Rainy Season
As quickly as the softball season started, it seems it might be coming to a wet and anti-climactic close. Our record so far is one and three--one game played (lost) and three rained out. Though, because we hauled up to Central Park for the first rained out Wine Spectator game, and most of the team stood in the rain for a good fifteen minutes, we're going to count that as a win. Not going to get us into the playoffs, but what we lack in wins, we make up for in willingness to stand in the rain until we're one hundred percent positive the game's called off. Still, we're trying for fields and crossing our fingers for another game or two before soccer season begins.
Softball is about the only thing we do that's not related to writing in any way, shape or form. There's something refreshing about getting a group of writers together to do something other than talk about writing. Not that we don't like talking about writing for hours on end, but it's nice to be away from the space, tossing a ball, swinging a bat and yelling your lungs out on a baseball diamond. Often much preferable to sitting down to write.
Organizing a group of twenty or so people, getting them to show up at the right ball field on the right day and time, and sometimes getting them not to show up because of rain, figuring out where everyone is playing and when everyone's batting can be a little stressful. For the first game, we bought a dry erase clipboard with the picture of a baseball diamond on one side and an empty batting roster on the other. Somehow, the field filled up with players. Somehow, everyone got to bat once or twice. But from the managing bench, it felt confusing. What proved much less confusing was figuring out which bar we were going to go to after the game, and somehow both teams managed to find their way there with very little planning.
Two more rained out games later, without any more scheduled fields, we now need to figure out what to do with our team's momentum. Save it up for next season when we now know you have to book fields five months in advance of the season? Piece together a soccer team, which may require more lung capacity than every member of the writing space combined? Look for an indoor kickball league? Suggestions? We're game (erh).
Posted at 10:03 PM | Comments (1)
Posted by Joshua Fruehling
Sep 14, 2006
Sep 14, 2006
I'd be down for a soccer team. Keep me posted, There's a big soccer field on the east river park around 7/8th streets. It's closed for renovations till Oct I think but then will be brand spanking new.
