Intro to the blog

Ok first things first, let me explain the title of this blog:
If you're familiar with basketball, you know that a basketball team fields twelve players, and you know what it means to be the twelfth man. For those of you who don't keep up with the sport, it means that out of the whole bunch, the twelfth man is the last player who will ever go in to a game. He rarely sees playing time. Simply put, he is the worst player on the team. On Walter Payton College Prep's Varsity Basketball team, that role is occupied by me, Sam Kelly. I'm 5 feet 10 inches, 135 pounds, slow, and I can't jump high. I'm not exactly what you would call a "force to be reckoned with" on the basketball court. Not to say I'm bad at basketball. I'm pretty good compared to the average joe. I have long arms and a decent jump shot. But in a city with players like Jabari Parker and Jahlil Okafor, "pretty good" doesn't cut it. To be honest, I'm surprised I made the team.
Moving on the "the capitan". I'd like to clear up one thing about that. I am not currently a captain for Payton's 16" Softball team. There is no guarantee that I will be next year. I put it in the title because it rhymes (sort of) and I think it's clever. I've been the starting pitcher on the team for two years and this year, we won the city championship for the first time in almost a decade. And while being a pitcher for a softball team isn't the same as being a pitcher for a baseball team, it certainly makes me more valuable to the softball team than I am to the basketball team.  If I don't end up being named captain, I'm gonna have to think up a new title. Until then though, I'm keeping it the way it is; partly out of laziness and partly out of a desperate hope I'll be named captain next year.
So if you haven't figured it out already, I'm a mediocre high school athlete writing about his experiences  playing on varsity teams in a city that gave the world Derrick Rose and Anthony Davis. These posts could range from my personal opinions about team sports to simply relaying things that are happening on the teams. I promise I won't just give a play-by-play recap of games though, because that's no fun. To be honest, I don't know how this is going to go. I don't know what I'm going to write about during the off-season. I'm guessing it'll be anything that interests me, or that I think might interest the small number of readers I hope to win over. This could turn out to be great, or it could be a disaster. I'm hoping for the former.
Hoping this all goes well,
Sam