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Le CHIEN ROUGE, Encore????
Let's recap shall we? The Red Dogs have won 4 games this year. If it weren't for the Grisslies they'd be mopping the basement. But in half of their wins they have wrestled the Beer Cup from the firm grip of the defending club.
With this win, the Red Dogs become the first team to have captured the flag twice in the same season!
This week they'll have to defend against the Dislocated Joints who will also be looking to become two time holders of the cup. If they get by the Joints they'll have to deal with the Dog Catchers.
Teams that have held the Beer Cup(7)
- Beer Bros.
- Hot Tub Woody's
- Dislocated Joints
- Dodge City Rounders
- Red Dogs (2)
- Brew Jays
- Blues Brothers
Teams that have defended the Beer Cup(2)
- Dislocated Joints (4)
- Brew Jays (2)
Teams that have yet to play for the Cup(6)
- Dog Catchers
- Dusty Cleats
- Draft Kings
- Rusty Rebels
- Tap Masters
League Tid Bits:
- Kevin Hollingshead (Yawn) was in on ANOTHER triple play this week. We play them this week coming. We may have to have a treat in store for him. Hope his wife is able to scan those baby pictures!
- This past week had a lot of tightly contested ball games with 8 of the 12 games decided by 5 or fewer runs and 3 ending in ties.
- I'm not saying it was TOO hot out, but I was thinking of trip to a dessert to cool down.
- I won't name the team....but I saw an infield fly, a routine one at that, become a triple play this week. (no Kevin had nothing to do with it)
- The Draft Kings pink shirts are 2 and 0. They might be in the bag for an emergency in September.
- Standings anomaly #1: The Brew Jays are a point out of first with a 12-5 record. Very nice. They have a +13. The team ahead of them is a +80 and the team behind them is a +76. Me thinks that these guys have gotten very accustomed to playing tightly played close games. That will bode well for the playoffs.
- Standings anomaly #2: The Rusty Rebels at first blush are nothing special with a 6-10 record and sitting in 11th place. However, at 4 games under .500 their -1 doesn't seem to fit either. I think this is one team that is much better than their record.
- Standings anomaly #3: The Hurtin' Units record of 8-7-1 is good enough for 6th place overall. However, they have lost 5 one run games so far this season. With 5 more runs in strategic spots the Grisslies might have another win. With 5 more runs the Units would have 5 more ties and 5 more points and be sitting in 3rd. With 10 more runs they'd be in 1st place. They are starting to look like a team that could make a lengthy playoff run.
- The consecutive game with a run streak is OVER at 15 games! In game #16 Chuck Cragg was held off the score sheet by the Dodge City Rounders. I don't think he liked it too much. He took it out on the Woody's going 5 for 5 and scoring 4 times.
- Lets look at the players who have hit in every game. When I first published the list of players who hit in every games, the numbers dropped off quickly. Hopefully this doesn't jinx any of you.
- Beer Bros. (3): Fleming, Doyle, Piellusch
- Blues Brothers (3): Clark, Argue, Mason
- Brew Jays (1): McCullough
- Dislocated Joints (3): Moon, Burton, Doucet
- Dodge City Rounders (2): Peters, The Beechey
- Dog Catchers (2): Young, Robinson
- Dusty Cleats (1): Hollingshead
- Grisslies (1): Casullo
- Draft Kings (3): Routledge, Cragg, Stike
- Gruesome Devils (2): Richards, Basso
- Hot Tub Woody's (4): Richards, Chiovitti, Barton, Goodin
- Hurtin' Units (0):
- Red Dogs (0):
- Rusty Rebels (3): Goncalves, Booth, Armstrong
- Tap Masters (1): Pendlebury, N.
In order to accommodate multiple schedule and vacation complexities, we made some scheduling changes late on Friday. Members of the Gruesome Devils, Grisslies, Hurtin' Units and Draft Kings please take notice.
The Gruesome Devils Vs. Hurtin' Units game originally scheduled for Tuesday July 23rd at 8:15 PM has been moved to August 27th at 8:15 PM at C3.
The Draft Kings Vs. Grisslies game originally scheduled for August 1st was moved to July 24th at 9:30 PM at Keogh. This game has subsequently been moved to the spot vacated in by the Gruesome Devils and Hurtin' Units. The Grisslies will now be playing a double header on Tuesday July 23rd on C2. 7:00pm vs Beer Bros. and 8:15 vs Draft Kings.
Thanks to all captains for accommodating on short notice and ensuring that we didn't lose any games.
BLOG STATS
Blog stats? What the hell? Yeah, indulge me. Or skip it. Its up to you. I find this stuff kind of interesting. The Map below shows where the last 500 visitors to the BLOG have come from
I don't really understand why we have so many regular hits from Europe, but I suspect that the Tottenham Hotspur's Football Club may have something to do with it. As for the rest of the world hits? No idea.
I didn't keep BLOG stats in 2009 (I know, I feel the shame); but here is what it looks like for the past four years.
