Always something to say!: Week 17: Review

Scheduling Note:

I know many of you have been following the Daily Standings updates on the BLOG. Just to let you know that I'm on vacation that daily standings WILL NOT appear on Monday night. They will return after Tuesday's games net week.

The Rob Hayward Update

Former Grisslie, past league champ, current Brew Jays and (most importantly) 3 time "Most Sportsman Like Player" as voted by his peers, incurred a serious injury to his arm this month. I know many of have as talked to Rob directly and are aware of his status, but many others have expressed genuine concern but are trying to catch up from second hand information or rumour. I asked Rob this week if he would be okay if I shared the content of an email update from him to inform the league of his well being. In typical Rob fashion, the reply was, "No problem Dougie". This info is from Rob directly.

"Just giving you an update. Specialist appointment yesterday revealed 3 fractures and nerve damage. doctor made arrangements to do surgery this morning,went in at 10 a.m and came to about 1.pm about 2hours or so in surgery. doc said it went good he repaired the nerve, put in 5 pins to repair the fractures and while he was in there he found 2 torn ligaments that he fixed also. follow up and more x-rays in 2 weeks, talk to you soon"

There you have it. Rob has continued to attend Brew Jays games, which should be a surprise to no one, so if you see him, say hi and give him your best.

Other injuries

We have a couple of other season ending injuries, numerous out 'til the playoffs injuries and plenty more day - to - day hurts. However, I don't have permission from people to talk about that and, of course, have the utmost respect everyones privacy on their medical conditions.

TOT Tournament

Based on the stats for traffic on the BLOG I suspect there is a contingent that just looks for the stats on the weekend. Therefore I'm rerunning the message from Jeff Dancey from last week's T.O.T Tournament.

A Message From Jeff Dancey

Our 32nd Annual (yes the tournament has been running longer than the league!) SPN Tournament is in the books and by all accounts (even though the financials aren’t settled) it was another successful year! Congratulations to our local teams, The Tailgators, for winning the 40E division (they won two round robin games against MENS E teams!!), The Rusty Rebels for making the finals in the 50E division, and to Jimmer’s Squirtin Units for winning the FUN division.

These tournaments don’t happen without A LOT of hard work and support from many people and while it’s impossible for me to recognize all, there were a few standouts that I would like to identify whom did WAY MORE than their $20 worth:

Andy Gee – Food Manager extraordinaire, present and accounted for all weekend long.

John Stiff – Bar Guru and SPN pick-up resource.

Doug Dwyer – Put the FUN in the F division and for the first time ever I didn’t have a single issue to deal with from there.

Carol-Ann RH – jumped behind the bar whenever needed and was a great Gatekeeper, too!!

Jason Bowers – another very common face behind the bar

Steve ``Whateveryouneed`` Ross – produced awesome scoreboard sheets and then did a bit of everything else on top

Sue `Meatgirl` Farah – Foodland`s finest is one of TOT`s very best supporters

Wayne ``the iceman`` Caldwell – our ice costs were ZERO and his tournament knowledge base was invaluable…again

Jamie ``da Prez`` McClean – backed up everyone, everywhere, anytime…he truly was THE FIXER.

I know I am missing a pile of people and hopefully you will all hear about them and be able to give them at least a pat on the back. For those of you that were away for the weekend, or had family obligations, or just didn't make it over to Coventry, I encourage you to say `Thank you` to all of these folks – they saved you $20.

Cheers All!!

Danceman

INDIVIDUAL STATS

The numbers in the .800 club have dwindled to 3. The season is over for Rick who will finish at .823, Scotty Barton will as well. With a couple of games left Kevin can move either way. We lost Clayton Avery out of the .800 group this week, but there is still a chance for him and few others to get back in.

No these are not the Dodge City Rounders team stats. If hitting is contagious, these guys are sick.

Wow. The Mason, Peters, Fry connection is daunting.

It'll take until the last official week of the season for someone to break through the 100AB level. I don't think my 97 will last in the top 10, we might 10 over 100 this year

Apparently I can't sort. Oh well, it was a rough night. Besides, I like Richard. Scott Mason is leading the rookie charge and at this point it will take a slip for Peter Holmann to catch him. Handley and Butler shouldn't be on this list based on ABs, but that's fine. If you're a Steelers fan you need the odd break.

Congratulations to Rick, John and Rick. Fantastic years guys hitting 200+ points over last year! And two of you still have a chance to increase. When the season finishes I do a list of everyone who went up.

Roger and Al continue to lead this charge, but Mason and Keogh got their names in the mix at .500 or better too.

Again with the Roger! Obviously Mike Olliffe snuck through my filter. Roger, Brad and Jamie are the only ones who score on 70% or better of their hits.

Closed

Brad Wadden???? Cliff Joseph???? Dennis Short???? What the hell is going on here! Hahahaha. Nice to see Cliff striking the ball well. Dennis you'll have to take with a grain of salt as his numbers are artificially inflated having played the Grisslies on Thursday.