What's in a Name?

Poor Albert. Told there is this blog and stats and how much fun we have with it, joins us after we go 12-0 in a season for the first time, and all we are still hungry to win the post season tournament this fall. Set up and slammed down. No blog for weeks at a time. No stats. And to top it off, we lose three of four in the middle of the season and suddenly even making the playoffs is in jeopardy.

Clearly we needed some inspiration. And it comes...in a song...and a meal.

(For reference and the tune: Bebop a lula Gene Vincent)
Sing it...

"Well...
BiBimBop a lula she's my baby
BiBimBop a lula I don't mean maybe
BiBimBop a lula she's my baby

BiBimBop a lula I don't mean maybe

BiBimBop a lula she's my baby love"

We have a signature song! Next week maybe I'll even put some softball lyrics with it!

And a team meal!



For the uninformed:

The Transdyn team has a great sponsor. The company has been our sponsor for what 17 years? more? All that time, we were in search of a nickname. I mean how sexy is Transdyn?

For the last couple years we have been getting our post game beer at a dive called variously, The Saloon, the Y'all Come Back Saloon and other names. Next door was a pizza place. We would occasionally get a slice. Then they were taken over by some middle easterners, and started serving Gyros and other Mediterranean dishes. And pizza. Then along came Doug. Doug is a very friendly Korean gentleman, always with a smile. He would say "you win?" and of course we did (especially last season in the undefeated 12-0 season).

And he would smile.

Over time there appeared some Korean dishes to go along with the Gyros and the Slices. It was truly multi-ethnic. And all good. But Doug had other plans. He began to feature the feature dishes of his country Bulgoghee and BiBimBop, the national dish, and others. A side of Kim-chee.

Soon we were chanting before the games, in the games, after the games, bibimbop...
Get a base hit, bibimbop.
Get a gapper or a homer, bibimPOP!

And so it went last week as we broke out of our funk.We cruised to a 12-0 lead after 3 1/2. Then the Twilight Zone hit for an inning - balls were getting lost all over the place, and we barely escaped but were still up 12-10.

We added on in the next two innings which was really important - Cage had a clutch bases loaded two run single in the fifth, and Mario a two run triple in the sixth. When the Brews Brothers got caught in a line drive double play in their last chance, it drove the nail in, but I was pretty sure they weren't going to rally again.

Rene led the way with three hits and a walk (ahem), Timmy had his usual three, Albert and D each slashed some line drives among their three.

So come out singing this week, Bibimbop a lula gonna beat BAHSBAT, Bibimbop a lula gonna beat BAHSBAT...etc.etc.etc.

Familiarity Brad Contempt

Joe is a genius. Well we knew that.

All season long Sting has been wondering out loud how weird it feels to be behind Pope. He has been wandering in the desert, wondering 'where is my neighbor?' (Chuck). But tonight in the second inning after WMD answered our four in the first with five to take a lead, Pope batting second once again came up in just the right spot, bases full of Coneheads with one out and crushed a ball beyond the lights in right field for a grand slam. Only put us up 8-5 but you knew it was over then. We went on to run three more that inning and then after a shutdown second, nine more in a Conehead third just to prove the point. And while WMD even had a late rally to make the final score sound close at 21-16, it was long over.

Other highlights - Dizzy D swinging at ball four, just to get another pitch, and this time he takes it anyway and it nearly was strike three, deja vu all over again, walks anyway. Johnny stinging a couple of balls, and one found a glove so he wasn't perfect, but nearly. Knight driving in three with two hits and a walk. Derek ripping one to RC when he wasn't taking pitches and swinging at ball four half-heartedly. And sending foul balls to be caught barely out of bounds just to piss off BradMD the wannabe Conehead.

Now comes the playoffs and voila we get them again. This time their pitcher will be back - I'm not sure if that is good or bad. We had four bases loaded walks tonight, but we also had guys swinging at ball four a lot just our of boredom.

Four more wins is all we need.

More later, this was just the quick recap to give the fans something to chew on.