Softball

A couple days ago I played in a softball game for the "Saint Mary's Rubber Ducks". I believe we're the only co-ed team in the church league which consists of several hardcore softballer teams. The double header we played in on Friday was against one of the most serious teams in the league. They had on wrist bands, arm bands, head bands, knee bands, high socks, belts, sliding pants, and jerseys from when they played high school baseball. Since I was cut from my high school team I showed up in a tee shirt, shorts, and worn out sneakers. They fielded nine professional looking men while we had a ragtag group of five guys and five girls (one of which was still in grade school). Now that I have created this scenario where we appear as the lesser team it would make perfect literary sense to do a complete 360 and surprise the reader by informing them that in fact we were the superior team--and that is what I shall do. We won by the ten run rule 15-5 in the first game and 17-12 in the second game. However, the humbling of our hardcore opponents did not go without conflict. Midway through our second walloping of the Lynwood Baptist Church, their coach announced that he was going to protest both games because we used an illegal bat. In addition, our head coach and the last player to use the bat should be ejected. Fortunately for us, the head coach and last player happened to be the same person. Our "illegal" bat (which also happened to be about fifteen years old and sounded dead on contact) was thrown away and we had to get an acceptable bat from the opposing team. Oh church league...........