This edition is dedicated to our league All-Star Team.
INTRO:
This conversation took place on the Donini deck on Tuesday before game time.
Rob: I wonder who's on the All Star team?
Doug: Me too
Rob: You don't know?
Doug: If find out tomorrow with everyone else.
Rob: Really? How are you gonna write about it in that short a time?
Doug: Don't know. Maybe I'll get the list early in the day. Maybe it'll come pre-written.
Rob: Perhaps. Paul and Steve do know quite a few words.
Doug: They do.
Rob: And some big ones!
Doug: Yep.
Rob: What's the longest word in the English language?
Doug: Why?
Rob: That's not a big word.
Doug: What? No...not "why". I meant why do you want to know?
Rob: Oh, because I actually know the answer. I want to see if you're as smart with words as you pretend to be.
Doug: Well, I've always been led to believe that its antidisestablishmentarianism.
Rob: WHAT??? Is that a word? What does it mean?
Doug: Its actually describes the characteristics of a person who is pro-establishment.
Rob: Like people who like strip clubs?
Doug: Huh?
Rob: Strip clubs. My brother always called them "Establishments".
Doug: Ya. Different kind of establishment.
Rob: Well, anyway, you're wrong.
Doug: About?
Rob: Its not the longest word.
Doug: So what is the longest word in the English Language?
Rob: Smiles.
Doug: Smiles? Okay, I'll bite. Why is smiles the longest word in the English language?
Rob: Because there's a mile between the first and last letter!
Doug: Alright, you got me. I have to go sub for the Dog Catchers, I should take off.
Rob: Okay, one more question.
Doug: Sure.
Rob: What's the longest sentence in the English language?
Doug: WoW! I don't know if that's even answerable! Okay, I'm sure there's a bunch of variations but I remember reading that James Joyce's Ulysses had a sentence over 4000 words long.
Rob: No it has nothing to do with Jesse James or Ulysses S. Grant. Is that really your answer? By the way, a sentence 4000 words long? That sounds like something from that BLOG of yours.
Doug: HaHa. Funny. Dick.
Rob: Ya, well anyway, you're wrong.
Doug: Figured. And what's the longest sentence?
Rob: "I DO"
Doug: Brilliant.
Rob: Some days I make a lot of sense.
Doug: That you do.
First a little back ground. For years there has been a "We can take you guys" back and forth between the old timers and the young timers. Four years ago, the banter escalated to a game. It was decided that the game would become the center-piece of the Help The Kids Play tournament in July. Actually, the center-piece part just happened, it wasn't mandated. The game attracts a lot of spectators and there are serious bragging rights. We also decided that the previous season's winning old timers captains would select the teams and manage the game. Last year, with the agreement of the young timers, we introduced a new selection of 2 veteran players who would catch in the game and not hit.
This is year 4 of the game. The young timers won in 2010 and 2012 with the old timers winning a spirited game in 2011. This year's edition of the old timers will try to square the affair.
As playoff champs last year, the captains of the Beer Bros. Paul Piellusch and Steve Ross have the honour of picking and coaching this squad. Picking this team is no easy feat. You need to consider a player's historical record, current play, abilities in 'big games' and how they fair when they don't have average players fielding their hits. Its a tough job, but Steve and Paul were on it very early, made some hard calls, sought advice from some trusted colleagues and are ready to announce a terrific lineup!
Paul Piellusch Steve Ross:
Hockey Nickname: Paulie Hockey Nickname: Stevie
Baseball Nickname: Starsky Baseball Nickname: Gere
Hockey Nickname: Chuckie
Baseball Nickname: Chuckles The Dog Faced Boy
Best Season: 57 / 70 .814
Strength: Arm, In-Game Readiness, Base Running
Mark Doyle
Hockey Nickname: Marky
Baseball Nickname: Marky-Mark & The Funky Bunch
Best Season: 73 / 93 .785
Strength: Gap power, first to third speed against good arms, all star glove
Andy Gee
Hockey Nickname: Andy
Baseball Nickname: G-Force
Best Season: 69 / 84 .821
Strength: Pitching to defensive strengths, field awareness, on base reliability
Phil Glecoff
Hockey Nickname: Phily
Baseball Nickname: Turn your head and Gle-coff
Best Season: 75 / 96 .781
Strength: Defensive speed, catching on the run, Aggressive baserunning
Peter Holmann
Hockey Nickname: Petey
Baseball Nickname: The Holy Mann
Best Season: 51 / 67 .761
Strength: Outfield positioning, Line drive crusher, intelligent base running
Geoff Keogh
Hockey Nickname: Geoffy
Baseball Nickname: Yoke
Best Season: 56 / 71 .789
Strength: Arm, defensive foot work, reborn power
Steve Lahey
Hockey Nickname: Stevie
Baseball Nickname: Mr. Lahey
Best Season: 50 / 69 .725
Strength: Lightening quick release, Power to burn, Doesn’t rattle
Kevin Moon
Hockey Nickname: Kevie
Baseball Nickname: Bad Moon Rising
Best Season: 53 / 65 .814
Strength: Arm, In-Game Readiness, Base Running speed & Smarts
Neil Pendlebury
Hockey Nickname: Neilie
Baseball Nickname: Neil Before Zod!
