We played in the Spring Shootout this weekend. There were four teams in the women's competition (Us = Papanui, RKS, Sydenham-Kereru and Albion). Although we went through the round robin undefeated we ended up in second place after losing 4-2 in the final. Some things I haven't done in a long, long time:
- Playing in shorts - pants (aka knickerbockers) are so much more appropriate for softball. You don't get sliding grazes and you don't have to wear annoying knee pads that cut into your skin and are easy to forget to pull up. Pants don't even look that bad now that it is possible to get womens-fit ones that aren't saggy at the front! I can't even imagine how retarded it must be to play in dresses (yes I am talking about you Saints).
- Grass diamonds - obviously the outfield is always grass but it is really weird when all of a sudden the infield is grass too. At least I don't play infield or I would have been really freaking out.
- Playing in ridiculously cold, windy, rainy crap weather - when the rain is blowing sideways, there are puddles on the pitcher's mound and no-one can feel their hands you know that it is time to stop playing... unless you are one of the two umpires we had on Saturday afternoon.
- Timed games - 1.5 hours and you're done. I can only imagine how long our Sunday morning game would have lasted considering that we only managed to play 3 innings in 1.5 hours. It was also quite amusing having to show up at 8:30 am to play 5/6 of an inning (which happened to be the 5th inning due to the 1.5 hour rule) and then going into a tiebreaker anyway.
- Open diamonds - not very cool if you are an outfielder chasing after a ball that has gone over your head. Very cool if you are the person who just hit the ball past the outfield.
- Man-size diamonds - I want my 190 foot fence back!
- Safety base - it's nice not to have to share a base with mean, nasty 1st basemen.
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