I admit it. I am firmly on the Warriors bandwagon. Oh I was entertained a little in the We Believe years a few years ago, the upset of Dallas and all that. But this year is different - they play in such a way that you can't take your eyes off them.
So I leapt (and they say Old White Jews can't jump, or something like that). Firmly on the wagon, and I ain't movin' off.
The reason I bring this up is that the intriguing thing about the Warriors is that they have this team where the motto is be selfless, share the playing time, come off the bench if the Coach asks you to, and most of all, always give the credit to someone else. There is no ego.
And how does that apply to Transdyn? Well it looked like we were going to lose a few really good players, after a tough Fall season, but then we reloaded - and it turned out we may have too many guys. These things have a way of working themselves out - Rene can't make early games, Mike O'Neal who we originally added couldn't make late games, and Load injured himself in his first game of the season on his other team. So we didn't have too many guys last week, and we won't tomorrow (if we are not rained out). But what I am here to say is this coach will try to emulate the Warriors (at least in the field) and ask people to move around, sit out innings, etc. And we will be stronger for it.
Last week was a weird game. Let's face it, we are literally half way between the talent level (when you add in our average age) between the D Lower division and the D Upper (which is really C). So play up or play down was our choice. Being Cotton sluts, we asked to play down, and although we haven't seen most of the teams, it appears (if last week was any indication) the level of play could be er, um, Lower D.
I mean one guy on Where My Pitches At didn't even know you have to stand on the base until the next pitch is thrown. And trust me it wasn't that he was trying to get a lead to steal second base or third.
So what we did was make a couple of early errors getting the jitters out to go down 1-0, and then came up in the bottom of the second, and all twelve of us reached base in a row, and we scored ten runs. Ten hits, an error, and a walk. Then three straight outs but we will get to that later. I drove in the first after we loaded the bases, Tom followed with the eventual game winner, and then the biggest hit - Mario knocked it over the right fielder's head for a two run double. Every other hit was a single.
Then we settled down defensively. D made a couple of nice plays at first, and Brian went into the hole for a hot shot later in the game. Mario made a prancing tumbling catch in right center - the debate was over whether he made it look extra dramatic, but it was a nifty play anyway.
The hitting was in spring rust mode, although D and Monty were robbed on fantastic catches by their left fielder. That is everyone except Coop, who had three straight hits for a perfect night.
We didn't score again until the last inning to make the final score 12-3. After those three outs to end the second, the next twelve at bats through the lineup produced two walks and a single (by Coop of course). We need to watch that against better opposition, and learn to pour it on.
Tomorrow may get rained out but if not, we can win again and brag that we have a bigger winning percentage than even the Warriors!
Milestones:
Heffe 120 bb (#1)
Mario 200 g (#8)
Mario 40 bb (#6)
D 350 ab (#13)
So I leapt (and they say Old White Jews can't jump, or something like that). Firmly on the wagon, and I ain't movin' off.
The reason I bring this up is that the intriguing thing about the Warriors is that they have this team where the motto is be selfless, share the playing time, come off the bench if the Coach asks you to, and most of all, always give the credit to someone else. There is no ego.
And how does that apply to Transdyn? Well it looked like we were going to lose a few really good players, after a tough Fall season, but then we reloaded - and it turned out we may have too many guys. These things have a way of working themselves out - Rene can't make early games, Mike O'Neal who we originally added couldn't make late games, and Load injured himself in his first game of the season on his other team. So we didn't have too many guys last week, and we won't tomorrow (if we are not rained out). But what I am here to say is this coach will try to emulate the Warriors (at least in the field) and ask people to move around, sit out innings, etc. And we will be stronger for it.
Last week was a weird game. Let's face it, we are literally half way between the talent level (when you add in our average age) between the D Lower division and the D Upper (which is really C). So play up or play down was our choice. Being Cotton sluts, we asked to play down, and although we haven't seen most of the teams, it appears (if last week was any indication) the level of play could be er, um, Lower D.
I mean one guy on Where My Pitches At didn't even know you have to stand on the base until the next pitch is thrown. And trust me it wasn't that he was trying to get a lead to steal second base or third.
So what we did was make a couple of early errors getting the jitters out to go down 1-0, and then came up in the bottom of the second, and all twelve of us reached base in a row, and we scored ten runs. Ten hits, an error, and a walk. Then three straight outs but we will get to that later. I drove in the first after we loaded the bases, Tom followed with the eventual game winner, and then the biggest hit - Mario knocked it over the right fielder's head for a two run double. Every other hit was a single.
Then we settled down defensively. D made a couple of nice plays at first, and Brian went into the hole for a hot shot later in the game. Mario made a prancing tumbling catch in right center - the debate was over whether he made it look extra dramatic, but it was a nifty play anyway.
The hitting was in spring rust mode, although D and Monty were robbed on fantastic catches by their left fielder. That is everyone except Coop, who had three straight hits for a perfect night.
We didn't score again until the last inning to make the final score 12-3. After those three outs to end the second, the next twelve at bats through the lineup produced two walks and a single (by Coop of course). We need to watch that against better opposition, and learn to pour it on.
Tomorrow may get rained out but if not, we can win again and brag that we have a bigger winning percentage than even the Warriors!
Milestones:
Heffe 120 bb (#1)
Mario 200 g (#8)
Mario 40 bb (#6)
D 350 ab (#13)
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