Growing Pains

Martin's knee pretty much sums up the game last night. Torn up.

On cold, windy, Thursday we battled the best team in our league. The mighty BDO. Whatever the fuck BDO means. I still don't think they're 10 runs better then us but the score at the end of the game said otherwise.

We put together a few good innings. They just didn't add up. Our new and improved lineup managed to scrape together a few runs. A combination of ill timed walks and errors proved to be our undoing. We have this tendency of one person fucking up and everyone else piling on to add to the grief, resulting in big innings for the other team.

I'm not that worried. We played about as bad as it'll get all season. We got nowhere to go but up. After our game Rich and I hug around to watch the Edmunds/Rainmakers game. It ended in a tie with the Rainmakers coming back from 8 runs down. Shit. If they can do that then we can do it. I like our chances with both these teams. I still think 8-4 is a realistic possibility.

Notes from the game.

I was late. Who'd have thought? I missed the top half of the 1st inning but got there just in time to see the last out of the inning. Lucky me.

Bill went 3-3. Even with a new job that has him leaving the house at 6am like Nike he just does it. Unoficially I think he had 2 RBIs too.

Martin is the official home runner leader so far this season with a blast in his last at bat. He also had half of our RBI's with 4. Tied for most bloody knees with Ant.

I think our new and improved defense had a few bright spots. Carlos looked good in right. Hap was the man in left. I like Nate at 1st base. He's a bigger target then me. Ant knocked down balls at 3rd. Rich almost had the catch of the game in the OF. Sky had some tough chances at SS but made outs. I like catching. We even got a runner at home and contrary to popular belief it wasn't even that close. I fucking had him.

2 strange plays. Hap getting called out for his halfswing down the 3rd base line. I used to think this was genius. Guess it's just an out. Worth trying though. Carlos getting called out for stepping on the plate as he swung. Hmmm. Bad luck. Last year he got callled out on a homer for missing the plate. This year he gets called out for stepping on it.

I didn't do too bad. 2-3 with a double and 2 runs. I thought the double was my homerun swing. It's hard to fuck up playing catcher. I have to get my fat ass down the line to back up 1st base. I wish I had my second at bat back. I shoulda never swung at a pitch that low. Stupid.