"Take me home momma and put me to bed. I have seen enough to know I have seen too much."

For those of you wondering, the title of this blog post comes from the classic baseball movie, A Leauge of Their Own, and it quite accurately describes how I felt while watching TJ's softball game last week (it started at 9:30 pm).

Anthony joined a softball team this summer and is loving his Thursday nights. His team is a motley crew who call themselves the Ringers. However, they get better each week and have a lot of heart. Anthony is one of the best all-around players, if I do say so myself.

Here he is in the outfield. Either the field is really big or our camera has NO zoom (probably both). Anthony plays between the right and center fielders. The right fielder is still in high school, and very skinny. I overhead his mom ask, "What did they do, stick all the pencils in right field?" when she saw that my svelt husband was playing next to her son. This was probably my favorite quote of the night.

Here is Anthony posing for a picture while he is waiting for his turn to bat. We calculated his OPS last week while running together and it is 1.196. (FYI, Albert Pujols' OPS is 1.095 and Tony tells me that OPS is a truer measure of how good a hitter is, but that his softball OPS should be a lot better.)

Here he is at the plate, before getting walked.

This is the scoreboard at the end of the game. Anthony's team lost. But not with a score of 9-2. It was actually 22-9, the scoreboard had to start back at 1 once the other team scored 20. The score is kind of misleading though. The other team put in a relief pitcher during the final inning and he gave up 4 runs. I'm no baseball expert, but I think the reason Anthony's team is struggling with the runs is because they spend so much time in the field. I timed it, they are in the field for about 11 minutes and at bat for 2 1/2 minutes.

I forgot to mention that the park where Anthony plays is a little ghetto, the infield is very gravely. At his last game Anthony had to slide and ended up with a nice raspberry on the side of his leg.

Doesn't he look so legit?