Working hard..... at having fun.

After a very nice weekend, I rolled out of bed this morning and got changed for my playoff game
in the fast pitch league.

Last week we lost the first of a best of 3 series, despite having all our good hitters and fielders there.
So, this game and the next one are crucial,
if we want to continue on to the championship series, which of course we do.

I was very aggravated during our loss. Indeed, the other good players were aggravated too.
Our manager is a very nice guy, but unfortunately an idiot.
Plus, he found a sponsor for the team, so we don't pay anything to play.

Nonetheless, the whole year I have been complaining about our line-up.
1/2 of our team is made up over very good hitters and about 2/5 of it are people who should have
retired from softball over a decade ago, and the rest are somewhere in between.

Our very nice coach wants everyone to play and his idea is to
also distribute the bad hitters evenly throughout the line-up.
What this does is kill just about every rally.

I have been preaching, "NO ! You want to bunch the hitters together, so that we score runs."
His retort is that, "then some innings we will have no chance to score runs."
I said, "the way you do the line-up, we have little chance to score runs every inning.
That's why we only scored 1 run the whole game."

So, he threw the book down and said, "you think you know better, you do it and lets see what happens."

What happened this morning is we scored 3 runs in the first inning and went on to win 9 to 4 against that same team and that was without having one of our best hitter/fielder.