19 Dec 2009 - Fucking Rain

The weather outside is frightful.
Last week was so delightful.
This assfucking rain screwed the show
screwed the show, screwed the show, screwed the show.

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Its these cards, and the movies and the pop songs, they're to blame
for all the lies, and the heartache...everything.

12 December 2009 - Score from Home

Ones - Horfun and Voodoo Child
Twos - Jor-el and Sin, (first inning Uboat and Jor-el)
Threes - H and Marcus, (first inning Sin and H)
All-time - DT and Uboat (2nd/3rd inning)

Ones 8 : Twos 15 : Threes 5

Homeruns - Sin 6, VoodooChild 4, H 2, Uboat 2 (first inning), Marcus 1.

Twas two weeks before Christmas and no one's around
an empty diamond, no game to be found
Where were the players that once graced our game
'Gone for the hols', most said the same
But where were the rest, we knew we had more
pinkeye and baseball, excuses galore

The faithful had gathered on this bright sunny day
Only 7 people, were ready to play
But play-on we did, we held ourselves proud
not like the missing baseball crowd
'How do we do this?', our questions abound
'Score from Home', was the game-changing sound

We counted off numbers, three teams of two
How do we score? None had a clue
The strategy was simple, no mucking about
if you don't score, you're automatically out
Homeruns aplenty, our best hitter was Sin
6 big hits, amazingly all fell in

Boat almost suffered an asthmatic attack
when he rounded the bases, twice going back to back
"If you die you lose" was the impartial call
As everyone seemed almost ready to fall
Ian made it home 4 times from first
I swear I heard his feet mumble a curse

Even Horfun got in on the run-scoring action
I hear next day, her back needed traction
H hit 2 homeruns, her legs were soon tired
Marcus hit 1 before his batteries expired
Voodoo hit 4, we thought he'd hit more
but the outfield played deep, to hold off the score.

We finally ended, 3 long innings we played
these few, these proud, these brave who stayed
28 runs, 3 innings this week
Saturday softball is not for the meek
So as 2009 sees her twilight
we wish you all Merry Christmas and good night

5 December 2009 - Too wet to play, hit the lanes instead

The storm started earlier than last week, and we could not achieve
critical mass to start the game before we lost visibility of the
towers (the true test of rain intensity). So the game was called,
texts were sent out, a message left with Joe (for stragglers with no
phones) and we headed over to our alternate haunt for some saturday
bowling instead.

Bowling lineup was shirts vs noshirts. In this case, LOD baseball
shirts - Rickey, Mick and Boat vs DT, Superdad, H and horfun. Noshirts
won all 3 games, by total and by average. There was hardly any contest
even with some stellar frames from the shirts. The no-shirts
dominated. Even when horfun (who had carried the team in game 2) bowed
out, no-shirts still took game 3 with a resounding victory.

Next week might be the last official game of 2009, we will still show
up to get in some batting practice and fielding work, but it looks
like too many folks flying off from the 13th till 2010. That said,
let's make the coming weekend's game one to remember.

See ya'll in the diamond.

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LOD Golf - 20 December 2008

We don't just play softball and bowl. Some folks golf, play video games and even play music. The Saturdaysoftball crew is a multi-talented bunch (There are some who are even REAL doctors.)

The LOD crew hit the links.

Check out Rugburn's sweet swing. Not just for hitting Homeruns.

So who's ball was closest to the hole?

H... Enigma. Hits a softball left, hits a golfball right. (insert swings both ways joke here... and then prepare to DIE...)

Mick, doing a Tiger woods impersonation. Now will he cheat on his wife?

Superdad, showing he has control as well as power.

I call that the caddyshack view.

Misc Bowling Picts

For the Record...

Redneck Bowling

Lords of Death Fantasy Baseball 09

28 November 2009 - Wet and Wet and Wet and Wild

St ONEs: 1st Jupton, 2nd Jor-El, 3rd DT, SS Ripken, OF Bumblebee, Mike, John, Superdad
TWOs: 1st H, 2nd Horfun, 3rd Rickey, SS Mick, OF Boat, Rugburn, Chano, Matt

ONEs 6: TWOs 9

I honestly don't remember the last time we played in the rain. And when I say rain, I don't mean the dinky showers that occasionally choose to ruin Saturday. I mean full-downpour, can't see the clock tower, lightning and thunder, warning-bell, category 1 storm. IT WAS AWESOME. The rain was so heavy, the ball barely left the infield. The rain was so heavy, several folks chose not to wear shoes. The rain was so heavy if you dug in to the batters box, you couldn't dig yourself out. The rain was so heavy, there were more nipples slipping than people sliding. IT WAS AWESOME.

