Game 3 and Game 6

I don't' know why it is, but I seem to play so much better when we're playing a good team. Last week when we played the defending champs, I was stroking that bat like crazy. That ball came off that bat like it was possesed and determined to find the open spots, but today...nothing was really going my way. I didn't do too bad, but I just wasn't feeling it. Well...the results were different this week though. We were all over the ball today. We almost emptied the bench at bat twice, but we didn't. I don't know the final score but it must have been like 20-6 cuz it ended just after the 4th inning.
Scott was really tearing it up out in center field. He picked up a grounder and threw it straight on target to Gabe at homebase to tag the runner out. That was amazing. He's like superman. That's what I keep calling him...hahaha. But Gabe killed it as catcher. He was catching everything going his way. Tagged out about 3 runners. Dang...there goes my spot as catcher...j/k. It's also not so much my fault cuz they could never seem to throw the ball to me the way they threw it to him. They were on the money today. I was back out on RF and caught a line drive that came my way, but other than that...it was rather quiet.
O...so that was Game 6. Game 3 was a makeup game due to the rain out we had earlier. Well...we couldn't put together a team in time so we had to forfeit the game to the worse team in the league...hahaha. At least that gave the team their first win. I enjoyed giving them the win. I really like their team. Everyone on that team is so full of energy. O well...tough luck. It was a Monday anyways. Nobody remembered we had a game...hahaha.

Blue Steel at the TX Children's Hospital Charity Softball Tournament

Pictures finally came in from the charity softball tournament a few months ago. I'm a lil pissed that the camera man (a guy that I work with) had no shots of me playing when he's got plenty of pics of my other guys. It has to be a white thing. I really think the guy is racist. He only talks and hang with the white guys at work. And no matter how good of a friend I am with the other guys...this guy still never talks to me. Anyhow...nevertheless...here are some winning moments.

Anger Management

I think I desperately need some anger management classes. I see that I'm having some issues holding in my emotions lately and although I haven't gone over the deep end and curse out the entire village, I sure as hell want to. Let's see...Lily's has gotten on my last nerves thinking that I think that I'm better than her. Did that even make sense? Well, you know what I'm talking about. She basically putted words in my mouth and that's one of my biggest pet peeve...when ppl make assumptions of what I'm thinking or am about to say or what I will like or what I will not like or what I need and what I don't need. Let's let me make that decision for me...ok? Then my sister is just a sight for sore eyes. She has absolutely no manners whatsoever nor any considerations for anybody but herself. And the fact that she lies through her teeth and takes us for fools is the biggest insult. She really deserves to be with her idiotic boyfriend. The boy who is a sorry excuse for a boy. He's more like a girl for all I care. Him and his girly friends. Especially that big-headed, spoiled, mighty mouse wanna-be, Tony. I've never seen someone so ugly before in my life. I might be short, but thank god I don't look like him.
Sorry...there goes my anger again.
But most of...my anger ruined Father's Day. I feel terrible for taking things out on my parents when it was not their fault at all. I was selfish, but for good reasons. I'll leave it at that. I've accepted what I did and now I wait for karma to come to kick me in the ass. I'll take it like a man.

