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From YouTube: Tuesday Night Lights: The Free Agents

Description

Chandler Adult Sports always serves up a good time. Get to know the Free Agent team, put together by the Chandler Adult Sports Coordinator for the Men's Softball League that plays Tuesday Nights. Play the field (or court) and connect with new friends each season through weekly practices, games, and socials. Seasonal Leagues (spring, fall, and winter) offer varying degrees of competitiveness and time commitment. Feel like playing softball this season? What about basketball, or volleyball?

All leagues play a seven-week season followed by a single-elimination tournament. There is an eight-team maximum per league.

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I've been looking to get into organized Sports ever since I moved here, I've lived in Chandler for about six.

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I grew up in Michigan, went to college down in Alabama and moved here recently. All through high school I did baseball and I did some baseball in college as well figured. This would be a good way to kind of meet some new people. It started in the men's league yeah.

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I moved to Arizona about a year ago from Toronto found out about this league by just going on Google searching up local softball leagues, I've played softball for the past 25 years, or so it's a lot of fun and it's a good opportunity to get out and burn some energy.

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I work in finance, I worked in San Francisco, my job relocated to Tempe. So that's why I moved out here. I've been playing softball for about 10 years on and off I didn't have a team coming into this season. I got contacted for this free agent team, so I jumped at that opportunity to join them.

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When I first moved here, I put my name on a list somewhere. I've lived here for about three years and I really just got a phone call out of nowhere and they asked me if I want to play. I had until the end of the day to make a decision, and so I mean just like that. I signed up and here.

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I am I moved here in 2005 from Craig Colorado, just a sport Fanatic in general love all sports getting back into softball. It's been a while, since I played in a league yeah I just like to be out here playing I.

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Am originally from Mexico I grew up in Mexicali Border city with the US in California, and then I moved to San Diego for the last 10 years and I just moved here to Chandra Arizona just six months ago, enjoying.

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It I went to school at NAU and then decided to move down here been down here for about a year been kind of looking for places to play softball because I like playing it. My brother decided to move out here from San Diego and we decided to join a team together. My.

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Brother and I saw people playing out here and we were like. Oh, we need to find a way to get out and play some softball out here. I played baseball, my whole life love every part of it. So we looked at online and we saw there's actually a free agent team who can maybe sign up for we put our names in Jensen, hit us up and he said: hey we'd like you to play, and he said we have about eight people we need 11.. Can you grab some more people for us?

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I was like yeah sure, and he goes. Would you like to manage the team and I was like? Why not so I managed a couple years for baseball, and you know I decided why not I'm not from around here, but my brother is so. He hit up someone from college Hutch.

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And Clayton texted me and bugged me for weeks, say: hey you want to play softball I said no, not really he's like come on. Dude like we need a tent I was like fine I feel bad, like guilt. Tripped me and I was like all right. Fine, if so I'm gonna text, my friends, Ben and.

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Andrew he just texted me one day when I was on vacation and asked me and I signed up and made it the next week, I played most sports I found most Action Sports to be my favorite for the last couple. 10 years, I've been racing dirt bikes, so that was really.

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My hobby I I played baseball growing up, but I was never any good at it. So now I'm out here trying to get a little better.

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They ended up needing more players and and I ended up getting another buddy.

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I'm, a hockey player I've never really was interested in baseball I'll tell a couple years ago, and my buddy told me about this team good catch baby, good catch.

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The expectations coming in was it was going to be a little rocky just because we didn't have the Rapport amongst each other. We didn't know each other kind of all got together. On the first time we introduced each other was on a text chain. You know four days before the season started so well.

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I've played on free agent teams before and usually the expectation is it's going to be a really long season. uh A lesson in humility.

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Usually, it's not very good team, but then you kind of figure out who's good to wear, and you know last week, I had a couple wins. Finally, so we're improving we're getting better.

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There's definitely a big Variety in both ages and skill levels of all. The teams got some groups that you can definitely tell they've been together longer, and you know they got some more years under their belt, and you also got a lot of fresh people and it's cool to see that they can all play in the same place.

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Nice play there, you go kid, got.

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Some great personalities a lot of funny guys the.

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Funniest on our team is probably Ray he's here wearing open-air cut off jean shorts tonight, it's pretty terrible.

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Andrew's pretty funny guy because he's just uh he's a goofball, the.

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Funny one I think unintentionally, marketable I, think a couple times in one game: he scored and as a team we didn't like jump up and give him a high five when he came in The Dugout, so every single time he does anything he goes. Let's go Marco yeah, Marco and like cheers himself on uh so that's pretty funny who's. The funniest.

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On the team, uh uh I say: Mike I think Mike is the finest guy he's a funny guy.

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As the manager you're making the lineups so Tuesday nights right before the games, I make a lineup sheet put out where everyone's gonna be playing per inning and then send it out. We thought it was gonna, be tough. We thought it was going to be kind of brutal.

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Our first game I think we lost like 20 to zero and I think getting to know everybody and then getting to know where everyone wants to play and getting to know where they should be playing all that stuff and getting everyone to play time to where they want to go. I think we figured it out and now we're like starting to hit a roll every.

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Week, we've been getting a little bit better and it's been a lot of fun going along the journey. We've.

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Kind of gelled, in terms of like chemistry, we were able to joke and you know, have fun.

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Out there I just went into it. Thinking, like you know, let's just play: some ball have some fun meet some people. You know my brother and I aren't from here so coming out and just meeting new people uh was huge. I think you.

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Know, diversity of this team and kind of the age of getting everybody together and I think we're we're good to you. You know we're having fun. You know no bad apples in the bunch, so I've.

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Been having a lot of fun, I've been looking to join a softball team for a while, now and I'm glad I made the decision to do it at.

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The end of the day, you're just playing for fun and you know we're not making money or nothing.

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My expectation of this team was uh just to come out here and not be out here for anything other than fun and the reality is these: these guys are talented, I'm, happy to be a part of it and we're progressing, we're doing better.

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Every week this team has exceeded my expectations and I think even better. Just the guys on the team are great. All.

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Of us kind of just pick each other up whenever a play doesn't go our way or even if someone does something good I think everybody does a pretty good job of you know going to that person and letting them know that hey you either got the next one, or that was a really good play. Hey.

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We're a free agent, team and I expect. You know if we stick together for a couple years, we're going to get better and better.

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