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Baseball politics
Nov. 21st, 2006 01:01 pmMy own baseball team is apparently going through some upheaval. I never discussed the drama being played out in the first season, with one of my teammates demonstrating her abilities as a Drama Queen. In our inaugural season, she clearly needed to show off her baseball skills, and even attempted to supplant our coach/manager/pitcher/team founder. It failed, and she steadily irritated me with her Drama Llama stunts. Sadly, she managed to alienate not only herself from me, but also another player, the Young Lesbian with the crush on her, from me. It was a sudden split, as these things often are with women. It was poorly timed, being right after my birthday, which was just a few weeks after her birthday, on which we all went to dinner at an extremely expensive restaurant. I have never seen a bill that high, and it was higher than it needed to be because DQ kept asking for additional food. It would have been one thing if we'd all had just the right amount of food, but she had to keep asking for more, which was not free -- and then she didn't finish the food.
I insisted on having my birthday dinner at an Indian restaurant, because I love Indian food; she took this as an insult to herself (because I apparently knew and deliberately ignored the fact that she was once poisoned by Indian spices and couldn't stomach the thought of Indian food..see, it's all about her, all the time) and stopped communicating with me. YL also stopped, except for one last email in which she attempted to get me to "talk with DQ" about our "problems". It was so blatantly directed by DQ that I was rather irritable in my response, which was basically "no thanks". The end.
I failed to pay any attention to her in our second season, for which I was rewarded by a singular lack of drama in my life. Yay.
So. Apparently the team decided to have a Girls Night Out on Friday. We already had a commitment, at the elementary school (International Night, on which families bring ethnic foods to share and then there is music). I am so glad I skipped this Girls Night, after seeing the emails in my inbox today.
They blindsided our pitcher/coach/founder with some crap about how she was abusive and such. Mainly she didn't pay much attention to our DQ, and that's abusive, yanno. So now DQ is taking her ball elsewhere (FINALLY!) and playing with some other team, to be determined. Not to be out-done, our Young Lesbian is going with her (the crush is obviously still going strong even though DQ is now a married woman), and going publicly, with additional slams against our leader. Others on the team have begun to chime in with complaints about "all the politics", which means that they had to listen to DQ complaining all season long.
Sheesh! WOMEN! Even worse, YOUNG women with overly large senses of ENTITLEMENT. (DQ signed her email as [name], PhD. She's irritated me with her insistence on being called "doctor" before, and it continues to irk me, as she really thinks she's a doctor. She's not. She holds a doctorate, and can be addressed as Dr. {Name}, but she is not a physician, veterinarian, or dentist -- these are doctors. Anyways.)
Honey was irritated by DQ's transparent games last year, to the point of psychoanalyzing her (and she hasn't been a counselor in YEARS), and when Honey gets irritated...that's Bad Stuff. I'm easily irritated, and she's not. Honey felt bad about losing touch with YL, but hey -- YL's an adult and can make her own damned mistakes.
The team will likely lose a few more people who think DQ has a point; many of them are just as young as she is and not wise enough to see her games for what they are. That's fine. No harm done if they go play on another team.
It's worth it just as long as DQ leaves for good. GOODBYE DQ! DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE A$$ ON THE WAY OUT!
Was that subtle enough?
I insisted on having my birthday dinner at an Indian restaurant, because I love Indian food; she took this as an insult to herself (because I apparently knew and deliberately ignored the fact that she was once poisoned by Indian spices and couldn't stomach the thought of Indian food..see, it's all about her, all the time) and stopped communicating with me. YL also stopped, except for one last email in which she attempted to get me to "talk with DQ" about our "problems". It was so blatantly directed by DQ that I was rather irritable in my response, which was basically "no thanks". The end.
I failed to pay any attention to her in our second season, for which I was rewarded by a singular lack of drama in my life. Yay.
So. Apparently the team decided to have a Girls Night Out on Friday. We already had a commitment, at the elementary school (International Night, on which families bring ethnic foods to share and then there is music). I am so glad I skipped this Girls Night, after seeing the emails in my inbox today.
They blindsided our pitcher/coach/founder with some crap about how she was abusive and such. Mainly she didn't pay much attention to our DQ, and that's abusive, yanno. So now DQ is taking her ball elsewhere (FINALLY!) and playing with some other team, to be determined. Not to be out-done, our Young Lesbian is going with her (the crush is obviously still going strong even though DQ is now a married woman), and going publicly, with additional slams against our leader. Others on the team have begun to chime in with complaints about "all the politics", which means that they had to listen to DQ complaining all season long.
Sheesh! WOMEN! Even worse, YOUNG women with overly large senses of ENTITLEMENT. (DQ signed her email as [name], PhD. She's irritated me with her insistence on being called "doctor" before, and it continues to irk me, as she really thinks she's a doctor. She's not. She holds a doctorate, and can be addressed as Dr. {Name}, but she is not a physician, veterinarian, or dentist -- these are doctors. Anyways.)
Honey was irritated by DQ's transparent games last year, to the point of psychoanalyzing her (and she hasn't been a counselor in YEARS), and when Honey gets irritated...that's Bad Stuff. I'm easily irritated, and she's not. Honey felt bad about losing touch with YL, but hey -- YL's an adult and can make her own damned mistakes.
The team will likely lose a few more people who think DQ has a point; many of them are just as young as she is and not wise enough to see her games for what they are. That's fine. No harm done if they go play on another team.
It's worth it just as long as DQ leaves for good. GOODBYE DQ! DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE A$$ ON THE WAY OUT!
Was that subtle enough?
