19 Feb 2011 - What happened to Softball?

Bodies : Rickey, Rugburn (+ Louie and Molly), Baskets, High Tea, Contrary, H, Gunz, Bumblebee

Cricket field was taken.

Soccer field was kinda taken.

Time of death: 4.30pm.

On to Baa Baa...

18 Feb 2011 - Mission to JB Part Deux

6 months ago, we went on a gocart slash paintball mission to JB. It was such a success, we really wanted to do it again.
This time, we managed to get more folks, and got a 2 car mission going.

First stop, gocarts.

Contrary watching his back.

Veto about to overtake Mr Daly

Mick

Veto, vetoing Cool Papa's attempt to overtake

The Racers.
From Left: Cool Papa, Mr Daly, H, Mick, Baskets, Contrary, Veto


After 2 rounds of gocarts, we headed over to the mall for some lunch and paintball.

Signing in and getting gear

Getting mission ready

Shake and Bake

The Wild Geese
From left: Mr Daly, Cool Papa, Mick, Veto, Baskets, Rickey, Contrary, H

A little target practice for the first timers.

H showing her stuff.

And Rickey gets away with a nice bruise. This time, courtesy of H.

Rickey bought 60 arrows again. But this time, more folk joined him to shoot. Mick won the redneck archery contest with 98 points.

Going full circle. We started the mission racing, and we ended the mission racing.

12 Feb 2011 - Left Vs Right

Lefts: 1st Rickey, 2nd Geok, 3rd Indiana, SS Mick, LF Mauneau, CF Bumblebee, RF Sin
Rights: 1st Guppy, 2nd Baskets, 3rd Ziegler, SS Veto, LF Rugburn, CF Cool Papa, RF H

Box Score:
Rights: 10 0 1 0 0 0 4
Lefts: 1 0 4 4 0 0 2 (rained out)

Final Score
Rights 15 - Lefts 11

We pulled a strange count-off this week. Basically everyone paired up, then all lefts were on one team, and all rights on the other. I think this was the most evenly matched teams I've seen ever. Offensively and Defensively. It looked like a great matchup.

The Rights did everything right in the first inning though. Stringing together solid hits and aggressive running to put 10 runs on the board. The Lefts weren't going to take things sitting down. The pulled back a run to avoid a first inning mercy, and then put together more runs to bring the game closer.

It was only in the 7th that the Rights managed to get back on the board. And then came the rain. With heavy rain pouring down. The Lefts gave up, and only 4 out of their 7 players came back out to bat. If their whole team came out, they might have done something more though. So they only managed to score 2 runs to take the loss.

Notes
Rugburn hit the longest HR of the year. It took 2 bounces and landed in the drain.

Bumblebee had his worst 'oh shit' day of his career. There were at least 4 'oh shit' moments over his head. Must be the extra CNY weight he's carrying.

There was a big hole in the Baskets. Maybe the weave needs tightening.

Horfun rule saved a run in the 1st inning.

Guppy's back 2 weeks in a row. He's in the best shape I've ever seen, but his glove hasn't changed a bit.

5 Feb 2011 - Buntiful Bunny Year

Ones: 1st Indiana, 2nd Sin, 3rd Swaine, SS Chris, LF Rugburn, CF Cool Papa, CF Geok, RF H
Twos: 1st Rickey/Guppy, 2nd Baskets/Marc, 3rd Mick, SS Ripken, LF Superdad, CF Ziegler, CF Marc/Baskets, RF Guppy/Rickey

Box Score:
Twos 0 2 0 0 1 1 2 0 0
Ones 0 1 9 0 2 2 2 14 x

Final Score:
Ones 30 : Twos 6

Hopefully our buntiful sacrifice to the baseball gods will be well received.

We had great weather, good field, good numbers and most importantly a great game.

We saw old faces return and a new face appear.

We picked on lame old men in the outfield and blind young men in the infield.

We pummeled the ball, we made great plays, great catches and turned doubles.

We ran, we scored and we scored some more.

And then after, we drank $300 of beer at Blooies.

29 Jan 2011 - Mudfest

Ones: Rugburn, Baskets, Ripken, Ziegler
Twos: Mauneau, Bumblebee, JC, me
All-time: Generalissimo, Mick

Ones 6 : Twos 4 (7 innings)

22 Jan 2011 - SausageFest

Ones: 1st Rickey, 2nd High Tea, 3rd Ziegler, SS Chris/Rugburn, LF Rugburn/Bumblebee, CF Gunz, CF Sin, RF Sin/Chris

Twos: 1st Shane, 2nd Baskets, 3rd Generalissimo, SS Mick, LF Dave, CF Kelson, CF Ripken, RF Scooterboy

Box Score:
Twos 0 1 7 1 5 1 2 0 0
Ones 7 0 5 2 1 4 2 0 0

Final
Ones 21 : Twos 17

Finally, the first REAL game of 2011. Looking back at the blog entries, it seems that we could never start the year till Mid March. WTF. Oh well.

