Its show time baby! Our season has roughly 1/7 the games of a major league season, which means that in Major League Baseball terms its the last week of September and drama of the pennant race is in full stride!
Tonight is no different with 8 teams playing and 6 of those teams currently ranked in the upper half of the standings. Tonight's results with have a huge impact on the standings. Can The Wild build on the momentum of yesterday's victory? Can the Recycled rebound and recapture that game in hand? Can the Grisslies catch the Dodge City Rounders or will the Rounders hold them off in a head to head battle. And the Red Dogs need a win to stay in consideration for a top three finish! Lots going on to be sure.
From a Grisslie perspective, the last couple of weeks have been the best for our bats. Our defense which was pretty sound early has sprung a few leaks, but we have Diamond Jim Rouleau coming back into the lineup tonight after making a full recovery from hip replacement surgery. to help shore things up
Jimmy Rouleau before hip replacement (he was a sad brittle man then)
Jimmy Rouleau after hip replacement surgery (now he's often mistaken for Rex Smith)
The SPEECH
Who is more of a fool? The fool, or the fool that follows the fool?
Well, you can colour me stupid now. For months I've been buying this whole "Rob working in isolation" story. The labouring over song lyrics. The passion around finding the right words for the right moment. The desire to inspire and improve direction.
So here I am, "dropping by" completely unannounced to Rob's place last week and who's in the back yard with a boom-box, pen and paper? Who's reversing his cassette tape over and over and over to figure out that one hard to hear line from the Spoon's "romantic traffic" song? Who's humming along muttering out changed lyrics?
Doris Casullo.
All this time, I was giving Rob full credit and it turns out that he actually had a ghost writer on at least some of his work. Rob still claims that he did most of the writing but its really impossible to tell, isn't it? Doris claims that he only worked on "That's Amore", "O Sole Mio", "Arrivederci Roma" and "Non Dimenticar" (all were pre-blog efforts)." But who really knows for sure?
So a big lesson learned for me to never take things at face value. Having their secret exposed; there was no point in hiding behind the lost charade and Doris decided that this would be week that he would deliver what he created.
Appartently the message about improving defensive play wasn't quite sinking in so the "D" man thought he'd give it one more shot to right the ship.
For the musically impared =====> TAINTED LOVE
Music brought to you by NEIGHBOURS COUNTRY DEPOT (still kidding about the sponsor)
"Tainted Glove" by Doris Casullo to the tune of
Tainted Love by Soft Cell.
Sometimes I feel I've got to
Run away I've got to
Get away
From the pain that you drive into the heart of me
The game we share
Seems to go nowhere
Before we lose our fight
For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night
Once I ran to first (I ran)
Now my arm just hurts
This tainted glove you've given
I give you all a fielder could give you
Take my beers and that's not nearly all
Oh...tainted glove, Tainted glove
Now I know I've got to
Run away
I've got to
Get away
You don't really want to play “D” for me
To make things right
You need to catch and hold it tight
Its like your glove is made of clay
But I'm sorry that clay is in my way.
Once I ran to first (I ran)
Now my eardrum burst
This tainted glove you've given
I give you all a captain could give you
Take my beers and that's not nearly all
Oh...tainted glove
Tainted glove
Don't talk to me please
Any second now I’m gonna sneeze
That glove of yours has hurt me so
Don't make me take my bats and go
Tainted glove, tainted glove
Tainted glove, tainted glove
Catch one Billy, tainted glove
Catch one Stevie, tainted glove
Tainted glove
Tainted glove
Tainted glove
This was the most pointed, direct, lets get it going message of the year. There was no glove tapping or rah, rah after this one. No, quite the contrary, there was a lot of soul searching and I'll admit a few tears. But it was the defensive kick in the pants that we needed FOR SURE!
THE GAME
NOW this was a typical Grisslies game!
The Grisslies struck for 4 runs in the 1st inning and played a very tight defensive game with the Dodge City Rounders for the first 5 innings. If pitching and defense win playoff games, its time to start growing those beards.
We had our weekly STELLAR defensive play by Billy O'Reflex at third base. Clouthier snuffed out a potential seventh inning rally by snaring a wicked shot. There was the usual assortment of good plays in the outfield and Wynnyk had a busy night at 2nd. Diamond Jim looked good and contributed at 1st, 3rd and made the final out of the game playing Catcher.
Oh, in case anyone is following that batting race still.....McCarron was a killer 4/4 last night!!! Way to go Robbie!
The New rally cry for the Gisslies is to SMOKE THE JOINTS! (tonights game)
AROUND THE LEAGUE
Wild Vs. Lucky Stiffs.
The wild had a good overall team game and beat the Stiffs 15-4.
Dog Catchers Vs. Recycled
For anyone who missed it, the Dog Catchers are for real as they upset the 1st place and heavily favoured Recycled. There was a stellar relief pitching performance by Paul Piellusch who had to fill in for Randy who....(trying to be delicate here)...has a bit of a pain in the a** this morning? Final 15-12
Red Dogs Vs. Dusty Cleats
The Red Dogs continue to play "come and get us" at the top of the standings and they aren't letting up. They continue to play well on defense and won this one 15-9.
UNSANCTIONED, UNOFFICIAL, BUT HOPEFULLY ACCURATE LEAGUE STANDINGS AS OF COMPLETION OF PLAY ON AUGUST 25TH
TEAM
The Wild 23 14 7 2 30
Red Dogs 22 14 8 0 28
Recycled 22 13 8 1 27
Dislocated Joints 19 12 6 1 25
Grisslies 22 12 10 0 24
Dodge City Rounders 22 11 10 1 23
Torn Ligaments 21 11 9 1 23
Dog Catchers 22 9 10 3 21
Dusty Cleats 22 9 13 0 18
Banshees 22 9 13 0 18
Hot Tub Woodies 22 8 13 1 17
Rusty Rebels 21 7 13 1 15
Lucky Stiffs 22 6 15 1 13
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