Kerry, I can only hope the Ducks (as much as I hate them) will KILL the Cougs and cover the spread. I'm in a weekly pick 'em pool and am currently sitting one game out of 1st for the overall lead. I'd love to pull off a 5-0 week and pick up the weekly $400 prize. That would come in handy for sure.
Carlos, the kids are super curious as to what happened and I've told them what caused the injury and they've given me garbage about being "hit by a girl."
I'll tell you, if my D can grow up and hit the softball as hard as this girl did, I know I won't be paying for her college. This girl hit nothing but absolute SEEDS every time up and this one just happened to clock me in the melon. I'm thankful, honestly thankful, that I got even a little glove on it or it may have destroyed my face!
I also think it is a challenge to keep playing competitively as I age. Now, I'm not interested in being on the type of teams where they get super wrapped up in winning and let it consume them, but I do enjoy playing, competing, and going all out to win. However, at this stage in my life, once the game is over, if we didn't win, I'm completely fine. It no longer consumes me, but it does feel good to compete.
However, I did learn a valuable lesson this time around about the need to prepare my body appropriately now that I'm older. I was foolish enough to think that "its only softball" and thus, didn't properly get my body ready to play. Now, I'm paying the price. However, it is a lesson to learn and I know that I need to be conscious about my knees and legs and get them in some semblance of shape before the next season starts.
Getting back out and playing will help me w/my exercise goals as well. Currently the knees are healing and getting much better. The hamstrings and quads are loosening up, so I'll be hitting the treadmill again soon and working on getting my body back together and actually look to get into some of the best shape of my life.
I'm happy and glad I'm out and doing it again...even though I'm beat up.
