Monday, August 23, 2010
The Team - The Barbecue
Well, another The Team barbecue has come and gone and it was just as splendid as last year's. As always, a big thanks goes to co-manager Rick for organizing such a fine afternoon and an even bigger thanks to Rick's dad for opening up his pool to our hot bodies and his barbecue to our stomachs. It was nice to see those that came out of a Team uniform and relaxing in the sunshine. Thanks again, Rick and Rick's dad.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
THE TEAM - Summer 2010
So that was H League. We did not complete our mission but it was still a good game and a great season. Seven wins and three losses is a season we can all be proud of. The game itself was of the roller coaster variety. THE TEAM was down early 5-0. Dave drove in a run so it was something like 8-1. The point is that it was ugly. It seemed like the game was going fast. In the top of the sixth the score was Fugittaboudit 11 THE TEAM 6. THE TEAM came up with the runs including a three run home run by Dave. We held them to zero runs in the bottom of the sixth so hello tie breaker. We got 4 bases and Fugittaboudit got 5.
A scoop of ice cream in a Pink Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Jenny. She went 1 for 3 with a walk but she moved Dave over for two more bases in the tie breaker and she made a great catch in right field.
A scoop of ice cream in a Blue Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Dave who went 4 for 4 with a double and a home run and 4 RBIs. He also made a great catch in left field to end the game and force the tie breaker.
#00 CJ batted .321 with 5 RBIs and provided a valuable glove for THE TEAM at first base
#1 Destanie batted .609 with 14 RBIs. She was a great hitter and a smart player in the field. THE TEAM will miss her.
#2 Brooke did not play in a single game. What the hell is that?
#3 Lou batted .818 with 15 RBIs. He was a great lead-off hitter who could go to right and hit with power. And he is funny. He's like a comedian
#4 Jenny batted .750 with 5 RBIs. Jenny has always been a versatile weapon at game time. I think we should call her the weapon.
#11 Dave batted .778 with 12 RBIs. He was a great outfielder and a maniac on the base pads.
#13 Sandy batted .318 with 3 RBIs. She hustled and played hard and is the reason THE TEAM has kept going.
#15 Kristin batted .231 with 3 RBIs. Kristin improved a lot throughout the season. She worked hard and played hard.
#24 Peter batted .652 with 20 RBIs. He was rock solid at third base and a dangerous power hitter.
#28 Terrence batted .421 with 3 RBIs. Terrence contributed everywhere the season. He pitched, he played the infield and he played the outfield. That kind of versatility and flexibility is great to have. We should call him the weapon... oh wait, that's already taken.
#31 Victor batted .737 with 16 RBIs. Victor was awesome in left field and also the most enthusiastic about Gatorade or something. I'm not sure I really wasn't listening to him. Victor has been a great player for THE TEAM. It it a huge loss that he will not be with us next season
#42 Lisa only played in one game. She batted .333 with 1 RBI but that was an awesome RBI. Actually I don't remember it.
#99 Chris batted .500 with 6 RBIs but it was his pitching that really kept us in the winning column. He strikes people out in slow pitch softball. Who does that!
We have to thank our ringers too. Sarah and Marisol and Katina were there for us so that we did not forfeit. You batting average sucked though.
Next season I am going to assign the blog to one of the players. We'll call it out in the 6th inning
"CHRIS PITCHING SARAH CATCHING CJ IS AT FIRST SANDY AT SECOND LOU IS AT SHORT PETER IS AT THIRD TERRENCE IN LEFT RICK IN CENTER KATINA IN RIGHT JENNY YOU ARE WRITING THE BLOG!"
GO THE TEAM!!!
A scoop of ice cream in a Pink Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Jenny. She went 1 for 3 with a walk but she moved Dave over for two more bases in the tie breaker and she made a great catch in right field.
A scoop of ice cream in a Blue Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Dave who went 4 for 4 with a double and a home run and 4 RBIs. He also made a great catch in left field to end the game and force the tie breaker.
#00 CJ batted .321 with 5 RBIs and provided a valuable glove for THE TEAM at first base
#1 Destanie batted .609 with 14 RBIs. She was a great hitter and a smart player in the field. THE TEAM will miss her.
#2 Brooke did not play in a single game. What the hell is that?
#3 Lou batted .818 with 15 RBIs. He was a great lead-off hitter who could go to right and hit with power. And he is funny. He's like a comedian
#4 Jenny batted .750 with 5 RBIs. Jenny has always been a versatile weapon at game time. I think we should call her the weapon.
#11 Dave batted .778 with 12 RBIs. He was a great outfielder and a maniac on the base pads.
