Champions, And Not Just In Our Eyes

For any of you who believe that my softball career this year has been a failure because the RELLS’ Bells only won one game (ahem, Dad), I have good news.  If you have been reading this blog from the beginning, you may remember that in addition to Team RELLS, I play on another team with my old section-mates [...]

Good Food, Good Company, and Good Softball

Although some of you might not consider a season with only one win a success, us on this year’s RELLS Bells would beg to differ.  We all had a wonderful time this season, and to celebrate our success, Theresa and I organized a BBQ – Softball party.  Perhaps because our team was so popular, perhaps [...]

Playoffs: Frosted Tips

When it comes to softball playoffs at UVa law, many teams treat the game as Jenga and stack stack stack.  The best players in the league inevitably play on almost every team in the playoffs.  The Frosted Tips were no exception: they had so much of UVa’s top talent that we had about as much chance of [...]

Game VI: Thundercats

Today, Charlottesville woke up to a soggy morning.  The ground was soaked from a late night rain, which was still in its final stages when I drove Theresa to work.  I was sure that our game this afternoon, the final of the regular season, would be cancelled.  However, the North Grounds Softball Commission insisted that [...]

Game IV: Law Christian Fellowship

Today’s game was the Holy Wars: Christians against Mormons (who are of course Christians themselves, but lets just stick with our analogy).  After todays game, I think I might have to reconsider my faith, since it seemed like the Lord was smiling on the other denomination today.  Or maybe he just wanted us to be an example [...]

Game III: Kicking Asses

RELLS Bells has a win!  But before you all get too excited, let me explain the situation. Unfortunately, the title of this post is not an explanation of how well we played, but simply the name of our opponents: The Virginia Law Democrats.  As it turns out, the democrats are much more successful at organizing an [...]

Game II: Nerd Herd

It was a beautiful day for Softball today.  The field had just been watered and the foul-lines were freshly painted.  At 11:45 the teams began to arrive.  Derek Casper, a supposedly faithful RELLSer showed his true colors by heading to the opponent’s bench – although his wife quickly made her way to ours.  Our nursey-aged [...]

RELLS’ Belles

My corporations professor probably spends more class time talking about various random tangents than actually teaching us corporations. One of his favorite subjects is baseball, and he has told us more than once that he thinks the Chicago Cubs has the best strategy in the Major Leagues. You see, normally a team makes [...]

RELLS’ Bells

For anyone who has been reading my blog since the very beginning (Sept 2006), you may have noticed one particular topic that frequented my early posts but are completely absent from my current ramblings.  That topic is softball, and I’d like to mention it once more today.  Since we last visited the North Grounds Softball League, I [...]