The Names have been changed to Protect the Errorists
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Jason and Diana's Wedding
Hi Everyone!
We are very honoured to know that ball time will be changed especially for us (and for the 1st time ever as well) :)
Thank you joining us on this very special day, and we certainly look forward to your company.
Also we like to apologise for those of whom we may have missed out with our wedding invitations. Please do come and join us as we celebrate our nuptials.
The details as follows :
Date : 9 Dec 2006
Time : 4pm
Venue : Life Bible-Presbyterian Church @ 9A Gilstead Road.
# posted by Jason and Diana : 3:24 PM
We are very honoured to know that ball time will be changed especially for us (and for the 1st time ever as well) :)
Thank you joining us on this very special day, and we certainly look forward to your company.
Also we like to apologise for those of whom we may have missed out with our wedding invitations. Please do come and join us as we celebrate our nuptials.
The details as follows :
Date : 9 Dec 2006
Time : 4pm
Venue : Life Bible-Presbyterian Church @ 9A Gilstead Road.
# posted by Jason and Diana : 3:24 PM
DT rants about the greatest game of 2006
I know I've been saying that 'this was the greatest game of the year' one too many times, but THIS was the greatest game I've played in for 2006. It was not a defensive gem, it was not a monster homerun contest. The weather was so-so, and the field conditions were horrible. The numbers were strained at 14 and the ball was slippery. The were bonehead plays and swinging bunts.
So what made this the greatest game in 2006? The people...
This game was the reason why I enjoy coming out week after week to saturday softball. It made my entire year of driving out to poor numbers and late starts and intruding soccer players and rainouts all worth while.
First of all, the game got off to a fantastic start. Since it was Dom's wedding, a plea was sent out to kick off the game at 2pm, and for the first time in a long while, most everyone was punctual. We actually started our game by 2.30pm, which is a record for 2006.
Adding to that was the appearance of Coach, Martin AND DY on the same field. We haven't seen that for almost 3 years. We sorely missed the Tan family, Gavin, Kyle, Lloyd(although we did get him last week with his bunch of kids) and Alvin, but you take what you can get, and we got a great deal.
The standard of play was equally high, with everyone showing good glove skills, strong at-bats and most important of all, the heart to fight back from behind to take the lead. Even with 13 runs on the board in the first inning, the ONEs would not give up, and they plugged away slowly and surely to take back the game. Their defense held tight for 6 innings letting nary a run, and they scored 17 within 7 innings to take the lead. Even with a complete 6 inning shut out by the ONEs, the TWOs did not give up either. Even with 1-2-3 outs, they still tried to plug away at it, and they finally succeed by taking back their lead and finally the win. Everyone played hard and put in loads of effort. No one slacked because they were 'catching' or 'pitching' for the other team.
Most notable efforts... The Generalissimo making the decisive tag on a text book run down for the OTHER team. Fake Steve and DY catching foul popups while catching for the OTHER team. DT striking out Marvelous while pitching for the other team.
That's not to say that the game went perfectly. There were the usual bonehead plays, but it was the kind of bonehead plays that give you ammo for weeks of teasing. Like Rickey's 'do I stay or do I go' play at first and The Mick's 'The ball has a mind of its own' throw to Marvelous.
Aussie Mike got a taste of being the new boy in right field with a barrage of opposite field hits going his way. He managed to catch one or two, but we picked on him because we like him. And we liked him a lot.
Marvelous and The Mick were having gold glove outings in the outfield for the ONEs. So were the Rube and The Sandman for the twos. Of course, Sandman's run from CF to catch the ball in RF must count as one of the longest sprints in SAS history.
Both infields were tight, though there were still gaps because of the horrid ground and the unpredictable bounces. It's a wonder that the score was so high with everyone putting in so much effort.
On to next week... Remember, first pitch is at 11am. We'll go straight to the alternate field. I will go to NUS first for those in need of transport.
So what made this the greatest game in 2006? The people...
This game was the reason why I enjoy coming out week after week to saturday softball. It made my entire year of driving out to poor numbers and late starts and intruding soccer players and rainouts all worth while.
First of all, the game got off to a fantastic start. Since it was Dom's wedding, a plea was sent out to kick off the game at 2pm, and for the first time in a long while, most everyone was punctual. We actually started our game by 2.30pm, which is a record for 2006.
Adding to that was the appearance of Coach, Martin AND DY on the same field. We haven't seen that for almost 3 years. We sorely missed the Tan family, Gavin, Kyle, Lloyd(although we did get him last week with his bunch of kids) and Alvin, but you take what you can get, and we got a great deal.
The standard of play was equally high, with everyone showing good glove skills, strong at-bats and most important of all, the heart to fight back from behind to take the lead. Even with 13 runs on the board in the first inning, the ONEs would not give up, and they plugged away slowly and surely to take back the game. Their defense held tight for 6 innings letting nary a run, and they scored 17 within 7 innings to take the lead. Even with a complete 6 inning shut out by the ONEs, the TWOs did not give up either. Even with 1-2-3 outs, they still tried to plug away at it, and they finally succeed by taking back their lead and finally the win. Everyone played hard and put in loads of effort. No one slacked because they were 'catching' or 'pitching' for the other team.
Most notable efforts... The Generalissimo making the decisive tag on a text book run down for the OTHER team. Fake Steve and DY catching foul popups while catching for the OTHER team. DT striking out Marvelous while pitching for the other team.
That's not to say that the game went perfectly. There were the usual bonehead plays, but it was the kind of bonehead plays that give you ammo for weeks of teasing. Like Rickey's 'do I stay or do I go' play at first and The Mick's 'The ball has a mind of its own' throw to Marvelous.
Aussie Mike got a taste of being the new boy in right field with a barrage of opposite field hits going his way. He managed to catch one or two, but we picked on him because we like him. And we liked him a lot.
Marvelous and The Mick were having gold glove outings in the outfield for the ONEs. So were the Rube and The Sandman for the twos. Of course, Sandman's run from CF to catch the ball in RF must count as one of the longest sprints in SAS history.
Both infields were tight, though there were still gaps because of the horrid ground and the unpredictable bounces. It's a wonder that the score was so high with everyone putting in so much effort.
On to next week... Remember, first pitch is at 11am. We'll go straight to the alternate field. I will go to NUS first for those in need of transport.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
2 December 2006 - Old School, Fake Steve Style
ONES: 1B: Fake Steve; 2B: Rickey; 3B: DY; SS: DT; LF: Marv-elous; CF: The Mick aka White Gold; RF: Heidi; Rover: Geok
TWOS: 1B: Coach; 2B: Indiana; 3B: The Venezualan Jaguar; SS: New John; LF: Rube: CF: Sandman; RF: Aussie Mike; Rover: Horfun
ONES: 19
TWOS: 26
Look at that line-up, look at the photos below. It was an old school game. If the Kitty, Lloyd, and Guppy had shown up (and a Tan), we would have had a rip in the time-space continuium. It was a great day for ball. Coach brought his take-no-prisoners style, DY made the plays, Fake Steve (aka Martin) yacked a lot, Marv-elous made some catches, and all was right with the world.
The game started off with a bang. The TWOS - in the top of the 1st - were relentless. They scored 13 runs. The ONES fought back with 7, and the TWOS seemed to go to sleep. They didn't score again until the 6th inning. In the meantime, the ONES passed the TWOs and built up a nice lead by scoring in 7 out of 9 innings. It was all held down by a solid defense. The Mick was pure white gold (no iron pyrite there) in CF. He was giving up the body making spectacular catches among the medical waste on the alternate field. DY and DT held down the infield, while Rickey and Fake Steve talked a lot.
But, the TWOS were too deep in the talent pool. They woke up in the 8th and passed the ONES with a two run lead. Although the ONES got one back in the bottom of the 8th, the TWOS just turned it on. Key to those final two innings were fine hits by Coach, who would then have the Rube boom him in. All-in-all a great day at the field.
Afterwards, we went to Dom's wedding. I'm sure there will be other posts on this one.
NOTES:
1) Great day to see the Old School SAS people; 2) The Mick had a throw that went 90 degrees to the right of where he wanted it to go. Marv-elous picked it up and threw it in; 3) Aussie Mike likes protecting the line; 4) On a grounder to 1B, with Rickey at 1B, DT ran over got the ball and got there before Rickey and Horfun (the batter); 5) It's not a good idea to play ball in Crocs; 6) DY still hustles when he catches against his own team; 7) Textbook run-down pepper play. New John went too far off 1B. The Mick throws to Rickey at 2B, who throws to Fake Steve, then to DT then to the Venezaluan Jaguar (who was pitching). Got him. Coach smiles.
MBP: Fake Steve
Gold Glove: The Mick
Biggest Bat: The Rube
Best Bat: The Rube
DY: DY
Play of the Day: Either the Run-down or DT covering 1B.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Next week, 9 December, we will play at 11:00 so we can all go to Jason and Diana's wedding. Also, 16 December we're having a BBQ.
TWOS: 1B: Coach; 2B: Indiana; 3B: The Venezualan Jaguar; SS: New John; LF: Rube: CF: Sandman; RF: Aussie Mike; Rover: Horfun
ONES: 19
TWOS: 26
Look at that line-up, look at the photos below. It was an old school game. If the Kitty, Lloyd, and Guppy had shown up (and a Tan), we would have had a rip in the time-space continuium. It was a great day for ball. Coach brought his take-no-prisoners style, DY made the plays, Fake Steve (aka Martin) yacked a lot, Marv-elous made some catches, and all was right with the world.
The game started off with a bang. The TWOS - in the top of the 1st - were relentless. They scored 13 runs. The ONES fought back with 7, and the TWOS seemed to go to sleep. They didn't score again until the 6th inning. In the meantime, the ONES passed the TWOs and built up a nice lead by scoring in 7 out of 9 innings. It was all held down by a solid defense. The Mick was pure white gold (no iron pyrite there) in CF. He was giving up the body making spectacular catches among the medical waste on the alternate field. DY and DT held down the infield, while Rickey and Fake Steve talked a lot.
But, the TWOS were too deep in the talent pool. They woke up in the 8th and passed the ONES with a two run lead. Although the ONES got one back in the bottom of the 8th, the TWOS just turned it on. Key to those final two innings were fine hits by Coach, who would then have the Rube boom him in. All-in-all a great day at the field.
Afterwards, we went to Dom's wedding. I'm sure there will be other posts on this one.
NOTES:
1) Great day to see the Old School SAS people; 2) The Mick had a throw that went 90 degrees to the right of where he wanted it to go. Marv-elous picked it up and threw it in; 3) Aussie Mike likes protecting the line; 4) On a grounder to 1B, with Rickey at 1B, DT ran over got the ball and got there before Rickey and Horfun (the batter); 5) It's not a good idea to play ball in Crocs; 6) DY still hustles when he catches against his own team; 7) Textbook run-down pepper play. New John went too far off 1B. The Mick throws to Rickey at 2B, who throws to Fake Steve, then to DT then to the Venezaluan Jaguar (who was pitching). Got him. Coach smiles.
MBP: Fake Steve
Gold Glove: The Mick
Biggest Bat: The Rube
Best Bat: The Rube
DY: DY
Play of the Day: Either the Run-down or DT covering 1B.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Next week, 9 December, we will play at 11:00 so we can all go to Jason and Diana's wedding. Also, 16 December we're having a BBQ.
2006... NOT 2001
Looking at this photo, you'd think it was taken in 2001. Who would've believed that we get these same guys together in 2006
Standing (L-R): Sandman, Rickey, Generalissimo, Rube, Aussie Mike, The Mick, Coach, Marvelous, Fake Steve
Front Row(F-R): New John, Burma Girl, H, Indiana, DT, DY
Taking Photo: Horfun
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
25 November 2006 - Famous Last Words
Regular field was still closed, so we moved to the alternate field. We had awesome numbers today, with Lloyd's kids showing up in full force. The numbers were just nice to have a SAS vs Montfort boys game. Bad idea.....
SAS:
Pitch: Dom, Catch: Burma Girl, 1st: H, 2nd: Horfun, 3rd: Generalissimo, SS: New John, LF: Superdad, CF: The Mick, RF: DT, Rover: Mike the Aussie
Montfort boys + Lloyd, Clement, Gilbert, Salehin, Ironman, Indiana and Sandman
We started the game with 9 of SAS vs 8 of the boys, so when Indiana and Burma Girl showed up, Lloyd picked Indiana for his team, and consequently, Sandman as well. He needn't have bothered, because at the end of the day, Lloyd had more than 16 guys on his team, having to sit out his kids over the innings. Did I mention that it was pouring. And the alternate field has the same clay consistancy as the NUS field of bygone days of old.
Even with 1 man short at the start of the game, The MBs showed their stuff, taking an early 3 run lead. SAS had no answer, even with the batting lineup of Seven, The Mick, New John and Superdad starting the rotation. SAS only managed to get a run on the board in the second inning, with Patrick showing a little Arod slap off the ball to get called safe at home.
The MBs pushed their lead again in the top of the third, driving in several runs with smart singles hitting and aggressive base running. The SAS had no answer. They finalled clawed their way back into the game in the bottom of the 5th, with only 2 runs behind. But it was not to be, as the SAS fought back to try to stay in the game, the MBs fought even harder to extend their lead. At the top of the 6th, they scored 7 runs to take a 13-5 lead. the SAS finally got their heads in the game for a little while, playing better defense and stringing together some hits to bring the score back to a reasonable 13-11 by the top of the 9th.
The MBs were like great fishermen. They threw out the bait, slowly reeled in the catch, taking up the slack, but never letting the fish strain on the string. They let the SAS believe that they could catch up, and like all great fishermen, the MBs knew when to snap the pole and pull in the catch. They scored 13 runs in the top of the 9th to utterly destroy the SAS. Though not all the runs were due to hitting, some of them were due to horrible errors in the field. The ball was slippery, did I mention that it was raining heavily?
Going into the bottom of the 9th 15 runs down, the SAS did not yet admit defeat. They struggled hard and tried to at least salvage a non-mercy score out of the game. They were very close to succeeding, ending the game at 26-16.
MBP: Lloyd's Boys
Biggest Bat: Lloyd's Boys
Golden Glove: Lloyd's Boys
DY: Lloyd's Boys
Michal Jackson award: The Mick (Wearing one glove, AND throwing his ball into the back of a 13year old kid)
Famous Last Words: The Mick: We're playing the kids? Yeah, we're gonna kick some ass
Redeeming words: DT: We've never beaten them on Saturday, but we win when it counts....when a championship is at stake.
Final Score
Montfort Boys 26 : SaturdayAfternoonSoftballers 16
DT Rants...
It was an old school game of epic proportions. Fantastic numbers (there were more than 26 guys on the field IN THE RAIN). Fabulous wet, soggy, muddy, clayy, lumpy ground. Heavy, bone numbing, sock soaking, underwear drenching downpour. Superb skills shown on both teams. ESPN highlight reel plays from all, dives, slides, impossible catches and plays. Errors of stupendous stupidity. There were no gigantic hits though, as we were using a rubber ball, but there were some superb directional placement. What a great game. It totally brought me back to the games of yore, during the olden days, in the before times. Standing soaking wet, and cold in the outfield, waiting for the ball that would never reach me. Trying to lift my waterlogged, rainsoaked, enormously heavy glove. It was GREAT!
This is the kind of game that makes me drive 30mins every saturday, give up spending time with my loved one, resting from a bad week at work, having a good meal...etc week after week after week. Brilliant.
On to Next Week.
SAS:
Pitch: Dom, Catch: Burma Girl, 1st: H, 2nd: Horfun, 3rd: Generalissimo, SS: New John, LF: Superdad, CF: The Mick, RF: DT, Rover: Mike the Aussie
Montfort boys + Lloyd, Clement, Gilbert, Salehin, Ironman, Indiana and Sandman
We started the game with 9 of SAS vs 8 of the boys, so when Indiana and Burma Girl showed up, Lloyd picked Indiana for his team, and consequently, Sandman as well. He needn't have bothered, because at the end of the day, Lloyd had more than 16 guys on his team, having to sit out his kids over the innings. Did I mention that it was pouring. And the alternate field has the same clay consistancy as the NUS field of bygone days of old.
