u/BigCipp

Last week I made a post about buying a fielding mask after 3 close called in 2 games. Last night was my first game using it, and had a poetic experience.

Kid on the other team who I know chirped me about the mask, I told him I had a few close calls and decided it was time, his response was more or less "why, are you scared?". Just said not scared as much as I can't afford to lose teeth and break my nose (I'm a server at a fine dining restaurant, can't go in to work like that lol).

Well, later on in the game this kid is playing SS, and goes to field a grounder that proceeds to skip up away from his glove and smack him in the teeth. Once I knew he was fine I asked him if he still wanted to tease me about the mask.

Just thought you guys would like to hear that

Play mostly 3rd base, but also pitch in my 3-pitch leagues (pitch to your own team). While sure I've had the occasional bad hop or comebacker, they've never been "scary" but that weirdly changed this week.

Monday while playing 3rd, had a rocket grounder skip up from a roll to my face, just barely got out of the way of it. Kind of jokingly just said "think I should probably get a mask", thinking maybe I'd get one in a week or two.

Then yesterday (Tuesday) while pitching I had 2 batters on back-to-back pitches line it straight at me. The first one wasn't too fast but the second one I literally had to collapse and fall to the ground to get out of the way.

I went out this afternoon and bought a fielding mask, this shit ain't worth it 😅. The world was clearly trying to tell me something.

Been golfing off and on since COVID. Coming from a softball background I always have trouble staying down in my swing, but finally I started tying everything together. Maxed one hole, but was able to mix in three pars into my usual bogey/double bogey. By the end of 18 I was at 99!

Super excited about this, thought I'd share 😊