Category Archives: Softball

Astros Win, Tiburon Loses

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Today was a good day for baseball and a horrible day for softball. The Astros defeated the Braves in the first game of the National League Division Series 9-3. Roger Clemens pitched a great game with seven strike outs in seven innings pitched.

Tonight was our third loss at softball as we were crushed 16-2. I went 2-3 fielding. I bobbled one ball hit my way, but two others ending with outs. I also went 1-2 batting. The other team had a huge inning where they scored 14 runs. We weren’t really doing anything wrong, they were just laying down good hits.

Second Softball Loss

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We once again lost our softball game 13-11. I don’t think we played as well as last week, but we still hung in there. I was 0-2 with a walk and a run. My first two times at bat, I didn’t really get very good pitches and I ended up popping them up. So, the next time I was up to bat I just made him pitch to me and he ended up walking me. I didn’t really have any balls hit in my direction at second base. We were in a seventh inning rally when the batter flew out to the outfield. We had a runner on third who tagged up and then came on it. The umpire called the runner out because he didn’t see him tag up before running home. Our coach confronted the umpire who’s response was, “He tagged up?” Usually you don’t want questions from the umpires. You usually want, “The runner is out. I clearly saw him take off before the ball was caught.” That didn’t happen. So, that was the last out of the game. You never want a game to end of a call from the umpire. We’ve been close in both games we played. Perhaps we will win next week.

Meanwhile, on the other end of town, Jennifer took Abby to a kids group at church called Kid’s Connection. They have classes where they do crafts and play games. Abby had fun while Emily played in the nursery and Jennifer helped a Girl Scout troop which meets at the church on Wednesday. They came by the softball field after they were done, but they got there too early. I wasn’t scheduled to start my game for another hour.

Today’s picture is of Emily riding Abby’s bicycle. Look, Poppy, Emily’s ready for her own bike!

Preparing for Jeanne

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The day started off with our weekly visit to Peach Valley Cafe for breakfast and then I was off to softball practice. Since both Tiburon softball teams lost last week, everyone thought it would be a good idea to go ahead and have another practice this morning. I was able to get some more batting and fielding practice, so I thought it was good to go ahead and go out. We had about thirteen people show up, which is about half of the people who are on the softball teams.

The afternoon was used to prepare for hurricane Jeanne. My preparation consists of bringing in the grill, garden hose, and wheel barrow and placing them in the garage. It’s been cloudy with occasional sprinkles all day. We are supposed to start feeling the effects of the hurricane tonight around 2:00 in the morning with the eye of the storm getting to us around noon tomorrow. I will report tomorrow on how we faired in the storm.

Just finished watching Texas pretty much roll all over Rice tonight 35-13. Wasn’t really a good match up. Next week is Baylor and then the following weekend, or wedding anniversary, Texas plays Oklahoma. Can Texas beat OU for the first time since the day that we were married?

First Softball Game

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Today was our first softball game with the league that I play with through work. This was the first time I played in four years since playing with Atomic Games. We didn’t up winning, but it was a very good game. We lost 13-11. We were down 8-0 after one and a half innings. During the bottom of the second I had a good hit to kick off our two out rally and we came back and tied it up 8-8. In the third we went up 10-8, but they had a rally in the fifth inning which put them up 13-8. We tried to come back in the sixth and seventh innings, but it wasn’t enough. I played second base and I help turn a good 6-4-3 double play during the sixth inning.

Tonight was the season premiere of CSI: NY. I’m a big fan of the original CSI. I tried watching CSI: Miami, but after a while I just couldn’t stand David Caruso’s character. I used to like him when he was on NYPD Blue, but his character just didn’t have any depth. Anyway, CSI: NY was okay. I really love Gary Sinise as an actor ever since he was in Stephen King’s The Stand and, of coarse, Forest Gump. Hopefully the show will pan out. I thought tonight’s episode was a little slow.

Tonight’s picture is of Abby and Emily giving each other a hug. Just heard today that Hurricane Jeanne might actually be heading our way this weekend. I will keep everyone updated.

Last of Day of Chaos

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Today was a pretty busy day. It started off with softball practice. I’ve joined the Tiburon softball team. We have so many people we are actually going to have two teams. In fact, the first game is between the two Tiburon teams. I could tell that it had been four years since I had played softball, especially when it came to batting.

While I was at softball practice, the guys working on the floor came and finished off the trim work and helped get the furniture back in place. The floor is finally complete and is looking good. We still need to get all the baseboards painted and Jennifer is currently looking for someone to come in and do that.

After lunch Lucas and Connor’s mom finally arrived and took the boys home. Ahhh, silence. It has been so much more quiet around the house. For the most part they were good, but I’m not looking forward to trying that again.

Tonight was the draft for a fantasy football league that I’m in being run by a friend, Tom Carbone. I usually play in a league for money with an old friend from Houston, Tom Kent, but I decided I really didn’t have time to devote a lot of time to fantasy football this year. Tom convinced me to play when he said that his league was “just for fun”. His two sons are even playing in the league. We are also using the new fantasy football web site being run by EA Sports. We got free accounts since we work for EA.

Finally, Texas narrowly beat out Arkansas 22 – 20 tonight. It was a great game, close the whole time and a nail biter all the way to the end. A fumble by Arkansas near the end cost them the game.