Good Friend Are So Hard To Find

Tonight I went to a fundraising to benefit the son of a lady I work with. He was just recently diagnosed with Leukemia. It happened just after the Ft. Bend Expedition bike ride to raise money for the Ft. Bend school district. How funny that he was helping a good cause and now this happens to him. Well...he felt funny after the ride and when he went to get himself checked out...that's when he learned of his problem. His mother is a good friend of mine from work and I had never actually met the guy, until tonight, but we did speak by email as I introduced him to the cycling club. It was his goal to do the MS150 this year, but hopefully he'll be back in full force next year to do it.
It was really a different experience for me to be at an event like this. It took place in the Heights at an art gallery. Everyone was dressed really nicely. It's really not my thing to be dressed up and in an upscale area. Not that ppl there were any better or anything like that...not by any means, but I can't help to always feel out of place knowing that more than half of the ppl there only care about how they look and such. But I had a nice time. I met a few ppl considering that I didn't really know many ppl there.
But the thing that got to me the most was that this event was thrown by many of the guy's friends. I was in aww just knowing that he had this many ppl who cared about him. I totally admire him for that cuz you know that he must have touch ppl somewhere and somehow along his life for ppl to care so much that they would go through the trouble to hold this event for him. That really made me think about things and about if I were to ever go through what he is going through...would my friends ever do this for me? And sadly enough...the answer would be no. And a simple no is nicely putting it. It's more like a big fat HELL NO!. I'm really sad to know how shitty my friends are when all I have done was be a good friend to them. I'm totally hanging with the wrong crowd and I can't seem to ever get away and find friends that will be with me for life. I do have a few friends that I know will come through for me, but even then...I'm not sure if they will ever care to that level. I really don't know what I've done in life to not have good friends or just good ppl around me. These days...they all seem to be ppl who are jealous of me and want to see me fall. Isn't this high school shit?! I thought ppl would grow out of this phase, but I guess not. All I have ever been was a friend who always cheered on their friends. I'm always happy for them and want to celebrate them in their victories or achievements, but when it's something I've achieved...I get absolutely no words of encouragement, but instead I get fake acts of happiness from them.
Man...I need to start re-evaluating my friends. Sad but true. It's never a two-way street with my friends. I feel like I'm on a one-way street going nowhere and nobody is willing to meet me half way. And even when I do go the extra mile...they never seem to return the favor.
I'm so lucky at the same time to have found some really good ppl that I know will be with me for life. I hope I don't have to eat these words later.

Better Than Me?

So Lily think she's better than me now...hahaha. That's so funny!
She's been really annoying as of lately and now she has topped herself with me. All of a sudden she's been into sports and keeping active. Maybe she's been influenced by me? Certainly not any of my doing. I could care less to motivate her to get off her lazy ass to actually do something. My efforts would just be wasted with her as it was with Justin.
We met up yesterday to go to the Astros game with Mary. And believe me...I would not have been going if it weren't for Mary wanting to go. I would not want to be stuck alone with Lily ever again. I'll get into why she's been so annoying lately later. But as we were at the coffee shop waiting for Mary...she tells me that a friend is buying her a bicycle. Shiii....that friend must really like her. Anyhow...so I clowned her for wanting to bike ride. Then she says to me...and I quote..."if you can do it...I can too". HAHAHAHA!!!! I've never laughed so hard on the inside. C'mon...when and where was that comment necessary in our conversation? Nowhere in my teasing of her did I come close to even hinting that she couldn't do it. That comment in itself just tells me how really jealous she is of me. And might I mention how irrelevant that quote really is. Anybody can bike ride. People with no legs can still bike ride....they just use their arms and sit on specially made bikes.
Screw her and that comment of hers. She's got this thing in her head that won't allow her to think that she's actually not better than me...today, yesterday, years ago...and probably not ever! Since the college days...she has always believed that she was better than me. Every time we would get our test results, I would always do better than her. And I had no clue she was keeping tabs cuz one day she said out loud that she can't believe that I was always doing better than her on the tests. She would also claim how much better she is than me in pool. Well...one day I finally took her up on her challenge and played her. Well...it was just embarrassing cuz even with me letting her win...she couldn't. I beat her 5 out of 5 games. She kept asking for her ass to be kicked cuz I wanted to walk away after the 3rd game...but she kept wanting to beat me. Even with me noticeably not trying anymore, she still couldn't beat me. Then I made a huge mistake a couple of years back when I told her how much I made just to shut her up from her nagging me about how much I made...our friendship quickly died away for me. Since then...every time we have gotten together...she never fails to mention how much money I have. And she sure didn't disappoint last night at the game neither. She must of mentioned how much money I have about 5 times. That's giving her the benefit of the doubt cuz I honestly stopped counting and paying attention to her after a while. Gosh...I can NOT stand her anymore. Not to also mention how she looked down on me for having a long distance relationship. And guess what?! She's now in a long distance relationship. HA! I basically spitted in her face for that one. I called her out like the lil bitch that she is for looking down on my relationship when she's now doing the same. What a fu-kin hypocrite!
Anyhow...now she wants to participate in the Komen Race with me and Mary. All I can say is...FU-K that! She was there when I invited her and Mary to do it with me this year and Mary enthusiastically welcomed the invite while she just laughed it off. We'll see just how well she survives. It's not like it's even much of a challenge. 5K is nothing. And you don't even have to run...you can walk. She's got it in her head that it's some big race that she's got to beat me in. Hahaha. I could go there and walk the whole way and wouldn't care if she ran her heart out. She's just a dumbass for thinking all that crap that she does.

