I've decide its time to call it quits as far as playing the game I so love. Fact is I'm wanting to really spend more time with family now and have lots of things planned with my daughters. Money is a little factor and time is the other. I just can't see spending the money and worrying about the time for games as it stands right now.
Most of the games are played on Sunday and I have a number of events planed and I don't want to think, no I can't do that or I need to be back for a game. So tonight was going to be the last game I would play for sometime. The game was scheduled for 11:00 pm and I just got a call from the team manager stating the team we would play was tied for last place and they have decided to forfeit the last game. We now finish the season in 2nd place, no chance of getting first no matter what.
I'm glad that I don't have to run out at 11:00 pm for a game and get home after midnight now, but I'm bummed that I don't get to put the uniform on for one last game. My co-worker/friend and teammate has also decided to leave the team and play for a league closer to home and I was looking forward to one last game with him. It's not exactly the way I planned to leave the game and last week was a bye week because of the holidays.
Oh well, it was a lot of fun and I'll have to think long and hard about returning. If I do come back to the game, I think I'll need to find a league that only plays on Wednesday nights or something like that. I just think at my stage of life and even though its only about 2 hours out of my Sunday, that's a lot of time I want to spend with my family instead of playing the game.