Even with 1 man short at the start of the game, The MBs showed their stuff, taking an early 3 run lead. SAS had no answer, even with the batting lineup of Seven, The Mick, New John and Superdad starting the rotation. SAS only managed to get a run on the board in the second inning, with Patrick showing a little Arod slap off the ball to get called safe at home.
The MBs pushed their lead again in the top of the third, driving in several runs with smart singles hitting and aggressive base running. The SAS had no answer. They finalled clawed their way back into the game in the bottom of the 5th, with only 2 runs behind. But it was not to be, as the SAS fought back to try to stay in the game, the MBs fought even harder to extend their lead. At the top of the 6th, they scored 7 runs to take a 13-5 lead. the SAS finally got their heads in the game for a little while, playing better defense and stringing together some hits to bring the score back to a reasonable 13-11 by the top of the 9th.
The MBs were like great fishermen. They threw out the bait, slowly reeled in the catch, taking up the slack, but never letting the fish strain on the string. They let the SAS believe that they could catch up, and like all great fishermen, the MBs knew when to snap the pole and pull in the catch. They scored 13 runs in the top of the 9th to utterly destroy the SAS. Though not all the runs were due to hitting, some of them were due to horrible errors in the field. The ball was slippery, did I mention that it was raining heavily?
Going into the bottom of the 9th 15 runs down, the SAS did not yet admit defeat. They struggled hard and tried to at least salvage a non-mercy score out of the game. They were very close to succeeding, ending the game at 26-16.
MBP: Lloyd's Boys
Biggest Bat: Lloyd's Boys
Golden Glove: Lloyd's Boys
DY: Lloyd's Boys
Michal Jackson award: The Mick (Wearing one glove, AND throwing his ball into the back of a 13year old kid)
Famous Last Words: The Mick: We're playing the kids? Yeah, we're gonna kick some ass
Redeeming words: DT: We've never beaten them on Saturday, but we win when it counts....when a championship is at stake.
Final Score
Montfort Boys 26 : SaturdayAfternoonSoftballers 16
DT Rants...
It was an old school game of epic proportions. Fantastic numbers (there were more than 26 guys on the field IN THE RAIN). Fabulous wet, soggy, muddy, clayy, lumpy ground. Heavy, bone numbing, sock soaking, underwear drenching downpour. Superb skills shown on both teams. ESPN highlight reel plays from all, dives, slides, impossible catches and plays. Errors of stupendous stupidity. There were no gigantic hits though, as we were using a rubber ball, but there were some superb directional placement. What a great game. It totally brought me back to the games of yore, during the olden days, in the before times. Standing soaking wet, and cold in the outfield, waiting for the ball that would never reach me. Trying to lift my waterlogged, rainsoaked, enormously heavy glove. It was GREAT!
This is the kind of game that makes me drive 30mins every saturday, give up spending time with my loved one, resting from a bad week at work, having a good meal...etc week after week after week. Brilliant.
On to Next Week.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
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
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
Fwd: Fake Steve, Fake Alex, and Emely are coming to town
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Martin Bazylewich <>
Date: Nov 18, 2006 6:41 PM
Subject: Fake Steve, Fake Alex, and Emely are coming to town
To:
Hey Guys!
Just wanted to update you all that we are going to be in Singapore for a holiday. We arrive in Singapore on Nov. 25th at 11.30pm on A Cebu Pacific flight from Cebu-Singapore. Yes, this is Saturday and it means I will have missed softball, but it is the only flight from Cebu that we can take. Not to worry, I'll be able to play the following Saturday. We're staying until December 5th, but during this time we will also be going up to Malaysia for a holiday. Marvin has graciously agreed to host us while we are in Singapore, and a friend of ours will host us up in Malaysia.
Looking forward to seeing you all soon. My mouth is watering already at the various food places I'm going to gorge at. I'm interested in this new hawker place that serves beauty burgers as well. Maybe we can try it like Chris suggested after ball the following week?
Anyways, I gotta run. I'll email more news if things change, otherwise we'll be seeing you soon.
Take er easy.
Fake Steve
Sunday, November 19, 2006
18 November 2006 -
ONES: 1B: Rickey/Heidi; 2B: Horfun; SS: DT; LF: Superdad; CF: Heidi/The Mick; RF: Marc
TWOS: 1B: Indiana; 2B: Geok; SS: Clement; LF: Rugburn; CF: Sandman; RF: Jay
All Time Pitcher (Game 2): Rickey
Game One (2 Innings):
ONES: 0
TWOS: 13
Game Two (7 Innings, although we claimed it was 9):
ONES: 17
TWOS: 18
It was nice, hot, clear day for the first time in two months. The main field was roped off to let the grass recover, so we went to the alternate field, and played Indiana/Prof Zen rules. The first game was just sad. If it could go wrong for the ONES, it did. The TWOS, meanwhile, were making spectacular catches. The Rugburn/Sandman combo in the outfield was particularly effective. In game two, the TWOS really took control, often leading by 8 or 9 runs, but they couldn't put away the mercy. In the top of the 9th, the ONES came back with 8 runs but couldn't get the tie or lead.
NOTES:
1) Great catches by Rugburn, Indiana and Sandman made the TWOS defense quite solid. Doesn't hurt when you have Clement at SS too; 2) When Heidi batted, the TWOS did a "Ted Williams" shift. She still wouldn't hit it to Left; 3) On one hit between Superdad and the Mick, the Mick was a spectator. But, he offered verbal support as Superdad ran down the ball; 4) Jason delivered wedding invitations; 4) Indiana had some wicked hits to RF.
MBP: Indiana
Biggest Bat: Rugburn
Gold Glove: Rugburn/Sandman
Laziest: Rickey
TWOS: 1B: Indiana; 2B: Geok; SS: Clement; LF: Rugburn; CF: Sandman; RF: Jay
All Time Pitcher (Game 2): Rickey
Game One (2 Innings):
ONES: 0
TWOS: 13
Game Two (7 Innings, although we claimed it was 9):
ONES: 17
TWOS: 18
It was nice, hot, clear day for the first time in two months. The main field was roped off to let the grass recover, so we went to the alternate field, and played Indiana/Prof Zen rules. The first game was just sad. If it could go wrong for the ONES, it did. The TWOS, meanwhile, were making spectacular catches. The Rugburn/Sandman combo in the outfield was particularly effective. In game two, the TWOS really took control, often leading by 8 or 9 runs, but they couldn't put away the mercy. In the top of the 9th, the ONES came back with 8 runs but couldn't get the tie or lead.
NOTES:
1) Great catches by Rugburn, Indiana and Sandman made the TWOS defense quite solid. Doesn't hurt when you have Clement at SS too; 2) When Heidi batted, the TWOS did a "Ted Williams" shift. She still wouldn't hit it to Left; 3) On one hit between Superdad and the Mick, the Mick was a spectator. But, he offered verbal support as Superdad ran down the ball; 4) Jason delivered wedding invitations; 4) Indiana had some wicked hits to RF.
MBP: Indiana
Biggest Bat: Rugburn
Gold Glove: Rugburn/Sandman
Laziest: Rickey
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
DT Rants stuffing meat into his mouth
After a fantastic (but extremely chilly time) at the bowling alley, we moved on to Botak Jones for dinner. I had heard about this place from my beloved, but since it was located way out in Tuas, it could not fit in the SAS dinner menu. Thankfully, they've recently opened a branch in Clementi, and since I was driving, heartily recommended the place for dinner.
Squeezing Rickey, Rugburn, Sandman and Horfun into the back of my Mazda 3 was no mean feet. Luckily, we were heading FOR dinner. It was a tighter fit AFTER dinner when I gave JUST Rickey and Rugburn a lift home.
The wait was long, but worth it. We got there at about 7ish, and only got food about 8ish. If this were blooies, we would've been bitching about the wait. But since it was only a coffeeshop, the coffeeshop was packed (I figured that they must have had about 50-70 orders before us) and the food was prepared fresh, we didn't complain. As with coffeeshop food, it did not arrive all at one go. First to show up at the table were the hot'n'spicy bratwursts ordered by Rickey, Sandman and my beloved. It was a massive plate covered in onions, fries, coleslaw and bun. Sadly the sausage was dwarfed by the rest of the stuff. It wasn't a very large sausage. Next came the deep fried jalapenos. They were delicious. Much much better than the ones served in Blooies. They were super crispy on the outside, and spicy, moist and cheesy on the inside. Super yum. Next came the Ribeye for the princess. It only cost $13 but it was huge and looked mighty yummy. Finally, our burgers arrived. But they screwed up the order. Rugburn and I ordered the botak double normal, and Horfun ordered the botak double with cheese. But they took her order as a botak burger with cheese (maybe the guy saw her ordering and didn't think she could finish a double). The burgers were HUGE. 150g patties, TWO of them. Rugburn couldn't fit it into his mouth, and I cheated. I removed the veges before I tried a bite.
Total bill came up to $69 for 7 people. It was american food at coffeeshop prices. This will make a great post ball dinner destination. And the crowd winds down at about 8ish, so if we hang around at Joes till about 8 and head there, we'd get a table and also not have to wait too long for our food. The variety is pretty good too. And beer is CHEAP... coffeeshop prices for the bottled tigers.
The Double Botak, covered in Cheese. Horfun wanted this, but only got the single. Rugburn and I had it without the cheese.
This is what a single botak burger looks like.
Rickey and Sandman had this. But as a set, with fries and the works. Imagine this plate, covered with fries and coleslaw.
Squeezing Rickey, Rugburn, Sandman and Horfun into the back of my Mazda 3 was no mean feet. Luckily, we were heading FOR dinner. It was a tighter fit AFTER dinner when I gave JUST Rickey and Rugburn a lift home.
The wait was long, but worth it. We got there at about 7ish, and only got food about 8ish. If this were blooies, we would've been bitching about the wait. But since it was only a coffeeshop, the coffeeshop was packed (I figured that they must have had about 50-70 orders before us) and the food was prepared fresh, we didn't complain. As with coffeeshop food, it did not arrive all at one go. First to show up at the table were the hot'n'spicy bratwursts ordered by Rickey, Sandman and my beloved. It was a massive plate covered in onions, fries, coleslaw and bun. Sadly the sausage was dwarfed by the rest of the stuff. It wasn't a very large sausage. Next came the deep fried jalapenos. They were delicious. Much much better than the ones served in Blooies. They were super crispy on the outside, and spicy, moist and cheesy on the inside. Super yum. Next came the Ribeye for the princess. It only cost $13 but it was huge and looked mighty yummy. Finally, our burgers arrived. But they screwed up the order. Rugburn and I ordered the botak double normal, and Horfun ordered the botak double with cheese. But they took her order as a botak burger with cheese (maybe the guy saw her ordering and didn't think she could finish a double). The burgers were HUGE. 150g patties, TWO of them. Rugburn couldn't fit it into his mouth, and I cheated. I removed the veges before I tried a bite.
Total bill came up to $69 for 7 people. It was american food at coffeeshop prices. This will make a great post ball dinner destination. And the crowd winds down at about 8ish, so if we hang around at Joes till about 8 and head there, we'd get a table and also not have to wait too long for our food. The variety is pretty good too. And beer is CHEAP... coffeeshop prices for the bottled tigers.
The Double Botak, covered in Cheese. Horfun wanted this, but only got the single. Rugburn and I had it without the cheese.
This is what a single botak burger looks like.
H's airflown Ribeye.
Delicious Stuffed Jalapenos.
Rickey and Sandman had this. But as a set, with fries and the works. Imagine this plate, covered with fries and coleslaw.
Monday, November 13, 2006
11 November 2006 - Rain Rain Rain
ONES: Rugburn, Horfun, Sandman, Seven
TWOS: DT, H, Rickey
Game 1: ONES 214 : TWOS 262
Game 2: ONES 389 : TWOS 341
Game 3: ONES 442 : TWOS 269
There was a thunderstorm brewing and at 2pm, the skies opened up and the heavens rained down on us. Through the use of modern technology aka SMS, messages were sent out to almost everyone to inform them to stay at home, and to call off the game. However, since most of us live only for saturdaysoftball and have no other plans on a saturday afternoon, alternate plans were concocted. More SMSes were sent out and a new time and place to meet up was decided. 4pm, Henderson Road SAFRA, Bowling Alley... Those do look like cricket scores... but no, we only went bowling.
Game 1 saw utter domination by Rickey and DT, both cracking the century mark to carry H. H had probably the worst game of her entire bowling career, but thankfully, she did not let it affect her as she picked herself up to score well in the second and third games. Rugburn showed that he had some power, but the pins were not falling well for him. Horfun and Sandman showed good consistancy, but sadly the drains saw more of their balls than the pins.
After a 50 pin win, Seven, the late arrival was assigned to the ONES. It was a mistake. The TWOs should have traded for Horfun or Sandman. Seven had some skills on the lane, and he combined well with Rugburn. Even so, the TWOS managed to get at least hundred points each to take the (Average) win, but not the total win. This time, Rugburn, Horfun and Seven were showing their stuff, with Sandman falling far behind.
Game 3 belonged to Rugburn. He took The Lebowski award with an astonishing 140 pin game. Seven was close behind with 132 pins and both Horfun and Sandman put up high 80s numbers to seal the win for the ONES. Sandman was the king of 9s in game 3. He constantly dropped 9 pins in each frame and could not drop the last one for the win. The TWOs started off strong with a strike a piece, but struggled to maintain the lead. They even moved on to lighter balls as the balls got heavier with each roll.
The Lebowski Award: Rugburn
The Firststrike Award: DT
The 9pin Award: Sandman
Most Hats Thrown: Rickey
We went to a new place for dinner after bowling. Looks like this might be the new 'chicken burger'/'blooies' destination for post ball dinner. The food is as good as blooies, but as cheap as chicken burger. American food with American portions at coffeeshop prices.
Link here for Menu
TWOS: DT, H, Rickey
Game 1: ONES 214 : TWOS 262
Game 2: ONES 389 : TWOS 341
Game 3: ONES 442 : TWOS 269
There was a thunderstorm brewing and at 2pm, the skies opened up and the heavens rained down on us. Through the use of modern technology aka SMS, messages were sent out to almost everyone to inform them to stay at home, and to call off the game. However, since most of us live only for saturdaysoftball and have no other plans on a saturday afternoon, alternate plans were concocted. More SMSes were sent out and a new time and place to meet up was decided. 4pm, Henderson Road SAFRA, Bowling Alley... Those do look like cricket scores... but no, we only went bowling.
Game 1 saw utter domination by Rickey and DT, both cracking the century mark to carry H. H had probably the worst game of her entire bowling career, but thankfully, she did not let it affect her as she picked herself up to score well in the second and third games. Rugburn showed that he had some power, but the pins were not falling well for him. Horfun and Sandman showed good consistancy, but sadly the drains saw more of their balls than the pins.
After a 50 pin win, Seven, the late arrival was assigned to the ONES. It was a mistake. The TWOs should have traded for Horfun or Sandman. Seven had some skills on the lane, and he combined well with Rugburn. Even so, the TWOS managed to get at least hundred points each to take the (Average) win, but not the total win. This time, Rugburn, Horfun and Seven were showing their stuff, with Sandman falling far behind.
Game 3 belonged to Rugburn. He took The Lebowski award with an astonishing 140 pin game. Seven was close behind with 132 pins and both Horfun and Sandman put up high 80s numbers to seal the win for the ONES. Sandman was the king of 9s in game 3. He constantly dropped 9 pins in each frame and could not drop the last one for the win. The TWOs started off strong with a strike a piece, but struggled to maintain the lead. They even moved on to lighter balls as the balls got heavier with each roll.
The Lebowski Award: Rugburn
The Firststrike Award: DT
The 9pin Award: Sandman
Most Hats Thrown: Rickey
We went to a new place for dinner after bowling. Looks like this might be the new 'chicken burger'/'blooies' destination for post ball dinner. The food is as good as blooies, but as cheap as chicken burger. American food with American portions at coffeeshop prices.