#13 Sandy batted .318 with 3 RBIs. She hustled and played hard and is the reason THE TEAM has kept going.
#15 Kristin batted .231 with 3 RBIs. Kristin improved a lot throughout the season. She worked hard and played hard.
#24 Peter batted .652 with 20 RBIs. He was rock solid at third base and a dangerous power hitter.
#28 Terrence batted .421 with 3 RBIs. Terrence contributed everywhere the season. He pitched, he played the infield and he played the outfield. That kind of versatility and flexibility is great to have. We should call him the weapon... oh wait, that's already taken.
#31 Victor batted .737 with 16 RBIs. Victor was awesome in left field and also the most enthusiastic about Gatorade or something. I'm not sure I really wasn't listening to him. Victor has been a great player for THE TEAM. It it a huge loss that he will not be with us next season
#42 Lisa only played in one game. She batted .333 with 1 RBI but that was an awesome RBI. Actually I don't remember it.
#99 Chris batted .500 with 6 RBIs but it was his pitching that really kept us in the winning column. He strikes people out in slow pitch softball. Who does that!
We have to thank our ringers too. Sarah and Marisol and Katina were there for us so that we did not forfeit. You batting average sucked though.
Next season I am going to assign the blog to one of the players. We'll call it out in the 6th inning
"CHRIS PITCHING SARAH CATCHING CJ IS AT FIRST SANDY AT SECOND LOU IS AT SHORT PETER IS AT THIRD TERRENCE IN LEFT RICK IN CENTER KATINA IN RIGHT JENNY YOU ARE WRITING THE BLOG!"
GO THE TEAM!!!
Monday, July 26, 2010
THE TEAM - The Stats
The Warriors must really be afraid of us because once again they completely failed to show up for their game. This isn't a case of a team not having enough people, this is a case of nobody showing up. They probably stay out of Burbank altogether.
So instead of a boring game recap, we will have a boring look at our stats so far.
THE TEAM has 129 hits in 235 at-bats. That's a .549 average. We have hit 10 home runs and had 104 RBIs. We have hit 19 doubles and 8 triples. We have walked 41 times and struck out 14 times (You know who you are!).
The Batting Average Leaders are as follows. The number in parenthesis indicates how many games they have played.
Men:
Lou (6) .818
Victor (6) .737
Dave (5) .714
Women:
Jenny (4) .800
Destanie(6) .609
Sandy (5) .389
RBI Leaders
Men:
Peter (7) 19
Victor (6) 16
Lou (6) 12
Women:
Destanie (6) 14
CJ (7) 5
Jenny (4) 4
Doubles
Lou - 5
Victor - 4
Dave - 2
Rick - 2
Destanie - 1
Jenny - 1
Kristin - 1
Peter - 1
Terrence - 1
Triples
Terrence - 2
Lou - 2
Victor - 2
Kristin - 1
Rick - 1
Home Runs
Peter - 4
Victor - 3
Lou - 2
Dave - 1
It would be nice if there were some pitching stats on here to acknowledge Chris and Terrence but I only have one clipboard.
Good job everyone
GO THE TEAM!!!
So instead of a boring game recap, we will have a boring look at our stats so far.
THE TEAM has 129 hits in 235 at-bats. That's a .549 average. We have hit 10 home runs and had 104 RBIs. We have hit 19 doubles and 8 triples. We have walked 41 times and struck out 14 times (You know who you are!).
The Batting Average Leaders are as follows. The number in parenthesis indicates how many games they have played.
Men:
Lou (6) .818
Victor (6) .737
Dave (5) .714
Women:
Jenny (4) .800
Destanie(6) .609
Sandy (5) .389
RBI Leaders
Men:
Peter (7) 19
Victor (6) 16
Lou (6) 12
Women:
Destanie (6) 14
CJ (7) 5
Jenny (4) 4
Doubles
Lou - 5
Victor - 4
Dave - 2
Rick - 2
Destanie - 1
Jenny - 1
Kristin - 1
Peter - 1
Terrence - 1
Triples
Terrence - 2
Lou - 2
Victor - 2
Kristin - 1
Rick - 1
Home Runs
Peter - 4
Victor - 3
Lou - 2
Dave - 1
It would be nice if there were some pitching stats on here to acknowledge Chris and Terrence but I only have one clipboard.
Good job everyone
GO THE TEAM!!!
