an upsetting lose this week.

*Miss Piggy cause she is a big girl
**Beaker cause he never talks and has funny hair

Labels: Softball

posted by Tom Becker at 5/12/2008