Where did everybody go?

Yeah, I know, I've been unforgivably absent this year and I'm sure the price for that is that no one will be reading this post. Serves me right. Fact is, I took on the task of helping get the House Softball League newsletter and GOTW articles on and between that and work, well, let's just say I became very lazy when it came to updating this site.

But hey, it's July and all over the city the recreational softball leagues are beginning to wrap up and sort out who will be in position to claim the glory of a championship and who will be claiming the glory of the guy in this photo.

In the Senate League, the regular season ends on Friday and the tournament starts August 4th. Yeah, I hear ya, what the crazy earliness?!? It snuck up on a lot of us who play on teams, but at the end of the day, let's face it, we just use this as a tune up for the big show... the House League tournament. I honestly couldn't tell you who the teams to beat are in the senate other than Hawk N Dove and I hear IoWins, but I haven't seen that first hand. I do happen to no the Dammed Salmon, who have had a dramatically fall back regular season from when they took the league by storm last year, are likely going to be much better in the tournament. I would also imagine Born to Home Run makes a run at it again and rumor has it the RBI's will be beefing up with borrowed players from the HSL Texas Republic, but that's all rumors.

Meanwhile in the Congressional League... oh yeah, no one cares. Moving on.

I'll slide a side note in here about the Arlington Mens league, just because I play out there along with a large population of other hill softball guys. Apparently the Texas Republic version of a mens team beat the Insliders/et al version in the B League (top league) championship. In one C League tournament the Vito Power/Raucus Caucus mens team is the highest seed left undefeated into the Semi-Finals (yeah, my team, free ink, we also have like 15 championships in the last 4 seasons, we're moving to B League soon so that TR and the Sliders can drub us, should be fun). All this to say, all things are connected and there is a plethora of talented players in the HSL.

Speaking of which, it's almost August and the cream of the crop are rising to the top. I'll circle back a little more in depth on this in my next post. I'm hoping to finish strong, but we'll see. Sorry for the let down this year to all who care.