Finals baby!!!!!

Wow wow wow wow!  So much to get to.  First of all, the Tap Room lost a heartbreaker to the Collar 13-8 or something.  That is awesome, hilarious, and awesome.  Awesomely hilarious.  My favorite part of it was that it was like a 45 minute game and we found out about the outcome in like the 4^th inning of our game.  All because The Blogfather^TM  was “old manning” at 35 mph on the left lane of the highway with his turn signal on and we had to start late.  Irregardless, the Catahoula Refugees go to the finals of the CCSL for the first time in team history.  Coach Nick takes a rookie team with no playoff experience to the finals and we’ll have to see whether the experience of the Collar wins out over the youth of the Refugees.  Either way it’ll be fun!  Yay sports fun shots!

Edgely 8, Monday July 30^th.  Collar at the MF’ing Refugees.  Everyone who reads this rag should attend.  The Blogfather^TM will be umping and will be sandy from his Saturday 8 a.m. game.  On to the recap.

So, we played the Fart Machine for the 4^th straight year in the playoffs (oh, that’s right, we have never been to the playoffs before because Buddy asked for the records).  Irregardless, we won this game 17-10 or something, and it was really close for 4 innings, then not close.  That’s how it goes.  The score was 6-4 after the 4^th inning on a lack of offensive spark by the Fugees and some calls that did not go our way.  The game tilted in our favor early due to two uncharacteristic misplays by the Farts which I’ll get to.  The first inning saw the Fart not score as Whiskey Frank ended it on a Timberly catch (3^rd career) with a runner at second.  The Refugees scored a big fat 3 runs on a Matty single, me single, Nick sac fly, and Cousins seeing-eye single that hopped over the Darkness’s glove.  The third run scored on a Danielle base knock.  The Fart scored 1 in the 2^nd to cut it to 3-1 then a couple of things happened.  What should have stayed 3-1 ended up 6-1 after an inning ending force out to second when past new female secondbasegirl for the Fart.  I’m guessing nerves and the stress of the situation.  That allowed me to come up with a run in 2 on and 2 outs.  Here, instead of singling through the right side with the outfield playing me Ogredepth, I crushed a ball to right center directly to the shift.  Instead of running the ball out like a veteran of the playoffs should, I threw the bat down in disgust and walked to first, thinking I had ended the inning.  The ball was misplayed by the Pirate outfielder and I ended up on 3^rd instead of scoring…which I did not do that inning.  Could have cost us.  Would have put us up 7-1 and that could have been the game.  Dumb.  However, we did cash 3 runs in when we should have had none.  Zing!  Then it got interesting.  A couple of calls went the Fart’s way and they tightened the score to 6-4 as we failed to score in the next two innings.  Stressful.  Then Renardo showed up….eventually, and as any Black Marino does, started off the 5^th with a single, followed by and Adam single, then my single, then Nick’s single, then Cousin’s single, then Pete’s single……First 7 hitters in the inning scored.  13-4.  And that was the game.  Frank double fisted whiskey bottles, Ray threw his glove, Rice punched the secondbase girl then sat in the back seat of Andrea’s car waiting to be driven home, Darryl showed up and asked Ray why he didn’t play, Kaleef had open back surgery, Kyle stabbed 4 people then wrote a play about it, the Darkness  well, that’s another story, Bearded Jeans Guy shaved put on some Khakis and got a real job hippie!, The Blogfather^TM started drinking, and the team celebrated a playoff win.  First in team history.  Yay sports go team win!  Gotta hit better overall on Monday and shore up some communication on relays and throwing to bases.  Other than that, great win team!

Quotes from the Playoff Wins!

Dammit!

Ray

Why the hell am I in right field?

Benson

Rice just got an FUI, fielding under the influence

This space is for friends and relatives of the team, Buddy.  Go to your practice.

Why isn’t Nick in your starting outfield?    kyle

He is, he’s Ben G.    me

That’s still funny to me.  Rice

I have THE BEST story for you guys

Mickey

I’m gonna end this game with a seed right back at the pitcher

Camel

Pop Pop!

Magnitude, somewhere

I was in rehab for the Yips

Cousins

I can’t play this week cause I had my knees broken.

Skinner

This was the Pencil’s year!  How did it go so badly?  Oh, yeah, Nevins made 3 games.

Blogfather^TM

We gonna get so drunk after our games next week

Collach

What’s the weather forecast for Monday?

Flynn

I never have any quotes in these things but I’m still in lesbians with Matty.

Adam

Why am I not in the finals?

Whiskey Frank, said in a Nic Cage voice that sounds like drunk hooked on phonics

They were definitely pow today.

Phyllis

I want to stab Nick in the face.

Ray, Kyle, Rice, throw a rock

Nobody on the Refugees was small enough for me to headlock

Darkness