STATS - Week III

INTRO

You may have noticed that we're in week three, seemingly having missed week two.  My week 1 reloaded was called week 2 on the league site, so this brings us in sync.  All the data is there for both now and we have some movers and shakers to talk about! 

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The Week In Review

QUICK NOTES:

We have gone down from 114 to 103 people who have reached base safely in every game.
We have gone down from 88 to 52 people who have scored a run in every game so far.

We'll get to names when we're under 20.

Hot Tub Woody's Vs. Rusty Rebels - The Woody's scored 5 in the first to open the week and the Rebels bounced back to get 7 of their own in the bottom of the inning.  But the Woody's were able to sustain the offense and hung up 29 runs for the game to the Rebels 19.  The best line for the Rusty Rebels was Dave Miller's 4/4 with two Runs.  The Hot Tub Woody's, Will Goodin was 5/5 with 4 runs.  Of significant note, Randy Rose hit 3 home runs in the loss.

Sliders Vs. Grisslies - The rookie Sliders remain undefeating as they bested the Grisslies 19-8.  Lou Conforti and Jeff Behan were 4/4 for the Sliders and Rick Cudnik was 5/5.  For the Grisslies, Cal Russell, Dan Routledge and Danny Chiasson were all 4/4.

Beer Bros. Vs. Hurtin' Units - The Beer Bros. followed up scoring 30 in the last game with 19 more againt the Units who countered with 14.  Terry Doucet is back in form, going 5/5 with a couple of runs.  Cliff Joseph and Jon Hardy both were 4/4 with 2 runs.  For the Hurtin' Units, Don Curran and Mike Olliffe were both 4/4 with 2 runs scored.

Tap Masters Vs. Dog Catchers - Other than the 1st inning, which the Tap Masters won 7-0, this was a pretty even game filled with good defense and timely hitting for both squads. Emeil Edwards and Steve Lahey were both 4/4 with 2 and 1 runs respectively for the Dog Catchers.  Tim Schrank and Ryan Feehely were 5/5.  Tim scored 2 runs and Ryan had 3.

Brew Jays Vs. Draft Kings - Speaking of close games, it doesn't get much closer than this.  7-6 for the Draft Kings in a game that was done in just under an hour.  Chuck Cragg was 4/4 with a run for the Draft Kings and Mark Doyle scored twice and joined Chuck Vanya in going 4/4.

Gruesome Devils Vs. Beer Bros. - So clearly you need to score more than 19 to beat the Beer Bros. this year as they rolled their second 19 run game of the week.  Terry Doucet stayed hot going 4/4 and scoring 2 more for the Beer Bros.  The Devils, who scored 10 runs of their own, were led by Scott Barton's 4/4 night with a run.

Dusty Cleats Vs. Sons Of Pitches. - Another close one in a game that see-sawed back and forth and saw the Sons Of Pitches stay undefeated, winning this one 17-16 in the bottom of the 7th inning.  The SOP's were spear headed by Roger Burton's 5/5 night with 2 runs scored.  Steve Grenkie was also perfect going 4/4 with 2 runs.  Meanwhile the Cleats had some huge nights too.  Matt Foerster, Jim Rouleau and Tom Hollmann were all 5/5 with two runs.  Pully also chipped in with 4/4 and a 1 run evening.

Hot Tub Woody's Vs. Hurtin' Units - The Units are still looking to get off the snide as the Hot Tub Woody's were back on the bats winning this one 26-10.  The Hurtin' Units had Dwyane Comer going 4/4 and Bill Clouthier at 3/3 with a run.  The top 6 players in the Woody's batting order combined to only make a single out on the night.  Peter Hayward (5/5, 3), John Mulgrew (5/5, 3), Ed Hopkins (5/5, 2), Jeff Dancey (5/5, 2) and Tito Presensa (5/5, 3) were all perfect at the plate.

Blues Brothers Vs. Rusty Rebels - The Rebels are also looking for their break through 1st win of the season.  They got lit up in this one to the tune of 28-15.  Sir Andrew Gee had the only perfect night for the Rebels with a 5/5 and one run effort.  The Blues Brothers had some crazy batting lines.  Bob McCullough and Neil Pendlebury were both 6/6 with 5 runs.  Mike Douglas was also 6/6 but could only manage a single run.

