Softball is Lame
My company has a softball team, which I joined. Our first practice was Tuesday. Now I remember why I haven't played baseball since I quit Little League about 17 years ago. It's boring. I mean, it was fun throwing some balls around and hitting and stuff, but when you're in the field you're really just standing around most of the time.
Also, softballs are not at all soft. They are actually very hard. Who knew?
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My company has a softball team, too (on which I have played for the past 2 summers)! Only, we play with teams in the House League on the National Mall, and we suck something awful (at least, the one game we've played so far). But that's not the point of softball... the point of softball is to get drunk afterwards at a local bar, thus celebrating your victory (or your defeat, whichever). And try not to get hit in the face ever... I speak from personal experience.
--Jeff
that's why i liked being catcher - at least you've always got something to do.
Yeah, unfortunately all the interesting infield positions have already been claimed by people who were on the team last year. There's even one guy who's still on the team, even though he quit the company last year. I feel like he's totally forfeited his softball rights, and should be sent to right field.
Jeff, have you ever played the Justice Department team? I heard Alberto Gonzales pitches for them!
Naomi, if you were a gay man, that would be hilarious. I suppose it's hilarious anyway.
Sadly, no actual celebrities or "Famous For DC" people play in our league (insert out-of-our-league joke here) - we're stuck with the Hill staffers and Capitools who aren't in other softball leagues (I forget how many there actually are, but ours is the one that allows Hill staffers to interact with people from the outside world). So, no Alberto Gonzales, sadly. But we MIGHT be playing with the clerk who fetches his dry cleaning and not even know it.
--Jeff
Re: Marty @ Naomi: yes. I had to read it three times to make sure.
It's my experience in corporate softball that the outfield is where all the action is, really, since people generally just bash the ball as hard as they can rather than really aim at the gaps.
Playing on the Apple team last summer, I got about every third hit coming to me in left-center.
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