The best part of playing in the torrential downpour that passes for rain (and yes, it was a freak rain that only happens once every 50 years... or so say the overpaid multimillion $$$ so-called minister/dictator) was that everyone played and everyone stayed. No one pussied out, no one 'called the game off' for bad weather. No one ran to the shelter. No one went to Joes till the game was done and the last out was recorded. There was a tarp, but no one hid beneath it. It was only used to cover our bags to keep our other stuff dry. Meanwhile, the balls were out on the field (And I say that with all meanings of the word).

9 innings we played, 6 innings in the storm, 9 innings in the mud, and the lightning warning only stopped blaring to signal that we had started the top of the 9th. 9 innings we sloshed, slid, dived, hit, threw and caught just like we were playing game 7 of the world series in Yankee Stadium. It was like we had achieved a zen-like state. It was raining, but there was no rain, there was no mud, there was only Saturday Softball.

14 November 2009 - Mudbath

ONES: 1st Johnny Upton, 2nd Jor-El, 3rd Rugburn, LF Uboat, CF Rube, RF Chano
TWOS: 1st Horfun, 2nd Rickey, 3rd Ripken, LF Mick, CF Superdad, RF Bumblebee
alltime SS: DT

ONEs 15 : TWOs 28 (5 innings)

Too much rain over the week meant the field was half-mud, half-water. Usual field was closed so we used the soccer field instead. NUS finally did something smart and properly closed the upper field. They actually put REAL banners that could not be removed so no soccer idiots would use the field and ruin it. In the long run, this would be much better than the annual shitlaying that NUS used to do every November/December.

On paper, the teams looked pretty even, but paper doesn't play softball. The TWOs bat's were on fire and the combination of soggy ground and the live ball did not help the ONEs. The Mick had 8 at-bats, and hit 7 homeruns, scoring more than a dozen RBIs. The ball just leapt off the bat and got stuck in the mud. It was a demon to play and predict the flight and bounce. The TWOs had some great opportunities at bat too, but they failed to capitalise on their power.

It was a massacre with the ONEs leading throughout the game going into the bottom of each inning leading by a mercy score, and the TWOs trying to claw their way back from conceding the game.

Hardly any defensive gems as the ball pretty much slopped into the mud and died. Those that carried went into the gaps. A couple of textbook relays to hold runners (we're actually getting good on these) but nothing noteworthy.

The longest hit of the day belonged to Rugburn. We had set up with LF in the short corner. Any ball landing on the track was an automatic homerun. The Mick had 2 legitimate HRs that way, and Superdad had 1. Rugburn's hit was not a HR though, as it landed foul, but it landed PAST the track, on the grass patch on the other side. By far the longest hit on that particular corner.

31 Oct 2009

Post-ball’s Saturday activity was Indiana’s birthday party at Soulout, Geok’s brother’s restaurant near Pasir Ris, along Farmway 1. Most of you would think... 'where the hell is that?', to that I’d say 'only 10mins from my home'. It was a fantastic night. Delicious (and wonderfully authentic) Peranakan food, wine, beer and, yes... song.
The karaoke machine saw heavy use from all parties present, including a classic david and goliath face-off between professional singers and the Daly brothers. Who won? The verdict is still out.

Only the Daly’s and the Rugburn’s are missing.

Everyone’s here. Bring on the food!

Cheers!!!

My favourite dish of the night, Ayam Buah Kulak (English translation, Chicken cooked with toxic nuts)

Dinner over, Ripken lays down the first track. A Chinese song no less.

No kidding, he was reading the chinese characters from the screen. We’ve given him grief all through the Philippine trip, but the dude can sing.

Next up, Allan shows what is is what is.

The Daly boys take up the challenge.

The expression on Boat’s face pretty much summed up the night.

Challenge accepted. Allan and Ripken combine forces to take on the Daly’s.

How old is Indiana one might ask. Well, 2 cakes were needed to put all the candles.

The Birthday (err) Boy.

He’ll huff and he’ll puff, and he’ll huff and he’ll puff, and he’ll huff and he’ll puff....

It's 09 and I haven't updated

Gosh. update fail.

Not Dead

This Blog is not dead.
We will be back in 09.
That's a promise.

Red Cowboy at his Ranch

Missing

24 May 2008. Short numbers. Batting practice and fielding drills. Led by The Great Santini.

31 May 2008. Rained out. Attendance - Great Santini, Jor-El, Bumblebee

Where did everyone else go?


7 June 2008. Rained out again. Attendance - Great Santini, Jor-El, DT, Mick, Uboat, H, Rugburn, Wild Thang. Santini and Wild Thang did laps and played catch. The Lords of Death rolled.

Lack of Updates

Yup. It's that crazy time of year again, when I'm busy at work (right...) and can't really be bothered.
Apologies all round to those loyal folks who check this site often.
We will get back on track. I promise.

Meanwhile, check out...

Hanoi
and
Siem Reap

Lords of Death Celebrate Communist Holiday

He can dress as badly as he wants cos SuperMom is not in town.

Notice his outfit matches the house shoes.

This is my ball. There are many like it but this one is mine. My ball is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my ball is useless. Without my ball I am useless.