Gruesome Devils Vs. Tap Masters - The Devils are fast and they can mash.  And Steve DeLand has thrown down the gauntlet to Big Bro Doug as he went 3/4 with 2 doubles and a triple!  But Steve's fine play wasn't enough in this one.  Kevin Cavalier was the only perfect night for the Devils, leading off and going 5/5 with 3 runs.  The Tap masters had no perfect nights but 3 run performance from Steve Brooks, Sandy Bell and Scott Peters.

Dusty Cleats Vs. Brew Jays - The Brew Jays escaped the week getting their first win of the year in what was another very close game, beating the Dusty Cleats 12-10.  Chuck Vanya had his second perfect night of the week, going 3/3 with a run.  Matt Foerster is ridiculouly hot as he was 4/4 with 2 runs in this one.  Piero Del Greco was 3.14 for 4 with a run.  Just kidding, he was 4/4.

Dodge City Rounders Vs. Sons Of Pitches - For the 1st time in 9 months someone other than the Dodge City Rounders can lay claim to the Beer Cup.  This was yet another tight game and the Sons of Pitches would outscore Dodge 3-0 over the final 2 innings to win 11-8.  Anicette Goncalves led the way for the Rounders going 3/3 with a run.  The winning side of the ledger had Roger Burton again going perfect with a 4/4, 2 run night. 

The Beer Cup

As a refresher, the Beer Cup is in its 2nd year.  Last years champs, the Dodge City Rounders retained the Beer Cup to start the season and defended it twice by beating the Blues Brothers and the Brew Jays.  The Sons Of Pitches now own the cup until they get beat.  the winning team at year end receive both the cup and 12 beer tickets at the banquet.

Next week they'll try to defend against the Rusty Rebels.
   

Teams that have held the Beer Cup(2)

• Dodge City Rounders
• Sons Of Pitches

Teams that have defended the Beer Cup(1)

• Dodge City Rounders (2)

Teams that have Played a Beer Cup Game (4)

• Dodge City Rounders (3)
• Blues Brothers
• Brew Jays
• Sons Of Pitches

Teams that have yet to play for the Cup(11)

• Tap Masters
• Beer Bros.
• Gruesome Devils
• Dog Catchers
• Hot Tub Woody's
• Sliders
• Dusty Cleats
• Grisslies
• Hurtin' Units
• Rusty Rebels
• Draft King

So You Want To Be A Sub

Once again, there are complaints that we keep seeing the same subs over and over.  Not the cold cut kind, but the player kind.

So far this year we've seen the following subs:

Doug Dwyer (3)*
Al Bales (3)*
Dave Fleming (2)
David Polny (2)
Steff Kapp (1)
David Argue (1)
Peter Hollmann (1)
Keith Beechey (1)
Darren Ford (1)

There's an asterisk beside me and Bales because we were actually only called twice and happened to be at a game where a team was found to be unexpectedly short.

We've been over the Sub process at captains meetings and AGMs, but I guess the minutes to those meetings aren't on everyone's reading list.  So let me give you a quick recap of how subs work so everyone can have a better understanding and may be explain to those that won't read this either.

First off, as everyone is well aware our league players are ranked 1 - 12 on each team.  Every team is entitled to a substitute if they are missing 3 or more players.  Our captains are excellent at informing the sub controller and they all work very well together.  This is why notification of absences is so important to us.

So how your sub is figured out is pretty simple.  The captains notify Rob of the ratings of the players they're missing and they may make a specific request.  For example, if you're missing a 2, 5 & 7 (rating) and they happen to be your left, right and center fielder; you may call Rob and say, "here's who I'm missing and could you get me an outfielder if possible"?

Now Rob looks at the ratings differently (this was approved 2 AGM's ago).  Players 1-4 are considered an "A", 5-8 are "B" and 9-12 are "C" players.  This makes things a lot easier for Rob and he can look at bigger groupings of players.  So Rob does an average and about 75% of the time the average comes out to a "B" player which means that you, for the most part, need to be ranked 5-8 to get a call.  Rob rarely call's 6's (rookies) until he gets to know them, but he does try to work them in over time.  But still, that leaves 36 potential sub "B" players.

What has been instituted for the past 3 years or so, is a notification TO Rob. if you're available.  Bear in mind this process has been discussed publicly and is just a refresher.  What you're asked to do is notify Rob if you're available to sub.  So what Fleming, Polny and I do (and others) on a regular basis is send Rob an email in the morning saying, "I can sub tonight".  That's all it takes.

