Despite spikes, digs, bumps and bloody knees, we are firmly and indisputably No. last.
No giant foam finger for us. We’d need nearly two entire foam hands to express our place in the Oakwood Adult Coed Volleyball League.
Scroll down the standing sheet and you’ll find the Netwits.
We’re the team doing it for the joy of hopping around.
Perhaps as a show of defiance, we grin, celebrate even near points and “walk it off” when whacked squarely in the skull by the torpedo-like ball.
It’s all about a good time.
On paper at least, we are the worst of the eight teams that battle each Friday at Smith School.
The Netwits, a collection of Cox Media Group Ohio media types and our associates, have been no match for Defying Gravity, Can You Dig It!, The Greatful Digs, Bump & Grind, SERVivors or Friends and Aberdeen.
Really, the current first-place team, the one that’s kicking everyone’s tail, has left us saying “Really! What’s with the bump and grind friends of Aberdeen?’
My team proves that despite what some well-meaning kids’ T-ball and soccer coaches say, not everyone is a winner when it comes to sports or competition.
There isn’t anything necessarily wrong with that. You can’t have a winner if someone doesn’t step up and lose already.
Really couldn’t be the ‘best’ if everyone else also was the ‘best.’ It’s like the movie Highlander taught me: “There can be only one.”
Otherwise, why bother keeping score? Why order trophies? Why invest in Gatorade stock?
Losing gets a bad wrap.
Being the 'loser' doesn't make you a 'loser.'
Being a sour sport – a jerk about not winning – makes you a loser.
The Netwits thus far lack in both sour and sport.
I wholeheartedly believe that everyone is good at something — be that making cookies or robbing bakeries.
If I am right, and I think I am, our expertise is cracking jokes and losing gracefully. It’s a talent, but we’re not looking to take home a statue or anything like that for it.
We may lose, but we hold our heads up high and try again each week.
That’s not as good a winning, but it’s something.
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