Every year do they get younger - or is it my imagination - or is it that we just get older and older? Which, if I take a moment off of the Alzheimer's I can remember is true. I look around the park now, and suddenly it dawns on me that Cage and Jas are grizzled veterans compared to most of these guys, and I am bordering on Grampa status!
Spring league started in Pleasanton three weeks ago now, and it's time to give just due to the latest incarnation of the Transdyn softball crew. Despite my former employer still funding us (and we even have Paulie back, who along with Coop and Monty represent), sometime we need to get a better nickname. After all, this team gets better every year we get that much older than the opposition, and it just bugs them more and more. I know, let's win four or five more division titles, then we can be the Dynasts. Jinx, no jinx.
It's startin out pretty well, I have to admit. 3-0. We lose our young stud, RB, who left to found his own C team, and don't miss a beat. That's because we sign Donny, who is like a professional version of a softball slut, tournaments, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton a couple of nights, I wonder if plays as much as Heavy D. If we were pros we would call him a consummate pro, he actually hits 'behind the runner' if there is a guy on first, hits it out when power is needed (or is just for fun with a big lead like in the second game when he went yard to RC), and gets a single between two outfielders to plate two when he came up in the first inning Tuesday with men on second and third. And if there's a guy on third like in the third, he lines a single to left to make sure the run gets home. In fact he had a perfect game, 3-3 with a walk and a sac fly among four RBIs. Welcome aboard.
Donny wasn't even the hottest hitter of the night. I think Jason is now on a rampage to never make an out after hitting a foul ball on strike three last week. 5-5 with a bunch of singles and a huge triple in the third. Some rare defensive indifference on our part kept the Brews Bros in the game through two and a half innings - we were only up 8-5. Mario and Sir Guy started off the bottom third with hits, and Jason brought them home with his three bagger. That not only answered the two they scored in the top, but it launched us into a seven run game that pretty much settled things.
The game ended 18-10 but it was only that close because we had some further defensive indifference later - Sir Guy was dealing, and probably only three or four of those runs were earned. Alzheimer's again, I can't remember if it was this game or last week, where he struck out three guys on foul balls, quite a feat. He is a master, the younguns with their hardball swings don't know how to do anything but try to yank it, and he just kept busting them inside and inducing foul balls or meaningless grounders and fly ball cans of corn.
Speaking of old dogs, is it my imagination or have more than half of Timmy's hits this year been up the middle (and even to the 5-6 hole!) than to right? Someone wake me up, it must be a dream. But a good one. He had his usual four singles, and our two at the top of the lineup (with Jay) are hitting a cool 24 for 27 with three walks thrown in - for those math challenged that is .888 and an even .900 OBP. How can we lose with table setters like that.
I haven't even gotten to the hot start Coop has had, or Hama, the most consistent hitter in softball in the East Bay, or super sub Albert going yard in his first game with us. Or Cage's running, juggling catch, or Hama's stop of a smash at third base. And by now, Heavy D has to be saying, "what do i have to do to get some ink???" He only has ten RBIs the first three games, four more than anyone else, and is feared throughout the land, and even has hobbled out to three doubles so far to lead the team.
So far, so good as they say. We completely demolished the Blue Dots this time around (in the second game 26-8), who fell from Grace, er that is the C league, and figured to be our competition. But remain vigilant - some of these teams that are new to us are real young and real fast. Hasn't worked against us yet lately, but I won't make fun of them until we beat them. We are not the only 3-0 team. But bring em on - there is nothing quite like the look on young guys' faces in the hand shake line as they ask themselves, "how did those old guys beat us???"
Spring league started in Pleasanton three weeks ago now, and it's time to give just due to the latest incarnation of the Transdyn softball crew. Despite my former employer still funding us (and we even have Paulie back, who along with Coop and Monty represent), sometime we need to get a better nickname. After all, this team gets better every year we get that much older than the opposition, and it just bugs them more and more. I know, let's win four or five more division titles, then we can be the Dynasts. Jinx, no jinx.
It's startin out pretty well, I have to admit. 3-0. We lose our young stud, RB, who left to found his own C team, and don't miss a beat. That's because we sign Donny, who is like a professional version of a softball slut, tournaments, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton a couple of nights, I wonder if plays as much as Heavy D. If we were pros we would call him a consummate pro, he actually hits 'behind the runner' if there is a guy on first, hits it out when power is needed (or is just for fun with a big lead like in the second game when he went yard to RC), and gets a single between two outfielders to plate two when he came up in the first inning Tuesday with men on second and third. And if there's a guy on third like in the third, he lines a single to left to make sure the run gets home. In fact he had a perfect game, 3-3 with a walk and a sac fly among four RBIs. Welcome aboard.
Donny wasn't even the hottest hitter of the night. I think Jason is now on a rampage to never make an out after hitting a foul ball on strike three last week. 5-5 with a bunch of singles and a huge triple in the third. Some rare defensive indifference on our part kept the Brews Bros in the game through two and a half innings - we were only up 8-5. Mario and Sir Guy started off the bottom third with hits, and Jason brought them home with his three bagger. That not only answered the two they scored in the top, but it launched us into a seven run game that pretty much settled things.
The game ended 18-10 but it was only that close because we had some further defensive indifference later - Sir Guy was dealing, and probably only three or four of those runs were earned. Alzheimer's again, I can't remember if it was this game or last week, where he struck out three guys on foul balls, quite a feat. He is a master, the younguns with their hardball swings don't know how to do anything but try to yank it, and he just kept busting them inside and inducing foul balls or meaningless grounders and fly ball cans of corn.
Speaking of old dogs, is it my imagination or have more than half of Timmy's hits this year been up the middle (and even to the 5-6 hole!) than to right? Someone wake me up, it must be a dream. But a good one. He had his usual four singles, and our two at the top of the lineup (with Jay) are hitting a cool 24 for 27 with three walks thrown in - for those math challenged that is .888 and an even .900 OBP. How can we lose with table setters like that.
I haven't even gotten to the hot start Coop has had, or Hama, the most consistent hitter in softball in the East Bay, or super sub Albert going yard in his first game with us. Or Cage's running, juggling catch, or Hama's stop of a smash at third base. And by now, Heavy D has to be saying, "what do i have to do to get some ink???" He only has ten RBIs the first three games, four more than anyone else, and is feared throughout the land, and even has hobbled out to three doubles so far to lead the team.
So far, so good as they say. We completely demolished the Blue Dots this time around (in the second game 26-8), who fell from Grace, er that is the C league, and figured to be our competition. But remain vigilant - some of these teams that are new to us are real young and real fast. Hasn't worked against us yet lately, but I won't make fun of them until we beat them. We are not the only 3-0 team. But bring em on - there is nothing quite like the look on young guys' faces in the hand shake line as they ask themselves, "how did those old guys beat us???"
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