Tuesday 9/17 Playoff Opener

Life as a social director for the Hospitality Professional and Technology Professionals chapter,  and, most importantly, softball coach isn’t so bad.  In fact, as a professional “in transition” so to speak, this keeps my mind focused for preparation, planning, and decision-making.  I’m not behind that big old oak desk in Sausalito anymore.  Rather, I sit at a picnic table to review the batting order and get ready for the weekly softball. The team finished the regular season with a 5-1 record and a second place finish.  But this playoff game was so painstaking, I am befuddled.  The team is as prepared as they can be, but neither were the opponents and the umpire.  The poor fool who says that he is an umpire, is a complete moron.  Not only did he not enforce the forfeit rule for game time, he admittedly told me and my team that he did not know the rules.  Oh boy!  The chapter graciously sponsored the team the whole season, and we play in a league that these fools who run it have clowns as umpires.  Now, being a hospitality professional, I can help these umpires so they can have some salvage value.  I am an umpire of the Golden Gate Sports Club and will allow these umpires to shadow me this evening.  And I won’t charge them for the training.  You see, our helpful friendly attitudes in hospitality can also pertain on the softball diamond.