Link here for Menu
Friday, November 10, 2006
DT takes a break
Sorry for missing the rant, but I don't have time this week.
one comment before I go... DY's kid has bigger muscles than he does. Must be all the clean and clear that they're applying on his skin.
one comment before I go... DY's kid has bigger muscles than he does. Must be all the clean and clear that they're applying on his skin.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Sunday, November 05, 2006
4 November 2006 - Horfun the Diplomat
ONES: 1B: Rickey; 2B: Geok; SS: New John; LF: Superdad; CF: Nigey-pooh; RF: Indiana
TWOS: 1B: Heidi/Rube; 2B: Horfun; SS: DT: LF: Rugburn; CF: Rube/Heidi; RF: Marc
ONES: 20
TWOS 14
We played Indiana/Prof. Zen Rules. It was a fairly close game until the last inning when the ONES pulled away in the bottom of the 8th for the win. Most of the ONES runs were scored on 2-out rallies, which raised Rube's blood pressure. Overall, it was a good day, but nothing spectacular. We did have quite a bit of "intrusion" from soccer players. On one side Horfun showed off her diplomatic skills by speaking Vietnamese and getting the fools to move. On the other side, Superdad almost hit someone with a hard line drive in the head.
NOTES:
1) Nigey-pooh scored 4 of the first 5 runs for the ONES, keeping them in the game until the others could get going; 2) Horfun stopped a rally with a great double play. She caught a Rickey line-drive, and then got Indiana who had already stepped off 2B; 3) DY showed up with the wife and kid, who is on the 'roids (for a rash); 4) Went bowling after Joe's. Without the Mick, no one stood out although Superdad got high scores.
MBP: Nigey-pooh
Diplomat of the Year; Horfun
Play of the Day: Horfun
DY: Keagan
Lebowski: Superdad
TWOS: 1B: Heidi/Rube; 2B: Horfun; SS: DT: LF: Rugburn; CF: Rube/Heidi; RF: Marc
ONES: 20
TWOS 14
We played Indiana/Prof. Zen Rules. It was a fairly close game until the last inning when the ONES pulled away in the bottom of the 8th for the win. Most of the ONES runs were scored on 2-out rallies, which raised Rube's blood pressure. Overall, it was a good day, but nothing spectacular. We did have quite a bit of "intrusion" from soccer players. On one side Horfun showed off her diplomatic skills by speaking Vietnamese and getting the fools to move. On the other side, Superdad almost hit someone with a hard line drive in the head.
NOTES:
1) Nigey-pooh scored 4 of the first 5 runs for the ONES, keeping them in the game until the others could get going; 2) Horfun stopped a rally with a great double play. She caught a Rickey line-drive, and then got Indiana who had already stepped off 2B; 3) DY showed up with the wife and kid, who is on the 'roids (for a rash); 4) Went bowling after Joe's. Without the Mick, no one stood out although Superdad got high scores.
MBP: Nigey-pooh
Diplomat of the Year; Horfun
Play of the Day: Horfun
DY: Keagan
Lebowski: Superdad
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Joe
On 11/2/06, Kari Heggelund wrote:
Hi,
Fun to read the updates on the site!
However, I think you should post a picture of dear Joe on the site too
- after all, he is a great guy who loves the team;)
I will probably miss sneaking in on the BBQ the 16th!
All the best,
Kari (who is thinking Karl was right about me staying in Singapore,
since it is -15 degrees and too much snow outside, and it is clearly
not a nice temprature to watch a game of softball - nor play)
--
Kari Heggelund
Norway
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Cardinals Win
This post is for the Rube. Congrats on the Win.
opps. This is the national T-ball champions.
Monday, October 30, 2006
DT rants
What a great day. Perfect weather, perfect field, perfect numbers.
Superb!!
Glad to see the return of Marc and Jay. Looks like we have a couple of stayers.
Tan Brother Number 2 appeared as well. He led off the game for his team with a Homerun and he contributed with mighty offensive numbers throughout.
Teams looked even on paper, but the TWOs batting order was unstoppable. They put all their batters in a sequence and it was hard to stop. Marc had a tough time in center-right. It's only his second time playing and he had difficulty judging the ball. Nigeypooh, who has played more than Marc, was picked on as well, as TanNo2 and Rube struck deep hits over his head (and he was standing deep).
New John was moved to 3rd as Clement played SS for the TWOs. You would think that this combination would be an unstoppable wall, but New John had difficulty picking up the slow rollers at 3rd. He's much better taking the hard hit grounders at short.
Clement's Bat was amazing. He was not only hitting deep, he was spraying the ball to all corners. NUS life is agreeing with him. Too bad he'll never get into the varsity squad no matter how good he is. It's all politics and favouritism.
Indiana should be called "Quick Draw McGraw". New John hit a screaming liner down the third base line, and Indiana didn't even flinch. His glove is moved (barely a couple of inches) and caught the ball. It looked exactly like he drew a gun from his holster in one smooth, quick action.
Guess my phlegm power must have rubbed off on some people from last week. Quite a few who showed up (and one who DIDN'T show up) suffered from phlegm power too. H hits better on phlegm power. But Rickey's glove was severly affected.
Both teams scored 14 runs in ONE inning each.
Can't wait for next week. Even DY's promised to come out.
Post-Softball note. We watched Jackass2 at Indiana's place after ball. The show is gross. And it was extremely apt that we paused the movie right when the camera zoomed in on a piece of warm turd to break for pizza. Of course, no one realized that it was a piece of shit till AFTER we finished our dinner and started asking... "What is THAT on the screen". Meanwhile, prostetic saggy-knee-tits and balls-outside-shorts make good comedy any day.
BBQ notice. To celebrate 3 weddings, and to bid farewell to some regulars, we're going to be planning a BBQ on the 16th Dec.
Married (or to be Married)
Seven and Benchbreaker
Jason and Diana
Sandman and Lexus
Leaving
Seven(4 years to get a degree)
The Generalissimo
Rickey (1 year on honeymoon or sabbatical... aren't they both the same?)
Superb!!
Glad to see the return of Marc and Jay. Looks like we have a couple of stayers.
Tan Brother Number 2 appeared as well. He led off the game for his team with a Homerun and he contributed with mighty offensive numbers throughout.
Teams looked even on paper, but the TWOs batting order was unstoppable. They put all their batters in a sequence and it was hard to stop. Marc had a tough time in center-right. It's only his second time playing and he had difficulty judging the ball. Nigeypooh, who has played more than Marc, was picked on as well, as TanNo2 and Rube struck deep hits over his head (and he was standing deep).
New John was moved to 3rd as Clement played SS for the TWOs. You would think that this combination would be an unstoppable wall, but New John had difficulty picking up the slow rollers at 3rd. He's much better taking the hard hit grounders at short.
Clement's Bat was amazing. He was not only hitting deep, he was spraying the ball to all corners. NUS life is agreeing with him. Too bad he'll never get into the varsity squad no matter how good he is. It's all politics and favouritism.
Indiana should be called "Quick Draw McGraw". New John hit a screaming liner down the third base line, and Indiana didn't even flinch. His glove is moved (barely a couple of inches) and caught the ball. It looked exactly like he drew a gun from his holster in one smooth, quick action.
Guess my phlegm power must have rubbed off on some people from last week. Quite a few who showed up (and one who DIDN'T show up) suffered from phlegm power too. H hits better on phlegm power. But Rickey's glove was severly affected.
Both teams scored 14 runs in ONE inning each.
Can't wait for next week. Even DY's promised to come out.
Post-Softball note. We watched Jackass2 at Indiana's place after ball. The show is gross. And it was extremely apt that we paused the movie right when the camera zoomed in on a piece of warm turd to break for pizza. Of course, no one realized that it was a piece of shit till AFTER we finished our dinner and started asking... "What is THAT on the screen". Meanwhile, prostetic saggy-knee-tits and balls-outside-shorts make good comedy any day.
BBQ notice. To celebrate 3 weddings, and to bid farewell to some regulars, we're going to be planning a BBQ on the 16th Dec.
Married (or to be Married)
Seven and Benchbreaker
Jason and Diana
Sandman and Lexus
Leaving
Seven(4 years to get a degree)
The Generalissimo
Rickey (1 year on honeymoon or sabbatical... aren't they both the same?)
The official Record for highest scoring game was 61.
Pardon me for my oversight, I kept thinking 62, but hey, in my defence, I'm not a historian.
Btw, the link to the highest scoring game is here http://saturdaysoftball.blogspot.com/2005/11/19-november-2005-61.html
Btw, the link to the highest scoring game is here http://saturdaysoftball.blogspot.com/2005/11/19-november-2005-61.html
Sunday, October 29, 2006
28 October 2006 - "60"
ONES: 1B: Heidi; 2B: Diana; 3B: Indiana; SS: DT; LF: Rugburn; CF: Nigey-pooh; RF: Jason; Rover; Marc
TWOS: 1B: Rickey; 2B: Geok; 3B: New John; SS: Clement; LF: Rube; CF: The Cheetah; RF: Tan Bro #2; Rover: Jay; Rover: Horfun
ONES: 26
TWOS: 34
"60" is an important number in baseball. It is Babe Ruth's home-run total that has only been broken by Roger Maris [everything in the past 10 years doesn't count - that's "clean and clear"]. Well, we had a historic moment on Saturday: 60 runs were scored. However, this was not our highest total ever, according to DT, who claims we've had 62.
A lot of the game was a home-run derby between Rugburn and Rube. Very impressive boomers. I think Rugburn may have hit them farther, but Rube won for hitting impressively to all fields. The ONES opened the game with a 6-1 lead, and then the TWOS just took off. Rube set up a nice back-to-back hitting line-up that put guys on for him to hit in, and things took off. The key inning was the 7th, when 24 total runs were scored. Yes, that's "24" runs in an inning (ONES had 10, TWOS had 14). Twice the ONES were threatened with mercy, and they valiantly fought back. Once, they were even down by 17 runs, and came back. Overall, it was another great game. When we get the numbers, it just happens.
NOTES:
1) It wasn't all Rube and Rugburn. All were hitting well. Tan Bro had a opening homer that took those unfamilar with the Tan family by surprise; 2) Good to see a Tan out there; 3) DT, Geok, Heidi and Rickey were playing on phlegm power; 4) Congrats to Cardinal fans on the World Series victory.
MBP: Rube
Biggest Bat: Rube and Rugburn
Best Bat: Nigey-pooh
Gold Glove: If 60 runs are scored, there is no "gold glove"
DY: DT
PS: We will probably be having a BBQ on 16 December. There are number of things to celebrate....
TWOS: 1B: Rickey; 2B: Geok; 3B: New John; SS: Clement; LF: Rube; CF: The Cheetah; RF: Tan Bro #2; Rover: Jay; Rover: Horfun
ONES: 26
TWOS: 34
"60" is an important number in baseball. It is Babe Ruth's home-run total that has only been broken by Roger Maris [everything in the past 10 years doesn't count - that's "clean and clear"]. Well, we had a historic moment on Saturday: 60 runs were scored. However, this was not our highest total ever, according to DT, who claims we've had 62.
A lot of the game was a home-run derby between Rugburn and Rube. Very impressive boomers. I think Rugburn may have hit them farther, but Rube won for hitting impressively to all fields. The ONES opened the game with a 6-1 lead, and then the TWOS just took off. Rube set up a nice back-to-back hitting line-up that put guys on for him to hit in, and things took off. The key inning was the 7th, when 24 total runs were scored. Yes, that's "24" runs in an inning (ONES had 10, TWOS had 14). Twice the ONES were threatened with mercy, and they valiantly fought back. Once, they were even down by 17 runs, and came back. Overall, it was another great game. When we get the numbers, it just happens.
NOTES:
1) It wasn't all Rube and Rugburn. All were hitting well. Tan Bro had a opening homer that took those unfamilar with the Tan family by surprise; 2) Good to see a Tan out there; 3) DT, Geok, Heidi and Rickey were playing on phlegm power; 4) Congrats to Cardinal fans on the World Series victory.
MBP: Rube
Biggest Bat: Rube and Rugburn
Best Bat: Nigey-pooh
Gold Glove: If 60 runs are scored, there is no "gold glove"
DY: DT
PS: We will probably be having a BBQ on 16 December. There are number of things to celebrate....
Saturday, October 28, 2006
DT Rants about not being able to rant this week
Wasn't able to Rant this week, though I had quite a few things to say.
Well, better late than never.
1. I finally managed to convince my friend Marc to show up for Ball. As I had predicted, he should be quite adept at the game since he plays with his own balls and stick all the time. All joking aside, he hit really well for a firsttimer...wait, better than well, he hit awesomely (including a HR). He didn't get much action in RF since Rube was not around, but I'm waiting for this weekend when the Rube plugs some down to him.
2. It was a game of errors, but I can't complain since for the first time in so many weeks, we finally get to play normal rules. We haven't played normal rules for so long that we've almost forgotten how to. Loads of silly, bonehead plays, but that makes the game all the more fun.
3. Good to see the reappearance of New John. He's been coming out two weeks in a row, and we hope to keep seeing him. He's got superb range at short, and a mean bat too. May be one of the best shortstops that have come our all. He has the complete game.
4. Where is SuperDad? Ever since SuperMum met us at the BBQ, SuperDad has gone missing. Ground control to SuperDad, take your protein pills and come out to the field.
5. Rickey's learning how to play cricket, and not doing that bad a job. Soft hands...it's all about the soft hands.
6. Not sure about the Seven MBP call. He had a good game, but New John was booming the homers and holding the infield.
7. You'd think using Tennis shoes on hardground would be a good idea.... Well, you'd be wrong.
Well, better late than never.
1. I finally managed to convince my friend Marc to show up for Ball. As I had predicted, he should be quite adept at the game since he plays with his own balls and stick all the time. All joking aside, he hit really well for a firsttimer...wait, better than well, he hit awesomely (including a HR). He didn't get much action in RF since Rube was not around, but I'm waiting for this weekend when the Rube plugs some down to him.
2. It was a game of errors, but I can't complain since for the first time in so many weeks, we finally get to play normal rules. We haven't played normal rules for so long that we've almost forgotten how to. Loads of silly, bonehead plays, but that makes the game all the more fun.
3. Good to see the reappearance of New John. He's been coming out two weeks in a row, and we hope to keep seeing him. He's got superb range at short, and a mean bat too. May be one of the best shortstops that have come our all. He has the complete game.
4. Where is SuperDad? Ever since SuperMum met us at the BBQ, SuperDad has gone missing. Ground control to SuperDad, take your protein pills and come out to the field.
5. Rickey's learning how to play cricket, and not doing that bad a job. Soft hands...it's all about the soft hands.
6. Not sure about the Seven MBP call. He had a good game, but New John was booming the homers and holding the infield.
7. You'd think using Tennis shoes on hardground would be a good idea.... Well, you'd be wrong.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Saturday, October 21, 2006
21 October 2006 - Deepavali Game
ONES: 1B: Indiana; 2B: Horfun; 3B: Seven; SS: New John; LF: Heidi; CF: Sandman; RF: Mark
TWOS: 1B: Rickey; 2B: Diana; 3B: Jay; SS: DT; LF: Rugburn; CF: Jason; RF: Geok
ONES: 17
TWOS: 16
We finally had a game with a full field. No cones, no Prof. Zen rules, no ghost runners. And, it was a great game. There were weird plays, great hits, great fielding. All was fine in the world. The TWOS got out to a big early lead, but the ONES wouldn't give up. By the 3rd, the TWOS were ahead 10-3. But, the ONES finally took the lead in the bottom of the 8th. The TWOS scored to take a one run lead into the bottom of the 9th, which ended on a screwed-up play. With the game tied, Jay - a rookie - threw to second as the play was cooling down. Nothing wrong with that, just that there was no one to catch it. The ball rolled into RF, and Indiana walked home for the win. It was a bit strange, but the game was over.
