Week 8 Scores

Alot of blowouts last night.  Doublewide 10 runned Allinace.... Ballz Deep 10 runned the Silver Bullets (thier mountains are definetly blue).  We won by 11 over the Extreme... and Dead Money outscored thier opponents 31-3 in dominating fashion. 

10-1...More games tommorrow...

This will be a quick update since we have 2 more games tommorrow.  Both teams only had 9 guys but our defense was able to cover more ground than they did as we cruised to laid back win.  With home runs from Miller, Hof and Nelly, the game ended after a quick five innings.
Final Score: 12-1

Even though he made one of the few errors in the game, we gotta give the clean up guy him some love since it seems like forever since he hit his last home run.  See you guys tommorrow, pre-game drinks at Lone Spur around 6:30.

B-Dubs Playa of the Week
Chad Nelson
2-3 with a BB, HR, 3 runs and 2 rbi.
Hamstring seems to be fine lately... quick, now knock on some wood.

Playoff Seeding Update

As you know the team with the best record gets the #1 seed in the playoffs. What you probably don't know for sure are the tie-breaking procedures for teams that have the same record at the end of the regular season. Here they are according to the Rec Department...

1. Head to Head Record (We are 1-1 vs Doublewide)
2. Total Point Differential

Amazingly, according to my numbers, we are both +70 in point differential. However, they have played 2 more games than us (and we haven't even played Team Extreme yet) so we should be able to improve upon that number faster than they do (as long as we keep winning). Therefor, in my opinion, if we take care of business the rest of the way the odds are we will still get the #1 seed....  I think we can all agree it would be nice to be on the opposite side of the bracket from Dead Money... luckly, as PA likes to say, we control our own destiny.

For those of you wondering about the status of Tom's brother after the accident Tuesday, here is a link.
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/joebarber

Week 7 Scores

Doublewide continues thier meterioric rise to the top of the standings...winning 2 more games to improve to 11-1. Their only loss came in the third week to us.  Unfortunatly, our only loss came to them...I will post more about potential playoff implications later.  Dead Money went 1-1 and seems to be destined for the #3 seed.  Wild Turkeys seem to be turning things around signifacntly and thier run in with the cops has obviously strengthend team unity...either that or they just aren't as drunk for the games any more.  One thing that does jump at you is the 5-1 score between Doublwide and Team Extreme.  That has to be the closest game the winless Extreme team has played all season, and only scoring 5 runs against a such a hapless team is a definite sign of weakness for Doublwide. 

9-1 and we can build this thing together...

The weather was steamy and the Grizzlies bats were even hotter last night.  Even though the high humidity prevented any long balls, everyone hit and nobody had a bad night which was evident in our team batting average of .645 for the game.  After we built any early lead of 10-1 through two innings, we coasted to a comfortable victory that ended after 4-1/2 innings.  The vuvuzelas from the dugout obviously fired up our O-Fense and got in BD's heads as there middle infield made several miscues that aided in the easy victory.
Final Score: 15-5

A lot of guys played well last night as we rebounded nicely from our loss last week, but its hard not to recognize the presence of our long lost 6'-5" first basemen.  His presence not only solidify's our infield, but he also fills up the middle of our lineup better than a giant chipotle burrito stuffed to max capacity fills up Nellys belly.

B-Dubs Playa of the Week
Aaron Miller
2-3 with a double, 2 runs and 2 rbi.
Nice to have him back in the line-up and he will help us out down the stretch.

Week 6 Scores

The Wild Turkeys got hot against the Silver Bullets, crushing them by 20.  Doublewide wins 2 games which propels them into first place in the standings.  Oh, and big surprise here, Dead Money crushes again.  Overall, the standings have tightened up alittle bit and things are starting to get interesting....

8-1....Undefeated status dead.

Well, the '78 Dolphins can pop the champagne...the Dirty Grizzlies will not go undefeated.  It was a fairly tight game, and many great defensive plays were made on both sides, but one fatal inning with sub average D cost us.  Giving up 6 runs in the bottom of the 2nd put us in a hole, and lack of clutch hitting from yours truly kept us there.  Dispite a late rally which brought us within 3 with the tying run at-bat, another line-drive hit right at a fielder ended all hope.
Final Score: 10-13

Its hard for me to find a bright spot as I type this, so we will give it to the man who has done a great job keeping book and keeping people from running themselves into outs this season despite his surgically repaired shoulder.

B-Dubs Playa of the Week
Brent Wunderlich
0-0 with perfect bookkeeping and 1 nice t-shirt.
His handwritting leaves alot to be desired but you can't question his heart.

Rain-out Gate 2010

Here is the explaination I recieved from the Recreation Department as to how they decided to postpone the games last tuesday...atleast she tried to get them in...

I know that not everyone was not happy about the decision to cancel games on Tuesday, but after all of the rain we received throughout the day Tuesday, we determined it was the way to go. Here is how the decision was made…

At approximately 3:45 p.m., when it was lightly drizzling, I talked to the maintenance staff at Big Willow and told them I’d like to get the games in if possible. They said they would go and work on the standing water that had accumulated on the two fields and would let me know if they thought they could make the fields playable. While I was waiting to hear back from them, I contacted the cities of Edina, Plymouth and St. Louis Park to see what the status of their games were. All 3 cities had already canceled their games. About 10 minutes later the Big Willow staff called and it had started to downpour again while they were trying to get the field in decent shape. We made the decision at that point to cancel the games.

These are difficult decisions to make and I know I’m about the least popular person in the city when it is sunny and warm a few hours after games have been canceled. Nice weather later in the evenings doesn’t necessarily mean the fields are in good, safe playing condition, which is something people don’t always consider.

I hope this helps. I appreciate you being flexible on the reschedule date.

Games Cancelled Tonight

Games are cancelled tonight, no word yet as to when they will be rescheduled...but be prepared for it to be this weekend sometime.  I will let you know when I hear more...

Week 5 Scores

Looks like the ump forgot to record our 2 runs from the 6th inning... the score definetly was 13-7.  Doublewide wins again and stays tight on our tail only 1 game back in the standings.  Dead Money also wins again to seperate themselves from all the rest of the teams below.  It is going to be really important to get that #1 seed since that would put DW and DM on the other side of the bracket.  As long as we keep playing great defense we should be good though... the second game next week is going to be big.  Since its a late game Miller will be there, that should help.

Hamstrings and Homeruns: 8-0

It was another gorgeous night in Hopkins as we took the field, the only think more beautiful was the sight of our opponent. It seems that we always play well against the Silver Bullets and have never lost to them. The game had a laxidazical pace to it, but we always seemed to keep our distance. The top of our lineup performed well, going 10 for 13, highlighted by Tim's 3 run bomb in the 2nd inning. A late show of power made the score seem closer than it really was.
Final Score: 13-7

The second game last night brought alittle more focus to our game as we played a dangerous Wild Turkeys team.  Fortunatly we got off  to a fast start with a 3 run bomb in the first by Scott.  After 2 innings we were up 6-0 and our great defense was clearly frustrating them.  The only major mishap happend in right field and that can be blamed on Nelly's hamstring snapping like bungie strap.  Regardless, it was pretty much over after a grand slam in the 4th cleared the fence (again by Scott) and the game was called a few minutes later after we shut them down 1-2-3 in the top of the 5th.
Final Score: 13-3

A few guys played great, but when someone doesn't have an out and drives in almost half our runs he should get the nod...

B-Dubs Playa of the Week
Scott Hoffmeister
8-8 with 2 HR, 4 runs, and 10 RBIs.
It's hard to raise your batting average when your above .900, but he did it.