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)
The Names have been changed to Protect the Errorists
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
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!'
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!'
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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).
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).
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