Let's Not and Say We Did

On Tuesday evening, Team Green Tambourine had a softball game scheduled against the Franklin Force on Edgeley #4, the very last game of our CCSL regular season. Conditions were somewhat less than perfect, due to heavy rainfall and a severe thunderstorm alert. There was internal team discussion about whether it was even worth making an attempt at playing, but Franklin was gung-ho to get the game in. With little desire to reschedule for the weekend, backing out would have required a forfeit, and we had maintained a forfeit-less season to this point.  It's not a remarkable achievement, but zero forfeits is a small accomplishment and a minor point of pride considering years past. If we had the players, we were going to make an attempt to play.

On Tuesday evening, Ms. TGTFan and I attended childbirth class where we listened to a charming local pediatrician expound upon formula options, vaccination schedules, the color and texture of infant bowel movements, that sort of thing. It was an enlightening talk, and we were not at all sad to be in a warm and dry lecture hall as opposed to outside in the wind and the rain.

I cannot report on what may or may not have transpired at the field. Wooden bats are presumably safer than aluminum in an electrical storm, but nonetheless it hardly seems necessary to risk player comfort and safety to decide a game with little material effect on the standings or the play-off picture. I'm assuming a similar conclusion was reached by the CCSLers assembled at Edgeley #4, and so the season ends with the rare mutually agreed-upon tie. Word is that the commissioner was "embarrassed" and "tremendously saddened" by this result, but life goes on.

FINAL SCORE: TGT 7, TFI 7
Final 2014 Regular Season Record: 4-8-1

Next Week: Play-Offs!