There's No Crying in Baseball...

One of the most iconic lines from one of the greatest baseball movies ever made... If you aren't sure what I am talking about please have a look at the video from the movie A League of their Own starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis. Great movie! Now I am not here to review the movie but just use the line as a title for this blog post. Also the line "There's No Crying In Baseball." holds special meaning to me and my ball team... Right Jathina?

Baseball, there really is nothing better than getting to the field, lacing up your cleats, putting on your glove and heading out on to the field like a warrior hell bent on world domination... Well at least that's how I approach each game... Well that and to see who can drink the most beers while doing it. Being the captain of a beer league slow pitch team I am often faced with such decisions as, Who should bat where?, Will Tyler ever hit the cutoff man?, Will Doug ever make a catch in center? Is Dave too drunk to play?, Am I too drunk to play?, Is my whole team too drunk to play? If I have to ask the last question too many times, then I guess we are having a good time. And let's be honest having a good time is probably the best part of playing ball.

Well April 28th brings back the 3rd year of existence for the greatest sub-par team in the NSA Sunday Night East Division, Where My Pitches At? Ha, still makes me laugh saying that name. Where My Pitches At? or WMPA was a brain child I had while trying to find a league in which we could still have fun but be a little competitive as well. NSA seemed to be the perfect league for us. We may not be the best team out there, our record for the last 2 years is 13 - 26 - 1, but at least we go out and have fun doing it. One thing our team lacks is speed, while a lot of the teams we play have more Speedy Gonzales on their team, we have more Slowpoke Rodriguez's on ours...

I am still looking forward to one day getting ejected by the umpire, either when I am coaching or playing slowpitch... I assume that if that were to ever happen I would probably react like this guy...

  

This last sentence is mostly to see who from WMPA actually reads this blog... If we have a winning season this year, I will personally write a song about WMPA to the tune of The Simpsons Slowpitch Song from the episode Homer at the Bat. Just in case you don't know the song here is it.

Until Next Time...