NOTES:
1) The ground was really hard. How hard? Well, Rickey hit a homer that was a grounder. Once it started rolling, even he could make it around the bases; 2) The outfielders also spent a lot of time running after balls that got through. Not an easy job; 3) Good to see the new guys, Mark and Jay. Mark, who has never played, was hitting like a pro by the end of the game, and caught one of DT's fly balls; 4) Weird play of the day: Rickey was standing on 3rd and Rugburn hit a scorching line drive at Rickey's (his teammate) torso. Rickey looked like he was trying to catch it. The ball deflected off his right hand, hit his knee and then shot off towards the track. All happened as he stood on base, so ball in play. Rickey and DT scored. Rugburn stopped at 3B although no one had touched the ball yet, thinking it was not right to score on such a goofy play. Rickey has a bruised middle finger, and stitch marks on his knee. Damn. Took a couple of innings to get the feeling back in the fingers. 5) DT played on phlegm-power; 6) Seven hit some nice line drives, but Rugburn hit the boomers.
MBP: Seven (had key defensive plays, and key hits)
Best Bat: Mark
Biggest Bat: Rugburn
Gold Glove: Outfielders. They were tired running those balls down
Play of the day: Line drive off Rickey. Ball in play.
DY: DT
TWOS: 1B: Rickey; 2B: Diana; 3B: Jay; SS: DT; LF: Rugburn; CF: Jason; RF: Geok
ONES: 17
TWOS: 16
We finally had a game with a full field. No cones, no Prof. Zen rules, no ghost runners. And, it was a great game. There were weird plays, great hits, great fielding. All was fine in the world. The TWOS got out to a big early lead, but the ONES wouldn't give up. By the 3rd, the TWOS were ahead 10-3. But, the ONES finally took the lead in the bottom of the 8th. The TWOS scored to take a one run lead into the bottom of the 9th, which ended on a screwed-up play. With the game tied, Jay - a rookie - threw to second as the play was cooling down. Nothing wrong with that, just that there was no one to catch it. The ball rolled into RF, and Indiana walked home for the win. It was a bit strange, but the game was over.
NOTES:
1) The ground was really hard. How hard? Well, Rickey hit a homer that was a grounder. Once it started rolling, even he could make it around the bases; 2) The outfielders also spent a lot of time running after balls that got through. Not an easy job; 3) Good to see the new guys, Mark and Jay. Mark, who has never played, was hitting like a pro by the end of the game, and caught one of DT's fly balls; 4) Weird play of the day: Rickey was standing on 3rd and Rugburn hit a scorching line drive at Rickey's (his teammate) torso. Rickey looked like he was trying to catch it. The ball deflected off his right hand, hit his knee and then shot off towards the track. All happened as he stood on base, so ball in play. Rickey and DT scored. Rugburn stopped at 3B although no one had touched the ball yet, thinking it was not right to score on such a goofy play. Rickey has a bruised middle finger, and stitch marks on his knee. Damn. Took a couple of innings to get the feeling back in the fingers. 5) DT played on phlegm-power; 6) Seven hit some nice line drives, but Rugburn hit the boomers.
MBP: Seven (had key defensive plays, and key hits)
Best Bat: Mark
Biggest Bat: Rugburn
Gold Glove: Outfielders. They were tired running those balls down
Play of the day: Line drive off Rickey. Ball in play.
DY: DT
Friday, October 20, 2006
Vote NOW for Gilbert
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From: gilbert song
Date: Oct 20, 2006 9:04 PM
Subject: Hi
To:
Hi guys,
Long time no see.. As u all know.. My ligament tear and now I am still recovering.. Miss the sat game alot.. Anyway, I am recovering le.. Now can walk but cant run yet. Hope can join u guys soon.. Another few mths ba..
Anyway, needa u guys to do me a favour.. I am in a competition ah.. So need ur votes !! www.female50gp.com I am no 36.. Can vote both the Female and Nokia category each time and every 24hrs for another new vote. Dont worry.. It's FOC.. Yeah.. Thanx dude !!
Regards,
Gilbert Song
Vote for him HERE
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From: gilbert song
Date: Oct 20, 2006 9:04 PM
Subject: Hi
To:
Hi guys,
Long time no see.. As u all know.. My ligament tear and now I am still recovering.. Miss the sat game alot.. Anyway, I am recovering le.. Now can walk but cant run yet. Hope can join u guys soon.. Another few mths ba..
Anyway, needa u guys to do me a favour.. I am in a competition ah.. So need ur votes !! www.female50gp.com I am no 36.. Can vote both the Female and Nokia category each time and every 24hrs for another new vote. Dont worry.. It's FOC.. Yeah.. Thanx dude !!
Regards,
Gilbert Song
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Coach's Doppelganger
Is it just me or does the Tiger's Jim Leyland look a lot like Coach?
Then again, all white man look alike to me.
PS. I totally forgot that this blog has hit the 2 year mark. More Good Years
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
I Drink Beer - Dan Reeder
The man who was usually careful
Met the man who just didn't care
They went to the house
Of the man or a mouse
And met the mailman there
Man with a plan
Man on a mission
Man who could do no wrong
They all stood around in the kitchen
And sang the following song:
I drink beer to improve my mind
Win the war, help mankind
Through these dark and trying times
Hey batter, batter, batter, hey batter hey
Swing batter swing, swing away
Swing for the fence
Live for the day
Put your life in Jesus' hand
Shut your eyes as tight as you can
And swing like a man, like a man, like a man
I drink beer to boost retail sales
Save those dolphins, save those whales
I drink beer for the revolution
Hey batter, batter, batter, hey batter hey
Swing batter swing, swing away
Swing for the fence
Live for the day
Put your life in Jesus' hand
Shut your eyes as tight as you can
And swing like a man, like a man, like a man
Cos we are men
Men who shall remain
We shall remain men till we go home
We are men
Men who shall remain
We shall remain men till we go home.
Met the man who just didn't care
They went to the house
Of the man or a mouse
And met the mailman there
Man with a plan
Man on a mission
Man who could do no wrong
They all stood around in the kitchen
And sang the following song:
I drink beer to improve my mind
Win the war, help mankind
Through these dark and trying times
Hey batter, batter, batter, hey batter hey
Swing batter swing, swing away
Swing for the fence
Live for the day
Put your life in Jesus' hand
Shut your eyes as tight as you can
And swing like a man, like a man, like a man
I drink beer to boost retail sales
Save those dolphins, save those whales
I drink beer for the revolution
Hey batter, batter, batter, hey batter hey
Swing batter swing, swing away
Swing for the fence
Live for the day
Put your life in Jesus' hand
Shut your eyes as tight as you can
And swing like a man, like a man, like a man
Cos we are men
Men who shall remain
We shall remain men till we go home
We are men
Men who shall remain
We shall remain men till we go home.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Fwd: VERY HAPPY TO KNOW YOU GUYS
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: brian_yang
Date: Oct 15, 2006 9:25 PM
Subject: VERY HAPPY TO KNOW YOU GUYS
To:saturdaysoftball
I am brian yang. I enjoyed a lot with you on sat day when I visited the univesity of NUS. I hope I can enjoy softball game with you wheneve I can have time.
Thanks everybody.
Brian Yang ex korea
From: brian_yang
Date: Oct 15, 2006 9:25 PM
Subject: VERY HAPPY TO KNOW YOU GUYS
To:saturdaysoftball
I am brian yang. I enjoyed a lot with you on sat day when I visited the univesity of NUS. I hope I can enjoy softball game with you wheneve I can have time.
Thanks everybody.
Brian Yang ex korea
Saturday, October 14, 2006
14 October 2006 - Hazy shade of Gray
ONES: Indiana, New John, H, Brian From Korea
TWOS: DT, Horfun, Burma Girl, Rugburn
All time: Rube
Game 1: ONES 12: TWOS 11
Game 2: ONES 5: TWOS 0
We were about to call the game. At 3.15pm, there was only Rube, Rugburn, Horfun, H and myself. But when Burma girl called and asked if we were on the field, we decided to get in some batting practice. Turns out, that was a wise decision as New John showed up and Brian, a Korean Traveller on a business trip asked if he could join us. He was actually seeing the sights in Singapore, and NUS was one of his stops (crazy... I know, but it was a blessing in disguise as he put on an awesome batting display) Seeing us warm up, he asked if he could join us, and we never turn anyone away (especially when we have no numbers). With 9+1 and only 4 batters per team, we decide to play Indiana and Prof Zen rules with a ghost runner thrown in if runners were on first and second.
Rube volunteered to play in the field all time (he said he didn't want to run too much...which was ironic since he probably ran more than if he had actually hit). DT did the count, and trying to balance Rugburn's bat, he elected to put Burma Girl and Horfun on the same team. With Brian an unknown quantity, and New John not yet proving his bat, DT thought that this would make the teams more even. Little did he know that Brian from Korea had a massive bat, hitting two home runs back to back (including a base clearing 3 run HR), over Rugburns head. New John also showed his stuff, finally getting accustomed to the slow pitch. He made some monster hits deep into left and centerfield. Defensively, both Johns built a brick wall in the infield. Nothing that hit the ground within the diamond got by them. The TWOs had to depend on Rugburn's big bat to score runs. Ironically, it was DT who scored the first 3run HR for the TWOs. But all the other points were put on the board by Rugburn. To counter this, the ONES decided to put up the most interesting defensive shift I've ever seen. They did an infield-outfield shift. Rube, H and Brian in the OF, and Indiana joined them, leaving only New John to defend the infield. The strategy worked as Rugburn was held to singles, and on his final at-bat, he was caught out by Indiana.
The ONES actually led the entire first game. Putting runs early on the board within the first 3 innings. However, in the 4th when DT switched from SS to CF with Rube, the TWOS defense suddenly took on a whole new life. For 3 consecutive innings, the TWOS made 1-2-3 outs with barely 6 pitches made. Rube stopped everything bouncing to him, and DT and Rugburn caught everything flying towards the OF. The TWOS finally caught up, one run at a time, and actually tied the game at the top of the 9th (with a 3run HR from Rugburn... there were about 4 of them today). However, the batting lineup of New John, Brian from Korea, Indiana and H proved too strong. With Brian getting on base, he was finally knocked in by a huge hit from New John.
Moving to the second game, it was the same thing. The ONES combined strong hitting with solid glovework to hold off any chance of the TWOS winning a game. Looking back, tweaking the lineup by trading H for Burma girl might have made the teams more fair.
Sadly, we will be losing Brian this weekend, as he returns to Korea on Friday. However, his company will be sending him to Singapore quite often, and he promised he will join us whenever he's in town. We lost the Generalissimo for 6 weeks while he's on a study trip, and we've also lost The Mick for 3 weeks as he goes back to New York to NOT watch the world series. Rickey had to give a talk to his groupies at some museum and Sandman's folks are in town, but hopefully we'll see them next week. Superdad needs to start showing up. We haven't seen him for a long time... (but if he's busy, he should send SuperMom instead)
The Haze was not that bad, although it got pretty awful come late evening. Hopefully it will clear up by next week. Our rule is quite simple, unless there is lightning threatening to strike our bats, we play.
On to Next Week.
TWOS: DT, Horfun, Burma Girl, Rugburn
All time: Rube
Game 1: ONES 12: TWOS 11
Game 2: ONES 5: TWOS 0
We were about to call the game. At 3.15pm, there was only Rube, Rugburn, Horfun, H and myself. But when Burma girl called and asked if we were on the field, we decided to get in some batting practice. Turns out, that was a wise decision as New John showed up and Brian, a Korean Traveller on a business trip asked if he could join us. He was actually seeing the sights in Singapore, and NUS was one of his stops (crazy... I know, but it was a blessing in disguise as he put on an awesome batting display) Seeing us warm up, he asked if he could join us, and we never turn anyone away (especially when we have no numbers). With 9+1 and only 4 batters per team, we decide to play Indiana and Prof Zen rules with a ghost runner thrown in if runners were on first and second.
Rube volunteered to play in the field all time (he said he didn't want to run too much...which was ironic since he probably ran more than if he had actually hit). DT did the count, and trying to balance Rugburn's bat, he elected to put Burma Girl and Horfun on the same team. With Brian an unknown quantity, and New John not yet proving his bat, DT thought that this would make the teams more even. Little did he know that Brian from Korea had a massive bat, hitting two home runs back to back (including a base clearing 3 run HR), over Rugburns head. New John also showed his stuff, finally getting accustomed to the slow pitch. He made some monster hits deep into left and centerfield. Defensively, both Johns built a brick wall in the infield. Nothing that hit the ground within the diamond got by them. The TWOs had to depend on Rugburn's big bat to score runs. Ironically, it was DT who scored the first 3run HR for the TWOs. But all the other points were put on the board by Rugburn. To counter this, the ONES decided to put up the most interesting defensive shift I've ever seen. They did an infield-outfield shift. Rube, H and Brian in the OF, and Indiana joined them, leaving only New John to defend the infield. The strategy worked as Rugburn was held to singles, and on his final at-bat, he was caught out by Indiana.
The ONES actually led the entire first game. Putting runs early on the board within the first 3 innings. However, in the 4th when DT switched from SS to CF with Rube, the TWOS defense suddenly took on a whole new life. For 3 consecutive innings, the TWOS made 1-2-3 outs with barely 6 pitches made. Rube stopped everything bouncing to him, and DT and Rugburn caught everything flying towards the OF. The TWOS finally caught up, one run at a time, and actually tied the game at the top of the 9th (with a 3run HR from Rugburn... there were about 4 of them today). However, the batting lineup of New John, Brian from Korea, Indiana and H proved too strong. With Brian getting on base, he was finally knocked in by a huge hit from New John.
Moving to the second game, it was the same thing. The ONES combined strong hitting with solid glovework to hold off any chance of the TWOS winning a game. Looking back, tweaking the lineup by trading H for Burma girl might have made the teams more fair.
Sadly, we will be losing Brian this weekend, as he returns to Korea on Friday. However, his company will be sending him to Singapore quite often, and he promised he will join us whenever he's in town. We lost the Generalissimo for 6 weeks while he's on a study trip, and we've also lost The Mick for 3 weeks as he goes back to New York to NOT watch the world series. Rickey had to give a talk to his groupies at some museum and Sandman's folks are in town, but hopefully we'll see them next week. Superdad needs to start showing up. We haven't seen him for a long time... (but if he's busy, he should send SuperMom instead)
The Haze was not that bad, although it got pretty awful come late evening. Hopefully it will clear up by next week. Our rule is quite simple, unless there is lightning threatening to strike our bats, we play.
On to Next Week.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Monday, October 09, 2006
Fwd: can you post this?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Patrick Daly
Date: Sep 12, 2006 4:01 PM
Subject: can you post this?
To: saturdaysoftball
From: Patrick Daly
Date: Sep 12, 2006 4:01 PM
Subject: can you post this?
To: saturdaysoftball
I think we need to hire this coach to get us playing the game right.
the mick
T-ball coach to stand trial for $25 offer to bean player
| PITTSBURGH -- A T-ball coach accused of offering an 8-year-old boy $25 to bean a disabled teammate is unlikely to receive a fair trial because of intense media coverage, the man's lawyer said. Mark R. Downs Jr., 29, of Dunbar, was scheduled to go on trial Tuesday in Fayette County on a string of charges, including solicitation, corruption of minors and reckless endangerment. He refused a plea agreement in December. The charges against Downs drew the attention of media outlets around the world. Many columnists expressed disgust at what they considered adult corruption of a child's sport. "We feel he's been persecuted by the media," defense attorney Thomas Shaffer said. "[The case] was on from the nightly news in Japan to every syndicated network broadcast across the country." Prosecutors have argued that Downs did not want Harry Bowers Jr., then 9, to play in a June 2005 T-ball playoff game because the boy wasn't as good as his teammates. Bowers has autism and mild mental retardation. Keith Reese, 8 at the time, testified at a preliminary hearing that he hit Bowers with baseballs first in the groin and later in the ear. Reese said he did it because Downs offered him $25 to make sure Bowers wouldn't be able to play. League rules require each player to play at least three innings. Prosecutors did not return several phone calls from The Associated Press seeking comment on the start of the trial. Shaffer said Downs had joked at another game about paying players to hit an umpire with a ball. His words were later taken out of context and used against him by Reese, Shaffer said. Bowers was hit because he misplayed balls while warming up with Reese, Shaffer said. "[Bowers] was terrible. ... It's not like he got blinded-sided," Shaffer said. "He put his glove up, he missed it and it went off his glove and hit him." The Falcons, the team Downs coached, are part of the R.W. Clark Youth Baseball League. Bowers was hurt before a game in North Union Township, about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. League officials have said they investigated the matter and could not confirm whether Downs had done anything wrong. But they said he wouldn't be allowed to coach again if he were convicted of criminal charges. "He didn't ask to return, which was a good thing," said Eric Forsythe, president of the league. "I'm just curious to see what comes out in trial." |
DT Rants about Difficulty Breathing
I woke up sunday wheezing and coughing. I guess Rickey may have been right after all. Who cares though. We can add a new environmental hazard that SAS would play through. We've played through lightning and rain and mud and searing heat and now haze.
