It was good to be playing tournament ball again. Some of our best moments - beyond the joy of weekly Saturday ball - have come when we play teams that are not familar. Whether it is the Legendary homerun victory or getting kicked out the next year, it often brings out the best in us.
First of all, Lloyd and the Montfort gang did a great job organizing this. We look forward to playing in the 2nd Annual tournament next year. Also, Chris did a great job of organizing things prior to game day for us.
General Impressions, in no particular order:
- SWAT, Rube and the Ipoh Assassin played in every game, and played well. They may have been exhausted by the end of the day, but they anchored a team that went the whole way. Also true for the whole Tan family. TK and TS played every game for Alumni B.
- Weirdest play in a long time: 2nd game, bottom of the 5th (9th), we lose. Wait a second. Cool Papa's bullet throw (btw, misses the cut-off man) gets to Guppy at home. Great throw, but too late. BUT, the winning run doesn't tag the plate. He tries to get back to the plate - juking, feinting, slipping. But "Gup-zilla" just bears down on him. Tagged out. We rally in extra innings to get the #1 seed.
- Good to have DY back (at least for a couple of weeks)
- Tennis court homeruns (out of the park): SWAT and Nomar
- Good Fielding (the key to tournament wins) from all. Particularly notice to SWAT and DT.
- 1st game (other team has 9 runs to start the game). We only have 8 runs in the last inning. Two outs. DT has clutch hit, and Rube puts it to rest with game winning rbi. Got us off to a good start.
- Heidi had some clutch hits in that close 2nd game.
- Who knew so many of us are up at 8:30 on a Saturday morning (doesn't include Gunz who probably didn't get up - never went to sleep)?
- Guppy traded Fei (the Say Hey Kid). To quote Coach from the wedding speech: "What we're you thinking???"
- The peanut gallery (particlarly Rickey, Diana and Princess) enjoyed the shade. Nothing like a super big Gulp from 7-11 to pass the time.
Guppy didnt traded Fei willingly at first, Fei wanted to be in the same team as me so Guppy has to let him go. Sorry guys, but well u guys won anyway. =P Congrats!
ReplyDeleteThe injured kid,
Michael
-Couple of comments
ReplyDeleteThanks Chris for writing up the blog and putting together the team
Great pitching always win ballgames and SWAT was great
As for trading Fei...maybe it will be remembered as trading Ruth away... my baseball skills will be cursed... wait aren't they already :)
Sorry for trading the guys away. Felt it was better to have them play all day than to have people sit and not play alot.
Thanks for everyone who made it easy to manage the team.. we made some tough choices in terms of lineup and I realise that somepeople sat out more than expected.
FInally GUPZILLA LIVES
GUPPY
I was more than willing to go in order to play all day at shortstop(and DY, Dave and Gunz wanted to come with me as well).
ReplyDeleteI already planned my curse...
"Trading" Fei was understandable under the circumstances. Just not something that would normally make sense. No criticism of Guppy. He did a great job on Saturday. Just pointing it out.
ReplyDeleteTalking abt trading Ruth away...
ReplyDeleteRickey's 3 hits in Game 2... two went straight to Fei, and one went to WeiXiong. Irony? I think not.
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