One more Strike to make it a sweep.

Rhythm Nation. Janet's backup dancers.

Rickey on the verge of a shutout-nohitter. No one's gonna talk to him.

3 pins baby....

Rickey hits 297 out of a possible 300 pins. He's retiring from bowling now.

Astons - Cheap and Good

We've been going to Astons for dinner after ball the last couple of weeks.
Fancy food, at a hawker price, in air-conditioned, hot-chicks-in-shorts hostelite food court. Pictures speak a thousand words. Total cost for those 2 plates... Less than $25. And don't get me started on the Double Meat... Double Chicken, prepared 2 ways (your choice) for $10

12 April 2008 - Wet and Wild

I know I owe 3 weeks of posts. It's on my notepad, been too busy.
Promise I'll upload it soon.
Meanwhile.

Baseball Without Steriods

Our Man Phil

Phil Dumatrait(pronounced "doo-MAH-tray")

Dumatrait was drafted in the first round by the Boston Red Sox in the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft.

On July 30, 2003, Boston traded Dumatrait, Tyler Pelland, and cash to the Cincinnati Reds for Scott Williamson.

Dumatrait made his Major League debut in 2007 with the Cincinnati Reds. On September 9, 2007, Dumatrait made his shortest Major League appearance, giving up four runs on five hits to the Milwaukee Brewers in the first inning (including three consecutive home runs by Rickie Weeks, J. J. Hardy, and Ryan Braun to start the game). Dumatrait surrendered the mound to pitcher Tom Shearn without recording an out.

On October 26, 2007 he was claimed off waivers by the Pirates. (All information from wikipedia

Our Man Phil. Partying with Aaron Harang

Found on this website

In Step With: Pirates P Phil Dumatrait
Each day during spring training, Bradenton Herald staff writers will catch up with a Pirates or Rays player for a quick glimpse of things you might not know, and some things you won't find on the back of a baseball card.
Name: Phil Dumatrait
Position: Pitcher
Years with team: None
MLB Experience: 50 days
Stats last season: 0-4 with a 15.00 ERA in six games with the Cincinnati Reds
Height: 6-foot-2
Weight: 195
Date of birth: July 12, 1981
Born: Jul 12, 1981, in Bakersfield, California
Childhood heroes: Ken Griffey Jr., who Dumatrait got to play with last season. "He was a really nice guy," he said.
Hobbies/Interests: Hunting and fishing
Nickname: None.
Favorite movie: Old School
What's on your iPod: Everything from country to R & B to rock.
Favorite TV show: The First 48, a realty show on the A & E Network.
Favorite pregame meal: None.
First baseball memory: Watching baseball games with his father, which began Dumatrait's love affair with baseball. "I've been playing since I was 5," he said.
Baseball superstitions: None.
First job: Baseball. "I didn't have a job in high school," said Dumatrait, who signed with the Boston Red Sox in July 2000 after they drafted him in the first round of that year's draft. "My dad told me if I made baseball my job (growing up), he'd take care of me."
Most painful memory: Dumatrait underwent Tommy John surgery in April 2004. "It wasn't going through it, because that was gradual," he said. "Not being able to play for a year (was the worst part)."
Funniest teammate: Nyjer Morgan.
First car: A 1991 Chevy Silverado.
Baseball player you'd like to meet: Having already met Griffey Jr., his childhood hero, Dumatrait said he would take any of the current Hall of Famers.
Favorite athletes to watch: A Los Angeles Lakers fan, Dumatrait loves watching Kobe Bryant. "And Tiger Woods," Dumatrait said, "especially this year."

15 March 2008 - Pictures

Click the Above picture for the FULL-SIZE.

15 March - Night Riders

ONES: P: The Cheetah; C: Burma Girl; 1B: Indiana; 2B: Jor El/Iron Man; 3B: The Mick; SS: Big Dick; OF: Rube, Cool Papa, Yellow Shoes, Red Cowboy, The Red Cowgirl
TWOS: P: Yong Yang; C: Rickey; 1B: Gretzky; 2B: Horfun; 3B: Handsomest Man in Singapore; SS: Salehin; OF: Rugburn, Superdad, 36, Anonymous Montfort Player #1

10 Innings:
ONEs: 11
TWOs: 12

It was a game when some of the old school players returned on a beautiful day when we had the whole field. The Cheetah and his Montfort gang showed up, raising the level of play as usual. We also had the return of Big Dick's son, Gretzky, from the Great White North. Finally, who was that pulling up in KITT the car? It's Hassie, with Mrs. Hassie and Little Hassie.

The game was a good one. Despite his initial complaints about his team, the Mick led his gang to a formidable 9-2 lead after 5 innings, getting 2-3 runs per inning using good fundamentals of hitting and baserunning. That's when the dam broke. The TWOs scored 9 in one inning and the ONEs looked shell-shocked coming off the field. The ONEs clawed back with 2, and then for 3 innings the game was tied. No one could get beyond one base runner, and then three outs. Going in to extra innings the TWOs finally pushed one over for the win. Overall, good day on the field.

