The Doubleheader

Doubleheaders are taxing.  Who else is tired?  Who else has some tasty portion of their sexy body hurting after two softball games? 

All right that's enough

A little pain is so much more manageable when THE TEAM sweeps a double header.  That's not just sweet victory, that's sweet sweet victory.

THE TEAM started slow against The Madbatters with no runs in the first or second inning.  Finally Doug drove in Cassie to break the seal and we started chipping away.  THE TEAM was still not doing the usual super caliente job of hitting.  There was one triple and one double.  The other 20 hits were all singles.  However those singles all added up to a beautiful late rally and a 17-15 win for THE TEAM.

The second game was against Team Puma.  Lou had a 3 run Home Run.  Peter had a 3 run Home Run.  Victor had a 3 run Home Run.  Team Puma never stood a chance.  Jad was waving them in all night from the third base coaching box.  Eight of the 11 players on THE TEAM had RBIs.  Great effort!

Now we move on from sweet victory to sweet slumber

GO THE TEAM!!!

Can U Take a Swing

Can U Dig It sure does like to takes their walks.  We all know they aren't there to do us any favors and swing at garbage but come on!  It's the same thing they did last time but it seems to be working so I'm sure they all hoisted a Zima and cheered their shrewd softball acumen after the game.

Here is what the Winter 2013 Roster looks like:

2 Summer
3 Lou
4 Jenny
8 Cassie
10 Melody
12 Natasha
15 Jad
18 Rick
19 Doug
21 Randy
24 Peter
25 Dora
27 Victor

Welcome back Jenny and welcome back Victor.  That is a dangerous looking group there.  That dangerous looking group batted .531 with 3 Home Runs 2 Triples 2 Doubles 1 Walk and 1 Strikout in a 22-10 loss.  There is still a lot to be excited about though.  There were Home Runs by Lou, Peter and Victor.  We put together a nice little two out rally.  Let's shake the rust off and shock the world.  Or at least let's shock F League.

GO THE TEAM!!!

THE TEAM 2012

First of all Thank You Thank You Thank You for the 12 year old Irish Whiskey

                                                          Sweet Sweet Victory

I can't tell you how much I appreciate that and I can assure that most of it is already gone.  Now let's have a look at the whole year. 

THE TEAM won 21 games and lost 9 during the regular season and of course ended with win number 22 and the G League Championship.

Melody played in 22 games.  She batted .397 with 18 RBI 2 Doubles 2 Triples 31 walks and an OBP of .596

Dora played in 25 games.  She batted .416 with 22 RBI 5 Doubles and 1 Walk.

Jad played in 26 games.  She batted .451 with 28 RBI 6 Doubles 1 Triple 15 Walks and an OBP of .528

Natasha is only 14 games into her stellar career with THE TEAM.  She batted .588 with 11 RBI  6 Doubles 2 Triples 5 Walks and an OBP of .625

Doug played in 27 games.  He batted .622 with 37 RBI 1 Home Run 12 Doubles 3 Triples 13 walks and an OBP of .671

Randy has only been on for two full seasons.  He has played in 18 games.  He batted .714 with 34 RBI 6 Doubles 2 Triples 7 walks and an OBP of .743

Rick played in 28 games batted .728 with 56 RBI 1 Home Run 17 Doubles 5 Triples 9 Walks and an OBP of .752

Peter played in 28 games.  He batted .729 with 82 RBI 16 Home Runs 19 Doubles 4 Triples and 4 Walks.  Holy S**t

Lou played in 28 games,  He batted .849 with 86 RBI 24 Home Runs 27 Doubles 6 Triples and 13 Walks.  Super Holy S**t

Those are some serious stats

GO THE TEAM!!!    

THE TEAM - CHAMPIONS!!!

It's true. THE TEAM has finally won it all.  After 14 seasons, 78 wins and 62 losses with so many great players coming and going.  After losing to WP4B in the Winter 2012 Season and losing to Fugittaboudit in the Summer 2011 season.  THE TEAM beat Balls N' Dolls 21-19 and are Finally Champions.

                                                                       YES!!!

THE TEAM played like champions.  We won the toss but chose to be visitors so we could bat first.  Lou hit a leadoff triple.  Melody walked.  Peter hit a 3-run Home Run and THE TEAM never looked back.  Everybody was hitting.  There were zero strikeouts and 4 walks.  Even the outs were good hits.  THE TEAM didn't give away any at-bats.

There was a lot to be proud of.  We played within ourselves and never came unglued when things didn't go our way.

                                    THE TEAM knew if we played our game we could not lose.

                                             We battled the sun and won that one too!

                                                   Natasha and Lou both pitched beautifully

                                                              Tastes like victory

                                                                  CHAMPIONS

                                    Let's look at this picture again. It's a nice one. Thanks Bonnie

        Thank you also to Jenny for starting THE TEAM.  To Tyler for starting this blog.  To Sandy for keeping THE TEAM going.  To CJ for keeping THE TEAM alive when Sandy left.  To Chris and Dave and Victor and Terrence and Destanie who set a high standard and helped turn THE TEAM into winners.  And to the man upstaris Garry Marshall for those sweet awnings on the diamond we were supposed to play on.