We had decent numbers today, but because we started so late (past 3.30pm) the field was almost fully occupied and we didn't have much room to manuveur. With not much choice, we played Indiana Rules and Prof Zen rules combined with a little switch hitting.
It was a humbling and leveling experience. Not everyone was designed to hit switch and it showed.
Meanwhile, the yankees are out of the playoffs. They got badly scratched up by the Tigers. Heads need to roll. They haven't won a championship in *gosh* 6 years. That's like 516 in boston years.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
7 October 2006 - Bizzaro World
ONES: 1B: Indiana/Rube; 2B: Geok/Sandman; SS: DT/Rugburn; LF: Rugburn/DT; CF: Sandman/Geok; RF: Rube/Indiana
TWOS: 1B: Rickey; 2B: The Mick; SS: Horfun/Clement; LF: Clement/Horfun; CF: Swiss Miss; RF: Heidi
ONES: 6
TWOS 13
We played - and if you don't understand you haven't played Saturday softball recently - Indiana/Prof. Zen rules with opposite batting. The haze was really bad (the PSI was probably over 100), and there were cricketeers and frisbee-ers out in the field. So we batted opposite our normal side of the plate. No need to run around too much in the muck. The TWOS did well because they had three players who swing both ways (The Mick, Singapore Clement [not the French one], and Heidi), while the ONES only had Sandman. That's basically the story of the game.
1) It was Swiss Miss' last official game. He may be able to play when he's back through town later this month, but he's off to Java and Bali for now. A great "playa", he even makes the Rube appreciate the French. He'll be missed; 2) Most of the swings were embarassing today; 3) The ONES switched their outfield and infield half-way through the game; 4) The Mick had some good homers during the game. The only one really hitting for power; 5) Rickey was pathetic on fielding the swinging bunts.
MBP: The Mick
Best Bat: The Mick
Worst Swing: Rickey
TWOS: 1B: Rickey; 2B: The Mick; SS: Horfun/Clement; LF: Clement/Horfun; CF: Swiss Miss; RF: Heidi
ONES: 6
TWOS 13
We played - and if you don't understand you haven't played Saturday softball recently - Indiana/Prof. Zen rules with opposite batting. The haze was really bad (the PSI was probably over 100), and there were cricketeers and frisbee-ers out in the field. So we batted opposite our normal side of the plate. No need to run around too much in the muck. The TWOS did well because they had three players who swing both ways (The Mick, Singapore Clement [not the French one], and Heidi), while the ONES only had Sandman. That's basically the story of the game.
1) It was Swiss Miss' last official game. He may be able to play when he's back through town later this month, but he's off to Java and Bali for now. A great "playa", he even makes the Rube appreciate the French. He'll be missed; 2) Most of the swings were embarassing today; 3) The ONES switched their outfield and infield half-way through the game; 4) The Mick had some good homers during the game. The only one really hitting for power; 5) Rickey was pathetic on fielding the swinging bunts.
MBP: The Mick
Best Bat: The Mick
Worst Swing: Rickey
Saturday, September 30, 2006
30 September 2006 - Missing
Not enough numbers showed up today, so there wasn't any game. Not even enough for Home Run Derby.
On to Next Week....
On to Next Week....
Sunday, September 24, 2006
23 September 2006 - Home Run Derby
Stars: Jason and Diana, Rugburn, Horfun, Clement, Rube, Sandman, DT
Not enough guys today to have a proper game, so we had some batting and fielding practice. 7 in the field, and 1 at bat.
Round 1.
Batter has to hit and run at every bat. As many at bats till 3 outs. Basically a condensed version of our usual game. It was quite fun actually, but tiring.
Each base counts for 1 point. Rugburn scored the highest, hitting for the cycle, and also with about 3 home runs over Jason's head. DT scored the lowest with only one single.
Round 2.
Too much running in first round, so we decided to hit without having to run. Same rule, 3 outs per at bat, but in this case, grounders weren't counted as an out. Only linedrives or flyballs caught.
Round 3.
Batting practice. Hit as much as you want.
All in all, we had a pretty good non-competitve practice session. Everyone got to work on their hitting and fielding. In fact, we probably got more at bats, and fielded balls than in our normal game. We really could've done with extra numbers though. Too bad too many guys were away at the same time.
Not enough guys today to have a proper game, so we had some batting and fielding practice. 7 in the field, and 1 at bat.
Round 1.
Batter has to hit and run at every bat. As many at bats till 3 outs. Basically a condensed version of our usual game. It was quite fun actually, but tiring.
Each base counts for 1 point. Rugburn scored the highest, hitting for the cycle, and also with about 3 home runs over Jason's head. DT scored the lowest with only one single.
Round 2.
Too much running in first round, so we decided to hit without having to run. Same rule, 3 outs per at bat, but in this case, grounders weren't counted as an out. Only linedrives or flyballs caught.
Round 3.
Batting practice. Hit as much as you want.
All in all, we had a pretty good non-competitve practice session. Everyone got to work on their hitting and fielding. In fact, we probably got more at bats, and fielded balls than in our normal game. We really could've done with extra numbers though. Too bad too many guys were away at the same time.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
16 September 2006 - Oogggleee, Oogggleee, Ooggleee
ONES: 1B: Seven; 2B-Rover: Horfun; SS: The Venezualan Jaguar; LF: The Mick; RF: Rugburn
TWOS: 1B: Rickey; SS: DT; LF: Rube: CF: Swiss Miss; RF: Nigey-pooh
Game One:
ONES: 14
TWOS: 12
We played Prof. Zen/Indiana Rules. The game was very low scoring and tight until the bottom of the 8th inning. At that point, the score was tied at 8-8. The ONES spent the majority of the game hitting grounders or line-drives to DT, while the TWOS hit pop ups to The Mick and Rugburn. Even without a CF (albeit with restricted foul lines), the ONES didn't need one. The Mick and Rugburn covered the ground well. The real superstar was Horfun with the bat. She kept the ONES alive with strong singles, until finally the other boys finally woke up.
The game went fast, except for a long, drawn out-argument between everyone and Rickey over whether or not a person should be tagged at home when people are on 1st and 2nd,and the runner has been thrown out at 1st under Prof. Zen/Indiana rules (It's actually a hard one to call considering how the rules work. If you don't know what the issue is, you haven't played Prof Zen/Indiana). Alirio acted as arbitrator, while Swiss Miss and Nigey-pooh slept in the outfield. Everyone else argued.
After watching "Talledaga Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" at Joe's, we went bowling. All sucked; many a baseball cap was thrown in frustration. The only exception was the Mick, who bowled a remarkable 177 in both games.
NOTES:
1) When Rugburn wants to break up a play, he chants the ritualistic, "Oogggleee, Oogggleee, Ooggleee"; 2) Swiss Miss had a certain "I don't care to go after that ball" quality on certain hits; 3) Seven had some base-running/fielding challenges; 4) The Jaguar's first 5 at-bats all went directly to DT; 5) Horfun led off at least 4 different innings; 6) Everyone won "DY" today. When catching against your own team, everyone made the plays.
MBP: Horfun
Best Bat: Horfun
Biggest Bat: Rugburn
Tired Arm: DT
DY: Everyone
Lebowski (MBP at bowling): The Mick
TWOS: 1B: Rickey; SS: DT; LF: Rube: CF: Swiss Miss; RF: Nigey-pooh
Game One:
ONES: 14
TWOS: 12
We played Prof. Zen/Indiana Rules. The game was very low scoring and tight until the bottom of the 8th inning. At that point, the score was tied at 8-8. The ONES spent the majority of the game hitting grounders or line-drives to DT, while the TWOS hit pop ups to The Mick and Rugburn. Even without a CF (albeit with restricted foul lines), the ONES didn't need one. The Mick and Rugburn covered the ground well. The real superstar was Horfun with the bat. She kept the ONES alive with strong singles, until finally the other boys finally woke up.
The game went fast, except for a long, drawn out-argument between everyone and Rickey over whether or not a person should be tagged at home when people are on 1st and 2nd,and the runner has been thrown out at 1st under Prof. Zen/Indiana rules (It's actually a hard one to call considering how the rules work. If you don't know what the issue is, you haven't played Prof Zen/Indiana). Alirio acted as arbitrator, while Swiss Miss and Nigey-pooh slept in the outfield. Everyone else argued.
After watching "Talledaga Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" at Joe's, we went bowling. All sucked; many a baseball cap was thrown in frustration. The only exception was the Mick, who bowled a remarkable 177 in both games.
NOTES:
1) When Rugburn wants to break up a play, he chants the ritualistic, "Oogggleee, Oogggleee, Ooggleee"; 2) Swiss Miss had a certain "I don't care to go after that ball" quality on certain hits; 3) Seven had some base-running/fielding challenges; 4) The Jaguar's first 5 at-bats all went directly to DT; 5) Horfun led off at least 4 different innings; 6) Everyone won "DY" today. When catching against your own team, everyone made the plays.
MBP: Horfun
Best Bat: Horfun
Biggest Bat: Rugburn
Tired Arm: DT
DY: Everyone
Lebowski (MBP at bowling): The Mick
Saturday, September 09, 2006
9 September - Kind Chris
ONES: 1B: Indiana; 2B: Geok; 3B: DT; SS: New John (proposed name: George Hamilton); LF: Rugburn; CF: Rube; RF: The Cheetah; Rover: Seven
TWOS: 1B: Rickey; 2B: Horfun; 3B: The Venezualan Jaguar/Sandman; SS: Clement; LF: The Mick; CF: Heidi/Venezualan Jaguar; RF: Swiss Miss; 4th OF: Sandman/Heidi
Game One:
ONES: 11
TWOS: 5
Game Two (5 Innings):
ONES: 10
TWOS: 9
It was a great day. Good weather and completely empty field. We may owe that to the cricket players, who had played earlier. They scared off everyone, so it was all ours. The games were defensive gems. In Game One, the ONES scored 8 in the 6th inning. Without that, it would have been a 3-5 game. People were making catches, hitting the cut-off man, doing it all. In the second game, the TWOS took an early lead, as the Mick tried to single-handedly will them to victory, but the ONES were just toying with them. The ONES came back in the bottom of the 9th (or 5th) to score 4 runs for the win.
The weird part of the games was that we had two new shortstops. Sure, Clement (not French Clement, but Lloyd's boys' Clement) has been around for a while, but he came as a NUS student for the first time. He made some amazing plays. On one - the new play of the year - he dove for a ground ball and snagged it somehow, rolled over, and threw it like a bullet while laying down. Batter out. Everyone was stunned. Just stopping the grounder was amazing. To back it up with the throw was one of the most incredible plays I've ever seen in Saturday Softball. For the ONES, they had a new guy show up. DT deferred to him. (Re-read the last sentence.) What a nice guy. The newbie actually does have some skills. After a couple of innings, he was making great plays also.
NOTES:
1) Even though the ONES had some big guns, their 8-run rally came on small ball; 2)Horfun consistently got on base; 3) Nice slides by Heidi and Indiana (Must of been in honor of the Cheetah); 4) Rugburn and the Mick both held down LF like the days of the Ipoh Assassin. Almost no balls were going there for hits; 5) Seven played Rover very well. Went unappreciated during the game, but looking back on it he was always where he needed to be.
MBP: Clement
Best Bat: Rugburn
Gold Glove: New Guy John
Best Play: Clement
DY: Indiana
TWOS: 1B: Rickey; 2B: Horfun; 3B: The Venezualan Jaguar/Sandman; SS: Clement; LF: The Mick; CF: Heidi/Venezualan Jaguar; RF: Swiss Miss; 4th OF: Sandman/Heidi
Game One:
ONES: 11
TWOS: 5
Game Two (5 Innings):
ONES: 10
TWOS: 9
It was a great day. Good weather and completely empty field. We may owe that to the cricket players, who had played earlier. They scared off everyone, so it was all ours. The games were defensive gems. In Game One, the ONES scored 8 in the 6th inning. Without that, it would have been a 3-5 game. People were making catches, hitting the cut-off man, doing it all. In the second game, the TWOS took an early lead, as the Mick tried to single-handedly will them to victory, but the ONES were just toying with them. The ONES came back in the bottom of the 9th (or 5th) to score 4 runs for the win.
The weird part of the games was that we had two new shortstops. Sure, Clement (not French Clement, but Lloyd's boys' Clement) has been around for a while, but he came as a NUS student for the first time. He made some amazing plays. On one - the new play of the year - he dove for a ground ball and snagged it somehow, rolled over, and threw it like a bullet while laying down. Batter out. Everyone was stunned. Just stopping the grounder was amazing. To back it up with the throw was one of the most incredible plays I've ever seen in Saturday Softball. For the ONES, they had a new guy show up. DT deferred to him. (Re-read the last sentence.) What a nice guy. The newbie actually does have some skills. After a couple of innings, he was making great plays also.
NOTES:
1) Even though the ONES had some big guns, their 8-run rally came on small ball; 2)Horfun consistently got on base; 3) Nice slides by Heidi and Indiana (Must of been in honor of the Cheetah); 4) Rugburn and the Mick both held down LF like the days of the Ipoh Assassin. Almost no balls were going there for hits; 5) Seven played Rover very well. Went unappreciated during the game, but looking back on it he was always where he needed to be.
MBP: Clement
Best Bat: Rugburn
Gold Glove: New Guy John
Best Play: Clement
DY: Indiana
Saturday, September 02, 2006
2 September 2006 - Mojo (and the lack of it)
ONES: 1B: Rickey; 2B: Horfun; SS: DT; LF: Rube; CF: Grandpa; RF: Heidi
TWOS: 1B: Indiana; 2B: Geok; SS: Sandman; LF: The Mick; CF: Swiss Miss; RF: Rugburn; Rover: Mary
Game One (3-inning mercy)
ONES: 3
TWOS: 14
Game Two (5 Innings)
ONES: 4
TWOS: 9
We played Indiana/Prof. Zen rules. For one team - The TWOS - everything went right. For the other team, everything went wrong. Balls popped out of gloves. Hit balls were easy pop ups (almost like they were in a children's book). It was sad. Even though both teams looked even on paper, the difference was remarkable. The TWOs just pounded the ONES at will. It was so bad - and hot - that everyone just called the game in the middle of the second one. Nasty bad. But, Coach stopped by. Didn't play though. Just said "Hi".
After a stop at Subway, and drinking at Joe's, everyone headed to bowling. Individually the Mick was amazing. Rickey put up a fight in the first game, but the Mick just sped past him with three strikes to end it. In the second game, the Mick still dominated. There were also teams (Team 1: Indiana, Heidi, DT/Seven, Sandman, Swiss Miss, Horfun; Teams 2: Rickey, The Mick, Rube, Geok and Mary). Team 2 won both times. In the 2nd game, when Team 1 had a shot at winning, a series of strikes by Rube, Rickey and the Mick put them away. To twist the knife, Mary rolled a strike in the last frame. Cold blooded.
Notes:
1) The Mick had the catch of the year. He went horizontal on a Grandpa hit and caught it mid-air; 2) Rugburn caught everything Rube hit at him. Some quite far; 3) DT had "the vapours" mid-way through softball; 4) Swiss Miss bowls in anger; 5) With Indiana on the lanes, it's feast or famine. He gets a strike or gutter ball; 6) Subway's vegetable supplier's job is in jeopardy.