NOTES: 1) Superdad pounded a homerun before an audience of the superkids who cheered him around the bases in the 9-run 5th inning for the TWOS; 2) There were six kids under 10 at the field; we need to open a day-care center; 3) Salehin needs to count to three; 4) Yong Yang was pitching like Santana. Good job; 5) The Mick was on fire at 3B. Brought back memories of the Jaguar (although no one can replace the Jaguar); 6) Jor El pulled up after running to 1st in the 1st inning. A shorter appearance than Brando in Superman; 7) Horfun needed some oxygen after a great run from 1B to Home. Good Hustle; 8) Cool Papa had a textbook throw to the Mick at 3B to tag out the Handsomest Man in Singapore (formerly known as Gil); 9) Good to see Hassie, the Cheetah, the Monfort Gang, Cool Papa, Gretzky and the Red Cowgirl. They need to show up more often.

Post-Ball Notes: The Lords of Death went rolling. DT, Ted and Lil' One joined the rest on the lanes. After Rube tried to take out the pin bar (the thing that re-sets the pins), and then left with Gunz, the rest rolled. The Mick had a 170 in the first game, and then seemed to have trouble shaking off some bad mojo. It was so bad that in the second game the Mick came in last (out of 5 bowlers in that game). He did get things back on track with the arrival of Sandman and Lil' One. Rugburn was a model of consistency, winning 3 games, while DT had four strong games. Meanwhile Horfun and Lil' One showed that power wasn't everything by putting on a lesson in spinning the ball. After four games, sore thumbs, and enormous amounts of fried food, the Lords of Death rolled out into the night. Rickey went home. Others went to find love, or at least coffee in Holland Village or Coach's Corner. The Night Riders roll on.

MBP: The Returnees
Gold Glove: The Mick
Biggest Bat: Superdad
Cameo Appearance: Jor El
Satu, Dua, Tiga: Salehin
Least amount of movement possible on field: Rickey
DY: Horfun
Lebowski: Rugburn

PS: No Good Friday game next week. But, playing on Saturday

A picture speaks a thousand words.

8 March 2008 - Santini's Kryptonite

ONEs: 1st Rickey, 2nd Jor-El, 3rd Sandman, SS The Great Santini, LF Rugburn, CF See, RF Rube, Rover H
TWOs: 1st Indiana, 2nd Burma Girl, 3rd DT, SS Weixiong, LF Superdad, CF Big Dick, RF Red Cowboy, Rover Chintan

Game 1: ONEs 21 : TWOs 11 (6 innings mercy)
Game 2: ONEs 11 : TWOs 3 (5 innings)

1 MAR 2008 - Day of the Dead

Ones: Rickey, DT, Yong Yang, Charlton, Sandman
Twos: The ghost team.

23 Feb 2008 - The Great Santini

ONEs: 1st Rickey, 2nd Wild Thang, 3rd DT, SS The Great Santini, LF Rugburn, CF Charlton, RF YongYang, Rover

TWOs: 1st Rickey, 2nd DT, 3rd Rube, SS Weixiong, LF Mick, CF Bryan, RF Ben, Rover Horfun

Game 1: ONEs 9: TWOs 5

Rookie of the Game: Ben
Gold Glove: WeiXiong
Biggest Bat: The Great Santini
MBP: The Great Santini (4 back to back to back to back HRs)

16 Feb 2008 - Its a hard knock life

ONEs: 1st Rickey, 2nd Red Cowboy, SS Indiana, LF Rube, CF Mick, RF Simon
TWOs: 1st Rickey, 2nd Burma Girl, SS NewJohn, LF Rugburn, CF Richard, RF DT

Game 1: ONEs 9: TWOs 15

Regular fields were taken up by poofs playing 'touch' rugby. So we adjourned to the alternate field. Ground was weird. Patches of dried out divots in the ground would cause the ball to take off in weird tangents. Easy plays turned into body-abusing hits. And one-bounce throws to home would end up in the catcher's face as often as his mitt.

The trick was to catch the ball in the air and take the early hop. Letting the ball hit the ground was asking for trouble. There were 4 incidents of the ball hitting players. NewJohn got smacked twice, once in the jawline and once in the leg, by a one-bounce throw from centerfield. The Mick got smacked in the shin by a ground ball hit by Simon, Burma Girl took one in the neck from a opposite field grounder from the Rude.

Not all was bad. The game was mostly ESPN replay type catches or ESPN blooper type plays. The bloopers all came from Red Cowboy's virgin debut at 2nd base, and the conflicting instructions taught to him by The Mick. Red's trouble with comprehending the American accent did not help much either. Hearing 'Hold' when the entire field (including the batting team) was yelling 'Home' at him.

