Softball

Yesterday afternoon I was introduced to the delights of softball. It turns out that I'm not very good at it. This is to be expected, as I was never very good at rounders, which I think is the nearest English equivalent. At primary school, I was the reserve for the school team. I got to play once, at second base. Then I ended up twisting my ankle trying to run fast enough to get a rounder. I had to go to hospital. It was horrible.

Of course, all these sports are really derivatives of cricket. But I guess cricket is just too slow paced for the Americans so they had to mess with it to make it easier for the American public to digest. And probably also so they could fit in more adverts, since that currently seems to be the main aim when determining the structure of American sports.