Pitches Be Crazy

You might remember a post I wrote this summer about us playing in the inaugural season of adult kickball in Clinton. Well, our team (plus or minus a few) signed up for the first-ever FALL league in Brandon this year, and it's proving to be a much different experience than the summer league.

First, we changed our name after the whole LSU Honey Badger drama with the drugs, which was fine, because none of us were LSU fans to begin with. We had originally named ourselves after the YouTube video... So this fall we're Pitches Be Crazy. Why, you might ask? We wanted to fit in better with all the other cleverly named Adult Kickball teams: Red Balls and Vodka, New Kicks on the Block, To Kick A Mockingbird, and Kickelob Ultra, just to name a few.

Second, the teams in this league seem to take things more seriously for the most part. I thought a fight was going to break out on the field during the first game. Yowsa.

Third, while playing in cooler weather as opposed to a hot 100 degrees is much nicer, it's really hard to have the energy to play a game at 8:40 p.m. when it's been dark for two hours already. REALLY hard.

Fourth, we're undefeated (except for last week's game against the Sheriff's Department when we lost after three sudden death innings and a best-of-three Paper/Rock/Scissors game). Seriously. Does that even count as a loss?

And finally, it's still fun! We'll probably be glad to take a break from kickball in a few weeks once this season is over, but it's been a fun few months, and it's been good exercise. And there's a lot of fun to be had with the name "Pitches Be Crazy"... definitely an added bonus.