It was a stormy, stormy night...

              

Who is it that everybody listens to but nobody believes? The weatherman.

Nothing prepared us for the nights we had on Tuesday or Wednesday night; not even the weatherman. I know it is easy to pick on the weatherman because he predicts the future 365 days of the year. The weather forecast is the 1st thing we check in the mornings. So when there’s that much attention paid to anything, for whatever reason many times human instinct is only to remember the “misses”. I don't want to focus on the misses of our game on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Tuesday's game started off scary because of all the ominous thundering clouds and the lighting in the background didn't help. I don't remember the weatherman saying there would be rain on Tuesday but it rained nevertheless.

Looking skyward we could unmistakably see and feel that there was going to be a storm. We start the 1st game but we can clearly hear the crackle of lightening and the rumbling of thunder. Maybe we can blame it on the rain but in the end we lost the first game and the 2nd game was called on account of severe thunder and lighting and of torrential downpour. We played the Hot Ballers and they won the game 9 - 4.

Wednesday night’s game was a makeup from 2 rained out games ago. We had just enough players and we even loaned one of our good players Mike Meyers to another team that was short players. In the end we were thinking we should of kept him for ourselves. There were enough "chances" for us to win both games last night but our team was just off. It happens and we will do better next time. This is a great team and when we come together there is nothing that cant stop them. This is why "I live to yell at the team, I live to show that I care, I live to make sure they're pumped, I live to jump the highest, yell the loudest, tell them that they are the best! I will talk about how great Millard was when he caught a high pop and how Lois Green screamed, " I got it, I got it" and screamed as she ran to 2nd base. Let's talk about how if you throw the ball to her no matter how fast Chelsea will catch that ball at 1st base. Lets focus on how Hannah landed on 2nd base. Yes, she literally landed on the base. Let's concentrate on how much improved Patty is becoming; getting a hit almost every time and getting on base. I want to talk about how nice it was that Kim Burns had hip issues but she still came out to support the team so we could have enough players. How sweet it was that Joy showed up while she was on vacation with her kiddies in tow to help cheer the team on. I want to emphasize how the other team did win both games but our inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities that each one of these players possesses and it will help us get that next win.

Words from our coach -

It was a tough night last night. I want to thank everyone that came out and played hard (both Tues and Wed). Sometimes you just get beat by a better team, and last night (and I mean only last night we are better than them) that team was better. Lastly I want to thank everyone for being flexible with playing time and positions. I will be honest I don't like being the "coach/manager", but you guys really do make it easy. Let's keep playing hard and having fun.

Come weather the storm with us and help cheer us on in our next game.

Tues 7/23 @ Dorey Park field #2 games at 7:20 and at 9 (split games).