We started our league play this week, and the weather’s been ugly with a capital UG! We were scheduled for Tues, Thurs, and Sat, and managed to get the Tues game in before the skies opened up. With the weather report saying there was 100% chance of rain on Wed, Thur, and Fri, and it having rained all day on Wed, and skies as black as coal all day yesterday, there was little hope of playing.
Everyone was hoping, but at 12:06 the email saying the game was cancelled came. Then, about 6 o’clock I got a call from the coach telling me they’d pulled the tarp and the field was pretty good, so they worked for a couple hours, re-notified everyone, and the game got started at the scheduled time. They got in 5 innings before the skies opened up and everyone got drenched, but our team was ahead, they’d played the required number of innings to make the game official.
Now comes the problem. Nobody on our side thought to keep score! So, the only thing available for me right now, are the little 3x6 cards the coach keeps, and they’re about as useless for compiling stats as teats on a boar hog! But, they are better than nothing, and should give me at bats and hits for the offense, and the same for the pitchers.
My hope is, the opposing coach had someone keep score for his team, and I can get my hands on their book or get a copy of the scoresheet. That won’t be perfect, but at least I’ll be able to get everything done. Now for the best part.
This morning I fired up the computer, and checked my e-mail. There are 3 messages saying I’d forgotten to call the score in to the paper! Its freakin’ 5:15 in the morning, and there are already people hot on my trail! In order to dodge the bullet of not having posted the stats, I put out a newsletter explaining that I wasn’t at the game and would do the best I could as soon as I could about the numbers.
And to think I used to pi$$ and moan about not getting the subs!