Game 5 vs. Rhythm & Blues

Ahhh...the game of all games. The game that was worth everybody's wild. It was a rematch of last season's Championship game...except both teams' name had changed since. They were known as the Sons of Pitches last season and this season they called themselves Rhythm & Blues. Again, we had somewhat of a crowd.
The game was tight all the way throughout except in the early innings when they took a 6-0 lead on us. We quickly came back towards the middle of the game to take a 10-6 lead. Everything after that was back and forth and very fun to watch. They were leading by 2 runs at the bottom of the 7th, but we were last to bat so we had a chance to win the game. Unfortunately we did not play our cards right. I was the lead off hitter for this final stretch. I got on base and eventually got around to scoring. We were now down by only 1 run. We had 2 on base with 1 only one out so things looked promising for us...but we popped one up for our second out...still with two on base. Our slugger came up to bat and we all cheered him on to knock one out of the park. Well...that seemed to have been a problem of ours. Instead...we should have used our heads and cheered for him to keep the ball low to get our runners to advance, but instead...he went for it and ended up popping up and ending the game.
Again...we lose to the team by 1 run. Overall, we had a very good game. No major mistakes. We were all in sync. I had a very good day fielding and hitting. I was 4 for 4, getting on base everytime. I had really good control of my hits. I knew they would be expecting for me to ground it towards shortstop so I controlled all my hits to fly right...just over the infield. And got one to go just fly right pass 2nd base. I didn't get to play outfield this time. I was playing catcher and got to tag one of their players out. I could have had a second one, but the ball took a huge bounce that I wasn't able to react fast enough to.
There was no reason for us to hang our heads though. We all had solid performances. Just couldn't finish strong.

Drink Houston

Man...I almost forgot to talk about this one. Over the weekend, I went to Drink Houston with Mary and Lily. None of us had been there before, but we had all heard how fun the place was. Well....let me tell you...it sucked! Before I get into it...I just want to say that I am saying this to be mean...I am just calling it like it is.
But I had never been in a bar/club that had so many heavyset ppl. And I don't mean ppl who are big-boned...but ppl who are well over the weight they should be. It was like walking into a place for downtown club/bar hopping rejects. I mean it was just so disturbing to see big ppl dance like they've never danced before. I think that's what got to me the most. I really don't mean any harm...although it can't be seen in any other light at this moment, but I truely do not mean any harm. In fact...Lily kind of pissed me off when she made the comment of there being too many fat ppl in the place. I said back that big ppl needed to have fun too. The reason I was pissed was cuz she was a lil heavy herself a few months back...so for her to talk like that...it pissed me off. It was like...how dare you look down on others when you weren't too far off from being one of them several months ago before you lost all that weight? I guess we all couldn't help but to think the same though. Some of the girls looked so horribly bad. Some had their guts hanging out....ewww. The girls were just so ghetto looking too. Most of the girls were dressed like they were 4 sizes too small for them. Don't they have good girlfriends to tell them these things? It was just so low-class. Ok...I know I'm not high-class or anything, but I know better than to dress low-class and think I'm high-class. It was just so tacky. I felt so out of place. Next time....it's Downtown or Midtown...where there's nice blond chicks who are only after your money...hahaha. That's why they got to look so damn good. The girls from Drink Houston look like they all date drug dealers or gangsters. Don't even get me started with their karaoke section. It was a bunch of old folks. I couldn't believe the weird traffic of this place.