The Mick and Rube took the tie for greatest catch of the game. Both hits, ironically, coming from DT. The Mick made a last-shot-hail-mary-turn-around-open-the-glove-and-pray-for-a-miracle catch when DT hit a hard fly ball into centerfield. On DT's next at bat, he pulled one down the line, but that was snagged by Rube with another magnificent, full-speed-over-the-shoulder catch that robbed DT of a hit. It was his best hitting day in months (some say years), and his hits were robbed by superb glove-work from the outfielders. Life is just not fair.

Richard is back from his bloody nose outing not so many weeks ago. And he's ever faster than before. He could not be thrown out at first, even when he hit a direct grounder to Indiana at SS. No matter how clean Indiana played the ball and made the throw, Richard would already on base. His nickname might be 'Mr Speed'

Biggest Bat: The Mick
Gold Glove: DT
MBP: Burma Girl (for taking the ball to the neck, AND making the play before keeling over)
Most Bored Player: Rugburn in LF. NO ONE hit to him.
Bonehead play of the day: Red holding the ball and looking at EVERYONE on the field, while EVERYONE was yelling at him 'home! home! home!'

02 Feb 2008 - Suckage

We came (half at 3pm, half at 4pm), We saw (the rain, the wet, muddy and sloppy field), We sucked (most of us anyway).
Indiana and Prof Zen Rules in Effect.

Ones: 1st DT, 2nd Horfun, SS Indiana, LF Rugburn, CF H, RF Simon
Twos: 1st Charlton, 2nd Geok, SS NewJohn, LF Mick, CF Sandman, RF Red Cowboy

Ones Lost: Twos WON. I didn't really bother to remember the score. Might have been a mercy. Who knows.

On to Next Week. May the year of the Rat bring us better luck (and better numbers).

Mick's gets a taste of Horfun extra spicy

12 Jan 2008 - First REAL game of 2008

Ones: 1st Rickey, 2nd Maggie, SS DT, LF Rugburn, CF Jeffri, RF Charlton
TWOs: 1st Rickey, 2nd Horfun, SS NewJohn, LF DY, CF H, RF Red Cowboy

Last week was a bust. Not enough numbers to have a real game. So this week was the REAL first game of 2008. Numbers were still low, but we managed to pull a game with Prof Zen and Indiana rules in effect.

5 Jan 2008 - First game of 2008

Ones: Rickey, NewJohn, Mick, H, Wild Thang, Charlton, Horfun, DT
TWOs: Ghost runners

First weekend of 2008 was a failure. Just not enough people showed up. We couldn't even muster a 10 man crew to get in a modified rules game. Such a waste.
On to next week.

29 Dec 2007 - SAS vs Singapore SEA games Women's Team

SAS: 1st Rickey, 2nd DT, SS NewJohn, LF Mick, CF Cool Papa, RF Jeffri
Singapore Women's team: 1st Rickey, 2nd Norleen, SS Jo the shortstop, LF May, CF Superdad, RF H

SAS 1 : SWT 3

Gold Glove: Jo the Shortstop
MBP: Superdad
Awesome award: Richard. Catching a flyball with his nose.

22 Dec 2007 - No Game

Gaddafi says hello...

Dean Hooker was the man who made the greatest defensive play in Saturdaysoftball Tournament History. The year was 2001 and we were playing in the Inter-Faculty Softball Finals. The score was tied at the top of the 9th with runners on base. The batter hit a hard ground ball up the 3rd base line. Dean grabbed it barehanded and fired a rocket to 1st to end the inning. Least you say it was a pretty standard play, it wasn't. Even the Generalissimo would've had to had used his glove, so hard was the ball hit, and he made the play smoother than Arod.
Anyway, Dean was posted out of the country (He works for the State Dept) soon after the tournament. We just received an email from him from Libya with the above picture.


Hello Guys
I was one of your periodicals on Saturday during the years 1999 to 2001. The blog is great I feel honored to be included. Wishing all of you a great Christmas and a Prosperous New Year and Chinese New Year too.
I'm currently in Tripoli, Libya. I hope one day to get back to Singapore and play a couple of games. Included a picture of myself in the Libyan desert.

Dean Hooker

15 Dec 2007

ONEs: Uboat, Rickey, H, Rugburn, DT, NewJohn, Wild Thang, Ryan
TWOs: Rain

TWOs win by a billion trillion to 0.

Post-Thanksgiving Midnight Bowling

The Right Hip is still good.

The Mick picking up the split

We were the last ones in the bowling alley. They had to stop us from continuing... at 4am

Final score - a 3 way tie. The Mick, Rickey and DT... 127 each

Horfun breaks 100 for the first time in her career, making a 123 pinfalls to take 2nd place for our last game.

Thanksgiving in Singapore Dec 8 2007

The infamous Red Cowboy

Our Generous Host, The Indiana Jones of Singapore.

Pies, Pies and more Pies. Sadly, the Turkey and Lamb was finished before photos could be taken.

Party people in the house.

