What is there to say?

You know, I've been working on about six different blogs over the last few weeks. None of them just seemed to work, though...plus, work--that thing I get paid to do 5 days a week--is kicking my butt. So, here I am, sitting in a Thai restaurant at 3:15pm on a Sunday, listening to piano renditions of Gershwin and Rodgers & Hammerstein. And I won't really complain about that, but usually I'm out on the softball field around this time.

So, I'm going back through my book and looking at all of the games from this Fall. Here's what I see:

• Those who stepped up, stepped up big.
• Consistency became more of a playing factor.
• Runs Allowed decreased.
• Runs Scored increased.
• Wins increased.

But that's all just kind of the stupid stuff. I mean, it's important. And we'll work film this Winter, if we can, to make sure that we get all the little things improved. But here's what I saw out of the book:

• Girls smiling.
• Girls trying.
• Girls trusting.
• Girls dissatisfied with anything less than 100% for 80min.
• Girls standing behind and sticking up for the other girls they trusted.

I don't know what's all that surprising about this, but sometimes this is rare. When you don't get that team that is all softball-no-matter-what it's tough to find a team where you can balance softball with everything else.

You know, we walk away from this Fall season with only 9 girls, but I'm convinced that the other 2 or 3 "pieces," as we like to call them, will fall into place before the Summer. I know it because I know I've got a good group of girls that are all determined to become a good ball club.

So, despite all the game reviews I could do for this blog -- breaking down the good and bad games...finding out what went right and wrong -- I'm not going to. I'm going to just keep it to myself for now. I'm going to see how the girls fare through the rest of the Fall and help them push it during the off-season and then come back to it all in the Spring.

And, like I said, I'm still working on about 6 blogs. So I don't expect this blog to code while I'm "off." In fact, if there's anything you'd like me to write about...you know how to get to me.