Fall Softcore Kickball at Col. Summers Park Sundays

First off let me state that there's nothing we love at Underdog more then to see an Indy Team come back the next season better then ever. It's especially nice to see the players improvement.

Which brings us to the player of the week, Tim Freeburn. Last season most the teams figured out pretty quickly that kicking anywhere near left field and Tim was just a bad idea. Diving catches, running catches, back up catches. The guy is a ball magnet and rarely drops anything. But there are always the critics. "Sure," they'd say, "but can he kick.?"

Well, Tim answered that question this week with a 3 run homer that brought his team back from a 2 run deficit and started a rally that led them to victory.

So now along with not kicking anywhere in the vicinity of left field, all the other teams gotta worry about where it is gonna go when he gets behind the plate.

Welcome back Tim, and congrats on being a great player and a great Underdog.

It's not very often, or actually never in my experience that a team chooses someone from the opposite side to be their player of the game, but that happened this week as Final Countdown chose Amanda "Just calm down I got this" Thomas to get the player of the week. So put your best "NFL Films" voice in your head and get ready for your player of the week.

The kickball gods were smiling on a perfect Sunday afternoon at Colonel Summer park, when Amanda Thomas pulled down what we will just call from now on "The Catch" (apologies to Dwight Clark).

The sun, setting in the west was right in the face of all the players when a member of Final Countdown crushed a ball toward left field. Running under it with the speed of a gazelle being chased by hungry hyenas, Amanda ran straight at it, and slipped...that's right slipped. Fortunately for Amanda " Just calm down I got this" Thomas, her timing was as perfect as her play was all day. Keeping her eye on the ball, and disregarding her safety like a midget in a mosh pit, she snagged it out of the air on the way down, crashing onto her back, ball in hand.

All in attendance stood stunned as she hopped up and threw it in like it was just another day on the field.

Great job Amanda. You are a great player and a great Underdog!