So this is what happens when I try to exercise…

All right! So, it’s softball season again.  That’s right, church softball season, where Cole takes those from her church and then recruits those of us who used to be athletic and has us perform like monkeys…I’m just kidding.  That’s just what I am feeling like right now…

So Tuesday was the first game but tonight was the showdown   I just want to start this whole thing off by telling you that my general experience has been that if a girls’ team wears pink, then they suck…sorry if that offends anyone, but it’s true.  I want to state expressly that this rule excludes the women’s teams who wear pink uniforms to support breast cancer research…So tonight’s team had brown and pink jerseys.  Read that last sentence again.  However, our team’s bats didn’t wake up and also the other team was better than you would think given their jersey color…Anyway, I just want to state my conclusion before the rest of this gets printed, tomorrow, my workout regimen STEPS UP!  I played third tonight.  I made a couple decent defensive plays from there.  I tagged a girl, and I actually threw out a girl after she hit me a grounder (I am pretty sure that said girl had an artificial hip).  Anyway, the game was pretty close for most of it, the other team was better than most but also we didn’t hit like we should…But here’s the point of this story: In the 6th inning, I was the first one up to bat and we were down one.  I got a single.  BTW, I used to be faster than I am….Anyway, the next girl comes up and she hits between the shortstop and 3rd.  The shortstop made a good play to knock it down but she bobbled it and I realized I had a chance to make it to 2nd.  So my out of shape ass hustled on down there only to get scared the ball was gonna hit me and half duck and pretty much fall into the base (safely BTW) but then I noticed that the second basewoman missed ir and the ball was rolling on out to right field….Convinced that I could recover my dignity, I hopped up and headed for 3rd.  However, half way there, the girl threw the ball to third…I was sure I was out and proceeded to slide to a stop ( I don’t have cleats) and headed back to second…in hindsight I would take my chances about getting to third because (a) I would probably have gotten there and (b) even if I had gotten out, my teammate would have gotten to second.  But I chose door 2 and headed back…………unfortunately, I literally ate dirt about half way between 3rd and 2nd.  Oh yeah.  It hurt.  I no longer have skin from my sports bra line to my mid thigh.  Also (TMI and Over-share alert) I have a strawberry on my hoo- haw  and that is not a pleasant experience ever but especially in the shower…Anyway, I am off to Baltimore on Sunday…I would love any thoughts or whatever because I HATE being away from home for that long…As for the rest, I am off to ice my naughty bits.

The Story that Keeps On Giving

I am a huge sports fan.  Basketball is my first love, but there is something about watching football on the weekend that just seems so right.  Anyway, this post will be about a great storyline that’s been going on in the NFL, but it will make you laugh even if you aren’t a football fan so bear with me.

The first week of the season in the NFL, Kevin Everett a “graduate” of Miami (does anyone ever really graduate that plays football there?) and a Buffalo Bill was severely injured while tackling someone.  He was taken off the field on a stretcher because he couldn’t move his arms or his legs and he was rushed to the hospital to receive emergency care, and eventually surgery.  Shortly after his surgery, a surgery that required the use of metal rods to secure Everett’s spine, the surgeon told the media that Everett’s prognosis for ever walking again was poor.  He said that it was a slim chance, if any, for Everett ever to regain feeling in his arms or legs.  (No, this isn’t the funny part, Steve!) 

Kevin Everett apparently wasn’t watching the press conference, though, because within a couple of days, reports coming out of the hospital indicated that Everett could feel his hands and arms and move his fingers.  With some additional testing, the same doctor came out to say that Everett would now most likely be able to walk again.  That would be cool enough, but apparently, doctors credit Everett’s miracle with an experimental procedure performed on Everett immediately after his injury that involved injecting a cooling agent around the spine.  Where was this procedure developed?  Everett’s alma mater, the University of Miami.  Who was one of the major donors to this research?  The owner of the Buffalo Bills.  I thought that was just a really cool way for life to come around.  If you really want to get in the spirit of this story, you should cue up your Lion King soundtrack to “Circle of Life” and just let Elton John make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.  I will wait, but when you’re done, come back for the part of the story that will make you giggle.

Done?  Okay.  So Everett’s progress is being followed now by various news outlets.  He has been taken home to Houston to a rehab facility.  He has continued to make progress and medical folks think he’ll be walking soon.  So when ol’ Pat Murphy started reporting this story, I bet he didn’t think he’d be dealing with a live news snafu.  Thank you, youtube.  Sorry, Pat Murphy.  You will need sound for this clip (found via http://www.deadspin.com) :