I'm a beer league softball player. Softball tournaments are really lame. It usually involves a lot of players that think they are better than what they truly are...along with these players are obnoxious significant others loudly cheering aimlessly at an ungodly pace. A quick fact ladies: there really isn't that much action in a softball game to be cheering at that rate. The most frustrating part though is the abundance of teams that play down a level so they can live out the glory of winning the tournament...and parlay that into a bigger tournament down the road.
The Annual Fireman's Softball Tournament however, is the absolute class of all softball tournaments in the state of Minnesota. If I had to compare it to anything for those that didn't comprehend the magnitude...I would compare it to March Madness fever. Everybody wants to be in it...however, it's such a unique event that even if you're not in it...people still want a piece of it. People will still show up as spectators just to be there and take in the surroundings around them.
This is the one weekend where I don't mind pitchers wearing hockey helmets. This is the one weekend I don't mind the softball players strutting around like their shit doesn't stink. And this is the one weekend that I can tolerate the players' significant others yelling on every play...
This tournament is just unique in so many ways. How else can you explain a whole generation of people growing up loving the home run element that adds to the game of baseball/softball...willing and wanting to play on open fields with no fences during this tournament...and they still love every minute of it.
Plus, it doesn't hurt that beer is the steady diet during the events of the weekend.
SBG
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