Tennis Woes
An email sent to the captain of my tennis team:

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From: "mara-xxxx@comcast.net" <mara-xxxx@comcast.net>
To: xxxxkathrin@yahoo.com
Cc: mara-xxxx@comcast.net
Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:36:41 PM
Subject: Christie Cooley is not registered for your team!

Hi Kathrin,

I went to enter the scores for tonight's match, and Christie Cooley is not registered for your team.
I was absolutely shocked.  The rules are clear about this, and I had to enter a default.

Did you know this?  I'm so sorry, because Christie played a great match and deserved to win.

I don't know what else to say other than I'm very sorry because she played a great match.

Regards,
Mara

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From: Kathrin <xxxxkathrin@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:57 AM
Subject: Match last night - Wrong subject line earlier... -
To: Nice Girls

Dear Nice Girls,

This message today was supposed to have a very different tone than it is now… We actually won the match last night 3-2. However, because your stupid captain didn't check whether all our players were actually on the roster, we lost one match since Christie wasn't on the roster yet. I feel so stupid!!! It's absolutely my fault. It my responsibility to check everyone – and this is even more disappointing since I made another error last night – I thought the matches are 3@ 6pm and 2 @7:15pm but it was only 2 at 6pm – thus, I had 2 hours before I had to go on a court and could have gone home 3x to register Christie. I wish I would have looked up my roster names or filled out the card online – it wouldn't have happened. Angelique tried to register Christie last night but it was too late.

Mara feels very bad about this – but those are the rules and she can't put a player in that spot. I mean I could talk her into it, but she is totally in line.

Now, Christie doesn't even have this awesome win as a W for her record – 10-7 in the ST and it was the clinching match.

 

I am SO SORRY and am ready to scream and cry!!!

 

We had a lot of fighting on the courts last night. Lot's of close matches. </span>

 

Kathrin

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We left last night thinking we had won the overall team match 3-2.  I wake up this morning to learn that we lost 2-3.  My match went three sets and I used my B game to battle my ass off and win.  Fuck.