Super Bad

No this isn't a blog about my love for the movie Super Bad. The team we played this past week was called Super Bad. Though, I do LOVE Michael Cera, I still haven't seen that movie. I must be getting old, because that movie does not sound appealing to me.

All of us Brews showed up at the field without another team member in sight. Actually there was one other person present, but he didn't have our shirt on. But luckily, since I did a little "research" on the team members before, I recognized him from his photo on Facebook. I saw him looking at us (maybe he knew what color shirt his team had? Or, what if he recognized us from Facebook stalking?) and I started to give a half wave. Then I realized, obviously he didn't meet me the other night because he doesn't have a shirt so he doesn't know who I am. I can't wave at him. Then I would have to explain the whole Facebook stalking thing. And that would be just awkward.

Finally a few of the people he knew showed up. The rest of the team had gone to the wrong field, so they would be cutting it close to get there on time. And just to make matters worse, the girl who picked up all the missing team members shirts forgot to bring them. So they wouldn't be allowed to play until she brought the shirts. By the start of the game we had 9 people eligible to play (which is the exact minimum number you need, even though you can have 10 on the field at a time).

Let me first tell you about one "character" of the Recreational Hazards. He is the guy that wrote that email about Dungeons and Dragons chat rooms (that did end up to be a joke). But he showed up with EVERY article of clothing on his body being the color yellow, which is the color of our shirts. This includes: his shorts, knee-high socks, soccer shoes, head band AND wrist bands! Just in case we couldn't keep him straight from the rest of the team (or maybe it was to prevent confusion of thinking he was the sun), he ironed on the word "Buttercup" onto the back of his shirt. Of course, I figured he was just gay and proudly showing it through his impressively flashy yellow outfit. But one of the Brews later asked and really the only one that is gay is the one I was 99% sure about after the stalking! That is not this guy, so this guy is STRAIGHT and willingly showed up looking like he was gay!?!

I am pretty sure if we were still on the Brews and saw him, he would be the equivalent to Shin Guards. Poor guy. He is nice and funny though! I shouldn't bad mouth my own team. I think it is the Universe's way of getting us to understand such people since we made fun of one all the spring season long.

So to give our teammates a little more time to arrive, we elected to kick first. You have to put together a kicking order, and as the other Jenny was trying to do it I told her to not put me first. Naturally, you know who ended up being first. Yes, I learned my lesson a long time ago about NOT saying what you don't want. But it just kind-of slipped out before I could do anything about it. I hate with a passion being first at anything. Most less that it was going to be the first kick of the game with a new team! But I actually didn't mind it too much once I did it, I got to go ahead and get it over with each time around. Since we had so few people though, we ended up "batting" more in this game than ever before.

The Brews didn't look too bad out there. See of the five of us that continued on, NONE of us were the play makers on the old team. So it was a little shaky as to how we would perform. But Bud (our only guy to continue on) made a home run and his other two kicks weren't bad either. The other Jenny ended up catching a ball that bounced out of one of the guys arms. She actually did some-sort-of barrel roll on the ground to get it. Very impressive! And yet, definitely over and beyond what anyone could expect from a super social team.

I even performed, well, probably my best to date! I caught a ball (which I have never done before...so yay me)! I also managed to score a run (which I've only done one other time)! My other kicks ended with me getting on first but out after the next person kicked the ball straight to second. And one kick got me out before I got to first. But I did help with throwing the ball a couple of times to get some outs from the other team. So all-in-all, a good game!

JJ (or should I just call him Buttercup?) sent out an email awarding people for the first game. Bud got MVP player of the game. Jenny got the Best Catch award. All the girls of the team got an award for sticking to the plan (for girls) of keeping the kicked ball low and not kicking it far. Because let's be honest, unless the girl has serious skills, it is going to be the easiest ball to catch in the world (well, unless it is a girl trying to catch it...then we have a fair match-up).

Anyways the final score of us versus Super Bad was 11-3! I can't remember exactly, but I think that is a higher score than the Brews ever managed to get. So things are starting off on the right track!

We all went up to Doc's afterwards, had a few drinks and just got to know each other. I found out all of that group that joined together is in their thirties! But let's be honest, thirty is knocking on my door and will be here pretty soon! It is nice to know that I can keep doing these same shenanigans for at least another 10+ years!

They are a fun group and I look forward to the rest of the season! And most importantly, what great ideas Buttercup will continue to bring to the games. You never know what shocking things this guy will further un-leash!