MBP: The Mick
Gold Glove: TWOS (entire team)
Biggest Bat: Rugburn
Play of the Day (if not year): The Mick
Bonehead play: Everything for the ONES
TWOS: 1B: Indiana; 2B: Geok; SS: Sandman; LF: The Mick; CF: Swiss Miss; RF: Rugburn; Rover: Mary
Game One (3-inning mercy)
ONES: 3
TWOS: 14
Game Two (5 Innings)
ONES: 4
TWOS: 9
We played Indiana/Prof. Zen rules. For one team - The TWOS - everything went right. For the other team, everything went wrong. Balls popped out of gloves. Hit balls were easy pop ups (almost like they were in a children's book). It was sad. Even though both teams looked even on paper, the difference was remarkable. The TWOs just pounded the ONES at will. It was so bad - and hot - that everyone just called the game in the middle of the second one. Nasty bad. But, Coach stopped by. Didn't play though. Just said "Hi".
After a stop at Subway, and drinking at Joe's, everyone headed to bowling. Individually the Mick was amazing. Rickey put up a fight in the first game, but the Mick just sped past him with three strikes to end it. In the second game, the Mick still dominated. There were also teams (Team 1: Indiana, Heidi, DT/Seven, Sandman, Swiss Miss, Horfun; Teams 2: Rickey, The Mick, Rube, Geok and Mary). Team 2 won both times. In the 2nd game, when Team 1 had a shot at winning, a series of strikes by Rube, Rickey and the Mick put them away. To twist the knife, Mary rolled a strike in the last frame. Cold blooded.
Notes:
1) The Mick had the catch of the year. He went horizontal on a Grandpa hit and caught it mid-air; 2) Rugburn caught everything Rube hit at him. Some quite far; 3) DT had "the vapours" mid-way through softball; 4) Swiss Miss bowls in anger; 5) With Indiana on the lanes, it's feast or famine. He gets a strike or gutter ball; 6) Subway's vegetable supplier's job is in jeopardy.
MBP: The Mick
Gold Glove: TWOS (entire team)
Biggest Bat: Rugburn
Play of the Day (if not year): The Mick
Bonehead play: Everything for the ONES
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006
DT Rants about Getting Schooled in Other Sports
It was a valiant effort for an early start, but even though we showed up before the frisbee idiots, the field was already occupied by the cricket monkeys. This time, they had an official booking so we had no choice but to move to our alternate field.
The field was actually in pretty good shape. There were some bumps and holes which resulted in several unpredictable bounces but all in all, the ground had settled in quite well. I think a couple more weeks of rain and sun will do that field good.
We only had 13 with the disappearence of the Mick, Swissmiss, Cool Papa and Superdad. We found out later that the Swissmiss was canoodling late into the night and couldn't wake up. We still don't know what happened to the Mick, Cool Papa and Superdad. With an uneven number, I played all-time in the field and the batting team supplied pitcher and catcher.
Rugburn had a superb hitting day. He was sending them deep into center-right for back to back to back home runs. I'm honestly eagerly waiting in anticipation for the day when we can get Rugburn, Rube, The Mick, Superdad, The Generalissimo and Cool Papa on the same day, having their respective hitting streaks. It would be a sight to behold. Whoever won that would be crowned the batting champion of champions. Too bad none of them have hit a walk-off homerun to win a championship... ah the stuff of legends ;)
The teams were suprisingly even, with both teams see-sawing the lead from inning to inning. When one team took a lead, the other team immediately tied and regained the advantage in the next inning. I had expected this race to have ended neck-to-neck in a photo finish until the 6th. The TWOs scored 13 runs during their at-bat to lay the game wide open for them. They strung together hit after hit, and most of their runs came with 2 down. It wasn't that the ONEs couldn't get that last out defensively, it was just that the TWOs were on a hitting streak. Even Horfun got into the action with a sweet opposite field liner that took everyone, including her own team, by surprise. Talk about shock and awe.... The ONEs had no answer when they got up to bat. And the TWOs won by mercy.
Second game was quite interesting as both teams agreed to switch their positional players. Infielders went to the outfield, Outfielders came in. The TWOs had an even better looking infield than in the first game.
We finished about 5ish, which was too late to start on basketball. However, after hearing about 'The J', we decided to cut short our beer time at Joes to head over to Kent Vale for some hoops. With no natural center to guard The Rube, we decided to try the old 'Best player + Ladies' vs Men teams. We did that once with Superdad + Ladies vs the Guys, and we obviously didn't learn our lesson. The guys were taught a lesson in teamwork and passing. Rube dominated below the rim, grabbing all the rebounds. The Ladies meanwhile, were scoring point after point from the floor. The Men simply could not catch a break. No one could make a shot, and even easy layups were denied by the roll of the rim. The guys just couldn't get into the rim... which most of us are used to anyway.
End of the day, Rube and his angels won 4 straight. 10-4, 10-5, 10-3, 10-6. And the worst part? The last three games, it was 3 vs 4. Yes, Rube, Heidi and Burma Girl vs the 4 dopes. And even with the extra man, we still lost. For Shame!!!
We finished too late to go bowling (abt 9.30pm), but the effort was there. We definitely have to try it again. It was really good fun, and the basketball was a great workout!
The field was actually in pretty good shape. There were some bumps and holes which resulted in several unpredictable bounces but all in all, the ground had settled in quite well. I think a couple more weeks of rain and sun will do that field good.
We only had 13 with the disappearence of the Mick, Swissmiss, Cool Papa and Superdad. We found out later that the Swissmiss was canoodling late into the night and couldn't wake up. We still don't know what happened to the Mick, Cool Papa and Superdad. With an uneven number, I played all-time in the field and the batting team supplied pitcher and catcher.
Rugburn had a superb hitting day. He was sending them deep into center-right for back to back to back home runs. I'm honestly eagerly waiting in anticipation for the day when we can get Rugburn, Rube, The Mick, Superdad, The Generalissimo and Cool Papa on the same day, having their respective hitting streaks. It would be a sight to behold. Whoever won that would be crowned the batting champion of champions. Too bad none of them have hit a walk-off homerun to win a championship... ah the stuff of legends ;)
The teams were suprisingly even, with both teams see-sawing the lead from inning to inning. When one team took a lead, the other team immediately tied and regained the advantage in the next inning. I had expected this race to have ended neck-to-neck in a photo finish until the 6th. The TWOs scored 13 runs during their at-bat to lay the game wide open for them. They strung together hit after hit, and most of their runs came with 2 down. It wasn't that the ONEs couldn't get that last out defensively, it was just that the TWOs were on a hitting streak. Even Horfun got into the action with a sweet opposite field liner that took everyone, including her own team, by surprise. Talk about shock and awe.... The ONEs had no answer when they got up to bat. And the TWOs won by mercy.
Second game was quite interesting as both teams agreed to switch their positional players. Infielders went to the outfield, Outfielders came in. The TWOs had an even better looking infield than in the first game.
We finished about 5ish, which was too late to start on basketball. However, after hearing about 'The J', we decided to cut short our beer time at Joes to head over to Kent Vale for some hoops. With no natural center to guard The Rube, we decided to try the old 'Best player + Ladies' vs Men teams. We did that once with Superdad + Ladies vs the Guys, and we obviously didn't learn our lesson. The guys were taught a lesson in teamwork and passing. Rube dominated below the rim, grabbing all the rebounds. The Ladies meanwhile, were scoring point after point from the floor. The Men simply could not catch a break. No one could make a shot, and even easy layups were denied by the roll of the rim. The guys just couldn't get into the rim... which most of us are used to anyway.
End of the day, Rube and his angels won 4 straight. 10-4, 10-5, 10-3, 10-6. And the worst part? The last three games, it was 3 vs 4. Yes, Rube, Heidi and Burma Girl vs the 4 dopes. And even with the extra man, we still lost. For Shame!!!
We finished too late to go bowling (abt 9.30pm), but the effort was there. We definitely have to try it again. It was really good fun, and the basketball was a great workout!
Saturday, August 26, 2006
26 August 2006 - Rube's Angels
ONES: 1B: Indiana; 2B: Diana; 3B: Rube; LF: Jason; CF: Grandpa; RF: Geok
TWOS: 1B: Rickey; 2B: Horfun; 3B: The Venezualan Jaguar; LF: Rugburn; CF: Sandman; RF: Heidi
All Time SS: DT
Game One (6 Innings - Mercy)
ONES: 11
TWOS: 22
Game Two (3 innings)
ONES: 4
TWOS: 8
We played at the alternate field due to some cricket festival on the main field. The ground was not as bad as it usually is there, but it was still rough. The first game was a see-saw affair until the sixth inning. Prior to that each team would score 2-3 per inning to pass the other. Well, in the 6th, the TWOS busted it open for a 13-run inning. In the second game, the teams switched their infields and outfields (thus, for the TWOS, Rickey, the Jaguar and Horfun played outfield). Then, in the last inning, both teams hit opposite their natural side (Thus, Sandman batted right while Diana batted left). The game was fine, but people were starting to tire.
The crew then headed to Joe's for beer. When enough had been consumed to satisfy all, we headed over to Indiana's for basketball. The teams were Rube's Angels (Rube, Heidi, Geok and Horfun [Horfun for only the first game]) against Indiana, Sandman, DT, and Rickey. Well, Rube's Angels ruled. They opened a can of whup-ass on the guys and took 4 straight games to 10. That's right, the two ladies and Rube showed mad b-ball skillz. Rickey - he of the big talk - did not bring his "J", while the other guys just couldn't get a shot to fall.
We missed out on the bowling. All were exhausted, and we went out for pizza at a hawker centre.
NOTES:
1) When we play the alternate field, the field always plays a big role. Bad bounces, rough on the running, etc. Still true; 2) Horfun got hit in the face by a tossed ball. Remarkably, it wasn't DT throwing it (twas, Rugburn); 3) When the ONES doubt the ability of the TWOS to go opposite field, Sandman goes left, Heidi goes left, and Horfun puts one down the 1B line. Back-to-back-to-back; 4) Rickey made no major screw-ups in CF; 5) Diana had a hard time catching Jason's foul balls; 6) Geok and Heidi have good moves to the hoop.
MBP: Rube (on the basketball court)
B3K: Rugburn
Gold Glove: No one on that field
Play of the day: Sandman, Heidi and Horfun on their opposite field hits
DY: Mary (for watching all this all day long)
No "J": Rickey
TWOS: 1B: Rickey; 2B: Horfun; 3B: The Venezualan Jaguar; LF: Rugburn; CF: Sandman; RF: Heidi
All Time SS: DT
Game One (6 Innings - Mercy)
ONES: 11
TWOS: 22
Game Two (3 innings)
ONES: 4
TWOS: 8
We played at the alternate field due to some cricket festival on the main field. The ground was not as bad as it usually is there, but it was still rough. The first game was a see-saw affair until the sixth inning. Prior to that each team would score 2-3 per inning to pass the other. Well, in the 6th, the TWOS busted it open for a 13-run inning. In the second game, the teams switched their infields and outfields (thus, for the TWOS, Rickey, the Jaguar and Horfun played outfield). Then, in the last inning, both teams hit opposite their natural side (Thus, Sandman batted right while Diana batted left). The game was fine, but people were starting to tire.
The crew then headed to Joe's for beer. When enough had been consumed to satisfy all, we headed over to Indiana's for basketball. The teams were Rube's Angels (Rube, Heidi, Geok and Horfun [Horfun for only the first game]) against Indiana, Sandman, DT, and Rickey. Well, Rube's Angels ruled. They opened a can of whup-ass on the guys and took 4 straight games to 10. That's right, the two ladies and Rube showed mad b-ball skillz. Rickey - he of the big talk - did not bring his "J", while the other guys just couldn't get a shot to fall.
We missed out on the bowling. All were exhausted, and we went out for pizza at a hawker centre.
NOTES:
1) When we play the alternate field, the field always plays a big role. Bad bounces, rough on the running, etc. Still true; 2) Horfun got hit in the face by a tossed ball. Remarkably, it wasn't DT throwing it (twas, Rugburn); 3) When the ONES doubt the ability of the TWOS to go opposite field, Sandman goes left, Heidi goes left, and Horfun puts one down the 1B line. Back-to-back-to-back; 4) Rickey made no major screw-ups in CF; 5) Diana had a hard time catching Jason's foul balls; 6) Geok and Heidi have good moves to the hoop.
MBP: Rube (on the basketball court)
B3K: Rugburn
Gold Glove: No one on that field
Play of the day: Sandman, Heidi and Horfun on their opposite field hits
DY: Mary (for watching all this all day long)
No "J": Rickey
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Special Mid Week Post - Yankees Humiliate Red Sox
Bring out your brooms boys and girls... cos it's a SWEEP...
The Yankees decimated the Red Sox over the weekend with a 5 game win.
Sports Illustrated
NYtimes
boston.com
more from boston.com
MLB.com
Warms the cockles of my heart. Looks like I'm gonna be getting some free beer from Rickey.
The Yankees decimated the Red Sox over the weekend with a 5 game win.
Sports Illustrated
NYtimes
boston.com
more from boston.com
MLB.com
Warms the cockles of my heart. Looks like I'm gonna be getting some free beer from Rickey.
Monday, August 21, 2006
The Redneck Quadathlon
Hi Folks,
This coming saturday, 26 August 2006, we're going to try something never done before in Saturday Softball history. We're going for 4 sports in one day.
The schedule.....
2.30pm Softball - 9 innings
5pm Basketball - 5 on 5 full court press
6pm Beer - Drink till you drop
8pm Bowling - Knock down all the pins
Hope everyone can make it. Bring cleats for softball, shoes for basketball and socks for bowling.
This coming saturday, 26 August 2006, we're going to try something never done before in Saturday Softball history. We're going for 4 sports in one day.
The schedule.....
2.30pm Softball - 9 innings
5pm Basketball - 5 on 5 full court press
6pm Beer - Drink till you drop
8pm Bowling - Knock down all the pins
Hope everyone can make it. Bring cleats for softball, shoes for basketball and socks for bowling.
DT Rants about Extra Bases
If Epic was the word I used to describe last week's game, this week, the word should be Effort. Everyone was hustling hard, taking extra bases, diving for balls...etc. It was Saturday Softball in its purest competitive form. What Rube said was right, we needed the last couple of weeks of great numbers to put back the competitive spirit into our game. We've been going through the motions for most of this year, due primarily to the lack of numbers. But with the recent resurgance, everyone is back out enjoying the game, and it makes a huge difference to how the game is played.
Even Rickey was taking extra bases, and that in itself is a testament to how much fun we had on the field. Aggressive running was the name of the game for the ONEs. The stretched singles into doubles and doubles into triples. They grabbed a massive 5-0 lead within the second inning, and from the looks of it, they were going to take the win. The TWOs ran equally as hard, but they had three secret weapons. 1. Rugburn, 2. Grandpa and 3. Rube. The three of them were destroying the ball. I've never seen the ball hit so hard for a long time. It brings me back to the day when Nigel Kennedy aka the Kiwi was around and when he generated so much bat speed, the ball seemed to break the sound barrier when he made contact. Rube was his normal hard-hitting, hard-charging self, but Rugburn and Grandpa really put some meat on the bat. Where were these two guys when we needed to cruise to an easy victory in the tournament...
The Frisbee Idiots were on the field early this time, so I headed over to the other corner to lay the diamond. Turns out, it was a blessing in disguise. The other corner is actually much better than our usual corner. In fact, we should switch to playing over in the other end. The ground is much more even, and home plate is further away from the cricket turf. Which means there is more space in centerfield. Also, since the cricket monkeys like to hit the ball towards the carpark, we only saw 2-3 balls the entire afternoon hit into our side. Before the cricket monkeys appeared though, the frisbee idiots had the run of the field, in fact, they even set up a picnic stand complete with beach chairs and umbrella on top of the cricket turf. It was too tempting and many a fly ball was hit in that direction to take out the umbrella. Rube tried hard, but his bat failed him. He was still pounding the ball deep into right field, but he couldn't seem to force the direction to the umbrella. Rugburn on the other hand, managed to yank one directly towards the umbrella. It was a thing of beauty, and I was glad I was witness to it. The ball hit the ground about a meter from the beach chair, bounced up and smacked a frisbee idiot right in the back. He was bending over in pain (probably crying as well). It was a beauty. He was still rubbing the mark a couple of innings later. He actually took off his shirt to have his girlfriend inspect the injury, and we could see the bruise from way over in our corner. Kudos to Rugburn. You'd think that after a hit like that, the frisbee idiots would move their rest area. Well, we don't call them idiots for nothing... they stayed, but this time, they had a lookout who watched our bats, and protected the umbrella from any approaching ball. What a moron. They could've just moved into the shade of the walkway.
