Well, as Aaron might say, "Back to our Losing Ways". We didn't play very well last night. We actually didn't play as bad as the score was. We lost 19-4. Yep, It was bad. The game was supposed to start at 8:30, but didn't get going until around 9:00. I don't know what it is about Brandon Parks and Recreation, but they can't get an umpire to keep the games on schedule.
We played Carr Family Dentistry last night. We had already beat them in the first game of the season by 6 runs. I thought we were going to just blow by them. Everything last night just went against us though. We were the Home team, so we took the field first. Carr Dentistry came out hitting. They scored 5 runs in the top of the first including a 3 run Home run with no outs. Aaron can tell you a little more about that since he went face first into the fence trying to catch it. The ball hit the top of the fence and somehow when over the fence. Aaron on the other hand got his leg stuck under the fence. He has some nice scratch marks from his ankle to his knee for his good attempt to try and make the play.
As well as the opposing team came out hitting, we on the other hand didn't. We did get some runners in scoring position in the first inning, but we couldn't get the clutch hit to get some runs. In the third inning, we did make a run scoring 4 runs to make it a 5-4 game. That was all we could give them though. It just wasn't our night.
In the sixth inning, the fun began. Our coach asked the umpire how much time we had left in the game. He said 14 minutes. Our coach likes to keep the time with a stop watch so he knows exactly how much time we have left in the game. His watch had five extra minutes than the umpires watch. He blew a fuse and sat there and argued for a couple of minutes while we were waiting to bat. That didn't help too much. Then, we came up to bat and went 1, 2, 3 outs, just like that. The score was 10-4 at this point. Our bats had gone stone cold.
Then, the score girl said isn't that the game. Aren't they the visitors. Well, come to find out the score girl had the scores reversed the whole game. Just to give you some information on Brandon Parks and Recreation, they have the worst umpires, they have little girls that try and keep scores. Heck, half of them don't even know how to keep score, much less do it while they are up in the press box by themselves. It's just ridiculous. So, back to the game. Well, Carr Dentistry came out and scored nine, that's right count them, nine runs in the last inning. At this point our goal was to just keep the umpires out there as long as possible, since we had last at bat. Of course by this time it is already past 10:00.
After the game ended, the two teams shook hands as usual and went back to the dugout to get our stuff. As our team goes to pray, like we do every week, the entire complex goes dark. They turned the lights out on us. Aaron heard his wife say, " Where's Caroline?" his daughter. Aaron loses it and runs over to the concession stand where the light switches are. He goes off about why they turned the lights out on them. The little girl, the same one that was score keeping, says that the umpire said to shut em off, as he exits the fields. We still have our gloves, bags, shoes, watches, cell phones, etc. All in the dugouts. It is pitch black. Aaron finally gets his point across to the girl and she then states that she did have the wrong time of the game. There was supposed to be an extra five minutes. They just wanted to get out of there since it was so late. That is just pure ludicrous.
We then start to leave the stadium, after retrieving out stuff from the pitch black dugout. When we get up the hill to the cars, Brian, a team mate of ours and Puckett chief of Police, is confronting someone in a car. Come to find out, it is the umpire. Brian is asking him why he told them to turn the lights out on us. He says that he didn't say anything to anybody. Brian starts stating that someone is going to get fired over this. The umpire has the audacity to say, "It isn't going to be me." This kind of ticked off Aaron, so he goes over and confronts the umpire. Aaron is in this guys face. He is stating that he is going to send an email to the front office of Brandon Parks and Recreation, call up there in the morning and someone is going to get fired.
Everything finally calms down and we get in the truck to go home. Well, Caroline has to ride with me and Aaron home. She always wants to after every game. Aaron says that that is the most fired up he has been in a while. I've never seen him like that, but it was pretty funny. On the ride home me and Caroline play some games and I start asking her if she likes Baby Aubrey and Mrs. Julie, and Daddy, and Mommy. Her answer to all of them is No!!!!! We had the biggest kick on the ride home. She is so funny. She can also turn off the light switch, which Baby Aubrey can't do yet. She also said that when she turns 4 Baby Aubrey will be 3. She is so crazy. I wish I could remember everything she said last night, because she had me rolling the whole ride home. I guess I am done now. Bye.
Her name is Meredith. She is so sweet and beautiful. She looks like her sister, but there is a little difference. Meredith has blue eyes. Wow, what a surprise!!!! Everytime I look at her, I just can't stop smiling. Even at 2 in the morning, when she wakes up crying and hungry, she looks like an angel. She is so perfect in every single way. From her little head all the way to her tiny toes.
