Well, it could have been worse. We ended the regular season losing 6 of 8. Our hottest hitter from the early part of the season has been changing diapers and unable to attend in over a month. Our tight d is looser than George Castanzas bed sheets... yet we still landed the #3 seed and are luckily on the favorable side of the bracket!
Since we will surely meet up with one of the same teams from this week in the playoffs in game 2, I thought it would be good to go over what happened in both games. In game one against the jerks from Evangelical Fracking we got up to a early lead behind Dan's first inning bomb. We scored 3 more in the second, but after only scoring 1 in the 3rd they managed to tie the game at 7-7. We scored runs in every inning though, and considering the fact we left runners in scoring position in 6 of the 7 innings this could have been an easier win. I wouldn't mind meeting up with these guys in round 2 if they happened to beat Excelsior Brewers in their Rd 1 game. Or if we both lose, then we will meet them in the loser bracket. Worst case scenario would be having them beat Excelsior and us losing, thus having to play the #2 seed in a do or die game in the first week of playoffs... lets just take care of business in Game 1 so we don't put ourselves in that bind.
In Game Two, we got up early on Excelsior Brewers as well, with 4 runs in the first. But they came back with 3 in the 1st and 3 more in the second. We bounced back with 6 in the third though behind 6 straight hits....but we it could have been more as we left the bases loaded. It was 10-6 after three. After that rally we didn't score another run though... and only had 5 hits in the last 4 innings. During that same span they put up 6, 3, and 4 runs. From what I remember, our defensive lapses (especially in LF) gave them ALOT of extra bases... many with 2 outs in the inning. If we would have played even average D and would have managed to put up a few runs in the last 4 innings this could have been a very different game.
But with that said, its on to the playoffs. It is pretty clear that anyone has a shot this year from top to bottom. Every game will be a battle, but when the pressure mounts I like the chances of a team that has been through this playoff meat grinder 8 times already...walking away with the title in 3 of those years...
If we have our full team playing at full throttle things could be fun, if not, well then its time to start thinking about Whirly Ball. I tell ya, it would be a lot more fun doing that as champs than it would as losers!! 
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