Monday, July 19, 2010
THE TEAM - The Moment it All Went Back to Hell
That was a tough loss. Our defense has been so strong all season but not last Sunday. We gave up 14 runs in two innings and couldn't make it back from that. It sucks a little extra because we found our groove and didn't allow any more runs after those 14 but we batted a season low .469 for the game so bitter defeat was ours to choke on.
That means we are 6-2 overall and 2-1 in the second half of the season. I tried to look and see what the Riverside Cafe 86ers record was but the Burbank website was showing us Women's Fastpitch standings from Fall 2009. What bunch of idiots. So we get to guess whether or not our post season championship fantasy went straight to hell on Sunday.
A scoop of ice cream in a Blue Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Chris who went 3 for 3 with 4 RBIs. In one game he added 156 points to his batting average. He also made two sweet plays for outs at home plate.
A scoop of ice cream in a Pink Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Kristin. She went 1 for 2 but found the patience to draw her first two walks of the season and had no strikeouts.
Overall it was a tough loss. And now we don't even know if anybody is going to turn in the enrollment package for fall season.
Still
GO THE TEAM!!!
That means we are 6-2 overall and 2-1 in the second half of the season. I tried to look and see what the Riverside Cafe 86ers record was but the Burbank website was showing us Women's Fastpitch standings from Fall 2009. What bunch of idiots. So we get to guess whether or not our post season championship fantasy went straight to hell on Sunday.
A scoop of ice cream in a Blue Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Chris who went 3 for 3 with 4 RBIs. In one game he added 156 points to his batting average. He also made two sweet plays for outs at home plate.
A scoop of ice cream in a Pink Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Kristin. She went 1 for 2 but found the patience to draw her first two walks of the season and had no strikeouts.
Overall it was a tough loss. And now we don't even know if anybody is going to turn in the enrollment package for fall season.
Still
GO THE TEAM!!!
Monday, July 12, 2010
THE TEAM offical winning season
That was our sixth win of the season so even if we mail it in and tank our last three games we will have our third straight winning season. Yes!
It was nice to beat the Jensen Warriors. It would have been a little sweeter if that horrible little tub of goo that they had for a pitcher was there. My hope is that they kicked her off the team for being an inappropriate pain the a**. Or that she is dead (OK, perhaps that's a little strong. I just hope that she isn't somewhere thinking that they could have beat us if she was there.)
But enough about those clowns. Let's talk about THE TEAM. THE TEAM scored 12 runs. We batted .516 with a home run and 8 walks. THE TEAM defense has been pretty tight this season. We allowed only 4 runs this week. The only time we have allowed a team to score in the double digits was the one time that Chris and Terrence were not there to pitch. Good job THE TEAM!!!
As far as the scoop of ice cream goes, I was doing some math. If we have ten games and there are two scoops a game, that means there are 20 scoops of ice cream to be awarded throughout the season. There are only 15 people on THE TEAM and two of them have played zero games. That means a player can win twice so all of that coarse language was never necessary. Although "screw you Victor" can still stand for so many other reasons.
Speaking of Victor, he went 3 for 3 with 3 doubles and 2 RBIs. He is batting .727 for the season now. But screw you Victor (I knew that would come in handy) The scoop of ice cream in the Blue Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Peter who went 2 for 2 with a walk, a home run and 5 RBIs. Peter is leading THE TEAM with 19 RBIs on the season.
A scoop if ice cream in a Pink Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Destanie who went 3 for 3 with a walk and raised her season average to .609. Share the ice cream with Victor please.
We got hosed with a two out inning in the first but it just didn't matter. THE TEAM was focused and would not be stopped. Let's keep this train rolling to an H League Championship.
GO THE TEAM!!!
It was nice to beat the Jensen Warriors. It would have been a little sweeter if that horrible little tub of goo that they had for a pitcher was there. My hope is that they kicked her off the team for being an inappropriate pain the a**. Or that she is dead (OK, perhaps that's a little strong. I just hope that she isn't somewhere thinking that they could have beat us if she was there.)
But enough about those clowns. Let's talk about THE TEAM. THE TEAM scored 12 runs. We batted .516 with a home run and 8 walks. THE TEAM defense has been pretty tight this season. We allowed only 4 runs this week. The only time we have allowed a team to score in the double digits was the one time that Chris and Terrence were not there to pitch. Good job THE TEAM!!!
As far as the scoop of ice cream goes, I was doing some math. If we have ten games and there are two scoops a game, that means there are 20 scoops of ice cream to be awarded throughout the season. There are only 15 people on THE TEAM and two of them have played zero games. That means a player can win twice so all of that coarse language was never necessary. Although "screw you Victor" can still stand for so many other reasons.
