Friday, 17 March 2017

Division 4



Here in our new place in Florida, you have to be evaluated before you can play in a softball league.  There are 5 divisions with division 1 being former professional baseball players and division 5 being players with physical disabilities.  When I finished the evaluation just before Christmas all of the teams had already been picked for the Winter season.  I was disappointed that I wasn't on a team but I found out that I could sub for teams that needed players.  After the evaluations, I received a sheet of paper that indicated that I was placed in division 4 and I was telling all my friends that I was just above those with disabilities.  I went out for the first game and put my name down to sub.  The organizers didn't have the sheet of eligible subs.  I got 4 hits in 4 at bats and helped my team win the game.  The other team was mad at the captain of our team because the two subs that he picked got 8 hits.  I was a little confused about which division I was in because the sheets that I submitted to join the league had R3 in the top right hand corner and I thought that might mean I was applying for division 3 even though the cover sheet specifically said I was in division 4.  So I emailed the president of the division 3 and asked him if I was on the sub list.  The next day he replied that yes I was on the sub list for division 3.  Then later that night I got a phone call from the president of division 4 and he told me I wasn't on the sub list for division 4 and that he had called the president of division 3 and confirmed that I was on the sub list for division 3.  I thanked him but I didn't ask if the team that I played for in division 4 was penalized because they had a division 3 sub on the team that day.  Now I am no longer just above the disabled league.  I am in the mediocre league.  Right in the middle of the divisions.

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