Not my week for sports

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This has definitely not been my week when it comes to sports and sportslike activities. It all started Tuesday when our softball game got rained out. Myself and a coworker decided that we would take the opportunity to play some disc (frisbee) golf on the campus course. We had both just gotten new discs and wanted to try them out. We start playing and my new disc is working out pretty well. Then about halfway through the course I decide to go for it all on my tee shot and watch in horror as my disc curves off the fairway and heads towards a building.

We heard something that sounded like glass breaking, but it had an odd sound and we couldn't immediately seen any broken windows so we thought that maybe I had gotten lucky and hit an air conditioner or just the window frame. However when I located my disc and looked behind me I could definitely see the hole in the window. The disc had pushed the screen back into the window and broke it before bouncing my disc back out. Since I know the campus police phone number from work, I called them up and told them what happened. An officer showed up and took down my name and everything for the report. He made it sound like it wasn't that big of a deal since we reported it, but I haven't heard anything else officially yet.

Fast forward to tonight and we're playing a makeup softball game from last week. My first 3 at bats weren't terrible with a good single and a couple other good hits that the fielders made better plays on. Then in the top of the last inning with the bases loaded and two outs, I come up to bat again and go into a full count. The last pitch comes in and winds up about 6 inches outside the plate. I let it go thinking I'll take the easy run and let the top of the lineup come up to bat again. Out of nowhere the umpire calls it a strike and that's the end of that. One of my teamates who was on second base definitely agreed that the pitch was way outside and said that the ump had done the exact same thing to him on one of them. The worst part was, I was playing catcher and saw closer pitches than that called balls.

*sigh*

5 comments:

Kirathis said...

And what have we learned from these experiences? That's right...sports are EVIL.

Nick Brown said...

No, I don't think that follows quite right. I think what you mean to say is that I suck at sports.

Devandra said...

No Umpires are Evil.

Nick Brown said...

So my luck continues into the next week...

I sent a text message to my coworker today because he wasn't at work asking what time the game was tonight because my memory sucks. He responds back that it's at 7:30pm. About 6pm I get another text from him that says that he was wrong and the game is at 8:30. I'm sitting around watching TV when my phone goes off again at 7:38pm with a new text that says that the game is at 7:30pm and they need me ASAP.

When I show up, the game is already into the top of the 2nd inning and they get the last two outs as I get there. Then I'm informed that I'm on deck. To top off the night, I didn't swing my bat at all and walked all three times I was up to the plate.

Oh yeah and it was more hot and humid than Hell.

*sigh*

Nick Brown said...

Last night of softball for this season. Score them 17 us 2. Game was over in 30 minutes due to run-rule. :(

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