Speaking of Victor, he went 3 for 3 with 3 doubles and 2 RBIs. He is batting .727 for the season now. But screw you Victor (I knew that would come in handy) The scoop of ice cream in the Blue Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Peter who went 2 for 2 with a walk, a home run and 5 RBIs. Peter is leading THE TEAM with 19 RBIs on the season.
A scoop if ice cream in a Pink Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Destanie who went 3 for 3 with a walk and raised her season average to .609. Share the ice cream with Victor please.
We got hosed with a two out inning in the first but it just didn't matter. THE TEAM was focused and would not be stopped. Let's keep this train rolling to an H League Championship.
GO THE TEAM!!!
Sunday, June 27, 2010
H League Part 6 or Part 2 Vol. 1
Or whatever.
THE TEAM only managed 11 runs this week. In the four games that we have actually played (not including the forfeit) we have been averaging 17.5 a game. Our defense was awesome and our pitching was awesome and we held Los Dodgers to only two runs so 11 runs was plenty.
That last time we saw Los Dodgers they were a brand new team with a lot to learn about the dog eat dog world of Coed Softball. They clearly have been learning because they made some great plays. They also issued zero walks. That's a first for THE TEAM.
THE TEAM batted .537 with no walks and no home runs. That brings our season batting average to .583. Who gives a s**t about that, let's hand out some fake ice cream.
Victor went 3 for 3 with a double and a triple and 2 RBIs but Victor already got his scoop of ice cream in Game 3. He gets the same "screw you" that Lou had to absorb last week. I went 2 for 3 with a double and 3 RBIs but I can't go with the giant a(dash)hole move of patting myself on the back like that.
A scoop of ice cream in a Blue Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Dave who went 3 for 3 with an RBI. This raises his batting average to .889 which leads THE TEAM.
Destanie went 3 for 5 with 3 RBIs but she already got a scoop of ice cream in Game 5. She gets the same "screw you" that Victor had to absorb just a couple of sentences ago. (Rough week for the Garcias, well for three of them anyway)
CJ went 2 for 5 and Kristin hit a double but A scoop of ice cream in a Pink Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Sarah for her triumphant return as Amberle. She helped us to not forfeit and she picked up right where she left off with those nice line drives to go 3 for 5.
GO THE TEAM!!!
THE TEAM only managed 11 runs this week. In the four games that we have actually played (not including the forfeit) we have been averaging 17.5 a game. Our defense was awesome and our pitching was awesome and we held Los Dodgers to only two runs so 11 runs was plenty.
That last time we saw Los Dodgers they were a brand new team with a lot to learn about the dog eat dog world of Coed Softball. They clearly have been learning because they made some great plays. They also issued zero walks. That's a first for THE TEAM.
THE TEAM batted .537 with no walks and no home runs. That brings our season batting average to .583. Who gives a s**t about that, let's hand out some fake ice cream.
Victor went 3 for 3 with a double and a triple and 2 RBIs but Victor already got his scoop of ice cream in Game 3. He gets the same "screw you" that Lou had to absorb last week. I went 2 for 3 with a double and 3 RBIs but I can't go with the giant a(dash)hole move of patting myself on the back like that.
A scoop of ice cream in a Blue Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Dave who went 3 for 3 with an RBI. This raises his batting average to .889 which leads THE TEAM.
Destanie went 3 for 5 with 3 RBIs but she already got a scoop of ice cream in Game 5. She gets the same "screw you" that Victor had to absorb just a couple of sentences ago. (Rough week for the Garcias, well for three of them anyway)
CJ went 2 for 5 and Kristin hit a double but A scoop of ice cream in a Pink Milton Bradley mini-helmet goes to Sarah for her triumphant return as Amberle. She helped us to not forfeit and she picked up right where she left off with those nice line drives to go 3 for 5.
GO THE TEAM!!!
Saturday, June 26, 2010
The Bell of Victory
Even though I haven't been able to play with you all for a little bit now, I'm there in spirit. Here is a picture of me and the Bell of Dana at the Nishi Hongwanji Temple in downtown LA. I'm going to ring this bell when we win. Well, not really, but I'll think about it.
"The large bell, called Bonsho in Japanese, weighs 2,500 pounds, is three feet two inches in diameter and four feet six inches high. It sits in a bell tower that has a base twenty feet by twenty feet and a total elevation of seventeen feet."
"The large bell, called Bonsho in Japanese, weighs 2,500 pounds, is three feet two inches in diameter and four feet six inches high. It sits in a bell tower that has a base twenty feet by twenty feet and a total elevation of seventeen feet."
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