Today the softball team had our second practice and the team is starting to sort itself out. For the first time Chris Porter, Tucker Mostetler and Richard Phillips showed up so we were able to put an entire team in the field, which was nice. Tucker, Port-Dawg and Richy all get F-’s for the first practice since they didnt show up. Thats the precendent Im setting now: if you dont show up, you get an F-. Or if you hurt Charles’s water dog, which was absent, likely because Matt would probably have just stepped on it again. All in all the team looked a little better and players were more disciplined. Instincts as a whole were very solid. Which was tough considering there were Carnival folk everywhere. Here are the grades for this week:
Will Thompson:
Will looked solid again and stood out at third base. Its pretty hard to throw the softball from third base to first and I don’t really have much confidence in most of our team doing it, so I think its nice to have Will at third. Me and Port-dawg both agreed that he had a tendancy to “hot dog” it up at times, which might end up being a problem. After one incident of “hot dogging” I was like “Hey Will, I bet you want to go to Nu-Way after the game since you like hot dogging so much!” Me and Port-Bone both had a good laugh about that. Will was very helpful in hitting fly balls for the outfielders, which was nice. Team Nickname: Gay Gayiken. Grade: B+
Richard Phillips
It was nice to see Richard show up to play a sport because I had a theory that he was really a nine year old girl. Nice to be prove us wrong, Phillips. Richard really impressed everyone by not totally sucking, which means he will probably be a starter. He was pretty ok at hitting and didnt really screw up too much at fielding. He had to quit throwing the ball overhand after like 8 seconds because he said his arm hurt, which was weak. Plus he totally fell on his ass in the infield trying to run like a normal upright human being. Apparently evolution hasnt quite caught up with Richard. Team Nickname: The Missing Link. Grade: C+
Charles Griffin
Charles’s practice was off to a very poor start as he showed up without the water dog. It took us a little while to get motivated when we realized our best player was gone but we got it together. I dont remember Charles really doing that much this practice which means that he probably didnt screw up very much, which is good. One time he caught a ball that I could catch up to, so that was cool but it was kinda weak because he knew that was my ball. Whatever. Team Nickname: God’s Gift. Grade: C+
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