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Top 10 Ways To Know You are Addicted To Fastpitch
by Dave
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
An e-mail exchange I had with a visitor to this site spurred my imagination to craft a list of the top ten ways to tell if you are seriously addicted to fastpitch softball. My list is from my own perspective. I'm sure you can add your own thoughts to this.
You know you are addicted to fastpitch when:
10) You scour the forums in order to find a quality 10U game, one in which you have no relatives playing, and then you actually go to the game, and get emotionally involved and when people ask you who your relative is, you lie.
9) You go to several teams' tryouts on back to back days because your daughter's team doesn't have any games scheduled, there are no tournaments within driving distance, and you just need a fix of softball since you haven't seen a game since last Sunday, today being the first weekend day she hasn't had a game in ten weeks.
8) You get excited towards the end of January and, while you are a huge baseball fan, you aren't really concerned about the date in February when pitchers and catchers report to spring training and are, rather, interested in the date of your local college fastpitch team's season opener.
7) You spend hours on ebay looking at fastpitch bats late at night and even bidding on a couple though you just bought one last week and your daughter doesn't need another since she already has two extremely expensive top quality bats which she loves in her bag.
6) You are such an over-protective parent that the thought of leaving your 11 and 13 year old kids home alone for more than 5 minutes made you physically ill until you realized that on Sunday mornings there was a fall double header league at local fields featuring some really good high school players.
5) You purchase Howard Kobata tapes to study fielding mechanics even though your only daughter graduated college ten years ago and is working towards furthering her career for another five years before she even considers having children even though you have offered to help raise them if she has daughters.
4) You still buy sunflower seeds by the gross even though you are the only one still in the house who chews them and your dentist has warned you that you are completely wrecking your teeth.
3) You really hope the high school game you are watching doesn't end via the run rule because you'd like to watch some more game even though you just happened to catch this one as you were driving by the fields and you are sitting on the ground in 45 degree weather in shorts and a "Pony Nationals" t-shirt without a jacket because all you were doing was running out to buy some milk.
2) You actually contemplate stopping off to try to catch a professional fastpitch game two hours from your home on the drive back from nationals 8 hours from your home, the game is being televised, and you have already set your TiVo to record it.
1) You wish your darling daughter would just want to play catch in the yard a little more often or at least try to smile when you take her to the batting cages or enjoy going to a park where you are willing to take an hour out of your busy schedule to hit her grounders or flyballs, and she is already an all-state high school player who just signed an early letter of intent at a Division One college which routinely makes the NCAA field of 64.
These are but a few of the most obvious signs you suffer from a fastpitch softball addiction. But as in all addiction, you don't really need these warning signs or a professional psychiatric opinion to tell you if you have a problem. If you have to ask, "am I addicted to softball?," you most likely are.
By the way, I do not believe there is any known cure for this condition other than watching additional softball games. Thank goodness the college pre-season tournament season begins soon.
 
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