Bit of Rant
Read on if you will. I'll make this a cut for those who could care less.
So sunshines, I have about had it up to my limit with the silliness going on at softball. The situation as most of you know is as follows:
Gary paid for our league dues (not sure why, probably so more people would play because it would be cheaper). Cliff is Gary's son. Joseph offered to coach/run everything because Gary said he didn't really have the time. Joseph & I get rosters and find out he's co-captain with Cliff. Okay, we're cool with that. Joseph tries to talk to Cliff and Cliff pretty much pushes everything back on Joseph citing "not a lot of time." Okay.
1st practice, no Cliff. He comes to the game and tries to change line-ups and field positions based on how he wants it to be. Doesn't fly because he shows up half-way through the game because he over slept. Real good role model there co-captain.
2nd practice, Cliff shows. Comes to the game and changes line-ups and field positions while Joe & I are on the field warming up. Submits it and it stays that way.
3rd practice, Cliff shows, doesn't do much. Game time comes today and he wants to put in me in Right field (waste of my abilitiy) and put our weakest girl hitter in the number one girl spot. Does that make logic to you? Why would you put an almost guaranteed out as your second batter? And he put himself as third because that's your strongest player and he believes he is such, and there are other guys out there that maybe don't put it at the fence when the hit but they are way more consistent with hits and actually on base. Get over yourself.
So also at today's game he tried to keep telling me where to stand in the outfield so I could catch the ball. Mind you, ever ball that came at me (and they were all grounders) were in front of me and I got every single one of them to my cut off catcher. Don't tell me how to play Cliff-who-misses-the-ball-trying-to-be-macho, and on top of that you move in on a girl simply because she's a girl and she blasts it over your head. Dumb @$$. Not all girls are weak like you think and need to play only Right field, Catcher, and 2nd base. Good Lord. Oh, and I was the first girl to get pulled to warm the bench so "everyone else gets a chance" yet I was one of the stronger players on the field. Does that make sense? Why not bring out your weakest player and rotate that? I was trying to see if I would be the only one who got pulled as extra evidence to back my case up, but one of our team members got hurt, so our extra girl was automatically put in. So my question is this: Do I call this all out at practice and clear the air? I think that he (with his dad's backing) are trying to punish Joseph and as an added bonus are using me to help that as well. Or do I let this go and wait until Cliff tries to tell me how to play outfield again and go off on him mid-game or practice? I knew saying something after the game today was appropriate because other teams were around, but seriously if this kid says something one more time I'm going to flip out on him. And I think I'm going to read up on softball strategy to see what I can learn.
And now that Melissa is going to hate that I have a ridiculously long paragraph if she read this, I'm going to end it here and go off to spotch; it's been a long day and I'm working "hard" tomorrow at the library.
Much Love to All!
So sunshines, I have about had it up to my limit with the silliness going on at softball. The situation as most of you know is as follows:
Gary paid for our league dues (not sure why, probably so more people would play because it would be cheaper). Cliff is Gary's son. Joseph offered to coach/run everything because Gary said he didn't really have the time. Joseph & I get rosters and find out he's co-captain with Cliff. Okay, we're cool with that. Joseph tries to talk to Cliff and Cliff pretty much pushes everything back on Joseph citing "not a lot of time." Okay.
1st practice, no Cliff. He comes to the game and tries to change line-ups and field positions based on how he wants it to be. Doesn't fly because he shows up half-way through the game because he over slept. Real good role model there co-captain.
2nd practice, Cliff shows. Comes to the game and changes line-ups and field positions while Joe & I are on the field warming up. Submits it and it stays that way.
3rd practice, Cliff shows, doesn't do much. Game time comes today and he wants to put in me in Right field (waste of my abilitiy) and put our weakest girl hitter in the number one girl spot. Does that make logic to you? Why would you put an almost guaranteed out as your second batter? And he put himself as third because that's your strongest player and he believes he is such, and there are other guys out there that maybe don't put it at the fence when the hit but they are way more consistent with hits and actually on base. Get over yourself.
So also at today's game he tried to keep telling me where to stand in the outfield so I could catch the ball. Mind you, ever ball that came at me (and they were all grounders) were in front of me and I got every single one of them to my cut off catcher. Don't tell me how to play Cliff-who-misses-the-ball-trying-to-be-macho, and on top of that you move in on a girl simply because she's a girl and she blasts it over your head. Dumb @$$. Not all girls are weak like you think and need to play only Right field, Catcher, and 2nd base. Good Lord. Oh, and I was the first girl to get pulled to warm the bench so "everyone else gets a chance" yet I was one of the stronger players on the field. Does that make sense? Why not bring out your weakest player and rotate that? I was trying to see if I would be the only one who got pulled as extra evidence to back my case up, but one of our team members got hurt, so our extra girl was automatically put in. So my question is this: Do I call this all out at practice and clear the air? I think that he (with his dad's backing) are trying to punish Joseph and as an added bonus are using me to help that as well. Or do I let this go and wait until Cliff tries to tell me how to play outfield again and go off on him mid-game or practice? I knew saying something after the game today was appropriate because other teams were around, but seriously if this kid says something one more time I'm going to flip out on him. And I think I'm going to read up on softball strategy to see what I can learn.
And now that Melissa is going to hate that I have a ridiculously long paragraph if she read this, I'm going to end it here and go off to spotch; it's been a long day and I'm working "hard" tomorrow at the library.
Much Love to All!