GO THE TEAM!!!                              

THE TEAM - Fall 2012

It's time for THE TEAM to win a championship.  That is all that is left for the Fall 2012 Season.  THE TEAM swept a doubleheader to finish 7-3.  Sweet sweet victory.  Doubleheaders are a blur and they suck so a lot of those details get overlooked when it comes time to write a blog.  Some details cannot be overlooked like Doug hitting a Grand Slam and Lou hitting 3 Home Runs in a Game and Kelly going 4 for 4 with 3 RBIs and Melody hitting a Triple.  Here is something awesome:  In the first game against Tiger Blood, THE TEAM batted .700.  In the second game against 5150 THE TEAM batted .763.  THE TEAM killed it.  That's two games, 48 runs and a .731 average with 5 Home Runs, 4 Triples, 14 Doubles, 6 Walks and only 1 Strikeout. 

Let's all hold hands and reflect on how we got here.  For the Fall 2012 Season THE TEAM batted .577 with...  my God I'm tired. 

Here's what you did:

3 Lou pitched and played shortstop and led THE TEAM in pretty much everything.  He batted .846 with 10 Home Runs, 4 Triples, 10 Doubles and 30 RBIs.  He didn't lead THE TEAM in walks but made up for it in loud noises.
 
8 Jad played first and second and did some catching.  She batted .488 with 2 Doubles.  She led the ladies with 15 RBIs and for the fourth straight season remains the player most likely to fight someone from the other team.

10 Melody played second and the outfield.  She batted .346 with a Double and Triple and 3 RBIs.  She led THE TEAM with 13 walks giving her an OBP of .564.  She also led the team in F-words.

12 Natasha pitched.  Yes she played a few other positions but really she led THE TEAM in pitching.  She batted .481 with 2 Doubles, 2 Walks, and 4 RBIs.  She had an OBP of .517 and led THE TEAM in keeping it positive

15 Cheryl only played in one game.  She batted .000 but she led THE TEAM in tattoos.  Not even close

18 Rick batted .676 with 1 Home Run, 4 Doubles, 2 Triples, 3 Walks and 15 RBIs and led THE TEAM in paperwork

19 Doug played centerfield.  He blew up in that last doubleheader to finish the season batting .548 with 1 Home Run, 3 Doubles, 1 Triple, 3 Walks and 13 RBIs.  He led THE TEAM in Grand Slams.

21 Randy played third and first.  He batted .692 with 5 Doubles, 2 Triples, 1 Walk and 13 RBIs.  He led THE TEAM in thinking baserunners were leaving early.

24 Peter played shortstop third and left.  He batted .744 with 2 Home Runs, 9 Doubles, 3 Triples, 1 Walk and 28 RBIs.  That is a spectacular season.  Peter led THE TEAM in not being crazy. 

25 Dora played catcher and some Rover.  She batted .486 with 11 RBIs.  She led THE TEAM in shots down the third base line.  She also led THE TEAM in crafty base running.

27 Brandy played in 1 game.  She batted .000.  She led THE TEAM in being nervous and not showing up.

30 Kelly played rightfield mostly.  She batted .464 with 1 Double, 2 Walks and 10 RBIs.  She was clutch with runners in scoring position.  She led THE TEAM in remaining silent.

38 Jeff played in only one game and batted .000 before a bicycle crash ended his season.  He led THE TEAM in injured thumbs and facial hair.

THE TEAM finished strong.  Now it's time to take that momentum to the Championship game.

GO THE TEAM!!!

Effed League

Let's not just type "tough loss"  one thousand times.

Did you know?

Lou hit for the cycle and threw another clutch home run on the pile and we still lost

Did you know?

THE TEAM scored a season high 19 runs and we still lost

Did you know?

THE TEAM batted .641 with 3 Home Runs 2 Triples 4 Doubles 5 Walks and only 1 Strikeout and we still lost.

Did you know?

Everybody who played had at least one RBI in the game and we still lost.

Did you know?

Ah F**k it!  Tough Loss!

GO THE TEAM!!!

The League of F

THE TEAM showed they belong in F League by winning a nicely competitive game against The Swingers.  This is a team that went 3-2 in the first round so it isn't like THE TEAM picked off some spastic bunch of weirdos.  The Swingers have tasted victory.

There were two innings that THE TEAM went down in order but there were some monster rallys in two other innings.

Overall THE TEAM batted .556 with 3 Doubles, 1 Triple, 1 Home Run and 1 Strikeout.  THE TEAM was there to play.  There were no walks.  Ten players played and 7 of them had RBIs.  Nice!

Kelly had two RBIs on a hit and a sacrifice but she gets edged out by Natasha who got her two RBIs on two hits.  ( So close )  We will award a Melky Cabrera bobblehead to Natasha for an enhanced performance.

Peter went 3 for 4 with a Double, a Triple, his first Home Run of the Season and 6 RBIs.  He gets a Manny Ramirez bobblehead for his enhanced performance.

THE TEAM is looking tough

GO THE TEAM!!!