Don't break what ain't fixed.

I'll be honest, I haven't posted in the last week because I was waiting for a good day. I feel like a lot of my posts lately have been a little too "realistic" (I won't say negative), so I was waiting for a really good day to bring back the positive.

Today was a long day. Hell, this whole season's been one long day it seems. Practice tonight was good, though. Not amazing, not even great; it was good; more importantly, it was solid. I can't ask for the impossible out of my girls and I know that. Whether or not I can ask them for 100% is still unclear to me, but tonight they gave a lot. And something -- I don't know what -- seemed to be working. Something seemed to click; they made plays they hadn't been making, they looked for runners when they usually forgot, they turned close double plays when they hadn't been able/thought to in the past. Whew. That's all I can think now: a sigh of relief.

Of course, we missed a few plays, didn't hit as well as I know we could've and the attitudes weren't perfect. But we're all flawed, right? That's alright. I'd take "giving it your all" and losing over "giving half, if even" and winning any day.

Anyway, we play in Richmond this weekend and I really want us to come out -- and STAY -- strong. Maybe it helped that we had all the girls (plus an extra we picked up for the last three tournaments) there tonight. Who knows; maybe the universe of "team dynamics" has been set straight again. I don't know! But I like it. It was a good practice, and I hope it means it'll be a good tournament.