Average Hits Per Day As of July 19th of Each Year
- 2010 - 38.07
- 2011 - 113.76
- 2012 - 144.81
- 2013 - 123.58
- 622 hits, April 22nd (after the 2nd of the prediction BLOGs)
- 544 hits, July 6th (The week 10 stats BLOG)
- 441 hits, April 13th (after the 1st of the prediction BLOGs)
- #1 - Google Search
- #2 - From Tottenham Oldtimers website
- #3 - From Facebook Links
- #3 - Directly (they either know the address or have it saved as a favourite
The regular old standings with the regular old Draft Kings in 1st and the regular old Grisslies in last.
Some subtle the differences. The Hurtin' Units move from 6 to a 5th place tie with the Woody's when looking at GBL. The Rebels move down 2 by GBL. My top 6 prediction for the Rusty Rebels is starting to look pretty bad. Come on fellas!
Same as last week with this one...only 2 teams that are managing to score with less than 2 hits.
Two new stats! Now that the Blues Brothers have finally played enough games, the first half of the season is closed. These are the final standings for everyone's first 12 games. The 1st column (Rank) shows where you finished in the 1st half (ie. Tap Masters tied for 7th). The second column (CUR) shows where you are in today's standings (1st chart above). If its yellow, your current position in the standings is the same as your 1st half position. If its green your current position is better than your 1st half. If its red your current position is worse than your 1st half.
Confused? Try writing it.
Now this is where everyone gets a clean slate and a do over. You can track your team's second half record against everyone else. And look at those Dodge City Friggin' Rounders!!!! Here is an example of where GBL is so much more accurate and telling than points. Dodge would be in 3rd if I did this by points. And look at those Grisslies with the EXACT same winning percentage in the 2nd half as the 1st half (.167). You can't buy that kind of consistency.
So how bad are the Grisslies? We're a 1/4 of a game back of a team that's 0-2.
I honestly thought I'd be writing about the Grisslies gracious exit from the battle for 1st place in this space. But the rumours of our demise have been greatly exaggerated! Well, maybe not greatly. By virtue of our epic tie against the Gruesome Devils coupled with the Rounders stunning defeat of the Draft Kings; we have held on for another week! With a 3 game week ahead of us all we need to do is beat the defending champion Beer Bros., The 1st place Draft Kings and the Dusty Cleats while the Woody's knock off the Draft Kings in their rematch and we'll stay alive for another week.
INDIVIDUAL STATS
The Gruesome Devils, Brew Jays and Draft Kings lead in games played, so this shouldn't be a big surprise. We might have a Grisslie getting on this list in the next couple of weeks.
Ok, this charts batting between game 13 and 18 of your team. You must be averaging 3 at bats per game to make the list. The leader in the 3rd quarter of last season was Jamie. Brad Young won the 1st quarter of this year and Scott Barton won Q2. We have 3 at 1.000 right now, but the Blues Brothers have only played on game on the quarter. Harley Sherman however is on torrid run right now! Keep it up!
Well then. I'm not willing to declare this "over", but its getting pretty damned close isn't it? An 88 point lead? Yowza. So, I don't want to depress anyone, but if Robin Dickson goes 4 for 4 for the rest of the season he'll end up batting .868. That means of course that Scotty would have to come back to the pack. Sure. Of course he will. Hitting .885 is ridiculous right? Well over the last three years Scott has gone 201/224 for an average of .897. So. The .885 he's hitting now is a little under what he's accustomed to. He's made 23 outs over the past 3 YEARS. For the record we have 37 players in our league who have made 23 or more outs THIS YEAR and 2 of them are all stars. Scott's in his own league batting.
There were too many guys tied at 10 to include. Terry's got a good shot at this one as he bats higher in the order than Scott does. But watch out for Brad who's been hitting lead off.
Mike has 3 more games remaining on this list before he won't have enough ABs to qualify. Or, he begins the miracle comeback....I'm hoping that's the answer. Meanwhile, Al "papa" Hayward continues to amaze week after week. This week saw another 4/4, 2 run performance. Not bad on a humid night after climbing trees. The rest of the list is solid. I guess Len is still dining out on last year's championship champagne with with Lou. Those two are have the best post championship season of their former team mates.
Peter "junior" Hayward slipped a little this week. He still leads in total hits, but Slipitz, Clouthier and Greenfield are right on his tail for averages.
Runs, pretty much like hits in the quarter except there is no minimum number of at bats to qualify. 15-16 looks like the magic number and with one game left Brian Richards needs 2 runs to get there.
The total runs scored for the season number of 47 is going to fall. The question is by how much it will be beaten by and by how many people.
This race is NOT over! Winston Gayle is having a lights out season at the plate AND with the glove. 8 sophomores over the .700 mark. Outstanding!
Things you may have missed this week.
For the Grisslies Game 15 BLOG, Gruesome - click HERE
For the Grisslies Game 16 BLOG, Brew Jays and HTKP recap - click HERE
For the Hurtin' Units BLOG, click HERE
For the Donini 3 stars, click HERE
For the League Website, click HERE
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