This might be impossible for you readers to believe, but the two of us really aren't all that great at sports. And by not all that great we mean terrible. Our favorite part of playing sports when we were kids was eating the snack that the parents brought every week after the game. So naturally when we heard there was a Richmond theatre softball game we decided to go and make fools of ourselves, with the knowledge that no matter how horrible we do, we can always go to Westhampton Bakery afterwards. And we had really cute July 4th-inspired outfits. That was enough impetus to go.
Unfortunately, we had to be on two different teams. Which was terrifying! We're never split up. But it made it much easier when we were actually playing because for the first half of the game Elyse's teammates were calling her Annie, so there was no confusion over who they were actually talking to. Speaking of which, Matt Hackman (who is apparently a major league baseball player) couldn't stop calling Annie "Ally," which made things a bit difficult when he was trying to get her attention because a ball was flying at her head.
Lisa Kotula's whole family was there which was so much fun and she was ridiculously good at softball! For some reason we feel like every mom who has a fifth grade kid in little league HAS to be good at softball because we have this mental image in our head of our mom in overalls coaching little league and being amazing.
Eddie Tavares, the most athletic person ever, was there and this one guy kept calling him "Big Stick" every time he was up to bat. Okay. We totally didn't know that was a baseball term for a good batter. So... you can imagine our confusion. Every player was so good, we wondered why we were even trying to play on the same field as them. I guess it was for their entertainment. We played for two and a half hours and Annie was at bat for about one of those hours total. We didn't play outs, so in total, Annie swung about 64 times. And made contact about 4 times.
When we got home from the game we were so excited that we decided to stop at Toys 'R' Us and buy mitts and a softball. We got home and were playing catch in the front yard with our new equipment and next thing we knew, Annie missed a pop fly and it landed in the sewer. Hopefully that isn't a sign that we shouldn't go back next week. Because we plan on giving it another shot. We might wear name tags next time...
5 comments:
I saw the pictures on facebook. They were too cute. When are we going to hang out?
Hopefully very soon, Chris is texting you as we speak!
I love the HSM 2 shoutout in the title.. very clever.
Lets hangout this weekend?
Hey girls - I'm slow getting to this one. Thanks for the props - I did play for all my growing up years, but I have to tell you I walked around the first part of the week like a 90-year old woman! Haven't used those muscles in a really long time. We missed you this morning. There was a big turn-out, and it was really fun!
new blog please?
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