Week 4 Picks....well, half of them.

Tuesday games.

Catahoula Fightin's at the Twatwers +14
Fart Ray Solids at Gardeners +3
Ball Tap Elmers at 1-4 Collar +7

Don't worry that it's nipply outside.

Hey Phyllis, I said nipply.

On T-shirts in 5...4...3...

Games 3 and 4, recaps! Now with 30% more dry sarcasm.

Fun week.  First game was a 14-4 battle against the Bad Touch with a new name.  Yup, same entire team but they changed their name to accommodate people who aren't playing this year.  Sounds like Buddy.  Full summaries below along with a look around the league.

Game 1
At Lake Belmont (trademark, the Blogfather) we battled 9 on 9 into well into the night.  Took them relatively lightly, and played to have fun, so of course we're up 5-4 in the 6th.  Nick was nervous, you could see him sweating through his younger sister's shirt.  Timmeh was nervous, you could tell because he was in the field.  Renardo was nervous.  Actually, I have no idea if he was, I've only seen two emotions from that guy: fun loving and mild annoyance at my occasional discriminatory remarks.  I hate leadoff hitters.  Derm was nervous.  We know that cause he was eating a salad.  Ed was nervous, but because he got his urinalysis report back.  But I wasn't nervous.  We put up 5 and 4 runs to put it away and move to 3-0 on the young but Phyllis-long season.  Fun game.  Bad Touchers Adam, Courtney, and new coach Somebody enjoyed the game.

Game 2
What to say about this game.  13-12, your fighting Catahoula Refugees over the Fart Police.  What's really interesting is that we were down 12-5 in the bottom of the 7th.  Yup, you read that right.  And don't mention it to Ray Solid if you see him.  He may rip your face off, La Nice-style.  Typical well-defensed game early being something like 5-4 in the 5th.  Something like that.  We hit into 3 double plays, Rice played superb defense AFTER his 2 errors to start the game.  Then the wheels fell off the bus for Catahoula, couple of runs in the 6th and then 4 or 5 in the 7th powered by our inability to understand that Rice can hit a ball to left field.  Seriously, like a kid who's bad with shapes, solve the fucking puzzle already!!!!  Anywho, our team didn't hit too well for the first 6 innings, but give them credit, they always play good defense against us.  But then in the 7th.  A pitching change to TJ Cousin's Cousin's Cousin's Cousin.  From now on he shall be referred to as TJ Cousin's Cousin's Cousin's Cousin. Not sure on the order, but let's just say everyone hit.  And we still have 2 outs!  We'll use those next time we play.  Tim hit, Cathleen hit, Derm hit a fly ball that could/might/should/maybe/ have been caught/Ed hit/ new girl Jenna hit/ somebody out/   Then all of a sudden, leadoff Renardo is up with 1 out and 1 on, down by 3.  Single.  So now I represent the tying run at the plate.  Everything is ridiculously silent.  And hilarious.  I double off the bag to right field.  One of two ground balls that just got out of reach.  2nd and 3rd, down by 1.  Adam........double.  Runners on 2nd and 3rd 1 out, tie game.  Nick????  single.  Game over.  Scored 8 in the bottom of the 7th.  Crazy ending.  Farts very unhappy.  Yay!


In other news, The Collar got creampied by the Pencil.  0-3 yay!  But then them Cleveland Steamer'd the Franklin so they're 1-3.  They play the Tap Room in a must win next week.  I say must win, because Phyllis will start ripping off penises if they lose another game.

Week 3 Lines

Monday

CCSL Game of the Week!
Fighting Fords at Phyllisless Collar+2 o/u 23
Forfeiteers+14 at Catahoula o/u 25Zoo+8 at Ball Taps o/u 28

Tuesday

Ray Solid and the Farts +6 at Catahoula o/u 26
Fleisher Band Circle at the Pickles+12  o/u 30
Phyllisful Collar at Super Serial Buddies+8 o/u 22

Game 1 and 2 recaps!

Week 1 blog post.  Fail.  Week 2 gambling lines.  Fail. Week 2 blogpost, on time!  Win. I'll take what I can get and a big suck it Derm!
Game 1 win against the Academy of Natural Sciences 22-10.  Oh, wait, that was the Collar?  I recognized the uniforms but I didn't see anybody I remembered from the championship game last year.  Strange.  Also, it was like 22-3 going into the 7th or some shit.  I have a hazy recollection of this game as I again hurt myself in April and had to watch most of the game from the beer cooler.  Which is not a bad place to be.  Let's see, well, the Collar has 14 women now so Phyllis only gets to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.  Christian Steve can't hit the ball in the air.  El Colach can't hit the ball to the outfield.  Robbie seems to be funnier this year for some reason. La Nice chewed off the face of a Puerto Rican boy.  Good times.

The Good
Big first win.  Good offensive showing despite having a big left handed hitting slap hitter.  Narragansett beers are easy to throw.  No rookies in the first game for the first time in Catahoula/Franklin history.  Cathleen was able to play on one knee.  Black Marino shows up early to games now.  There was a Matty sighting!

The Bad
Collar.  Now 0-2 after losing to the Zoo.  I heard some of the players are transferring to the Bad Touch because they have a better outlook this season.

The Ugly
Two straight Aprils with me on the DL.  Next thing you know, I'm going to be playing bingo across from Commissioner Ron....and Ed....and Tina.  She's old too.


Game 2
Beat the Fighting Buddies 10-4.  Yes we only scored 10.  No we don't care.  Defense was good.  Played a bunch of rookies to varying degrees of success.  Took extra bases, which I guess we needed.  Essentially won the game on a weak ground ball hit to Buddy.  I hit that weak ground ball so I guess I'm the hero.  Certainly not the next 4 hitters who hit doubles.  It was all me. Magnitude made Nick make an error.  I threw a guy out at the plate, technically, for the first time in a long time.  Malloy showed up late as usual.   Ed pitched 4 innings of 1 run ball.  Pat pitched 3 innings of 3 run ball.  Crafty veterans.  McCormick got terrified on a throw.  Jackie played despite 3 fractured femurs.  CRoon made her triumphant return to the CCSL.  Timmeh tried to make an error and failed.  Derm told me 11 times he got a new bat.  The Pencil played a scrimmage and didn't come over to say hi.  Our team got Gabored.  Mickey went 3-3 or something, I wasn't paying attention.  Chandra pitched a great game.  Matty made his second straight game.  A personal best!  Dick played angry.  2-0!  Play the Fart next week along with a presumed forfeit.  Yay Sports!

The good
Us, defense, my back.  Adam's sarcasm.  2-0.  Pop pop!  Slender.

The bad
Not much, fun game, everybody got to play.

The ugly
Nick.  Words fail me.  So shut up.

Alright, I promise better, funnier stuff to come.  Like Buddy's face.  And Ford's vagina.