anything but ordinary: play ball...

so, my brother and some of his friends got together, just for the fun of it, and put together a softball game. he invited tony and me to play. now, neither one of us have done anything like this in over 10 years...but we decided to give it a shot.

it was so freakin' fun!!! my brother was amazing (i had no idea), and tony was also pretty good!!! i was as good as i could have hoped...not as good as i would have liked, but not bad at all.

there were about 25 people total; the teams were chosen a week or so in advance. the "captains" rented a baseball field at a local park, and even sprung for team shirts. unfortunately, they weren't too careful when placing the order, and my team ended up with BABY PINK shirts. i didn't care too much, but since the team was made up of mostly guys...they weren't too thrilled with that outcome. oh well. it made for great conversation.

since we had a lot of people and wanted to give everyone a chance to play (no matter how much each of US might suck...) we rotated positions...tony handled 2nd base and i covered right field. i'm terrible...i kept thinking "please oh PLEASE don't let the ball come my way"...soooo many eyes on me. i know it was all for fun, but i become even MORE of a klutz under pressure.

but, all went wonderfully. i scored our team a few points, which made me feel proud. but MAN, did my body hurt. when running the bases, they seem soooo much further away than they actually are. and my legs were ready to revolt the sudden action. sprinting is MUCH more difficult than any action on the treadmill...teehee.

we started the game later than we should have; waiting for a few last players to arrive. as a result, we were playing as the sun set. there were no lights on the field, so it became more and more difficult to even see the ball in play. some people suggested that we just end the game and call it a tie, but the other team said that they wanted to keep going. so we did. i was one of the last people up to bat. and it was DARK out there. i could barely make out where the next base was that i was supposed to run to, and the only reason i knew to run was because i heard the crack of the bat from the player up to bat.