We've never had a game without a female on the field either, but I guess there's a first time for everything.

Headed to Joe's home as he was hosting a dinner party. Met Mrs Gunz. She's really cool.

Standing (From left): Generalissimo, Sin, Rugburn, Rickey, Gunz, High Tea, Mauneau, Ripken, Shane
Front Row (From left): Chris, Ziegler, Bumblebee, King of Funk Bass, Mick, Scooterboy, Baskets
Late: Misty
Photographer: H

15 Jan 2011 - What the Fuck???

3:15pm... Rickey, Chris, Dom.
3:30pm... Rugburn
3:45pm... Ziegler
4:00pm... Bumblebee
4:15pm... Mr Runnerup, Gunz
Game on???
Nope. both fields closed... What the FUCK? NUS has NEVER closed BOTH fields at the same time. The baseball gods are EXTREMELY displeased.
4:30... H meets us at BarBar.

9 Jan 2011 - Sunday Baseball??

Now where were these people yesterday??

8 Jan 2011 - We need the numbers...

Bodies: Ripken, Rickey, H, Ziegler, me.

We went to 'archies'. Place sucks. Wood floors, uncomfortable
wood furniture. hollow and empty. loud too, cos the wood reflects all the sound. guy doesn't pour the beer for us. soccer on tv. Incredible fail

We went to Bar Bar for dinner.

1 Jan 2011 - New Year with a Whimper

Ones: 1st Sin, 3rd Baskets, SS Me, LF Mick, CF H
Twos: 1st Rickey, 3rd Ripken, SS Santini, LF Cool Papa, CF ScooterBoy

All time Pitcher : Gunz

Ones 9 : Twos 6

Right field closed, no 2B. Rain... Rain... Rain...
We came, we stayed, we played.
Welcome back Dom, Congrats on finishing your studies.
Welcome back Gunz, Congrats on getting married.

Where are our numbers? We need our numbers back. The baseball gods were not entirely pleased with our sacrifice.

1 Jan 2011 - GAME ON BITCHES!!! SEE YOU AT THE FIELD!!!

4 Dec 2010 - Bowling

Bodies: Baskets, Ripken, Rickey, Mick, Chris

We went bowling before heading to Chano's for his BBQ.

27 Nov 2010 - Respecting Our Elders

Old: Rickey, Baskets, Ziegler, High Tea
Young(er): H, Sin, Bumblebee, Chris

Score: Old 11 : Young(er) 10 (6 innings)

Considering we only had 7 last week, 8 is quite an improvement. Time-of-death was actually called at 1600 by Ziegler, but somehow, we decided to power through and wait a few minutes more. Upper field was closed, so we moved to the soccer field. With 8, we played 'triangle', 4 to a team.

It seemed obvious to split the teams racially, with 4 white guys and 4 chinese. But little did we realise that we also split the teams according to age. It was above 45s vs below 35s.

The Old folks took an early lead, picking on the two inexperienced infielders; Sin who played 1st but never got on base to receive the throw and Bumblebee who played 3rd and had problems with the bounce. Before the 5th inning, the Old folks were already up 10-4.

The Young(er)s only found their bats in the 4th. Finally putting some runs on the board. If we had played 7 innings, the Young(er)s would've won, if we had played 9, the Young(er)s would've crushed the Old folks.

The Young(er)s are going to find it difficult to live down the shame of losing to the Old folks. Though I guess we should be used to losing to Fat Old White Men by now since we've lost most of our women to them already.

20 Nov 2010 - Blooies

Bodies: Mick, Rickey, High Tea, Baskets, Bumblebee, Ziegler, Me

Game called at 4.30pm.

We adjourned to Blooies.

San Miguel on tap...

6 Nov 2010 - Wearing White after Labour Day

Ones: Geok, Indiana, Mick, H, Bumblebee
Twos: Monika, Ziegler, Sin, Ripken, HiTea

All-time: Chris, Rickey

Game 1: Ones 0 - Twos 12 (1 inning mercy)
Game 2: Ones 14 - Twos 5

30 Oct 2010 - Scary Field

Ones: Ripken, Baskets, Hi Tea, Sin, Ziegler
Twos: Rugburn, Indiana, Geok, H, Bumblebee
All-time: Rickey, Chris

Game 1: Ones 17 - Twos 6 (Mercy in 6)
Game 2: Ones 12 - Twos 13 (3 innings, walkoff. Ziegler left for Ones, Bumblebee traded to Ones, Rickey joined Twos)

