Kickball round-up

I don't have a lot of natural talents, but one good thing about me is that I'm naturally athletic. I enjoy being active and I tend to pick up on new skills pretty quickly. However, growing up as a competitive gymnast means that I was never trained in any sport that people still commonly play as adults - softball, soccer, basketball, etc. I can still do a perfect cartwheel, but I'm terrible at all of those other sports because no one ever taught me how to play them.

This is why I really enjoy playing kickball. NO ONE is trained in kickball. All you really need is some mild athleticism.

I just finished a kickball season as part of a team of fellow Tufts alums, and we kept up the Jumbo tradition of being terrible at sports by losing every single one of our games. Despite this, the kickball season overall was a huge ego boost for me. Since I've been feeling pretty low in confidence recently (more on that in a different post, or not at all), I'm going to spend the rest of this blog post tooting my own horn by writing some kickball stats.

Here are the number of times that the following happened:
- A guy on my team told me, during our last game yesterday, that I'm the best girl fielder on our team: 1
- A different guy told me, during our last game yesterday, that I'm the best girl kicker on our team: 2
- Despite the above, number of times I got on base all season (5 games): 1 (note to self: learn to not pop the ball up in the air)
- I pegged a bitch and got her out: 2 (the ref called the girl safe on one of these because he said I nailed her in the head (illegal) even though IT WAS IN THE SHOULDERS #bitter)
- Any other girl on the team pegged anyone: 0
- Caught a fly ball to get the kicker out: about 10
- Any other girl on the team caught a fly ball: maybe 2
- The best guy on our team caught a fly ball: 100 million
- People told me I was awesome when I stepped in to pitch: a lot
- The ref stopped the game when I was playing catcher to tell everyone that I was no longer allowed to play catcher because I was making him laugh too much: 1

Okay this isn't actually as fun as I thought it would be. Suffice to say I enjoy kickball and despite getting on base ONCE THE WHOLE SEASON I think I'm pretty good at it. Too bad everyone wants to change in future seasons to soccer or some other sport that I am going to be god awful at.

Pompous post over!