Fall Ball Week 1 Scores

Here you go.  Ballz Deep loses two right out of the gate...

2011 Summer Recap

I will try to put together a better summer recap over the weekend but wanted to let you know I have finally finished updating the stats and quite a few records have fallen.  Brian now holds the Doubles and Triples records (with 15 and 6 respectively).  Hof now holds the the Hits record (56) and sneaks ahead of Derek (who I know is devastated!!)  Hof also snagged the Runs scored record...touching home plate 45 times.

Guys from this year made it into the top 5 of all time in every single category....especially Doubles were 4 of us beat the old record.  All of the records can be seen on the right hand side.  Congrats to everyone for a strong season as a team, and to all the new record holders.

One last thing.... we are the only team to score over 300 runs in the summer league in the 4 years we have played.  We finished with 317. By comparison, Dead Money got 278 last year in 22 games (we played 21 this year). Check out the previous standings page to compare.

Fall League starts next Tuesday at 7:00 against PT General Mortgage.... we will have our vengeance.

PT are the Champions?

Here is the final playoff bracket....  Congrats to PT who somehow crushed Ballz Deep in the Championship...

Here is the reaction from Ballz Deep....
"We lost 2 guys to injury and they just went on a hitting streak. No excuses but it sucks having to sit out for over an hour in between games and then try to get your legs back. The shitty part is that they really didn’t win shit because we both had 1 loss in the playoffs. There should have been another game (double elimination)."

Backs against the wall...

Last night did not go completely as planned.  Even though we played well enough to beat the Amish Donkey's in game one (by a score of 11-5), we knew that our bats had to get hotter to hang with Ballz Deep.  Unfortunately, our mini hitting slump continued this week as we continue to struggle just to break double digits.  You have gotta give Ballz Deep credit though.  As always, they hit well, but they really showed extra effort on defense and made a lot more plays than we are accustomed to seeing out of them.  A small comeback by us in the 7th made the score look closer than it really was.
Final score: 11-15

Moving on.  So now the path the championship may be more difficult, but by no means is it impossible.  If you look at our record, we have not lost a game to a team not named Ballz Deep since the end of May!   We should now focus squarely on getting a shot at redemption against them, and ulitmately walking of the fields as champions next week.  It could be a long night, but nobody ever said this would be easy. We should have our squad restored to full-strength though, and that will definitely help.

Lastly, for any of the competition who happens to be reading this, any outdoorsman will tell you two things when you are in bear country.
#1. Don't piss off a grizzly... 
#2. Don't back them against a wall...

Well, both things happened last night, and the picture below pretty much summarizes what will happen next Tuesday starting at 6pm.

First Round Results....

It wasn't ideal, but this thing is long from over....  I will get the stats updated over lunch.