Baseball!

OK, so went to Jonathan’s Sports Outlet looking to buy a new pair of running shoes cause my old pair got fairly beat up. Spent about 20 minutes or so wandering around, unable to decide what I wanted. Half an hour later, Ken and I walk out of Jonathan’s with $40 dollar baseball gloves… nice way to spend money. We’ve been talking about getting gloves and throwing around since the fall, but for some reason we just randomly went in to buy shoes and came out with gloves. We took the gloves over to the Northeast Quad (can finally go there now without fear!) and did some throwing. Honestly I think my arm has gotten stronger since I’ve stopped playing baseball in high school. I can easily throw the length of the quad now, though still lacks stamina, as after about half an hour of the long distance stuff I started to tire. The gloves were pretty nice, but honestly I wonder how often we will be playing baseball. Were the gloves really worth the investment? Its funny cause right after we called it a day Ken wondered if it would be worth it to just return the gloves, since we had our fun, but we’ll see.

On a different note, the Zoo B team had a tournament in Brandies. The tournament was mainly for B-teams in the New England region, so the level of competition was fairly even. There hasn’t been much interest for Ultimate at UMass this past season, with the A team sometimes not even having enough players at practice, or the B team bringing down 8 people to 2 tournaments back-to-back (Beasterns and High Tide). I didn’t go because I was visiting the parents (and I had duty that night, plus the Pi house party), but apparently it wasn’t a total disaster. From the looks of thing they had about 11 or 12 guys over there, 8 of the B-team regulars, former A/B player Dan McComb and Dave Sliski, and A-team’s Steve O’Leski. They ended up finishing 4th out of the 10 teams that were there. They beat Stonehill-B and Brown-C (13-10, 11-8), and lost 1-pointers to Tufts-B and BC-B (9-10, 12-13), and then 10-13 to Conn. College-B. That’s a +1 margin for the overall tournament, though winning more games would have been much more desirable.

I’d like to get some Ultimate in for either of the teams before school is over, but honestly the chances of that look bleak. School and time and work are all against me, but we’ll see. I actually guaranteed the captain of the B-team that I’d go along with them to play at a tournament the first weekend of April, but turns out I have RA Interviews in the morning, then Asian Night at night, followed by the after party at the Pi House, so got to talk to him about that again.

Other than that, back to duty.