Anyone who knows me in person knows that I play darts. I’m proud to say that we won our division last year. This was a rea real accomplishment for me, it’s the first time I’ve won as Captain. The one flaw in this victory was pointed out by my friend Pete. At the final Captain’s meeting he congratulated me but then asked why I didn’t play a single leg in the finals. Well, the answer is that I spent the last three weeks of the regular season and all of the playoffs concetrating on winning. My team has made it to the playoffs with a good seed every season. We’ve made it to the finals three times. In each of those failed trips to the playoffs and finals I got out Captained. The other teams were usually better than us but not so much so that we would fail so easily. This was especially true last fall. The other team was good, (a special shout out to Gee) but even if we lost we should have had more points at the end of the night.
Concentrating so much on not getting out played at Captain cost me my focus on my game. I knew it during the finals. It really hit home at the last regional qualifier that I played. I think that I need to be where I was two or three years ago. For some reason I’ve gotten it into my head that I don’t need to practice at darts to be good in league. My friend Garry says that if I praticed I’d be deadly. Let’s see if he’s right….