Randy went and screwed it all up.
I was going to write a great post on how JFT won Sunday's game because Gerry and I just dinked and dunked TSOM to death. We went seven for seven with a walk for Gerry thrown in for good measure. The only question is who is punch and who is Judy? Not sure, and we might have to fight to the punch to settle it.
Then Randy had to go and steal all our 80 foot thunder. He had the loudest hit of the game, a laser triple over the left fielder's head, good for one of his team leading three RBIs. And to top himself, he made a couple of great stops at the hot corner, one a swipe, scoop, and perfect fastball right in my glove to nail one of the few hard hitters TSOM has.
Of course we spotted TSOM a lead. They sprinted out to 4-0 first inning, and then 5-2 second inning leads. Our fan Julia was a little worried, but Mrs. Chopper calmly assured her that 'they always start slow.' Nice to see her confidence in us.
Speaking of Mr. and Mrs. Chopper, for your further entertainment, I bring you a sample of Island Fever, I think they call it: It gives special meaning to the grace Chopper showed when he flopped at first base Sunday night (you can't stop the Chopper but you can flop the Chopper!). As you know, Chopper has been extremely hot since he got back from Hawaii. I think there is a lesson here...we all need grass skirts...
(I haven't been able to get the full video yet. The link below will only take you to the video on Lisa's fb page. You will have to friend her to see the whole thing, and let me tell you, it's well worth it).
Chopper in a skirt
Here is a sample. Look on the right. Blow it up. Make it your desktop background. Do what you need to with it.
Back to the game - Joe, followed by Big D just shut TSOM down. A couple of times the outfielders had to run a little to chase down fly balls, but aside from Randy's acrobatics, Joe and Derek made sure everything was routine.
After taking a 'commanding' 10-5 lead, we batted around in the top of the sixth and final inning, to go up by the ultimate final score of 17-5. Joe was a little bummed - no opportunity to get the win and the save; we had taken our first lead of 6-5 when Haze pinch hit for him and got the game winning RBI in the fourth, and by the time he returned to finish in the sixth, our lead was too large to qualify for a save opportunity.
Ironically, next door on field 3 Advance Construction was busy losing to near bottom dweller the Polar Bears. This produces a three-way tie for first with one game to go. It means that if we all win next week, we will still be in third place by virtue of the fact that we had to play the tougher schedule with Pinky's twice, and lost them both, even though we beat Advance Construction handily. The irony is that if we (Advance Construction and JFT) both would lose next week, we would end up in second place.
Well we can't control all that, and all we can do is what we did today - go out and play our best and see where the chips fall. More later.
Milestones:
Gerry 20 bb (#6)
Chopper 50 h (#17)
I was going to write a great post on how JFT won Sunday's game because Gerry and I just dinked and dunked TSOM to death. We went seven for seven with a walk for Gerry thrown in for good measure. The only question is who is punch and who is Judy? Not sure, and we might have to fight to the punch to settle it.
Then Randy had to go and steal all our 80 foot thunder. He had the loudest hit of the game, a laser triple over the left fielder's head, good for one of his team leading three RBIs. And to top himself, he made a couple of great stops at the hot corner, one a swipe, scoop, and perfect fastball right in my glove to nail one of the few hard hitters TSOM has.
Of course we spotted TSOM a lead. They sprinted out to 4-0 first inning, and then 5-2 second inning leads. Our fan Julia was a little worried, but Mrs. Chopper calmly assured her that 'they always start slow.' Nice to see her confidence in us.
Speaking of Mr. and Mrs. Chopper, for your further entertainment, I bring you a sample of Island Fever, I think they call it: It gives special meaning to the grace Chopper showed when he flopped at first base Sunday night (you can't stop the Chopper but you can flop the Chopper!). As you know, Chopper has been extremely hot since he got back from Hawaii. I think there is a lesson here...we all need grass skirts...
(I haven't been able to get the full video yet. The link below will only take you to the video on Lisa's fb page. You will have to friend her to see the whole thing, and let me tell you, it's well worth it).
Chopper in a skirt
Here is a sample. Look on the right. Blow it up. Make it your desktop background. Do what you need to with it.
Back to the game - Joe, followed by Big D just shut TSOM down. A couple of times the outfielders had to run a little to chase down fly balls, but aside from Randy's acrobatics, Joe and Derek made sure everything was routine.
After taking a 'commanding' 10-5 lead, we batted around in the top of the sixth and final inning, to go up by the ultimate final score of 17-5. Joe was a little bummed - no opportunity to get the win and the save; we had taken our first lead of 6-5 when Haze pinch hit for him and got the game winning RBI in the fourth, and by the time he returned to finish in the sixth, our lead was too large to qualify for a save opportunity.
Ironically, next door on field 3 Advance Construction was busy losing to near bottom dweller the Polar Bears. This produces a three-way tie for first with one game to go. It means that if we all win next week, we will still be in third place by virtue of the fact that we had to play the tougher schedule with Pinky's twice, and lost them both, even though we beat Advance Construction handily. The irony is that if we (Advance Construction and JFT) both would lose next week, we would end up in second place.
Well we can't control all that, and all we can do is what we did today - go out and play our best and see where the chips fall. More later.
Milestones:
Gerry 20 bb (#6)
Chopper 50 h (#17)
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