Being a softball player can be fun, exhausting, horrible, or anything in between. But no matter what level of experience you have with the game, anyone who has been around it can relate to these simple quirks every softball player is bound to encounter.
1. Waking up for games/practice before the sunrise.
2. Finding dirt EVERYWHERE.
3. Finding bruises you have no idea you got.
4. Taking IBUprofen like it's candy.
5. Having millions of empty/half full water bottle in your bag/room.
6. That love-hate relationship with ice.
7. Having six drawers of tournament shirts, but only ever wearing the same three.
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8. When your friends stop inviting you things because you always have softball.
8. When your friends stop inviting you things because you always have softball.
9. Tan lines for days...
10. Raccoon-Eyed Sunburn.
11. Those teams that are obnoxious AF.
11. Those teams that are obnoxious AF.
12. Having socks that ALL inevitably have holes.
13. Treating your bat and glove like they have feelings (naming them too).
14. Doing every school assignment you possibly can on softball.
15. Wondering why you can always remember the pitch signs but never anything on a test.
16. Coaches that question every single call.
17. Umpires that wear glasses but still can't seem to make the right call..
18. Warming up four times because of the rain, and eventually getting canceled after waitng at the fields all day.
19. Having a list of 15 potential walk up songs on hand at all times just in case.