The cricket monkeys soon arrived (after tea and cucumber sandwiches I'd bet), and as the assholes they are, demanded the use of the bowling green. And most of the area used by the frisbee idiots. That was like a dream come true, watching the cricket monkeys displace the frisbee idiots. And the frisbee idiots could not argue because the cricket monkeys had the field booked. Watching the frisbee idiots pack their things and move away was even better than seeing Rugburn hit the guy. The only thing better was if I could've hit a linedrive to right field and take one of them out in the head, with oodles of blood flowing. That would've made my day.
Sadly, because of our late start (3pm ish), we were soon beset by soccer hooligans. They usually are quite alright, waiting for us to finish, or playing ourside the foul lines, but this time, there was a new bunch. They insisted on playing through our left field, right behind third base and short. They even moved the goal posts to play a full-on 11 a side game. The audacity of it all. Bloody Bastards. We really have to start earlier to avoid these people. If we could start about half an hour earlier, we should be easily in the middle of our second game when the hooligans arrive, and we should finish the games on a high note, instead of arguing with these uncouth, ill-bred, discourteous arseholes.
I digress....
Back to the good stuff.
Highlights.
Rugburn lays the smack down on a frisbee idiot.
Rickey hits a 2 base homerun, and manages to get to 3rd instead of stopping at 2.
Rube, Jason, Generalissimo and Rickey turn doubles into triples with extremely aggressive running.
Burma Girl had a gold glove day. She stopped everything coming her way. Though, she was robbed of two infield flyballs, once by DT, once by Indiana. (In our defense, she didn't call for the ball)
Sandman made more plays pitching for the other team than for his own team.
Generalissimo flashes some leather.
Grandpa kills the ball, 3 times.
DT burns Cool Papa, hitting a blooping fly ball over his head in right field.
Swiss Miss had a gold glove day too. He was catching everything. It was a sight to behold. He even ran down a Sandman hit and caught it inches from the ground.
Jason and Diana showed what a little love can do to improve the right side of the field. If Diana missed, Jason covered... Jason actually made a brilliant play to hold Rube to a single instead of a double. Rube hit a line drive to right, and Jason snagged the ball on the first bounce and threw it quickly in to Diana, and Rube was held at first. Rickey had nothing to talk to Rube about because he's never met him there before.
Cool Papa came in during the 4th inning, and the TWOs lit him up. They scored most of their runs when Cool Papa was on the mound.
Game 2 : ONES 0 : TWOS 4 (3 innings)
The Mick, Burma Girl, Indiana, Rube, Horfun, Heidi, Swissmiss, Clement and DT played basketball after drinks at Joes. We headed down to Kent Vale to get some court action.
Rube was unstoppable under the rim. No one could match his height, and he hustles as hard on the court as he does on the field.
The Mick has got some skills. Probably picked up while selling crack in the back courts of harlem.
Indiana has the stamina and energy of a 18 year old. He was running and running and running. DT (who's half his age) couldn't keep it.
Bruma Girl tackled Heidi to the ground. Whoops all round. Catcalls and requests for Jello and/or Mud to be involved. Sexy...
Horfun is officially more dangerous than DT in IT. She hacked into several wifi networks in Kent Vale.
Next Week...
The Redneck Triathlon.
Softball followed by Basketball, followed by Bowling. Insert beer and plenty of mayonaise. Fried Chicken and Watermelons will be ordered if Cool Papa gets permission to enter.
We're going to try for a 2.45pm start this coming weekend, so we can squeeze basketball before Beer. We'd really appreciate it if folks can start arriving about 2.30pm.
Seeya.
Even Rickey was taking extra bases, and that in itself is a testament to how much fun we had on the field. Aggressive running was the name of the game for the ONEs. The stretched singles into doubles and doubles into triples. They grabbed a massive 5-0 lead within the second inning, and from the looks of it, they were going to take the win. The TWOs ran equally as hard, but they had three secret weapons. 1. Rugburn, 2. Grandpa and 3. Rube. The three of them were destroying the ball. I've never seen the ball hit so hard for a long time. It brings me back to the day when Nigel Kennedy aka the Kiwi was around and when he generated so much bat speed, the ball seemed to break the sound barrier when he made contact. Rube was his normal hard-hitting, hard-charging self, but Rugburn and Grandpa really put some meat on the bat. Where were these two guys when we needed to cruise to an easy victory in the tournament...
The Frisbee Idiots were on the field early this time, so I headed over to the other corner to lay the diamond. Turns out, it was a blessing in disguise. The other corner is actually much better than our usual corner. In fact, we should switch to playing over in the other end. The ground is much more even, and home plate is further away from the cricket turf. Which means there is more space in centerfield. Also, since the cricket monkeys like to hit the ball towards the carpark, we only saw 2-3 balls the entire afternoon hit into our side. Before the cricket monkeys appeared though, the frisbee idiots had the run of the field, in fact, they even set up a picnic stand complete with beach chairs and umbrella on top of the cricket turf. It was too tempting and many a fly ball was hit in that direction to take out the umbrella. Rube tried hard, but his bat failed him. He was still pounding the ball deep into right field, but he couldn't seem to force the direction to the umbrella. Rugburn on the other hand, managed to yank one directly towards the umbrella. It was a thing of beauty, and I was glad I was witness to it. The ball hit the ground about a meter from the beach chair, bounced up and smacked a frisbee idiot right in the back. He was bending over in pain (probably crying as well). It was a beauty. He was still rubbing the mark a couple of innings later. He actually took off his shirt to have his girlfriend inspect the injury, and we could see the bruise from way over in our corner. Kudos to Rugburn. You'd think that after a hit like that, the frisbee idiots would move their rest area. Well, we don't call them idiots for nothing... they stayed, but this time, they had a lookout who watched our bats, and protected the umbrella from any approaching ball. What a moron. They could've just moved into the shade of the walkway.
The cricket monkeys soon arrived (after tea and cucumber sandwiches I'd bet), and as the assholes they are, demanded the use of the bowling green. And most of the area used by the frisbee idiots. That was like a dream come true, watching the cricket monkeys displace the frisbee idiots. And the frisbee idiots could not argue because the cricket monkeys had the field booked. Watching the frisbee idiots pack their things and move away was even better than seeing Rugburn hit the guy. The only thing better was if I could've hit a linedrive to right field and take one of them out in the head, with oodles of blood flowing. That would've made my day.
Sadly, because of our late start (3pm ish), we were soon beset by soccer hooligans. They usually are quite alright, waiting for us to finish, or playing ourside the foul lines, but this time, there was a new bunch. They insisted on playing through our left field, right behind third base and short. They even moved the goal posts to play a full-on 11 a side game. The audacity of it all. Bloody Bastards. We really have to start earlier to avoid these people. If we could start about half an hour earlier, we should be easily in the middle of our second game when the hooligans arrive, and we should finish the games on a high note, instead of arguing with these uncouth, ill-bred, discourteous arseholes.
I digress....
Back to the good stuff.
Highlights.
Rugburn lays the smack down on a frisbee idiot.
Rickey hits a 2 base homerun, and manages to get to 3rd instead of stopping at 2.
Rube, Jason, Generalissimo and Rickey turn doubles into triples with extremely aggressive running.
Burma Girl had a gold glove day. She stopped everything coming her way. Though, she was robbed of two infield flyballs, once by DT, once by Indiana. (In our defense, she didn't call for the ball)
Sandman made more plays pitching for the other team than for his own team.
Generalissimo flashes some leather.
Grandpa kills the ball, 3 times.
DT burns Cool Papa, hitting a blooping fly ball over his head in right field.
Swiss Miss had a gold glove day too. He was catching everything. It was a sight to behold. He even ran down a Sandman hit and caught it inches from the ground.
Jason and Diana showed what a little love can do to improve the right side of the field. If Diana missed, Jason covered... Jason actually made a brilliant play to hold Rube to a single instead of a double. Rube hit a line drive to right, and Jason snagged the ball on the first bounce and threw it quickly in to Diana, and Rube was held at first. Rickey had nothing to talk to Rube about because he's never met him there before.
Cool Papa came in during the 4th inning, and the TWOs lit him up. They scored most of their runs when Cool Papa was on the mound.
Game 2 : ONES 0 : TWOS 4 (3 innings)
The Mick, Burma Girl, Indiana, Rube, Horfun, Heidi, Swissmiss, Clement and DT played basketball after drinks at Joes. We headed down to Kent Vale to get some court action.
Rube was unstoppable under the rim. No one could match his height, and he hustles as hard on the court as he does on the field.
The Mick has got some skills. Probably picked up while selling crack in the back courts of harlem.
Indiana has the stamina and energy of a 18 year old. He was running and running and running. DT (who's half his age) couldn't keep it.
Bruma Girl tackled Heidi to the ground. Whoops all round. Catcalls and requests for Jello and/or Mud to be involved. Sexy...
Horfun is officially more dangerous than DT in IT. She hacked into several wifi networks in Kent Vale.
Next Week...
The Redneck Triathlon.
Softball followed by Basketball, followed by Bowling. Insert beer and plenty of mayonaise. Fried Chicken and Watermelons will be ordered if Cool Papa gets permission to enter.
We're going to try for a 2.45pm start this coming weekend, so we can squeeze basketball before Beer. We'd really appreciate it if folks can start arriving about 2.30pm.
Seeya.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
19 August 2006 - The Nobility of the Idiot (Standing next to His Girlfriend under the Umbrella)
ONES: 1B: Rickey; 2B: Diana; 3B: The Venezualan Jaguar; SS: Sandman; LF: The Mick; CF: Heidi; RF: Jason/Cool Papa; Rover: Clement/Jason
TWOS: 1B: Indiana; 2B: Geok; 3B: Rube; SS: DT; LF: Rugburn; CF: Grandpa; RF: Swiss Miss; Rover: Horfun
Game One:
ONES: 15
TWOS: 22
Game TWO... Rickey went to Joe's
It was a great game. Everyone was taking the extra base, and making the defenses work. The TWOs just had too many big guns. If Rube or Rugburn didn't hit a homer, Grandpa would. They just pounded the ONEs into submission. The ONES played good defense, it's just that the TWOs hit them well. One small issue for the ONES: Rickey and the Jaguar scored 9 of their runs. That's just not right (particularly the Rickey part). Overall, it was a great Saturday. What it's all about. The only issue was the cricket and soccer players. The frisbee players weren't that bad. Their fans are idiots, however. One set up a nice umbrella-ed viewing spot that was ruined by the glorious Rugburn. He not only hit the umbrella, he hit the two people underneath it too. The guy looked pissed, and all he could do is stand and stare. Too bad. Don't start camping out in centerfield.
Notes:
1) Grandpa hit his longest homer in memory; 2) Swiss Miss was hitting well, also; 3) Geok was making nice defensive plays, even when she was pitching against her own team; 4) As mentioned above, everyone was base-running like they had studied under Grandpa and Cool Papa; 5) Jaguar/Rickey combo is lethal, but slow...; 6) Rugburn blew the jug he earned for hitting the umbrella by getting caught on a bone-headed running play. There was only 1 out, dude.
MBP: Rube
Biggest Bat: Rube
Best Hit: Rugburn
Gold Glove: Geok
DY: Dave (drove through jams to get there)
TWOS: 1B: Indiana; 2B: Geok; 3B: Rube; SS: DT; LF: Rugburn; CF: Grandpa; RF: Swiss Miss; Rover: Horfun
Game One:
ONES: 15
TWOS: 22
Game TWO... Rickey went to Joe's
It was a great game. Everyone was taking the extra base, and making the defenses work. The TWOs just had too many big guns. If Rube or Rugburn didn't hit a homer, Grandpa would. They just pounded the ONEs into submission. The ONES played good defense, it's just that the TWOs hit them well. One small issue for the ONES: Rickey and the Jaguar scored 9 of their runs. That's just not right (particularly the Rickey part). Overall, it was a great Saturday. What it's all about. The only issue was the cricket and soccer players. The frisbee players weren't that bad. Their fans are idiots, however. One set up a nice umbrella-ed viewing spot that was ruined by the glorious Rugburn. He not only hit the umbrella, he hit the two people underneath it too. The guy looked pissed, and all he could do is stand and stare. Too bad. Don't start camping out in centerfield.
Notes:
1) Grandpa hit his longest homer in memory; 2) Swiss Miss was hitting well, also; 3) Geok was making nice defensive plays, even when she was pitching against her own team; 4) As mentioned above, everyone was base-running like they had studied under Grandpa and Cool Papa; 5) Jaguar/Rickey combo is lethal, but slow...; 6) Rugburn blew the jug he earned for hitting the umbrella by getting caught on a bone-headed running play. There was only 1 out, dude.
MBP: Rube
Biggest Bat: Rube
Best Hit: Rugburn
Gold Glove: Geok
DY: Dave (drove through jams to get there)
Monday, August 14, 2006
Team Photo - 120806 - Putting Faces to Names
Standing (From Left)
Burma Girl, Heidi, The Generalissimo, Indiana, The Mick, SuperDad, Jeremy, Irish aka Yvonne, SwissMiss, The Rube
Squatting (From Left)
JasonandDiana, Seven, Cool Papa, Clement, Horfun
Photographer: DT
12 August 2006 - Epic Games
ONES:
Catch: Clement/Horfun 1st: Indiana/Irish, 2nd: Horfun/Diana, 3rd: Diana/Bert, SS: Irish/Generalissimo/Cool Papa, OF: SuperDad, Cool Papa/Generalissimo, Clement/Horfun, Seven(traded)/Indiana
TWOS:
1st: Heidi/Seven, 2nd: Burma Girl, 3rd: Generalissimo(traded)/Rube, SS: DT, OF: The Mick, Jeremy, Jason, Seven/Heidi
Game 1: ONES 8 : TWOS 23 (7 innings mercy)
Game 2: ONES 5 : TWOS 10 (5 innings)
It was an Epic day. The numbers were (for a non-BBQ day in 2006) Epic. The Heat was Epic. The population on the field (including frisbess idiots, soccer players and cricket monkeys) was Epic. The Skill level of play was Epic. The Bats were Epic. It was an Epic day.
DT did the counting since Rickey was off galavanting (sniffing the remnents of LKY's bum on his chair at the Parliment house). The teams looked fairly even, considering that the ONEs had SuperDad, but with the slight overcompensation, the ONEs lacked a proper infield after the 1st inning. With the arrival of the Generalissimo, DT and Indiana conferred to trade the Generalissimo for Seven, to try and even up the defensive gaps. Strangely enough, the ONEs took an early one-run lead in the first inning, and gave up four runs in the second inning after the trade.
With the TWOs wise to the ways of Superdad, his formidable strength was soon stifled by both the Mick and Jeremy. Standing deeper than necessary in the outfield, they managed to catch everything Superdad hit and they proved to be his kryptonite. Superdad did not score. The TWOS however, managed to string together some hits. Their defense held as well, and the ONEs only managed to score 2 runs to their 9 in 5 innings. The game blew wide open in the bottom of the 5th when the ONEs suddenly got their bats going. They scored 6 unanswered runs to pull the difference back to 1 run.
The scores remain unchanged for another two innings when the cricket monkeys came on the field and turned it all around. With the Indiana playing RF and the Generalissimo in CF (Cool Papa lost his cool and nearly stomped off the field because of the cricket monkeys getting in his way), the strong opposite field hitting of the TWOs lineup soon took their toll. The TWOs started putting together hit after hit after hit, culminating with a booming opposite field hit over Indiana's head. He could not be blamed though, because the cricket monkeys were camped in his defensive line, and he could not play any deeper because they were blocking his way. The TWOs however, had no such handicap at bat as they were sending ball after ball trying to hit and permanently maim a cricket monkey. The top of the 7th did not end well for the ONEs. The TWOs had scored 11 runs in that inning, and took an insurmountable 15 run lead. The game ended with Mercy as the TWOs gloves did all the talking to close down the ONEs bats.