Best Season: 72 / 94 .766
Strength: Defensive Speed, Base running speed, Tracking in the gap, extra bases
Scott Peters
Hockey Nickname: Scotty
Baseball Nickname: Anger Management
Best Season: 79 / 99 .798
Strength: Pre-pitch Positioning, game awareness, batting with a plan, base running intelligence
Brian Richards
Hockey Nickname: Bri
Baseball Nickname: The Brain
Best Season: 67 / 89 .753
Strength: Complete player defensively, speed, glove, arm, catches on the run. Dangerous on the
bases, very aggressive.
bases, very aggressive.
Jamie McClean
Hockey Nickname: Jamie
Baseball Nickname: El Presidente
Best Season: 68 / 86 .733
Strength: Leadership, has a knack for saying the right thing at the right time to keep a squad loose
or get focused.
CP Pully
Hockey Nickname: Pully
Baseball Nickname: Long Ball
Best Season: 44 / 72 .611
Strength: Unwavering demeanor, same guy during a 20 loss season as during a 20 win season,
strong defensive awareness of player positioning from the catcher spot.
TEAM
Everyone will have an opinion on this team. The truth is, that like in previous years, there is debate with probably another 12 fellas that could be selected
The team defense in this year's squad is an upgrade last year. The power and average are a wash in my view. The speed is improved particularly in field, but also on the base paths. Last years game was not lost at the plate. We scored enough to win but there were just a couple too many balls that we couldn't get to cleanly.
This year's squad seems to me to be the right combination to wrestle back bragging rights.
Good luck gang, you'll have a throng cheering you on!
Grissile Game Notes:
TEAM
Everyone will have an opinion on this team. The truth is, that like in previous years, there is debate with probably another 12 fellas that could be selected
The team defense in this year's squad is an upgrade last year. The power and average are a wash in my view. The speed is improved particularly in field, but also on the base paths. Last years game was not lost at the plate. We scored enough to win but there were just a couple too many balls that we couldn't get to cleanly.
This year's squad seems to me to be the right combination to wrestle back bragging rights.
Good luck gang, you'll have a throng cheering you on!
Grissile Game Notes:
Where to start....
Grisslies lost! 20-7
There’s not much more else to say but allow me to pontificate for a moment. First off the Draft Kings are clearly pissed that I didn’t pick them as a top 6 team in the pre season poll. It was just for fun guys, geez!
We did a great job on Chuck holding him to 3 singles which was exactly what our game plan was. However, he did get a 3 run bomb to go with it so that kind of sucked. There weren’t too many DK’s that had a bad night offensively. Another stand out was Jim Rouleau who hit up the middle and through the teeth of a shift all night. The other guy that really hurt us was Doug “The Good” DeLand. He lit us up like a neon sign on a peeler joint. Not that the rest of you did badly, but those three hurt the most.
As for the Grisslies.
Second game in a row giving up 20 or more.
Once again Al Hayward showed up with the game of guy half his age, going 3/3 and making every play in the field. If every Grisslies was having a season like Al we’d probably be about 7-3 instead of 1-9. Glen Tinkler has continued to stay hot and Winston Gayle we also on 3 of 4 times.
Two indicators that the game wasn’t going well: 1) I was in CF from the 2nd– 5th innings. 2) I pitched the 6th. Our defence hurt us in the 1st and 6th innings where the DK’s got 12 of their 20 runs. A missed double play in the 1st(me), hard shot that took a bad hop off the 2nd baseman’s shoulder (also me). And inning that should have been thwarted produced 7.
The 6th, when I was pitching was worse. We got the 1sttwo outs on a fly ball and comebacker. The next fella hit a pretty routine ball that he hustled into a bang-bang call at 1st. Could have gone either way but didn’t go ours. So instead of 3 up 3 down, the Draft Kings took advantage of some solid hits, luck breaks and a couple of errors and scored 5 with 2 out.
The Grisslies have more than a few bugs to iron out. But we keep plugging!
4 comments:
Quality picture on Pully!!! Is that from the '51 Giants?
You realize that Farah will think that there will be people in thongs doing the cheering, right? lol
CA
Hey Doug - great blog!! Good thing for the DK's that those guys that you were missing are still in the minors or on the DL - things will turn around when they return!! LOL!!
Bahahahaha...."The Good DeLand". My bet is that this nickname sticks. It has all the qualities. 1. Easy to remember 2. Doesn't contain swear words and 3. Everyone knows exactly who you're talking about.
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