Dueling Lapses of Reason

Perfecto Wiff weather today for the inaugural game on the new Map-o-the-States outfield.  The Halen Five plated three, then gave one back and it felt a lot like that would hold.  But in last inning dramatics the Van Four came roaring back after a costly fielding error to pull ahead by two of their own.  Undeterred, the feisty Halens loaded the bases and nearly stole things right back.  In the end however, all that came of it was one gift run on a woopsie double play attempt that did produce the first RBI strikeout in over 100 years.  But one isn't two and that was the ol' ballgame, Home Team wins it 6-4.  

Andy, Bob, Mark, Pete - 6 runs, 20 hits

Adrian, Dewey, Hans, JD, Eric Z - 4 runs, 13 hits

HR - none

Upgrades at Nance Bradds Field

Those wanna-be's in the majors, they put all kinds of fancy pictures mowed into their grass. They think their pretty special:

Quite nice, sure. But they have nothing on the OW&AC...

From now on we'll be pitching from just east of Puerto Rico. Alaska is now "Big Fly" country. Hawaii is very foul.

Obviously, this creates many new possibilities for new rules. Stay tuned.

Crankin' it UP!

With Krash safely ensconced in an undisclosed overseas location, the commish broke out the big black bats, and the wifflers responded with an offensive explosion (which Kurt would indeed find offensive).

Ironically, Peter was the primary victim of this decision as he suffered through a 7-run onslaught while pitching in the bottom of the fifth. Philosophy professors have a word for that, but there weren't any philosophy professors playing today. Homers (YES! ACTUAL OVER THE FENCE HOMERS) were supplied by J.D. "Jacked Deep" Whitlock and Andy "I'll show you a REAL Grand Slam" Evans.

The visitors mustered a single run early and then watched eight unanswered cross the plate on an increasingly hot morning.

Interestingly, the losing team had 4 players with batting averages over .400, whilst the winners had a mere 1. What that goes to show you is that stats have nothing to show you. Baseball - it's a strange game.

You'll note that in the 8th inning we inadvertently opened twin portals to Beelzebub's (a dive bar in the 8th ring of the Inferno - as counted from the outside) and the Gamma quadrant. As best can be discerned this was caused by the simultaneous occurrence of: 1) Andy's wicked fastball splitting chalk atoms on the outside corner as 2) Zamonski randomly babbled the ancient incantation, backwards, in Latin.

Adrian, Bob, Hansoo, Peter, Eric Z. - 1 run, 11 hits
Andy, Chris At., JD, Matt, Tim Y. - 8 runs, 16 hits

HR: Whitlock (1), Evans - Grand Slam (2)