The Mick shows how it's done (striking out that is)

8 Dec 2007 - The Mick takes one for the team

Ones: 1st Uboat, 2nd Amanda/Maglite, 3rd Mick/Amanda, SS DT, LF Rugburn, CF Alex, RF Richard, Rover Dave, Catch Horfun

TWOs: 1st Indiana, 2nd Geok, 3rd Yongyang, SS NewJohn, LF Superdad, CF Rube, RF Knees, Rover H, Catch Red Cowboy

Ones 6 : Twos 4

MBP: The Mick

1 Dec 2007 - Return of the Montfort Boys

ONEs: Pitch Cheetah, Catch Tiger, 1st Uboat, 2nd Red Cowboy, 3rd Mick, SS NewJohn, LF Rugburn, CF Rube, RF Knees, Rover May
TWOs: Pitch DT, Catch JJ/Sonny, 1st Indiana, 2nd Supermom, 3rd DY, SS Salehin, LF Superdad, CF Weixiong, RF Gil, Rover David

Game 1: ONEs 11: TWOs 10

The Lords of Death....

24 Nov 2007 - Overflowing Numbers

ONEs: Catch Red Cowboy, 1st Uboat, 2nd Amanda, 3rd Supermom, SS Mick, LF Superdad, CF Martin, RF Lloyd, Rover JJ, Horfun
TWOs: Catch Geok, 1st Indiana, 2nd Maglite, 3rd NewJohn, SS DT, LF Knees, CF Rube, RF Jeffri, Rover Dave, May

Game 1: ONEs 5 : TWOs 15 (5 innings Mercy)
Game 2: ONes 6 : TWOs 3 (5 innings)

MBP : Weixiong

Kids at Play

Martin and family are in town, so Guppy suggested that awesome Korean BBQ place down at Pasir Panjang Road for dinner. It was AWESOME.

Remember his name. Oscar Bazylewich. Soon-to-be male supermodel and starting pitcher for the Yoshimura Giants.

Remember his name. Jeffery Hew. Soon-to-be Indy500 Champion

Remember his name. Thomas Hew. Soon-to-be MotoGP world champion

The 'Hand' of Creepy Rickey

Mushrooms? We don't eat no stinking mushrooms... Bring on the meat!

Bulgogi Beef Rib.....mmmmmmm

I don't know what this is, but I hear it's the stuff that comes with your steak that you push to the side of your plate.

More Beef...

PORRRKKKKKK.....

Next Generation of SAS. Starting them throwing balls early. Though, it looks like all 3 are lefties. So infield positions are still up for grabs.

Martin and Oscar

After dinner, Guppy invited us all to his place for drinks and a little 'exercise'. Yup, Guppy bought a wii.

Hello? Hello? The wii controller is not a toy...

The Kids at play. Part I

The Kids at Play. Part II.

The Kids.

Mr Drinking and Mr Driving.

Lords of Death!!!

18 Nov 2007 - Disabled List

Ones: 1st Uboat, 2nd JJ, 3rd DT, SS Newjohn, LF Sandman, CF Knees, RF Jeffri
TWOs: 1st , 2nd May, 3rd DT, SS Mick, LF Rugburn, CF Yongyang, RF Red Cowboy

Game 1: ONEs 19 : TWOs 10

10 Nov 2007

ONEs: 1st Indiana, 2nd Horfun, 3rd Mick, SS DT, LF Rube, CF Sandman, Rover Elijah, RF Bert
TWOs: 1st Uboat, 2nd Geok, 3rd Generalissimo, SS NewJohn, LF Rugburn, CF Weixiong, Rover Charlton, RF Red Cowboy
All-time catcher: Richard

Game 1: ONEs 12 : TWOs 7
Game 2: ONEs 0 : TWOs 8 (3 innings)

Biggest Bat: Rugburn
Gold Glove: Richard
MBP: Rube

3rd Nov 2007 - For whom the bell tolls

ONEs: 1st Indiana, 2nd Geok, 3rd Generalissimo, SS NewJohn, LF Rugburn, CF Richard, Rover JJ, RF YongYang, Catch Red Cowboy

TWOs: 1st Uboat, 2nd Horfun/Rube, 3rd Mick, SS DT, LF Rube/Jeffri, CF Cool Papa, Rover Weixiong, RF Jeffri/Horfun

Game 1 ONEs 12 : TWOs 10
Game 2 ONEs 2 : TWOs 5

Greed

The title says it all. This blog should not be an avenue for my personal ranting, but this is baseball related. Those who know what I'm talking about will know what I'm talking about. Greed. Greedy greedy bastard. May the first pitch of 2008 hit you in the skull. May the Redsox purchase your contract and not win again for 85 years.