Game 2 started off with a significant switch to the diamond. Instead of competing with the cricket monkeys and letting them ruin our day, we moved the diamond about 50 degrees to the left. This freed up centerfield, and only right field was now occupied by the monkeys. The rules also were changed to all right field fly balls called a foul, effectively shutting down right field. Line-drives and bouncing grounders still counted, as there was still a right fielder, albeit playing much shallower than normal.
Having won the first game through mercy, the TWOs were hungry for the sweep. They managed to score in every inning in the second game to yank a 10-5 victory away from the ONEs. Even with the fancy infield glovework of Cool Papa, and the speed of the Generalissimo in the outfield, the TWOs freight train could not be stopped.
Highlights
There were 3 DPs on the day. DT had an assisted 6-3 DP, Jason had a 9-6 DP off Clement who did not tag up, and Cool Papa had another 6-3 DP. '
Before the cricket monkeys showed up, the ONEs outfield was unstoppable. Cool Papa caught out Rube, Indiana caught out The Mick. No one wanted to hit to Superdad.
Cool Papa has some infield skills, but he looked uncomfortable playing short and he forgot to cover the bases.
Clement was unstoppable in the field. His glove was a ball magnet. He caught everything that was hit near or to him, dropping nothing.
The Swissmiss is a better 3rd baseman than a catcher. I'm amazed how he can drop the simplest of plays at catcher, but catch and field the hardest hit balls at 3rd. Damned Strange.
Indiana threw his glove. A memorable occasion as no one has ever seen him angry before. Damned cricket monkeys.
Seven is the NEW monk. He gave the Irish a double by watching her run instead of catching the ball. Luckily the ball did not roll after it landed, or he would have given her a HR instead.
Cool Papa showed his affections for Heidi. Giving her a black eye. 40-ounce, wife-beater and joint not included.
Heidi sat out 5 innings while nursing her black eye.
Jeremy is Superdad's Kryptonite. He even caught one of Superdad's deep flyballs while falling over.
Horfun was hitting deep. Only the Mick could catch her hits.
Rube tried valiantly to hit a cricket monkey. Close, but no cigar.
DT and Rube are combining to be a pretty good infield team. Much better than arod and jeter.
MBP: The Mick
Gold Glove: Clement
Biggest Bat: Rube
DY: Jeremy
Catch: Clement/Horfun 1st: Indiana/Irish, 2nd: Horfun/Diana, 3rd: Diana/Bert, SS: Irish/Generalissimo/Cool Papa, OF: SuperDad, Cool Papa/Generalissimo, Clement/Horfun, Seven(traded)/Indiana
TWOS:
1st: Heidi/Seven, 2nd: Burma Girl, 3rd: Generalissimo(traded)/Rube, SS: DT, OF: The Mick, Jeremy, Jason, Seven/Heidi
Game 1: ONES 8 : TWOS 23 (7 innings mercy)
Game 2: ONES 5 : TWOS 10 (5 innings)
It was an Epic day. The numbers were (for a non-BBQ day in 2006) Epic. The Heat was Epic. The population on the field (including frisbess idiots, soccer players and cricket monkeys) was Epic. The Skill level of play was Epic. The Bats were Epic. It was an Epic day.
DT did the counting since Rickey was off galavanting (sniffing the remnents of LKY's bum on his chair at the Parliment house). The teams looked fairly even, considering that the ONEs had SuperDad, but with the slight overcompensation, the ONEs lacked a proper infield after the 1st inning. With the arrival of the Generalissimo, DT and Indiana conferred to trade the Generalissimo for Seven, to try and even up the defensive gaps. Strangely enough, the ONEs took an early one-run lead in the first inning, and gave up four runs in the second inning after the trade.
With the TWOs wise to the ways of Superdad, his formidable strength was soon stifled by both the Mick and Jeremy. Standing deeper than necessary in the outfield, they managed to catch everything Superdad hit and they proved to be his kryptonite. Superdad did not score. The TWOS however, managed to string together some hits. Their defense held as well, and the ONEs only managed to score 2 runs to their 9 in 5 innings. The game blew wide open in the bottom of the 5th when the ONEs suddenly got their bats going. They scored 6 unanswered runs to pull the difference back to 1 run.
The scores remain unchanged for another two innings when the cricket monkeys came on the field and turned it all around. With the Indiana playing RF and the Generalissimo in CF (Cool Papa lost his cool and nearly stomped off the field because of the cricket monkeys getting in his way), the strong opposite field hitting of the TWOs lineup soon took their toll. The TWOs started putting together hit after hit after hit, culminating with a booming opposite field hit over Indiana's head. He could not be blamed though, because the cricket monkeys were camped in his defensive line, and he could not play any deeper because they were blocking his way. The TWOs however, had no such handicap at bat as they were sending ball after ball trying to hit and permanently maim a cricket monkey. The top of the 7th did not end well for the ONEs. The TWOs had scored 11 runs in that inning, and took an insurmountable 15 run lead. The game ended with Mercy as the TWOs gloves did all the talking to close down the ONEs bats.
Game 2 started off with a significant switch to the diamond. Instead of competing with the cricket monkeys and letting them ruin our day, we moved the diamond about 50 degrees to the left. This freed up centerfield, and only right field was now occupied by the monkeys. The rules also were changed to all right field fly balls called a foul, effectively shutting down right field. Line-drives and bouncing grounders still counted, as there was still a right fielder, albeit playing much shallower than normal.
Having won the first game through mercy, the TWOs were hungry for the sweep. They managed to score in every inning in the second game to yank a 10-5 victory away from the ONEs. Even with the fancy infield glovework of Cool Papa, and the speed of the Generalissimo in the outfield, the TWOs freight train could not be stopped.
Highlights
There were 3 DPs on the day. DT had an assisted 6-3 DP, Jason had a 9-6 DP off Clement who did not tag up, and Cool Papa had another 6-3 DP. '
Before the cricket monkeys showed up, the ONEs outfield was unstoppable. Cool Papa caught out Rube, Indiana caught out The Mick. No one wanted to hit to Superdad.
Cool Papa has some infield skills, but he looked uncomfortable playing short and he forgot to cover the bases.
Clement was unstoppable in the field. His glove was a ball magnet. He caught everything that was hit near or to him, dropping nothing.
The Swissmiss is a better 3rd baseman than a catcher. I'm amazed how he can drop the simplest of plays at catcher, but catch and field the hardest hit balls at 3rd. Damned Strange.
Indiana threw his glove. A memorable occasion as no one has ever seen him angry before. Damned cricket monkeys.
Seven is the NEW monk. He gave the Irish a double by watching her run instead of catching the ball. Luckily the ball did not roll after it landed, or he would have given her a HR instead.
Cool Papa showed his affections for Heidi. Giving her a black eye. 40-ounce, wife-beater and joint not included.
Heidi sat out 5 innings while nursing her black eye.
Jeremy is Superdad's Kryptonite. He even caught one of Superdad's deep flyballs while falling over.
Horfun was hitting deep. Only the Mick could catch her hits.
Rube tried valiantly to hit a cricket monkey. Close, but no cigar.
DT and Rube are combining to be a pretty good infield team. Much better than arod and jeter.
MBP: The Mick
Gold Glove: Clement
Biggest Bat: Rube
DY: Jeremy
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
DT Rants about Getting Schooled
First game, National Pride at stake. We haven't had a 'Singaporeans vs Expats' game in a long time. Last game was probably 2 years ago before we lost the Tan Family. This time, we actually outnumbered the expats 7 to 5, so we offered one of our ladies to their cause (insert SPG joke here). Rickey picked Horfun since she's not in the country most of the time. We had no chance. By the third inning, the Singaporeans were 10 runs behind going to bat. We managed to pull one run back, but we were soon behind 10 runs again in the middle of the fourth. Somehow, we managed to get back another run to hold off mercy, but in the next inning, the expats scored another 4 runs to take a 16-2 lead. That we managed to string together some hits to score 3 runs in the bottom of the 5th was a testament to our determination not to go down in a mercy. Too little too late though.
Second game, Male Pride at stake. With our exceptionally even numbers today, we actually had 7 guys to 5 girls, I figured it would be a good time to put our 'Kyle II vs the rest theory' to the test. I offered a suggestion that we play 6 guys vs Kyle II+the girls, and the idea was met with some approval. I did not expect an easy fight, in fact, I did not expect a victory as the girls line up was pretty damn strong. All things considered, if we had played Men vs Women (without Kyle II), the game would have ended just as close. Kyle II only made about 3-4 outs and only scored about 6-7 runs. The ladies were playing excellent small ball, advancing runners and hitting singles. Their defence rocked too. Any ground balls to short or second was easily snapped up by Joyce and Diana. They even combined for 3 attempted double plays (only one of which was successful). Any balls hit into the outfield was similarly snapped up by Horfun and Heidi. Though Horfun had some initial problems getting the high fly balls, she soon got the measure of them and helped put us guys out of our misery. I did make the mistake of giving away third base, I figured that they don't run as fast as us guys (I SHOULD have suggested letting Rickey stop at 3rd too while I was at it). Immediately after my suggestion, the ladies loaded the bases and Kyle came up to bat to hit a booming grandslam.... DOH! Although, the ladies only managed to use third base about 3 times in the game, and only scored from there twice, so it wasn't much of an impact.
All in all, it was quite a good day. We could've used more numbers (at least 2 more), but the weather was superb (cool, cloudy and not at all hot), and the field was perfect (slightly soft and damp after the morning shower, but not soggy and wet). We didn't even have to contest the field with the frisbee idiots (who later came at 2) or soccer players or cricket monkeys.
Second game, Male Pride at stake. With our exceptionally even numbers today, we actually had 7 guys to 5 girls, I figured it would be a good time to put our 'Kyle II vs the rest theory' to the test. I offered a suggestion that we play 6 guys vs Kyle II+the girls, and the idea was met with some approval. I did not expect an easy fight, in fact, I did not expect a victory as the girls line up was pretty damn strong. All things considered, if we had played Men vs Women (without Kyle II), the game would have ended just as close. Kyle II only made about 3-4 outs and only scored about 6-7 runs. The ladies were playing excellent small ball, advancing runners and hitting singles. Their defence rocked too. Any ground balls to short or second was easily snapped up by Joyce and Diana. They even combined for 3 attempted double plays (only one of which was successful). Any balls hit into the outfield was similarly snapped up by Horfun and Heidi. Though Horfun had some initial problems getting the high fly balls, she soon got the measure of them and helped put us guys out of our misery. I did make the mistake of giving away third base, I figured that they don't run as fast as us guys (I SHOULD have suggested letting Rickey stop at 3rd too while I was at it). Immediately after my suggestion, the ladies loaded the bases and Kyle came up to bat to hit a booming grandslam.... DOH! Although, the ladies only managed to use third base about 3 times in the game, and only scored from there twice, so it wasn't much of an impact.
All in all, it was quite a good day. We could've used more numbers (at least 2 more), but the weather was superb (cool, cloudy and not at all hot), and the field was perfect (slightly soft and damp after the morning shower, but not soggy and wet). We didn't even have to contest the field with the frisbee idiots (who later came at 2) or soccer players or cricket monkeys.
9 August 2006 - Kyle's Angels
Two separate games were played. Both used Prof Zen/Indiana rules.
The first game was Singaporeans v. Foreigners (plus Horfun). The line-up was....
The Maju-lahs: 1B: Geok; 2B: Diana; SS: DT; OF: Heidi, Male Jo, Jason
Foreign (Talent?): 1B: Rickey; 2B: Horfun; SS: Sandman; OF: Superdad (Kyle II), Irish Joyce, Indiana
Game ONE (5 innings - Mercy)
Majulahs: 5
FT: 16
The key to the game was Superdad's balls sliding past Heidi in the outfield. Following aneuryisms, all was fine. Also, Irish Joyce snuffed out any potential momentum with a nice stretching catch off of a good hit from Geok. The supposed Foreign Talent could have finished it off earlier, but weird drop balls kept happening. On the final out, DT scrambled quicker than he would upon seeing Princess Leia at a Star Wars convention to get a past ball (he was playing catcher).
NOW FOR THE REAL GAME OF THE DAY....
DT proposed that we have Kyle II and all the ladies take on the rest. Well, Kyle's angels took us down... BAD.
Kyle's Angels: 1B: Geok, 2B: Diana; SS: Irish Joyce; LF: Kyle II; CF: Heidi; RF: Horfun
The Angel's Bee-achs: 1B: Indiana; 2B: DT/Rickey; SS: Male Jo; LF: Sandman; CF: Rickey/DT; RF: Jason
Kyle's Angels: 16
TAB: 10
First of all, the ladies hit very well. They would put some on, and then Kyle II would hit a homer. Also, they played defense well. Irish Joyce held down short, while Heidi and Kyle II caught numerous hits to the outfield. With that said, DT also gave away third base to the ladies (meaning they could stop there; they didn't have to score from 2B - a cornerstone of Prof. Zen rules. What was he thinking?).
NOTES:
1) There needs to be a new category: B3K2 (Best Batter Besides Kyle II); 2) Rickey should have stayed in bed. Even when he was hitting well in the 2nd game, Horfun and Heidi had his mojo. Kyle made a spectacular diving catch of his best hit in the last inning; 4) The ladies played great D.
MBP: Kyle II
BB3K2: Sandman
Gold Glove: Irish Joyce
Play of the Day: Kyle II
Pimp Daddy: Kyle II
The first game was Singaporeans v. Foreigners (plus Horfun). The line-up was....
The Maju-lahs: 1B: Geok; 2B: Diana; SS: DT; OF: Heidi, Male Jo, Jason
Foreign (Talent?): 1B: Rickey; 2B: Horfun; SS: Sandman; OF: Superdad (Kyle II), Irish Joyce, Indiana
Game ONE (5 innings - Mercy)
Majulahs: 5
FT: 16
The key to the game was Superdad's balls sliding past Heidi in the outfield. Following aneuryisms, all was fine. Also, Irish Joyce snuffed out any potential momentum with a nice stretching catch off of a good hit from Geok. The supposed Foreign Talent could have finished it off earlier, but weird drop balls kept happening. On the final out, DT scrambled quicker than he would upon seeing Princess Leia at a Star Wars convention to get a past ball (he was playing catcher).
NOW FOR THE REAL GAME OF THE DAY....
DT proposed that we have Kyle II and all the ladies take on the rest. Well, Kyle's angels took us down... BAD.
Kyle's Angels: 1B: Geok, 2B: Diana; SS: Irish Joyce; LF: Kyle II; CF: Heidi; RF: Horfun
The Angel's Bee-achs: 1B: Indiana; 2B: DT/Rickey; SS: Male Jo; LF: Sandman; CF: Rickey/DT; RF: Jason
Kyle's Angels: 16
TAB: 10
First of all, the ladies hit very well. They would put some on, and then Kyle II would hit a homer. Also, they played defense well. Irish Joyce held down short, while Heidi and Kyle II caught numerous hits to the outfield. With that said, DT also gave away third base to the ladies (meaning they could stop there; they didn't have to score from 2B - a cornerstone of Prof. Zen rules. What was he thinking?).
NOTES:
1) There needs to be a new category: B3K2 (Best Batter Besides Kyle II); 2) Rickey should have stayed in bed. Even when he was hitting well in the 2nd game, Horfun and Heidi had his mojo. Kyle made a spectacular diving catch of his best hit in the last inning; 4) The ladies played great D.
MBP: Kyle II
BB3K2: Sandman
Gold Glove: Irish Joyce
Play of the Day: Kyle II
Pimp Daddy: Kyle II
Sunday, August 06, 2006
A Picture is worth a thousand words....
The Guest of Honor Arrives
The Best Seat in the House... Right by the Grill
Vegetables... Who said we only eat meat...
Do you prefer White meat or Dark Meat?
The Rube Started a good fire
Working Hard at the Grill
Some new faces, some old faces...
The Guppy and Little Jeffery
The Guppy and Little Jeffery
The Main Event.... Swiss Miss takes on the Yard
He Started out Strong... viva La France
The Rube gives a hand
Choke Choke Choke
French Pride?
Finally he makes it...
Can Clement restore the French Pride?
Ole'
He finishes, only pausing once to catch a breath.
Spewing AFTER the yard is perfectly fine! Viva La Clement
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