Game 4 vs. Blue Sox

Yeah...if you hadn't learned by now...many of the team name has 'Blue' in them. We're all about blue...cuz red sucks! And just in case if you're wondering what happened to game 3...well, that was postponed due to rain. Today's game is actually week's 4 game.
Anyhow...today's game was the usual story. We came, we saw, we conquered. The game ended due to the run rule. It ended after the 3rd with the final score of 19-2.
Offense was just tremendous. We had like 9 runs after the 1st inning. We homered 3 times, but only 2 were allowed so the one Scott hit gave us our 3rd out to end the 2nd inning. Nothing significant happened today though...for me at least. I was 2 for 2 and came around to score twice...but nothing out in right field was really going on. It was rather quiet out there.
Well, that's that. I'm done for the week. My body is aching right now. It's partly due to the heat too. It was just so hot out there today...and yesterday too.
Well, next week should be a great one. We'll be playing against the defending champs...our favorite rivals....hehehe.

Game 2 vs. Blue Devils

Today was a make-up game that we did not get to play 2 weeks ago due to rain. It's been 2 weeks since we've made it out to the softball field, but we picked up right where we left off from game 1. It took us about 2 innings to get back in sync, but then the funny thing is that it took us about 2 innings to fall right back out of sync. The game started off really good for us in the early innings. We were leading 17-5 in about the 5th inning, but somehow...in those last 2 innings our opponent came roaring back to take an 18-17 lead. Since we were the home team, we got to bat last. Sara, the cute interned I mentioned from before, started off our comeback rally. She got herself onto first base with a hit that the 3rd baseman bobbled. Then it was my turn to bat. I hitted a hard grounder that bounced right by second base and deep into the outfield. As I was charging towards 1st base, I saw Sara hesitating to run so I started shouting to her "run, run". So she did...boy did she ever. She took off and made it to second base. Eric then comes up to bat and their pitcher walks him so Sara and I moved up a base. She was now the tieing run. A grounder from Ted brought her in for the tie. It was now 18-18. I'm on 3rd...now the winning run. Taft comes up to hit...and he pops a hard grounder just pass 3rd base allowing me to come in for the score. And so that's how the game ended. It was quite a nice thriller. Something that we seem to be doing to ourselves lately. It still amazes me how quickly we blew that lead. I still say the team is too cocky. I secretly was hoping we would loose this game just to put us back in our place and back down to earth, but the mentality of some of the guys on this team is just too far out there to ever bring them back to earth. I can't blame them though...they all play in real league competition. I would too if I had the time, but I just don't.
Anyhow...I was 3 for 3 at bat and catch a crazy pop-fly that came my way in right field. The ball looked to be a short one so I came charging from the back of the field to catch this one. That was a cool feeling, but I was sure huffing and puffing after that one.

Well, I'm not quite done there. I stuck around to play for a team that was short on ppl. I think short is quite an understatement cuz only 3 ppl from their team showed up...hahaha. It just so happened to be the team that Carlos plays on so I'm always willing to help. Plus...there's this cute hispanic chick on that team. Good to look at but looks a lil too high maintenance for me. Anyhow...so some of us stuck around to play for them and we almost gave them their first victory in 2 seasons. But we fell short by 1 run. The game was actually tied at the bottom of the 6th, but we couldn't hold them off defensively. They were able to load the bases and with only 1 out...it was an easy win for them. I really wanted this win for that team though. I've helped them out numerous of times last season and witness the brutality that teams bestow upon this team and it's just not right. The team is just full of girls to begin with. No pun intended. I know that girls can play too, but these girls can't except for maybe 1. Today, they pretty much got a team with players that could play...but still we fell short. I'm so disappointed. I thought we all did pretty good. The team deserved to win. Well, their hopes are gonna be crushed in their next make-up game cuz they face my team...and well...what can I say...it's going to be a crushing blow. Too bad I won't be able to help them this time. One of the lady is a real sweetheart on that team. She kept saying to me that I should be on their team and how they needed someone like me to motivate the team and what not. I always have fun talking to her. Poor thing cuz she twisted her ankle today as she was coming in for a score. I think she got so excited about score (probably something rare that happens for her and her team) that she lost focus for a second and her ankles gave out on her. She scored though...but that ankle is going to hurt tomorrow. O...and it takes much less than one second to lose focus and twist your ankles. I know from first hand experience. My ankles have gave out on my twice playing basketball simply cuz I was more focused on other things and did not have my mind on the game.