Day of Mourning

Please join me in a moment of silence to mourn the loss of the Rockies. They fought the brave fight. They were the underdogs. They were the little known franchise that only been in existence for 14 years. They were young and impetuous and exuded the never-say-die spirit of the early Cowboys that tamed the wild west. They were mowed down mercilessly by the juggernaut that is the Boston Redsox. Did the Redsox deserve the victory in 2004? Yes, they did. Did they deserve the victory in 2007? No. The young upstart Rockies should have won it all. Sadly they didn't.

28 Oct 2007 - Renewal

Ones: 1st Indiana, 2nd JJ, 3rd the Mick, SS NewJohn, LF Rube, CF Sandman, RF Elijah
TWOs: 1st Uboat, 2nd Geok, 3rd Charlton, SS DT, LF Andrew, CF Rugburn, RF DY

Game 1: ONEs 11 : TWOs 8
Game 1: ONEs 7 : TWOs 0

Thanks to the New Paper article last tuesday, we welcomed 4 new players to SAS (hopefully they come back). 7 actually responded (8, counting 1 from this week), but 2 of them could not make it this week. SAS hasn't seen such a large one-time renewal of numbers since the Tan family showed up. All 4 supposedly had played in school, many years ago, and the rust was pretty obvious. But we're sure they will be back on form this weekend (if they come back).

Gold Glove: Geok
Biggest Bat: Rube

Posted by request of the Rube

Hari Raya at the Osmans

We were invited post-ball to Lili's place for Hari Raya. It was a wonderful gesture, and we were all looking forward to the fabulous food. Little did we know, there was more than just food.

Check out the view. The Osmans live on the 25th floor. On a clear day, you can see all the way to T2 at Changi and JB. AWESOME!

Rube was actually stroking a cat, but it disappeared when I took the photo. Another ghost pussy in Rube's life.

Ketupat. It's rice, formed and steamed in coconut leaves.

Vegetarian Lontong. Mrs Osman was so kind to make a special vegetarian version of sayo lodeh for the Mick.

Lovely Satay.

To Quote Rickey "Damn, this fried chicken is goooooood."

My personal favourite.... Rendang. Home cooked, and foreheadsweatingly delicious.

From the top... Satay Sauce, Tahu Goreng, Rendang.

That's how you eat Rendang... with a slice of ketupat.

Yummmm. Satay...

Sambal Udang... That just sent the headsweat into overdrive.

Two pictures cos it was just so damned good.

What's left of the chicken wings.

Lili's cat... (The one Rube was stroking previously)

PS. We went to watch 'Superbad' after dinner. It was funny as hell. Although, it dragged 10mins too long. They should've ended it on the 377A scene.

PPS. We found out that Mr Osman (Lili's dad) played 3rd base for his school. We all tried to invite him down (much to Lili's violent objections). We even found his bat and glove (and they were still in good shape)

We're Famous

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We got featured in The Newpaper. Granted, it's not the Straits Times, and only Soccer idiots read it. But at least they might learn that other sports exists besides the EPL and horse racing.


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21 Oct 2007 - Shrugging off the White Oppressors

ONEs: 1st Uboat, 2nd Geok, 3rd Indiana, SS The Mick, LF Rugburn, CF Rube, RF Red Cowboy
TWOs: 1st DY, 2nd Sandman, 3rd Perry, SS DT, LF Andrew, CF David, RF Gil

Game 1: ONEs 4 : TWOs 9
Game 2: ONEs 3: TWOs 0 (2 innings * incomplete)

White man came, White man conquered. White man gave the locals education, medicine, sports and civilisation. White man taught the locals how to play softball. A hundred years later (ok, maybe 10 or so), the locals have mastered the game and turned around and have beaten the white man everytime they faced off.

Gold Glove: Andrew
Biggest Bat: David

Who's House? Dave's House.

A couple of folks from SAS, who don't really have real jobs and anything to do during the day popped over to JB today, at the special invite of Cool Papa. We left abt 10ish, and got back abt 7ish. Got in some Daytona action, a lovely banana leaf curry lunch, and then a hefty 3hr Counterstrike Session. Yup. We spent the day in JB playing video games.

Dunkin Donuts Anyone?

Fried Cabbage?? Lettuce?? I dunno, but I love the stuff.

Cool Papa's home away from home... across the border.

The manhole cover right in front of Cool Papa's house.

13 Oct 2007 - Mercy Me!!

ONEs: 1st Uboat, 2nd Dr Geok, 3rd Indiana, SS NewJohn, LF Rugburn, CF Gunz, CF Gil, RF Red Cowboy
TWOs: 1st Rube, 2nd Supermom, 3rd The Mick, SS Bucky, LF Superdad, CF Daniel, CF Craig, RF The Cheetah

Game 1: ONEs 1: TWOs 11 (7 innings Mercy)
Game 2: ONEs 8: TWOs 16 (7 innings *It was actually Mercy at 5 innings 5-15, but we decided to continue and finish the 7 innings)

Gold Glove: Supermom
Biggest Bat: Superdad
Best Play: Superdad fires a torpedo to Indiana from deep left to catch a limping Uboat out before he can reach the safety of the pen.

