What My First Post Should Have Said...

I suppose that some background information on what I'm doing this summer wouldn't have been a bad choice to start off this endeavor, so here goes:

I am playing for the White Sands Pupfish of the Pecos League, a 6 team league with 4 teams in New Mexico (Santa Fe Fuego, Roswell Invaders, Las Cruces Vaqueros, Pupfish) 1 in Texas (Alpine Cowboys) and 1 in Colorado (Trinidad Triggers).  Now I know you bilingual folks are saying, but isn't Vaquero just Cowboy in Spanish?? and the answer is yes, but I'm not here to criticize the creativity of our league...not in the introduction at least.

White Sands is most famously only known for being the place where they tested the atomic bomb prior to dropping them during World War II.  We play in Alamogordo, New Mexico, which you have rightfully never heard of because boy is there nothing here.  The apparent hangouts are as follows: Chili's, Applebee's, Sonic (the good one).  Sonic (the bad one) is closer to my host family's house, but nobody goes there.  At first I was just excited that the Sonic commercials had a payoff (they do exist!), and now I'm stuck in the middle of a turf war.  New Mexico is also dealing with some crazy ass fires, as near as the next town over (which by the way is like an hour from here, New Mexico is ridiculously uninhabited), so we'll see how that plays out.

I saved this for the end, because I know anyone who is reading this has been asking themselves one question only.  What in the wide, wide world of sports is a pupfish?  Well, rest easy I'm not going to leave you hanging.  A pupfish is an endangered, terrifying, man-eating 4 inch long fish that dwells in the shallow pools of the white sands and can survive out of water by burrowing into the sand until the next time it rains.

Real cool undetermined namer of the team, way to make us badass.