Eye of the Liger?

Despair.com hit the nail right on the head with this one. I'm pretty sure they were talking about The Idiots, but figured they'd find more of a market tailoring it to the corporate world.

Plus, there's really not much in the way of photographic evidence of any of the more idiotic things we've done. The closest I could come up with comes from the Hot Dog Eating Contest of 2006, in which Ryan and I ate six Spike's Hot Dogs and got a t-shirt and our picture on the wall for our efforts. Derek wisely stopped after four and Sean couldn't get the last 1/8 of his hot dog down. And we all suffered meat strokes/hangovers after. So that could make a passable poster...But I digress... for those that missed the drink-up, this topic came up, which is why this is the lead-in to this week's recap.

Speaking of the recap (nice segue, eh?), we played but five innings out in Wayland, as apparently each team going through the batting order and drawing walks every inning takes a while. The IGMW bats opened big in the first inning--no, that's not entirely true. We recorded four singles and four walks in the first inning, with a sacrifice fly (Sean), a fielder's choice, and an automatic out to end the inning. This gave their starting pitcher a staggering 8.00 WHIP, 35.00 ERA. Brian's 18.20 ERA outing for the day looks magical. And yes Brian, I already deducted runs for errors.

Going back to the top of the first, we saw a very delayed example of tagging up when Eagle waited until the ball was on it's way back from the center fielder to start running from third. But he made it to home safe for the first run. And that's all for the top first.

The Electric Mayhem came back strong in the bottom of the inning to tie the game at 5-5. The Thirds continued their mix of singles and walks in the second, until Mayhem brought in a relief pitcher who notched a fielder's choice and a fly out to end the inning, ending the Third's four-run inning.

Again, the Electric Mayhem came back and tied the game at 9-9, then got the go-ahead runs before the top third when the umpire assessed the missing women penalty. Fortunately, IGMW scored two in the top three to again tie the game. We then held them to a 1-2-3 inning featuring Pitts on a nice 6-3, Pitts again on a fly out, and then unfortunately Brian selfishly notched the 1-3 out to prevent Pitts from having an All-Pitts Inning. However, Mayhem retired our side just as easily in the top fourth. They scored 6 runs to give them 17-11 lead going into the top 5th, where we left two stranded to end the game.

Although we did have a couple of errors in this game, it seemed that Mayhem really knew just where--and how--to hit it. When we played at normal depth, they bombed it over our heads; when we played deep they dropped it in front of us. So perhaps this game was not to be.

So a couple other tidbits from the game:

• Sean went 0-for-0 in three plate appearances, recording two walks and a sacrifice fly, for an infinite batting average! Okay that's not really true, the limit of his batting average is infinity as his At Bats approach zero. Baseball and Math Geeks unite!
• There were no extra base hits; the Thirds are now strangely riding a two game streak without a home run.
  

We also had a further discussion on At Bat Songs at the drink-up... below are the latest additions/updates to the current lineup of songs. The general rule is that you're free to suggest a song you might like to hear as you're stepping from the on-deck circle to the batter's box. We're free to choose a more appropriate song, should we think of one. I know you're saying that we've often talked about this without getting it together, but there's one factor that could make it work this year... Brian has a boombox!

• Brian - "Material Girl"
• Kristen - "Thunderstruck"
• Karen S - "Eye of the Tiger" - If you watch any of these videos, watch this one. This features Brian in a wig playing lead tambourine.
  
• Lindsey - "Shipping Up to Boston"
• Pitts - "Super Mario Brothers Theme"
  

Okay, this is a rather long write-up so time to call it quits. Also, in case you didn't notice it, I also posted the first Rule of the Week. I'm a blogging machine.

Oh, I guess you might be wondering about the title of today's blog. More likely you forgot, but I'll let that slide, it's a long post. So the title ("Eye of the Liger", on the off-chance you forgot) popped into my head sorta randomly, and then proving what a wonderful thing the Internet is, I found a YouTube video of the same name. This is also worth watching. It's shot using the gritty documentary-style camera work of the Blair Witch Project. I like that the actors decided to not sacrifice their artistic integrity, even if it meant posting a video that will be truly embarrassing in five years time. Stick around for the rocking song during the end credits.

Fun fact:

• Smoking jackets were in fact intended to prevent the "sensitive and delicate nostrils of ladies" from being "assailed by the pungent fumes of tobacco clinging to everyday clothing." That's good work Lindsey. According to Cigar Afficionado, smoking jackets are an "all-purpose, at-home entertaining jacket." I don't know... this article was published 9 years ago and I still haven't met anyone rocking a smoking jacket at a social gathering.