Please read my last week's blog Pregame Anxiety as prelude to this.
In a few words, I wrote I was worried about my softball Playoff performance and that of our Gotham Batmen team. Well, we passed every test and won every playoff game on the road to the Batmen's first League Championship and I got to scream, at the end of each game, at the top of my lungs "It's great to be young and a Batman"!
I pitch for the Batmen and the thing about competition is that it is horrible in pregame anxiety and anticipation, but wonderful when all is played out and you have won. The release is so great that I feel lifted off the ground into a semi euphoric state.
Clearly, fun is more fun when you win.
A wonderful subtext to this story is that my 47 year old son David is on the team. I managed him in Little League when he was 8 years old and we lost the Championship Game. Believe it or not, that loss has haunted me all these years. Well, this time we won and I got to embrace him and whisper "Finally, our first Championship together."
It doesn't get much better than that!
Posted By : hydrajet