Tuesday, December 06, 2005
18:51
haha today was fun but tiring and my left arm threatens to fail me as i type but heck. whahah.
it started with training. we had scrimmage, mixed between both divisions. i was the only sec three in my team, so cola's team was stronger from the outset. but i didnt really care if we lost ( and we did lose) cos we're all still raffles and thats whats important.
anyway, i was made "captain" of my team since i was the only sec three so i was like in charge of giving batting order and signals. yep that was fun but i didnt really care about signals since most of my team were sec ones and they didnt know how to bunt anyway and still abit confused about baserunning. what i hated was their attitude. do juniors nowadays not respect their seniors anymore?? im not expecting kowtows and respectful bows everytime a junior sees me but at least, listen to instructions! ------ was on second and we were shouting to her to remember to take a lead and she didnt and then when yz got the ball in the circle already she was still off the base so i screamed to her to get back to base and she just stood there without moving. granted, she may not have known that if your foot is off base when the ball is in the pitcher's circle then you can be called out, ( which coach did explain to us early on in the game why he called joelle out - and joelle was super sporting about it) she did it a second time. and the expression on her face, if i didnt see wrongly, was one of defiance. and when i was third base coach and she finally came to third, i was explaining to her in a gentle voice ( i manged to cool my temper) where to take a lead and how to run, and she looked in the other direction without affirmation of anything i said. for goodness' sake, when someone talks to you the basic courtesy is to look at her if youre not occupied elsewhere right? walao. piss me off.
well then the second time i went up to bat, hahaha i told myself, youre the leader of the team, you've not done well at warmup batting, but heck, just hit whatever comes. and the first pitch that came in from yz was beautiful - exact center. WHAM i swung and woooooo it shot to second base's direction and between left and center fielder. its my first homerun, and im proud to say that today marks the day i officially break away from my "freeze-up" whenever i go into the batters box. -beams.
hahh then in second inning i was catcher. cool right. i love catcher's position. anyway then i caught then yeah made some mistakes but it was fun. yep then third inning omi took over again. but it was all really fun and yeah real cool.
after the game coach gave us a debrief as usual. then halfway he started talking about catchers not backing up their pitchers. he said catchers could, if the ball is skimming the edge of the plate as it is coming in , the catcher can catch it then turn the glove slightly so when the umpire sees it it looks like strike. hahaha then he mentioned me! he said "like genevieve. she played catcher one inning right and she moved it in - quite beautifully. and shes not even a catcher!"
wahaha he was saying this cos the whole of c team refuses to catch. so there;s no one willing to train as catcher bah. so he was mentioning that they should look at the b teams example co s even if my team with yy as pitcher didnt have any fulltime training catchers we ( me and omi) just volunteered to catch and did a good job too. hahah trng was memorable.
yay dinner time. im ravenous. bye! i wanted to talk about work ex today but i guess no time. byee!