Winning, losing and life lessons

"There are three things you can do in a baseball game, you can win, you can lose, or it can rain." Casey Stengel

Character building. Yeah right. Tell me about it. I can make all the rah-rah speeches, I can talk about how well we played, and how we will be a better team because we lost today, but at the end of the day I can't hide how bad I feel for the team. I hate losing, I know most people do. I can tell you that it hurts  to have a 1 in the loss column, and I can tell you that losing sucks!!! I'm sure you will agree with me.

Ok, now that I have moaned and groaned, whined and pouted, it's time to get over it.  In fact I like rah-rah speeches, and I like to see us facing a bit of adversity. It will test our mettle, our heart, our dedication. Losing does suck, but it does something more important, it bursts our bubble. We have walked a tightrope the past few weeks, and if anyone was under the illusion that we were invincible, we should have found the cure for that problem.

We've worked hard this year, really hard. Our development has come hand in hand with each hard fought win. We've taken nothing for granted. We've been tested, we'd bent but hadn't been broken. It was going to take a good challenger to knock us off our pedestal and today we got that test, today we took that shot. Now comes the most important part of all, how we deal with this adversity, how we finish this wonderful season.

I'm not going to get into details. We did well, and we will do well again. We will get it right. Our future, is now.

Practice Thursday at 6:00 p.m.