I was asked to join my work's volleyball league. The level of play was extremely recreational but I decided to try it out so I could get to know some of my coworkers better. I had to adjust my expectations a bit because about any hit in this league is legal. Basically if you don't literally throw the ball over the net, you are good. Our team fairly easily won all of our matches, going 7-0 for the season and 19 of 21 games won.
This week was tourney time and unfortunately due to some strange park scheduling, it coincided with 2 of our players being out of town. Since our team likes to follow the rules, we were set to play with the remaining 4 names on our roster. For our first game, the other team claims our captain, who happened to be absent, said it was ok for them to play with people not on their roster. I really really do no believe this because our team exchanged several opinions on the topic for ourselves because we knew what situation we were in with only 4. Whatever, play with your 5, we'll still beat you and we did. The first game was easy, but the we lost the second so had to win the third. Phew.
Our second match was against the #2 team in the league. I thought they'd put up more of a fight but we won in 2 games to claim our Championship Title and prize...
I'm too damn competitive and would have been upset if we lost. We had the most talent out there. I did my usual analysis after the game which comes across like I am pissed even though we won. Need to work on that for next season.
Here's to being at the top twice in the same week! Way to go UPCHUCK!!!
