Very Disappointing...
Two Sundays ago was a disappointing day. Very disappointing, in fact. I'm talking, of course, of the 60% turnout for the drink-up following our softball game. I think we may have lost the game as well, but I haven't finished tallying the other team's runs. If the final count for them is more than two, then we lost.
We also had two surprise visits at our game... the first was by LoCo, who stopped by early in the game to walk her dog, and stayed to watching the spellbinding drama of Sunday D League softball unfold. The second was by Mario, who apparently showed up in the bottom 6th to play softball, though his attire (jeans and a polo shirt) would indicate otherwise. This is a contrast of sorts to one of last year's games, when he came en route to a skateboarding party where some generic punk-pop band (Sum 41, Blink 182, etc.) was playing.
A quick rundown of the other team. First, central casting called, they want their plumber back (second Google result, really!). Okay, that's all I got. It turns out this was an independent team (BSSC Indies 2) who seemed to all have been extremely modest on their application forms. But this didn't stop them from playing with the eye of the tiger, for the thrill of the fight, rising up to the challenge of their rival. They came face to face--out in the heat--hangin' tough, and stayed hungry. Alright, I'm done. Anyhow, they thwarted our planned 43-run rally in the top 7th by drawing walks and taking extra bases to keep the game out of reach.
Unfortunately for us, the game seemed to consist almost entirely of the other team driving the ball into the gaps in our defense, which appeared at times to encompass the entire field. For this week's highlight reel, we can focus almost entirely on plays at second base, where we saw Lindsey roll the ball on the dirt to second to make the out, a batter on the other team fall off the bag and get tagged out by Derek, Jon drilling a baserunner in the back on a throw from first on at attempted double play, and a base running error by Brian which ended in Sean getting thrown out at first. Yep, I'm assessing you a pitcher B. Finally, we had a batter stretch a single to a double when the second baseman on the other team forgot that a tag needs to be applied on a non-force play.
On the plus side, we did see Derek make a Coco Crisp circus catch. We also saw Ryan move from third to left-center to rest his arm, which also meant that we got to see him run to and around the outfield... "like a gazelle," as one Thirder put it. I'm sure there were some more great things that our team did, but those probably happened on this past Sunday's (July 8th) game, which I'll let Ryan blog about.
Fun facts:
We also had two surprise visits at our game... the first was by LoCo, who stopped by early in the game to walk her dog, and stayed to watching the spellbinding drama of Sunday D League softball unfold. The second was by Mario, who apparently showed up in the bottom 6th to play softball, though his attire (jeans and a polo shirt) would indicate otherwise. This is a contrast of sorts to one of last year's games, when he came en route to a skateboarding party where some generic punk-pop band (Sum 41, Blink 182, etc.) was playing.
A quick rundown of the other team. First, central casting called, they want their plumber back (second Google result, really!). Okay, that's all I got. It turns out this was an independent team (BSSC Indies 2) who seemed to all have been extremely modest on their application forms. But this didn't stop them from playing with the eye of the tiger, for the thrill of the fight, rising up to the challenge of their rival. They came face to face--out in the heat--hangin' tough, and stayed hungry. Alright, I'm done. Anyhow, they thwarted our planned 43-run rally in the top 7th by drawing walks and taking extra bases to keep the game out of reach.
Unfortunately for us, the game seemed to consist almost entirely of the other team driving the ball into the gaps in our defense, which appeared at times to encompass the entire field. For this week's highlight reel, we can focus almost entirely on plays at second base, where we saw Lindsey roll the ball on the dirt to second to make the out, a batter on the other team fall off the bag and get tagged out by Derek, Jon drilling a baserunner in the back on a throw from first on at attempted double play, and a base running error by Brian which ended in Sean getting thrown out at first. Yep, I'm assessing you a pitcher B. Finally, we had a batter stretch a single to a double when the second baseman on the other team forgot that a tag needs to be applied on a non-force play.
On the plus side, we did see Derek make a Coco Crisp circus catch. We also saw Ryan move from third to left-center to rest his arm, which also meant that we got to see him run to and around the outfield... "like a gazelle," as one Thirder put it. I'm sure there were some more great things that our team did, but those probably happened on this past Sunday's (July 8th) game, which I'll let Ryan blog about.
Fun facts:
- The moon is never really full. You can read the article, which uses words like "diametrically," "gibbous," and "terminator," or take my word for it.
- The largest living rodent is the capybara, which can grow up to 55" long and weigh 140 pounds. From a theological, Lent-related perspective, they are equivalent to fish, in that they can be eaten when other meat can not.
- In 2004, when Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da was voted as the worst song ever, were voters somehow anticipating the 2006 release of this rendition of it?
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7/09/2007 11:25:00 PM
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