The Beer Bros., who held firm possession of the Beer Cup at the start of the week tried to defend against the Hot Tub Woody's. They could not, however; overcome the Woody's 7 run first inning and had to relinquish the shirt after falling 16-11.
The Hot Tub Woody's are now the custodians of the Beer Cup. Next Monday night, the Dislocated Joints will be the 4th team with an opportunity to play for the Beer Cup in this early season.
As a refresher, the Beer Cup is a new approved trophy, donated by the Grisslies. Last years champs beat the runners up to hold first rights which were wrestled away by the Hot Tub Woody's . Because carrying around a trophy from game to game is a little cumbersome, we are using the Beer Cup t-shirt that the winning captain(s) sign and bring to their next games. At the banquet will be the T-shirt, Trophy and 12 beer tickets for the last club to hold the shirt!
OTHER NEWS
- Of course the other big news this week was that Rob McCarron was an hour and a half early for his game! In related news, hell has frozen over. Poor Rob, was a victim of a screw up on the website which was entirely my fault and makes it even more funny. The "schedule" page on the website is was correct, but the "results" page (which also contains future games) had the right game days but wrong times. It should be rectified now. Apologies to anyone who got screwed up by that. Except McCarron, that's just funny.
- For anyone who saw Jays pitcher J.A. Happ get drilled by a line drive this week, it was a scary moment. I was going to say he was Hapless, but that might be considered a tad offside. However, it puts James Taylor's helmet and shield into perspective and I'd like nothing more than to see some other pitchers in the league adopt it. Anyway, I get an email from my brother with a link to the Toronto Star Website and I read the Happ story. At the bottom they had picked up a bunch of tweets that had been sent out. They were mostly ones sent from other pitchers that had been dinged or their families....the right at the bottom was this tweet with a picture.
- I think the only game I've missed so far was the Blues Brothers and Rusty Rebels on C3 on Tuesday night. Other than my game against the Cleats of course. You can say something positive and negative about every club so far, but overall; the rookies look great and runs are up.
- Its pretty well known that Chuck Cragg and I don't get along. He finds me quiet and unapproachable and I find him brash and slightly arrogant. Or maybe its the other way around. Regardless, he, in all the games I've seen so far, he is the has had the worst luck. There have been 5 bullets to 3rd that have gone as outs so far through 3 games. And by bullet, I mean if any of them were a foot higher, the would have been doubles to the wall. A foot lower and he would have taken heads off. I could say there were two miracle catches of rockets hit by him to left too; but I'll revise that and say there was only 1 miracle catch and one very fine catch. These things tend to even out, but right now he's snake bit.
- Jerry Wallace seems to have found his groove quickly, good news for the Beer Bros.!
- Kevin Boston & Geoff Keogh both had perfect openers. Tip of the cap gents, I know what that meant to you.
- Having played in one game and watched another, I think the 3 rookies on the Brew Jays are going to make some noise by seasons end. It may take a while to come together, but I like the squad.
- Jason Jennings is off to a torrid start! And if we actually kept the stat, I'm pretty sure he'd be leading the league in triples.
- I don't care for Jim Smith much this week. You might think it was a routine catch, but that's the hardest i've ever hit a ball.
- The Draft Kings have a number of guys hitting well to start, Stike, Handley and Brooks come to mind. But standing out is Al (Bones) Nicholl who has not just been hitting well, but also keeping rallies going with 2 outs.
- The Tap Masters are scoring more often than Tiger Woods at a Perkins restaurant! And they did the last one without Timmy (don't let my shorts distract you) Schrank who is a MACHINE!
- Finally, Holy ringer Bob Vaughan!!! The Woody's have to be pleasantly surprised with their P1!!! Oh, everyone knew he could pitch, but he is swinging a mean bat right now. He has consistently hit the ball hard and on a line. Someone is gonna get burned by him and I hope its someone loud and cocky (besides me).
- So far there are 136 players out of 180 who have reached base safely in each game played and 83/180 who've scored in each game.
- I had the opportunity to have a little catch up conversation with Wayne Bickford at Keogh Park on Thursday night. He looks fantastic and says he's feeling great! I gotta say, he looks like he could take Neil Pendlebury in a race right now. Good to see you Wayne!
Okay, lets start with the league standings then my standings
Player Stats.
Once we get some more separation of players, I'll trim these to top 10 lists. But right now I'm just trying to cut off where it makes sense. Its very likely that this list could lose half of its members or more next week, its so early that one at bat can cause huge swings. Regardless, Boston, Comer, Richards and Goosney in particular are off to do torrid starts! Congrats to the others at 1.000 as well, but those first 4 have maintained it through 2 games. Not easy.
Congrats to all these fellas off to hot starts! Its worth noting, that Boston, Richards and Schrank have managed to get on the list with only 2 games played!
Yes, this is the time and attendance award. I keep this stat because its the only one I'm likely to make it on. However, I'm in a hole this year missing 1 of 2 games played. Alas, its a long season. The leaders all come from teams tat have played 3 games, but it all counts. Catching Jens ain't gonna be easy though. 104 is a HUGE number!
This is interesting. Dane and Phil have only played one game so that needs to taken with a bit of a grain of salt (although it was a hell of a game). But Hollingshead and Cragg and Goodin stand out. If they get on (over 2 and 3 games for them), they score. Always.
Runs scored is a bit of bench mark stat and even more so than on base average, it is the most reliably accurate one we keep. Richards, Sagert, Jennings, The Beechey, Hollingshead, Lahey and Lepa all come from teams that have only played 2 games.
These last two are my favourite stats. First the Rookies. Last year was a hotly contested contest (that was a pretty redundant sentence) with Mason pulling away at the end. No one is proving to be dominant with so few games played, but we have 5 so far sporting averages of .750 or better; led by none other than the Grisslies own Rick
That's it for this weeks look at stats. See you all next week!
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Game 2 Grisslie BLOG click HERE
Grisslies 3 stars click HERE
League standings click HERE
League stats page click HERE
League schedule page click HERE
James Taylor's Hurtin' Units BLOG click HERE
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