DT Rants

It was a beautiful day, and the field looked perfect... albeit closed. Ever the law-abiding, rule-following members of public, we moved to the alternate field instead of despoiling the NUS field. The alternate field was in much better condition than we remembered. The rain has managed to level many of the bumps, and moisten the incredible, bone-jarring, ankle-twisting hardness of the ground that used to be.

Having only 12, we played our usual modified rules. Rickey did the count-off, and while the teams looked relatively even on paper, it was a world of difference in the game. The TWOS pummeled the ONES mercilessly. Within the first at-bat, they went through their entire lineup TWICE, scoring 9 runs and leaving 2 men on base. That's a total of 14 batters in one inning. Everything that could go wrong for the ONES, went wrong. Even a simple DP with bases loaded turned into a two-run scoring single. And when it was the ONES turn at bat, everything went right for the TWOS in the field. At the end of two innings, the score was the reflection of the luck that the ONEs were having. 13 to nought. Even with the Mick arriving fashionably late and joining the ONEs at the bottom of the second to bat would not change the score. His bat, immunized by Sandman's running-over-the-shoulder-no-look catch.

TWOS win by Mercy in two innings.

Game 2 started with The Mick joining the ONEs full time. Rickey, wisely volunteered to pitch to both teams (though he was throwing the junk to his former team and throwing HR pitches to the TWOS). The TWOs again built up a strong lead, putting in run after run with no answer from the ONEs. DT stole two innings from this game calling the bottom of the 5th as the bottom of the 7th. It was a good theft as everyone was worn out and sitting-on-the-grass exhausted. With no where to go but up, the ONEs mounted an all out attack to try and win the second game. In the bottom of the 9th(actually 7th), the ONEs finally strung together a series of hits (and also wised up to start picking on Jay) and HRs to catch the TWOs to within 1 run. It was not to be though, as even with the two-out rally, the ONEs could not get that 1 decisive run to tie the game. The TWOs won... in 7 innings.

Other News.

December is going to be a pretty packed month. With two weddings and a Barbecue.

Dec 2 is Dom's wedding. We'll be playing ball as usual and skipping the church wedding. We'll head to the dinner place after ball for a night of drinking and debauchary.

Dec 9 is Jason and Diana's wedding. To show our support for them, we've decided to change (for the first time in history) the ball game to the morning. First pitch will be at 11am. We'll grab lunch after and head to the church for the ceremony that'll take place at 4pm. Bowling is planned after for those interested.

Dec 16 is the Grand 2006BBQ. We'll be saying farewell to some, and hello to others. Email will be sent out soon for menu consolidation.

On to Next Week