MVP!

We had our end-of-season softball party last night at Champps. Each season, the team votes for various awards: most spirit, rookie of the year, silver slugger, golden glove, and MVP. At the party last night, I won both the golden glove and MVP awards, which was just astounding to me. I didn’t really think I’d [...]

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Softball playoffs on Saturday

Today we received the bracket and schedule for our softball playoffs on Saturday. The playoffs are at West Potomac Park, are umpired (unlike our regular season games) and games are limited to 1 hour. Some other quirky rules that we don’t have during the regular season include being able to walk and strike out, and [...]

Feelin’ groovy

Despite sleeping in until nearly 2 PM yesterday, I was back in bed around 7 PM, and read for an hour or so before turning out the lights and going to sleep. I actually slept well, except around midnight, when I woke up coughing and with a dry throat and tossed and turning for half [...]

Long-ass day

Almost 11:30 PM and just home from the Happy Hour after our last softball game of the regular season. We lost. Badly. So badly it was hard to take seriously. We finished with a record of 7-2 which places us 3rd in our division and guarantees us a place in the playoffs on September 8th. [...]

A critical softball game

This evening’s softball game, played in 100-degree heat and humidity, was a critical one. Winning it would assure us a playoff spot. And win we did. The final score was 20-13 and our team really came through, including strong offense in the first inning (scoring 9 runs and batting around) and solid defense in the [...]

More travel tasks

More vacation prep today. I filled out the online form to put a hold on my mail while I am gone. I also paid the rent in order to make sure I didn’t forget that one. I took my black suit in to be cleaned and pressed. I can pick it up tomorrow. I also [...]

Softball practice

We were supposed to play a scrimmage game tonight, but we didn’t have enough people. Instead, we’re having a practice on a field just south of the office building. It should be fun because there will be a few new people there. It will also allow us to improve our already great defense in preparation [...]

Softball pictures

I didn’t get to bed until after midnight and then was up at 5:30 AM to come into work. I was supposed to have a 9 AM meeting with our Europe office but the meeting was canceled. We had our fifth softball game last night. We had our biggest turnout yet, in terms of players [...]

Busy day

Just home from the softball game (we won 35-7!) and I was so busy today that I did not have any time to blog. Not much going on today outside of work and softball. I got the cable bill in the mail, and my landlord is sending someone over to clean out the gutters. It’s [...]

We won our 3rd softball game last night–in extra innings!

Last night was the most incredible game I’d ever played in. Not only did the game go into extra innings (we were playing one of the best teams in the league), but the game was all defense. We won in the 8th inning with a final score 5-3. (No, you are not seeing things; that [...]

Breaking news: We won!

We won our second softball game of the season with a final score of 11-9. It is our second in this season and our team has started the season an incredible (for us) 2-0! Good defense today once again. I was in the zone at short; it was weird; there was almost nothing I couldn’t [...]

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