Tomorrow night should be my last softball game of the season. For those of you who weren't aware, I was playing in a co-ed "beer drinking" softball league for The Billy Goat Restaurant & Bar. It's the first organized sport I've played since early college when I was playing roller hockey at the Kirkwood community center. I found out quickly how out of shape I really am after the first few games.

I started the season pretty well. Batted 1.000 and had a couple of walks through the first 3 games or so. Had quite a few putouts in the OF and played a game at 3rd base where I assisted on 1/3 of the outs in the game.

Unfortunately after returning from Las Vegas in my first game back, I severely injured my right foot. I played out the rest of the game but I knew something was very wrong. The injury caused me to miss the next 5 or 6 games. I still haven't been to the doctor to see what actually happened either. For all I know I could be walking around with a small hairline fracture in my foot. It still hurts to this day if I put too much pressure on it, or whenever it rains oddly enough.

I finished the rest of the season much worse than I started. I batted only about .500 (not good for a guy in a co-ed league) and obviously had trouble running the bases as fast. My defense was still solid and I continued to improve at 3rd base and in the OF. One game assisted on 3 double plays (catching people who forgot to tag up on fly balls) from CF.

Our team was pretty good and it looks like we'll finish the season in 2nd place behind the dreaded "Death Row Softball" team. The team who's male players went out and recruited female college softball players from Lindenwood college to represent the fairer sex on the team. Not to mention that their smallest guy was as big as our largest guy, and they could all stroke the ball. They looked as if they were going to go undefeated but after we had to forfeit last week due to lack of players, we teamed our best players up with the third place teams best players (The Fockers)and gave em a beating. Justice served.

- these thoughts flowed through Jeff's fingers @ 11:18 AM