If you're on the Sub list, regardless of your ranking, if you can play any day please send Rob an email.  If you meet a teams requirements for that night, you will be called in the order that Rob receives your availability email.  If there are no notifications and Rob goes to his list, he starts with those that he can reach and he doesn't leave messages.  Teams need to know who they have quickly and it can't be a back and forth throughout the day.

To reach Rob send your email to Robert.Farah@sympatico.ca

Good luck, happy subbing.

STATS
Team
First our league standings. 

Then our baseball style standings.  You'll see here that the Sons Of Pitches are actually tied for 1st place with the Beer Bros., Hot Tub Woody's and Sliders a 1/2 game out. 

The Power Rankings shuffled a bit this week.  Under the "The Week" column, if your team is yellow, they haven't moved from the previous week, green has improved and red has gone down.  The biggest gainer this week was the Blues Brothers who jumped 5 spots.  On the flip side, the Rounders, Devils and Dog Catchers all fell 5 slots. 

The Draft Kings carved a full run off of last week.  This is going to fluctuate a lot until we get to the 8 or 9 game mark for clubs. 

Individual

Is this the year Kahuna?  Very nice start, but you have some other great starts to contend with.  Not the least of which is Matt Foerster's crazy 14/14 kick off to the season.  Two rookies in the list? 

The Tap Masters are the only team to have 5 games in, so it makes sense that their players are all over this list.  The Beer Bros. and Woody's early prolific offense has them getting in the list as well.




















What a surprise to see both Peters and Doucet in this list. 

Okay....we may have to begin testing in the league.  I don't think Terry's 61 is in any danger, but 47 could fall again, even with the shortened season. 

Our Rookies who are hitting .500 or better.  Six are at least at .750.  Fantastic start guys!!!

Hagar is NOT horrible!  Nice start buddy. 

 

 

Emeil had the best average as a Sophomore last year and now he's working on doing the same thing as a Junior.  He's off to a great start, but The Beechey is nipping at his heals with a good collection right behind. 

Here's to you Gord Robertson!  This is everyone over .200 points better from the previous year.  It'll probably take +200 to win this one. 

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Free Beer Part II

So here's the deal. 

The tournament is delayed.  Not canceled, but just delayed until August.  August is a long, long, long long time to wait for beer.  So what we'll do is pay this out at the Help the Kids Play tournament in July.  That's the best I can do.  But we'll have another contest for the August Tournament. 

We had 51 license plates.  Now I know I said I was going to do a $20.00 drink award for the winner, but I'm going to change it on the fly.  Truthfully I was overwhelmed with the responses.  A lot of folks had guesses with this so it feels wrong to not recognize the top 3.  2nd and 3rd place get a single frosty malt beverage at the HTKP tournament as their reward.  And your winners are: 

3rd Place, Karen Turner with an amazing 35/51.  I thought that was going to hold up, but....
2nd Place, Paul Piellusch who had a staggering 44/51.  But even that wasn't enough!
1st Place, Steve Ross who nailed 47/51!!!

Wow!

I literally had to go hermit for the last week because people were stopping me in Foodland, the Beer Store and the gas station and making guesses verbally.  This was a lot of fun for me and clearly for many of you.

Now for the explanations. 

Scott Barton....3 consecutive batting titles and looking for a 4th.

Mikhail Baryshnikov, the famous ballet dancer turned bad actor?  The Dance Man, obviously....Jeff Dancey

The only question about this one was whether anyone new Al Nichols real name!  Want to read more about the slim and trim Al?  Click HERE

Steve Brooks (works for a cable monopoly)(their colour is red)(maybe you know them).

Danny Chiasson, one of a thousand different nicknames.  There's too many BLOGs about Danny to link to.  Kinda like Marky Mark.

Roman Dasek.  Roman...centurian...get it yet?  You'll laugh later

Chuck Cragg, No explanation necessary.  The Cragg BLOG is HERE

Dave "Don't Call Me Terry" Doucette.

A nickname coined by Terry Doucet for Gary Basso

Diamond Jim Rouleau, no one knows where the diamond is located though.

Fraser Barrett (Dr. Fraser Crane)

Dube...aka....dude...aka...Craig Escott.  Dude got a miss print on his shirt a few years back and was stuck with "DUBE" for a season.  Based on the nicknames printed on shirts in our league, DUBE didn't draw any attention.  Of course, one of the most popular BLOGs ever features Dude/Dube and can be found HERE

James Taylor, (oh I've seen fire and I've seen rain....)

