We love cliches. Well, as a writer you hate cliches, but in sports the cliche proves the rule.
In Transdyn's case, here it is, stolen from football:
On any given Tuesday in the playoffs, anyone can beat anyone. Or, in our case the damn Ringers can beat us.
We had a tremendous season. I mean how many times do you go 12-0? And in dominant fashion. There was one weird game, the one when Jason got hurt and we had about three guys show up late, we only won 10-8. But other than that, we flat out dominated. We won one game by three over the true next best team (and eventual playoff champs) the Brew Brothers, and no other game by less than seven. My strongest recollections of the season were guys patiently taking pitches until they got theirs and then smashing it somewhere there was no one to catch it. Guys unselfishly letting the next guy be the hero. And Sir Guy inducing poor swings, or guys making diving catches. And of course, Monty getting twelve straight hits or whatever it was.
It was assumed that we would make the championship game. But the Ringers had other ideas. They put up six on us in the first, but this didn't even phase us, and we answered with 15. And therein was our downfall. We stopped scoring after that, in fact only two the next three innings. We can speculate on why - my pet theory is that we were so used to walking against their horrible pitcher, we were lulled to sleep, and he started suddenly throwing strikes. Or we started swinging at crap, I'm not sure. Last time we played them he walked twelve of us and this time nine. Maybe we just did lose patience after getting a lead.
But you have to give the Ringers credit - they hit around to get back in the game after our big inning, and then to take a lead they did not give up; We certainly had our chances.
So the other cliche is what is the silver lining. Well, we proved we can go 12-0 and it's awfully tough to go undefeated all the way through the playoffs. Now we can focus on the other goal, the one we have every season - be the last team standing. We haven't won the playoffs in two years, so it is time.
And the other is picking up Donnie and Rene. We thought losing RB would be a huge deal, but we didn't skip a beat with them, and even though we might lose Donnie if his old team re-forms, I think we hooked Rene for years to come.
Stats highlights: Tim setting records for at bats (50) and hits (38), and Derek tying the record for RBIs in a season (34). And the team smashed the records for team batting average (.630 over last fall's .604) and OBP (.652). Nice!
Two weeks we re-start the quest for double cotton. Longest 'between season' in memory. I need my bibimbap! See you there!
Milestones:
Sir Guy 200 rbi (#8)
Hama 150 ab (#24)
In Transdyn's case, here it is, stolen from football:
On any given Tuesday in the playoffs, anyone can beat anyone. Or, in our case the damn Ringers can beat us.
We had a tremendous season. I mean how many times do you go 12-0? And in dominant fashion. There was one weird game, the one when Jason got hurt and we had about three guys show up late, we only won 10-8. But other than that, we flat out dominated. We won one game by three over the true next best team (and eventual playoff champs) the Brew Brothers, and no other game by less than seven. My strongest recollections of the season were guys patiently taking pitches until they got theirs and then smashing it somewhere there was no one to catch it. Guys unselfishly letting the next guy be the hero. And Sir Guy inducing poor swings, or guys making diving catches. And of course, Monty getting twelve straight hits or whatever it was.
It was assumed that we would make the championship game. But the Ringers had other ideas. They put up six on us in the first, but this didn't even phase us, and we answered with 15. And therein was our downfall. We stopped scoring after that, in fact only two the next three innings. We can speculate on why - my pet theory is that we were so used to walking against their horrible pitcher, we were lulled to sleep, and he started suddenly throwing strikes. Or we started swinging at crap, I'm not sure. Last time we played them he walked twelve of us and this time nine. Maybe we just did lose patience after getting a lead.
But you have to give the Ringers credit - they hit around to get back in the game after our big inning, and then to take a lead they did not give up; We certainly had our chances.
So the other cliche is what is the silver lining. Well, we proved we can go 12-0 and it's awfully tough to go undefeated all the way through the playoffs. Now we can focus on the other goal, the one we have every season - be the last team standing. We haven't won the playoffs in two years, so it is time.
And the other is picking up Donnie and Rene. We thought losing RB would be a huge deal, but we didn't skip a beat with them, and even though we might lose Donnie if his old team re-forms, I think we hooked Rene for years to come.
Stats highlights: Tim setting records for at bats (50) and hits (38), and Derek tying the record for RBIs in a season (34). And the team smashed the records for team batting average (.630 over last fall's .604) and OBP (.652). Nice!
Two weeks we re-start the quest for double cotton. Longest 'between season' in memory. I need my bibimbap! See you there!
Milestones:
Sir Guy 200 rbi (#8)
Hama 150 ab (#24)
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