The Beer Cup Week 14
THEM JOINTS ARE SMOKING!
Well if the Dislocated Joints don't end up winning this thing, its going to be a bit of a shame. They've held the cup twice and defended it 6 times! The latest defense was a 9-8 scratch and claw win over the determined but undermanned Blues Brothers. Congrats fellas, you're in the home stretch!
Teams that have held the Beer Cup(7)
- Beer Bros.
- Hot Tub Woody's
- Dislocated Joints (2)
- Dodge City Rounders
- Red Dogs (2)
- Brew Jays
- Blues Brothers
Teams that have defended the Beer Cup(2)
- Dislocated Joints (4)(2)
- Brew Jays (2)
Teams that have yet to play for the Cup(6)
- Dog Catchers
- Dusty Cleats
- Draft Kings
- Rusty Rebels
- Tap Masters
I was informed this week that I had been spelling the Hipkin family name incorrectly for 5 friggin years. I'd been spelling Hipken. Probably because Randy's hitting reminds me of Cal Ripken Jr. Regardless, my apologies for the error. The problem with these stats is it takes a long time for me to make changes. There are still a couple of pages that I haven't gotten to that read wrong, but I'm getting there.
Names are important! If there are any others that you've noticed are wrong, please let me know. I'm more than happy to make the correction....just be patient, please! Thanks.
A Brief Conversation
Prior to the double header with the Blues Brothers, Rob, Al Bales and I met at Grisslieland for a pregame meal of pasta (because athletes carb up before games) and a little chat.
Al: You guys do this before all your games?
Doug: Mostly
Rob: Yep, its our stratemyzation.
Al: What's that mean.
Rob: [Laughing] Al doesn't even know what stratemyzation is.
Doug: I'll interpret. He means setting a strategy for the game.
Al: Oh. Does he always make words longer than necessary?
Doug: Yep.
Rob: Uh....note to losers....no I don't-alicious
Doug: see?
Al: Is the pasta ready? Does he stop talking when he eats?
Rob: Enough out of you two. I've been working shortening words. Unlike you two short form blackberry texting freakazoids, I speak the kings English.
Al: Isn't it the Queen's English?
Doug: Yeah, until she's gone, then it'll be the King's English again. So he'll eventually be right.
Al: But today he's wrong.
Rob: Can I finish? Geez. Its like Doris is here interrupting me. God. Okay, so I've been on the Facefile lately and they have this little IM window. Of course, that stands for Individual Medley.
Al: Or Instant Message.
Rob: Not in the Olympics buddy. I'm a swimmer. So anyway, I've be IM'ing with people on the Facefile and I'm getting into the whole short form things you guys use.
Al: This will be good.
Doug: You have no idea.
Rob: For instance....do you know what WTF stands for?
Al & Doug: Yeah.
Rob: When tell me.
Doug: What The F**k
Rob: Cuz I want to know if you know.
Al: He told you, What The F**k
Rob: Don't you start on me too. I like you! Dwyer I can do without. Anyway it stands for "Wasn't That Funny!"
Doug: Why do you think it stands for that?
Rob: Duhhhh....I was on Facefile IM the other day and was telling Jokes to Derryl Gaudet. And after each one he was saying, "WTF". He really thinks I'm funny.
Al: [Whispering] I had no idea these conversations were real.
Doug: [Whispering] tip of the ice berg.
Rob: Lets try another braniacs. What does IDK stand for?
Al: I Don't Know.
Rob: Come on, just try.
Al: I DON'T KNOW.
Rob: Stop yelling. Give it one try.
Al: I DON'T KNOW!!!!!
Rob: Fine. It stands for In Da Kitchen Cool eh? I was on IM with Timmy Two Beer Osmond and I asked him to sub for us. He said, "IDK". I said call me when you're done in the Kitchen.
Doug: What did he say to that?
Rob: He said "FYI", which is pretty weird. I'm pretty sure that's "for your information". It doesn't really apply.
