Badasses Indeed!

More often than not you can sit down, look at a match-up on paper and be fairly confident on which team you feel is going to win any given game. Wins, loses, ties, runs scored, run allowed, all these tell a team's tale. These are tangibles on which you can measure a team. However sometimes the "stats" can be miss leading. You must never, ever forget to consider the intangibles. There are elements which drive teams that cannot be seen, touched and/or measured. My personal favorite, which I admit is very cliche, is heart.

When you glance over the Billy Badasses stat sheet it doesn't necessarily paint the picture of a powerhouse team. You see that they finished with a 3-3 record, so you may think, "Ok, their average". Then you look on further to see that they've only scored a total of 9 runs all season long. You then compound that with the fact that they've allowed 18 runs to score, double the runs they have put up on offense and you get a picture of this middle of the road team or at least that's what the stat sheet would leave you to believe. So when the Badasses were slated to play the mighty Shockers, most players thought, "There's no way they beat the Shockers". Now the problem with that line of logic was someone forgot to tell the Badasses they were suppose to lose to the mighty team Shockers. But guess what,that didn't happen. The Billy Badasses went out and shocked the Sun City Kickball world.

The worst part for me was I wasn't there to witness this marvelous upset. I can just imagine the sad, astonished faces of the Shockers. I'm sure it would have been comparable to the day they found out that Santa Clause wasn't real. I can see them standing there with those child-like, teary eyes thinking, "How did we lose? How?!" I wish I could share with all of you my first hand account of the biggest upset of the season, far bigger than the Pirates! taking down I'D Hit It down at the Jimmy O sandlot. You just know the Shockers thought this would be a tune-up game for them. Which they were in desperate need of after the Drunken Monkeyz kicked them off the top of the kickball mountain a couple of weeks ago. Instead the Billy Badasses caught the Shockers rolling down down the mountain, picked them up and slammed them down once again.

It all comes down to this folks, heart! I know its cliche, I will be the first to admit it, but its true. The Billy Badasses just wanted it more than the Shockers. Plain and simple, there is no other way around it. Your talent will only get you so far. They can give you the ability to win, but your pride, your passion, and your determination is what will ultimately seal your fate.

Congratulations to the Billy Badasses!