7 Oct 2007 - Away in HK

DT was away in HK for the weekend. Unfortunately, no one picked up the baton to write the blog for this week.

Honey, I've got Matsui

Some of our SAS crew got around to playing some Fantasy Baseball this year. Thanks to Rube, who organised the league and pushed people to join. We had a pretty decent turnout with Rugburn, Rube, The Mick, Ricky, H and DT participating.

We're hoping for a better turnout next year, filling up all 12 slots with SAS folks. It was hella fun talking baseball, talking smack and making trades this season and it'll be more fun if everyone was within a localised area (It was tough making trades with strangers who don't answer emails)

Considering that almost half the league were unknowns or strangers, the SAS folks did really well, winning the league during the normal season (Rugburn), taking the top 3 places in postseason (1st H, 2nd DT, 3rd Rugburn) and winning the consolation draw (Rube), and a decent 9th (Mick) and 10th (Rickey) finish.

An email will be going out soon to recruit participants for next year.

29 Sept 2007 - No Losers

ONEs: Catch Red Cowboy, 1st Uboat, 2nd Maglite, 3rd Mick, SS NewJohn, LF Superdad, CF Knees, RF Jason, Rover Wayne's Wife, Rover 2 Sandman

TWOs: Catch H, 1st Indiana, 2nd Diana, 3rd DY, SS DT, LF Rugburn, CF Rube, RF Craig, Rover Dr Geok

Game 1: ONEs 14: TWOs 16 (11 innings)
TWOs: 0 1 6 1 0 2 4 0 0 0 2
ONEs: 3 3 0 0 4 2 2 0 0 0 0

Game 2: ONEs 3: TWOs 1 (3 innings)
ONEs: 2 1 0
TWOs: 0 2 0

Perfect weather. Perfect field. Perfect numbers. Perfect game. What more can one ask for.

The Ones got on the board early and they hit hard, taking a 6-1 lead by the top of the 3rd. But the addition of the Sandman into the ONEs outfield must have put them to sleep because the TWOs scored 6 runs in the 3rd inning, stringing together hit after hit after hit.

Their lead did not last long as the ONEs fought back in the bottom of the 5th with 4 runs.

As usual with perfect games, the teams saw themselves tied at 14 a piece going into the 8th. From then on, it was a defensive struggle of monolithic magnitude as both teams flashed some amazing leather. No runs were scored for 3 complete innings before the TWOs managed to sneak in 2 runs in the top of the 11th. The ONEs had no reply. Their offense was shut down completely and the TWOs walked away with the win.


Quote of the day:
Qn: Why do you play softball?
Ans: To drink beer after.

MBP: DY
DY award: DY 5 years ago
Gold Glove: Leftside of the TWOs infield
Most Improved Batter: Wayne's wife
Strike-out King: Jason (2 Ks)
Most amazing throw: Craig firing an Ichiro-esque one hopper from RF to 3rd base to prevent the batter from advancing.

TOP: Rickey on the DL

UPDATE 092707: Rickey is mobile. He's limping around quite well at home. I'll be moving this post down after this Saturday's post. Word of caution, if you visit him, and you see a rock/paperweight on his coffee table, DO NOT pick it up. You don't know where it has been (inside him).

UPDATE 091807: Rickey's gone home. He was discharged today. If you want to pay him a visit, head to his place. Call first cos he'll probably need some time to get to the door to let you in.

UPDATE 091307: The Op was successful, the man is in recovery. Sandman did a good job of bringing him out of unconsciousness.

UPDATE 091207: The man has checked into his room for the week. Procedure is at 5pm today. Email me if you want his room number.

UPDATE 081407: The date for the procedure has been confirmed. I'll post another update closer to actual date. Please email me for details if you want to pay him a visit.

UPDATE 072407: Turns out it's not what it seemed. Surgery is still on the cards, but not quite so urgent. I've stuck this as the top post. All newer posts will appear below this post.


UPDATE 071307: Rickey will be discharged today, and re-admitted next week. Those of you thinking of paying him a visit please hold off. Watch this space for updates.

PS. DL stands for Disabled List.

071107
Hey Folks,

Rickey's been placed on a 60 day DL.
He's currently located in one of our finer medicare institutions under the watchful eyes of the Sandman
Email me if you want to pay him a visit and I'll send you the details.

DT

Some photos with the New Canon 40D

This is the new 10.1MP dSLR from Canon, called the 40D. I was lucky to get my hands on it for a short preview before its launch.
Check out some of the shots.
Resized for your 56K pleasure

The Joba of Slo-pitch

Perfect Swing

It shoots at 6.5fps

Same as above, but Clay's bat speed is so fast, only 3 shots were captured

The view from Rickey's

Yup, that's cropped from the above shot. The woman is topless, but the man is in Speedos. For Male and Female viewing pleasure (I don't discriminate)

White Gold in the pool at Rickey's place (this is also cropped from the above shot)