Al: Hey, Forest Gump. It also stands for F - You Idiot.
Rob: Interesting. I'll confirm that later on my google machine. Okay, one more. I would do more, but you two are aren't the brightest. This is more a warning for you guys. If anyone ever uses BTW with you.....RUN! Don't screw around, don't ask questions, just sign-off and you should probably wipe your hard drive clean.
Doug: Right because.....
Rob: It's an acronym for British Traditional Wicca. BTW refers to branches of the Neo-Pagan religion Wicca that have origins in the New Forest area of England.The traditions of Gardnerian and Alexandria Wicca follow the initiatory lineage of Gerald Brosseau Gardner and are collectively known as British Traditional Wicca, or BTW for short.
Al: Wow. Did you ever see the movie Phenomenon?
Doug: Ya.
Al: Eerie ain't it?
Doug: Every single day.
League Tid-Bits
* Damn my phone for crashing while trying to take pictures! Monday night, game #2, Hurtin' Units Vs. the Red Dogs and Chiasson in center field standing knee deep in fog and me unable to take a picture. Bugger, I could have used that as a lead story for the next 2 years. "Danny playing a fog"
* The Tap Masters dropped a 3-1 decision to the Rusty Rebels on Tuesday in only 49 minutes. Rumour has it that the only one who broke a sweat was Hugh Armstrong who wasn't playing but had to run over to coach 3rd base 7 times. He was very lonely over there.
* The Grisslies played a great game against the Blues Brothers on Tuesday night losing 11-8. The Grisslies turned 2 double plays in the game. The Brothers turned three double plays AND a triple play. The first triple play that the Grisslies have given up in 5 years. In the middle of all of those multiple out plays was Scott Mason. He's kind of good. .
* The Hurtin' Units lost by one run to the Dusty Cleats. That marks the 6th time this season that they've lost by one. Plus a one run victory and a tie game. These guys play it super close!
* Bad news came down for the Hurtin' Units on Wednesday when it was revealed that Mike Olliffe would be lost for the balance of the season with a knee injury. Very sorry to hear that Mike.
* You might think that the big news on Wednesday was the Dodge City Rounders victory over the Dusty Cleats. It wasn't. The fact that the Captains Meeting took 29 minutes was HUGE news. We had a vote to kick the Beer Bros., Rusty Rebels and Dusty Cleats out of the league and disburse their players. Sadly, we didn't have quorum.
* In the Rounders victory on Wednesday we had The Beechey and Scott Peters both go 6 for 6. This marked the 7th and 8th time this year that someone has done 6 for 6 or better in a game. Interestingly, those 8 times occurred in only 5 games, seems hitting really is contagious. Here are the fellas who have done the trick, (bear in mind that a number of other have 6 hits in 7 at bats and are not included): Lance Horgan - Hot Tub Woody's (7/7), Brian Richards - Gruesome Devils (6/6), Geogh Keogh - Hot Tub Woody's (6/6), Will Goodin - Hot Tub Woody's (6/6), Stephane Simard - Red Dogs (6/6), Rick Cudnik - Hurtin' Units (6/6), The Beechey - Dodge City Rounders (6/6) and Scott Peters - Dodge City Rounders (6/6).
* Further to these 8 occurrences of 6/6 or better....4 of them happened against the Grisslies so those ones are a little dodgy. Those would be Horgan, Richards, Keogh and Goodin.
* Another point on these guys...only twice so far this year has some turned the trick of 6 hits in 6 at bats AND 6 runs in a single game. Those two are Geoff Keogh and Scott Peters. And a couple of points on that rare feat!
* The league has had more triple plays than 6/6 + 6 occurrences
* Frig, Kevin Hollingshead alone has had as many triple plays as there have been 6/6 + 6 occurrences
* The league has 13 players (7% of the league) with the same number of runs or less than what Geoff and Scott in one game.
