...we'll win.
Ever since we had that tie, our fearless leader Joe has been especially ornery. We are like his flock, and everything we do is to please him but nothing is good enough. Maybe it's ever since we didn't get Cotton last year in this league and in the Orinda Summer League - he takes losing hard, and this is what he came up to inspire us.
Think about it though, we could start a whole new trend in sports...just show up! and expect to win!
We need to talk to Steve Kerr. How can the Warriors repeat as NBA champions? Just show up! The other teams will just lie down! I'll bet my last dollar he hasn't thought about that strategy. We could be on to something.
And take the 49ers...please. If they had 'just shown up' they couldn't have done worse than in a couple of their games, against the Steelers and the Falcons and even in the Green Bay game. In fact, I am not sure they did show up in those games. So if they had...who knows? Maybe Roethlisberger and Ryan and Rodgers are so surprised to see the 49ers they start throwing picks left and right.
Joe makes you think a little of Yogi Berra. Joe is from Brooklyn, Yogi plied his trade mostly in the Big Apple, although most of his years were in the Bronx as we all know.
Yogi said, "It ain't over til it's over."
Joe said (when we were up 22-5 going into the last inning), "If we hold them to less than two runs, we'll win." Really?
So yes, I'm afraid that Joe's words putting us in our place must have inspired us. Down 4-0 after 2 1/2 innings, we put up fourteen and eight runs in the next two to put the Bunt Pirates out of their misery. Final score 22-6 (whew).
What does Bunt Pirates mean anyway? There's no bunting in softball. Maybe that's their problem.
In the fourteen run Conehead third, Larry started things off with a walk. Then the merry-go-round continued with three singles and two walks, until Ol' G came up and promptly cleared the bases with a two run double. That put us ahead to stay, and we batted all the way back around to G before we were done. Randy had the other big hit, a two run triple in the gap.
Similarly in the 4th, Heffe started it with a walk and we worked the bases loaded, and up stepped Larry who cleared all three runners with a double to right. Pope and D had back to back two run hits, a double and a triple, respectively. D's in particular was a shot, back spinning nearly to the trees in right field. He had been drooling over how shallow they were playing him the whole game to that point.
Chuck, Pope, Chopper and Larry had perfect games (each walked once and hit in the rest of their ABs). Chuck is as hot as we have seen him in a while, he hasn't made an out for weeks. The webgems included a running catch by Pope nearly to Field 5 behind us, and for laughs, Bruce took a few steps in one one fly ball that started to sail on him, and made a nice recovery to nab it.
We clinched first with a week left at 6-0-1. We play Pats Bats in the last regular season game, and this game is huge for them. If we win, we likely will knock them out off the playoffs. Four teams make it, and they are in third but just a half game ahead of HBF and Dub MD behind them, who both should win their games. I still think we owe them for sending us reeling out of control in last year's playoffs. Payback time.
All in all, we showed up...and we won...in typical Conehead fashion. As long as we keep those 14 and 8 and 20 run innings coming, I think we'll be all right. And we can always look forward to Joe's next "Yogi-ism."
That is, if you show up.
Milestones:
Heffe 400 g (#3)
Ol' G 800 ab (#12)
Ol' G 60 2b (#12)
D 250 r (#15)
Ever since we had that tie, our fearless leader Joe has been especially ornery. We are like his flock, and everything we do is to please him but nothing is good enough. Maybe it's ever since we didn't get Cotton last year in this league and in the Orinda Summer League - he takes losing hard, and this is what he came up to inspire us.
Think about it though, we could start a whole new trend in sports...just show up! and expect to win!
We need to talk to Steve Kerr. How can the Warriors repeat as NBA champions? Just show up! The other teams will just lie down! I'll bet my last dollar he hasn't thought about that strategy. We could be on to something.
And take the 49ers...please. If they had 'just shown up' they couldn't have done worse than in a couple of their games, against the Steelers and the Falcons and even in the Green Bay game. In fact, I am not sure they did show up in those games. So if they had...who knows? Maybe Roethlisberger and Ryan and Rodgers are so surprised to see the 49ers they start throwing picks left and right.
Joe makes you think a little of Yogi Berra. Joe is from Brooklyn, Yogi plied his trade mostly in the Big Apple, although most of his years were in the Bronx as we all know.
Yogi said, "It ain't over til it's over."
Joe said (when we were up 22-5 going into the last inning), "If we hold them to less than two runs, we'll win." Really?
So yes, I'm afraid that Joe's words putting us in our place must have inspired us. Down 4-0 after 2 1/2 innings, we put up fourteen and eight runs in the next two to put the Bunt Pirates out of their misery. Final score 22-6 (whew).
What does Bunt Pirates mean anyway? There's no bunting in softball. Maybe that's their problem.
In the fourteen run Conehead third, Larry started things off with a walk. Then the merry-go-round continued with three singles and two walks, until Ol' G came up and promptly cleared the bases with a two run double. That put us ahead to stay, and we batted all the way back around to G before we were done. Randy had the other big hit, a two run triple in the gap.
Similarly in the 4th, Heffe started it with a walk and we worked the bases loaded, and up stepped Larry who cleared all three runners with a double to right. Pope and D had back to back two run hits, a double and a triple, respectively. D's in particular was a shot, back spinning nearly to the trees in right field. He had been drooling over how shallow they were playing him the whole game to that point.
Chuck, Pope, Chopper and Larry had perfect games (each walked once and hit in the rest of their ABs). Chuck is as hot as we have seen him in a while, he hasn't made an out for weeks. The webgems included a running catch by Pope nearly to Field 5 behind us, and for laughs, Bruce took a few steps in one one fly ball that started to sail on him, and made a nice recovery to nab it.
We clinched first with a week left at 6-0-1. We play Pats Bats in the last regular season game, and this game is huge for them. If we win, we likely will knock them out off the playoffs. Four teams make it, and they are in third but just a half game ahead of HBF and Dub MD behind them, who both should win their games. I still think we owe them for sending us reeling out of control in last year's playoffs. Payback time.
All in all, we showed up...and we won...in typical Conehead fashion. As long as we keep those 14 and 8 and 20 run innings coming, I think we'll be all right. And we can always look forward to Joe's next "Yogi-ism."
That is, if you show up.
Milestones:
Heffe 400 g (#3)
Ol' G 800 ab (#12)
Ol' G 60 2b (#12)
D 250 r (#15)
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