Highlights

We started the game with 10. 5 on 5, right field dead, score from 2nd.
When H and Bumblebee showed up, Chris and Rickey fielded all-time to open up all fields.
Hi Tea and Sin hit back to back homers over Rugburn in LF.
Rickey advanced to 2nd on a sacrifice by Geok, then stole 3rd when the infield had a meeting at 2nd base. Rickey ran so fast, his cleats fell off his shoes.
Ripken fell 4 times taking the relay from CF. He also fell a couple of times rounding 3rd.
The ground was sloshy, damp and slippery. Really tough to play.
The Twos won game one purely on singles. There was one inning of at least 10 singles that kept loading the bases.
The second game was much closer with Bumblebee traded to the Ones and Rickey playing for the Twos.

23 Oct 2010 - Armageddon

I was in Melaka for the weekend, but I was told the game was like playing in Armageddon.
The air was so hazy that you could barely see the guy in the outfield.
Everyone was hacking and coughing and spitting.
On top of the haze, there was thunder and lightning.
The guys stopped after 5 innings to go watch Scrubs new movie 'ExTerminators'.
Its been rumoured that the mick would fuck a retard for money to buy a dress.

16 Oct 2010 - Two actual teams...

Ones: 1st Tom, 2nd Monika, 3rd Generalissimo, SS Chris, LF Mick, CF Bumblebee, RF H, C Rickey
Twos: 1st Rickey/Ziegler, 2nd Geok, 3rd Ziegler/Ripken, SS Indiana, LF Ripken/Kelson, CF Superdad, RF Sin, C Hi Tea

Game 1: Ones 17 : Twos 6 (5 innings)

1. Hi Tea finally got his right-hand glove, and 2 more show up (all year without left-handers, suddenly we have 3)
2. Ripken hit the longest homerun of the year, except it wasn't. The ball bounced on the ground between Mick and Bumblebee and rolled all the way to the drain near the cricket scoreboard.
3. The Ones put together 7 infield hits to load the bases and score 3 runs.
4. We had a strange new ball in the first inning that the Mick brought back from the US. It was the regulation size, but weighed half the standard.
5. New player from Germany, Monika. She came out with her own glove, cleats and mouthguard. We really hope to see her again.
6. Good to see the Generalissimo back in town.
7. The Horfun rule strikes again. Superdad was thrown out at the plate when he tried to stretch a triple into a homerun. The Horfun rule rocks.
8. I left after we mercied the Twos for the win. No idea what happened in the 2nd game.

9 Oct 2010 - RBI Machine

Bodies: Ripken, Rickey, Rugburn, Indiana, Geok, H, Sin, Bumblebee, Baskets, Cool Papa

All time: Chris

Score: Ones 20 : Twos 19 (extra innings)

1. Same as last week, Right field was closed. We just needed 1 more body and we could've had a full game.
2. The Rugburn shift has stopped working completely.
3. Cool Papa has found his bat back... and it is scary.
4. Rickey choked on 9RBIs. He simply couldn't get past the double digits (He has 3 ABs with runners on base after his 9th RBI, but he couldn't get it done)
5. Bumblebee has re-learnt the 'oh shit' moment.
6. Ripken shaking his head at Sin's lack of hustle is ironically funny.
7. Indiana and Geok play an hour of tennis before ball... and can still kick our ass on the field.
8. Baskets is a pretty decent 1B. At least he catches the ball thrown below his hip.
9. H has a scary arm. Doubly scary when Cool Papa won't run on her.
10. The first at bat broke the game ball, and Rugburn had to break out a brand new one.
11. Pitchers need to learn how... a) Cover 1st on the ground ball up the 1st baseline. b) Cover 2nd if the SS is pulled into the OF. c) Cover 3rd if the Lefty shift is on. d) Cover home for an overthrow, but NOT cut off a perfect throw to the catcher.
12. The Horfun rule is one of the best new rules we've put into effect.

2 Oct 2010 - Everybody plays Short

Bodies: Ripken, Rickey, Tom, Rugburn, Mr Science, Kelson, H, Sin, Bumblebee, Baskets

All time: Chris

Score : 30something to 30something

1. Right field was closed
2. Chris played all time 2nd and 3rd
3. Everyone got to play Shortstop (including, Rugburn, Ripken, Rickey, Bumblebee...etc)
4. An average of 10 runs were scored per inning
5. The Rugburn shift didn't work this time
6. Ripken went from 2nd base stud to SS dud, he didn't have a good day
7. 3 Outfielders covering 2/3 the OF still leaves many gaps
8. The ball just seemed to find all the holes in the OF
9. Aggressive running pays dividends