Gord Robertson.  Obviously.  Still one of my more favourite BLOGs, you can read the Gord Robertson edition HERE

Steve Ross.  Obviously, again.  If you didn't get this one, you probably shouldn't have played.  The Gere BLOG is HERE

Paul Gyori....more for his beer league team than for him.

Robert Farah...every BLOG is about Rob.

Bob Vaughan.  When your team writes Grumpy instead of your name on the lineup, its bound to stick.  The first time I saw it on a score card, I had to fill in everyone elses stats and see who was left.  I had no idea.   

For whom the Bell tolls?  Sandy Bell!

Will Goodin.  Good Will Hunting

Al Fry;  thusly dubbed Idaho in the "walk like an Egyptian" blog, which can be found HERE.

Ingo Barten.  There are over 300 published editions of the BLOG out there and I'll be damned if I can find the Ingofische one.  Its out there.  Marky Mark?

Marky Mark's (Mark Doyle) nickname comes from Mark Wahlberg who the lead singer from Markey Mark and the funky bunch before turning to acting.  Before that he was a Calvin Klein underwear model.  Swear to god. (Karen got this one)

Randy Hipkin, I believe (not 100%) that he's a bit of a 'mother hen' to the Dog Catchers.

Kevin Hollingshead.  Was in on two triple plays last year and grew up on a farm with a 3 headed sheep (that's a lie).  But there is a BLOG about Kevins propensity for things in 3's, found HERE.

Myrtle what?  Myrtle Beech!  The Beechey!  You'll get it on the way home and you'll laugh and laugh.  By the way, if you're wondering how Keith Beechey became The Beechey, click HERE.

If not Luke, must be Bo!  As in Bo Niederhuber.  See, it you were thinking Luke from Star Wars you've been struggling to come up a Han in the league. 

Not So Fast Eddie?  Ed Hopkins.  I don't know how he got that nickname, he'd be 3rd fastest on the Grisslies. 

Paul Michael Glaser played Starsky; which means this one is Paul Piellusch.  How did he become Starsky?  Click HERE  Written in 2010 (wow)

The Pii man.....Piero Del Greco.  Here's another 2010 BLOG featuring Piero, click HERE

Derryl Gaudet .... he had the name 1st.

Jerry Muirhead had the name 2nd, but wears it well!  And our 3 winners all got the two Popeyes in the right order!

Ricky Bobby AKA Rick Cudnik.  You can read more about Ricky and the evolution of his nickname HERE!

This was a freebie for everyone, except for maybe Scott Peters.  Kevin Boston

Eric The Red Hipkin!

For those about to rock....Bill Sallustio!  You can read about Bill's double life as a Yoga Instructor HERE.

Sir Andrew Gee.  Currently our only knighted active player.  Aptly dubbed for driving in the winning run in 2013's all star game vs the young timers. 

The one, the only Scott Mason.

This might have messed a few people up but its Kahuna (which is a Hawaiian word for "wise man").  Also, Hawaii is known for surfing, hence; there can only be one answer.  Roger Burton.

Mr Lou Conforti. 

The aptly dubbed Timmy Two Beer is Tim Osmond.  Although, we're working on his new nickname, "Timmy Infinity Beer".  Actually, Timmy is working on it .... the jury is out. 

Clearly .... Doug DeLand.

Darrel Hager; the horrible (remember the comic strip?)

That would be Steve DeLand.  Sorry Stevie. 

Most everyone guested Cal Steeves for this one and I undertstand why, his shorts are ledgendary.  However, equally famous for his stylish yet very athletic shorts is, Timmy Schrank!  Anxious to read more about Timmy and his shorts?  Click HERE, still one of the most popular editions. 

Not Borje Salming.  Nope, Jens Lepa.

Harley Sherman.....The "Sherman Tank!"

This nickname is less than a year old but it caught on like wildfire.   How much has it caught it on?  He has "whale" on his 2014 jersey!  Chris Parsons is in fact; the whale!   Why?  'Cuz he's a whale of a player!  (The Whale was a Bob Candy creation, all rights reserved)

Robbie Tumble Rumboldt.  An explanation isn't needed, unless you're a rookie.  And on the rare chance that you're either a rookie or need a laugh, you can read about his exploits HERE. 

Gord Dol!  Yes, he's a generation away from growing sod, but everyone knows the name. 

And yoke is Geoff Keogh (Park)!  Rumour has it that couldn't pronounce "joke" as a child.  Just yoking.