Royals Win Again

It was a gorgeous night for ball out last night... not to mention a gorgeous night to romp the Boomers 13-2. We had lost to them earlier in the season, 3-0 on May 24th, so it was really nice to go out and get this win last night. It was great. Aaron pitched a no-hitter going into the 5th inning, before getting hit for a two run towering homer from one of their big fellas. The defense was pretty good... a lot of grounders to the infield, not really a busy night for the outfielders. And the bats! The bats were smokin' in the first few innings. I think we had back to back 5-run innings to start the game and it really got everyone going.

My line for last night was 1 for 3, bunt single (reached 3rd on error), struck out, sacrifice bunt, RBI & run scored. Unfortunately, I had two throwing errors in the field, none of which were costly. I almost retired the side myself at second in the 6th inning, but the 3rd batter was awfully quick, made me hurry my throw and then I had lost it. But it didn't come back to haunt us at all.

Everyone was really pumped up for the game and it didn't hurt that everyone got in on the action at bat. Hopefully, it'll carry over into tomorrow's game against Rusty's... whom we lost to last week, 8-0.

After the game, Munden and I ran and grabbed a 15-pack of Kokanee after the game to sit around and shoot the shit for a while. Coach Tom, Ryan, Alan, Aaron, Munden & myself hung out for a bit... and slowly the guys slipped away as it was starting to chill out quite a bit. Alan, Munden & myself were the last men standing there in the parking lot, having a good time. We all managed to put away that 15-pack collectively, which was a nice compliment to the three I had while watching the first two periods of the hockey game before heading to ball. On the way out, Munden wanted so bad to give me a "smoke show" with his Mustang... and I managed to grab a neat little night shot of him doing it...



It looked really cool there, but I wasn't really able to get the shot that I wanted as I didn't pick up my camera until too late. It actually looked pretty good on the camera when I took it... it doesn't look quite so dramatic on the big screen. Ha ha.

At home, I found that the house was awfully dark and I sorta wasn't thinking right when I got into the bed. Beer definitely to blame for this one... it's something I still feel ill about right now as I type this out. As I was lying in bed last night, my patience with everything Barb dissipated into nothing. My head couldn't see the right from the wrong and decided to write a well thought out text message poem trying to sort out what's going on and such. Yeah... it makes me shutter and a little queezy just thinking about it. After I wrote it, sent it and hopefully saved it... I turned my phone off to avoid any backlash (or possibly good news, but I doubt it) that is gonna occur due to this lack of good judgement. I have yet to turn my phone back on... I am just too friggin' scared of the result. I'm not overly proud of myself, but at the same token now that it's out there I don't have to worry about asking again. I've really just traded one concern for another.

I know I'll have to turn on my phone sooner or later. But I don't wanna. I would like to just run like the wind and not stop, regardless of the outcome. It's very self-destructive, this behaviour... and it really does make me wonder.



This morning, the Magpie was out to chase me a bit again. It continued to give me shit for walking around in the backyard. Apparently over the last couple days, Chris and Jen had both seen the baby and the protective parents kept on giving them shit... which scares the sense right out of Jen. She won't even go out into the backyard without a bodyguard now... poor thing.

Last night during the hockey game, Jen was trying to be her controlling self to both Chris and I, which was cleverly defended by myself. She does like to be the centre of attention and in control of her own little world. It's actually quite fascinating. I'm actually quite curious to know if she's actually lived with anyone that has said no to her more than I have. She wanted me to try a new drink from Starbucks while I was sipping on a beer... 'no.' 'C'mon... why won't you try it?' 'Because I don't want to.' 'Try it...' 'No thank you.' 'TRY IT!' 'No.' 'Chris, you try it...'

I even had to use the line, 'stop imposing your will upon me.' Granted, I think it just flew over her head... as the hippie that she is, she's not very good at peace and love.