Ending up in Seventh Place

Today is another big day on the fields. We were going to be playing a lot of softball today if we win. I started the day by getting up and heading to the breakfast area to chow on some waffles. Shortly thereafter we loaded up and headed to the softball fields for yet another day of softball fun.

We got to the field and did not have a ton of time before our first game. I was the first base coach for the team. The first game was against a team that was an “okay” team. But they played us tough and made it close in the final inning. We still won it by one run. So we moved on to the next game. The next game was against the team that the commissioner who protested me played for. Our team wanted to beat her team badly.

What was more frustrating is they challenged me on the running question and they had four people on their team who did not have the running question and they were just as fast as me or faster.

We lead pretty much the whole game and they had a little rally in the last part of their inning. Then we came up two runs down and could not score. It was very disappointing. We wrote up paperwork on doing a protest of their team for the running questions. But as a team we voted not to go through with it.

So after the game Don, our manager, told the commissioner from that team that we felt it was pretty hypocritical of her to protest me and have people on her team who don’t have the question they protested us on. Then he walked away.

We went out to On the Border, a Mexican restaurant for lunch. We were happy that we did okay in the tournament, but wished we could have placed better than we had. After lunch we headed back to the hotel. I spent time watching TV and relaxing.

A few of us went to a fancy steak place on the water in the evening. It was a nice dinner for us to chat about softball and other issues. After that dinner some people planned on going out. I just wanted to go back to the room and relax. I was not in the mood for going out.