You Better Watch Your Mouth!

Softball

Back in May I was asked if I wanted to join a Sunday softball league. I remember thinking, "I've never played softball, isn't that a girl sport?" I haven't even played baseball since I was 21...(the last time I played was in my hometown with some non-jock punk rocker friends and we happened across a pick-up game with some gangsters). We won by the way but thought we were going to be shot or at least shanked.

I hesitated at first but then thought, "This will be fun and several friends from church are playing." Anyway, we won our first game but it didn't count because we were rained out (actually a pipe burst on the field). Then, we hit a 6 game streak of (dun dun dun dun) losses. It's not that our team is not good. Actually we have some good players. I think we just didn't know how to play as a team AND we never had a consistent (or adequate) amount of players.

Well, 3 weeks ago we began another streak. We have been winning our games and I think it's partly because we started to learn how to work together as a team and limited our mistakes (though I personally am making more now than I did when we were on our losing streak).

I think another reason we lost so many games in the beginning is so we could be used in a parable-like way so I can preach a message on how "the last shall be first and the first shall be last." It would be pretty cool if we, as the last place team, came back to win the championship of Lakewood city softball. No trophy, no money, no medals, just a chance to sing, "We are the champions..."

posted by Izzy @ 9:25 AM