* The league has 54 players with 12 runs less (30% of the league). Geoff and Scott scored half of their total in one game!
* My personal and sincere apologies to the Blues Brothers. I hit like crap. I fielded like George Bell. You deserved better.
* The list of players who have hit in every game has fallen to 24....here are those left.
- 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 (1): Young
- Dusty Cleats (1): Hollingshead
- Grisslies (1): Casullo
- Draft Kings (2): Cragg, Stike
- Gruesome Devils (2): Richards, Basso
- Hot Tub Woody's (3): Richards, Chiovitti, Goodin
- Hurtin' Units (0):
- Red Dogs (0):
- Rusty Rebels (3): Goncalves, Booth
- Tap Masters (0):
Yes this weeks poll was a little controversial because some people don't like talking about 1st place. Yet we much keep scores for a reason, no?
Team Stats
League standings plus MAX points. The order here is based on the league standing available on the website. You'll see that the MAX points a team can get aren't necessarily in order. For example, the Tap Masters have the potential of getting more points than the Dusty Cleats even though they're behind them in the standings. This is due to games in hand.
Standings from the 1st half of the season remain unchanged, but people ranking in the 1st half compared to where they are now have shifted. The Draft Kings, Dislocated Joints, Dog Catchers, Dodge City Rounders and Rusty Rebels are all on the move.
Once again, only two teams managing to cash their average run with less than 2 hits. Based on watching the Kevin Moon launching pad show on Thursday night, I can see why. The Grisslies are dangerously close to getting their total under 3 hits per run. Its not because their scoring more....its because their hitting less.
Individual Stats
The top 10 in average is taken from the same list that you'll find on the league website. Nice to see "For Those About To Rock" in the top 10 overall! Super year Bill!
Scotty managed to get one at bat more than necessary to qualify! It looks like another Quarter Win for Scott, but there are still games to played by the Red Dogs, Blues Brothers and Beer Bros.
Well Q4 has started and as usual it take a 1.000 batting average just to qualify. Apparently my .500 avg isn't going to quite cut it. Bo seems to back after a little dip with a leg injury. 5/5's cure a lot of problems!
Well Terry needs 3 runs to pass last years mark. He's got 5 games to do it. Considering he's scoring 2.36 runs per game, I think I'll bet the over on this one. And while he's likely to be the first to break the mark, he may still have competition from all these guys but especially Richards and Lahey. They've played one less game and their run rates are with hundredths of points of Doucet.
Unless someone from the Beer Bros., Blues Brothers or Red Dogs pulls off a 10 run game to close out their Q3, it looks like Mr. Peters has put this to bed. 18!!!! Wow. For the record, that's the biggest quarter of the 7 that I've tracked. Last years leaders Al Fry (17), Rob McCarron (16), Roger Gaudet (15) and Winston Gayle who was tied with Scott Mason (17) all fell just short of Peters' mark. And this year, Brad and Steve were short of the new standard of 18 as well. Congrats Scott.
Its early, but Larkin and Keogh are off to huge starts. Interesting that Terry is on the list in second place and is the overall leader in runs scored. He finished second in Q3, third in Q2 and third in Q1. There's something to be said for consistency.
As has been the case for a few weeks now, Terry is continuing to lead in hits. He remains on pace to break the 79 set by Scott by 5.
What is this? The Doucet show????
hahahaha....Terry isn't leading this. However, Sweet Lou is! Lou is having a fabulous season at the dish!
Pete Hayward hangs on! I don't think Scotty's record is in any jeopardy, but we still have a whack of guys having great starts to their T.O.T careers.
The Beechey had a sweet week, considering that last week he wasn't even on the list and now this week he finds himself in 5th place! Coming into the week he was .692. He went 10/11 over two games and saw his average shoot up 32 points to .724.
Things you may have missed this week.
For the Grisslies Game 19 BLOG, Scott Mason's secret wish - 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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