First off, a new project, one that I actually had to sign a non-disclosure agreement just to work on (with my own company) is putting a real crimp into my BLOGging time. Seriously. September to start a new project? It couldn't wait two weeks?
Frig.
So tonight was going to be final regular season stats. However I can't afford the late night that will cause and I want to give some attention to people who did some cool stuff that don't register on our traditional stats pages. Things like averaging a run a game over the season or 2 hits a game and list everyone who improved their average over last year not just the top 10. The whole reason I started doing stats was to try and find ways to highlight the average joe's (most of us) who does something special, either consistently or as a one off. Doing a hasty stats page won't do that, so it'll have to wait; not forever, probably just until the weekend.
In the meantime.....There is a crap load to do in the 3 upcoming pool analysis BLOGs. These have proven to be amazingly accurate if I do say so myself. And I did. Plus polls, plus my predictions for who will remain alive on Sunday morning.
But first!!!!!
Tonight was busy enough! How did I get this much data so fast? Well it took two of us, some fancy WiFi and LOTs of popcorn!
Tuesday September 3rd's double-header finale was spectacular. Cool playoff weather, Don Slipetz bid to finish the season on a 33 for 34 run (or better), The Dog Catchers trying to capture 3rd, The Dodge City Rounders trying to capture 7th, The Blues Brothers trying to get 7th and the Brew Jays, Beer Bros., Tap Masters, Dusty Cleats and Rusty Rebels all waiting for the results to come in and decide their fates.
And on top of it all, the last game of the season featured the Dodge City Rounders and the Blues Brothers. The Beechey Vs. The Squirrel. Night Hearing Vs. Speaking Braille. The winning club would finish higher in the standings. AND the winner of the game would win the first ever Beer Cup. Yes...a finish with a bang, indeed.
So lets examine how the BLOG viewed the last meeting at the end of June, shall we?
"The game flew by. At the end of it, the Blues Brothers had prevailed 14-8. The Beechey was 2 for 4 with one home run and one foul that left the park. He had 6 errors but playing 1st is tough with the sun (9:30 game). Beechey scored both times he was on! Way to go!
Mason, in addition to being on the victorious team was 4 for 5. Nice. He went yard TWICE, - and get this: BOTH WERE FAIR!!! He scored 3 runs. He made 18 of the 21 outs. He rescued a school bus full of orphans in the bottom of the 5th."
Squirrel 1; The Beechey 0.
What would round #2 look like? Well, its started off bad for Dodge. Shut out in the first and then the Blues Brothers rolled a 6. 6-0 after one.
And with the Brothers up 6-0, the Squirrel was all......
Then it got CRAZY with Dodge scoring 7 in the 2nd, 7 in the 3rd, then letting the foot off the gas a bit by scoring only 6 in the 4th.
Then The Beechey was all.......
This game had huge implications for the final standings. The Beer Bros. (with four of them in attendance I think they were moderately interested) needed one of two things to NOT happen to finish in 7th. They need the Blues Brothers NOT to sweep. With score going the way it was, it looked pretty good for the Blues Brothers not to sweep. However the second thing that they needed was for the Dodge City Rounders to NOT score 31 runs while winning. Well with the score climbing to 26-12 after 6 innings, 31, which seemed impossible and hour and 1/2 ago was suddenly in play.
And with that news, the Beer Bros all...........
But the Squirrel threw up the stop sign.
And The Beechey practiced some Tai Chi moves
And ultimately the Rounders would prevail, winning 27-12.
Scotty was 4/5 with 3 runs scored. 4 Errors. Screwed up Ingo twice. Was caught tying Cam's shoe lace to the bench, and he may be responsible for Radar's bum leg. I'm not sure how, but it seems likely. Oh and his team lost.
The Beechey was 5/5, with 24 RBI's. He played Outfield, Second, First, Caught (back catcher for 168 of you reading) and Pitched an inning. Also a hiker fell and broke his ankle in the 4th inning and he fashioned a split out of popsicle sticks and tree bark. Also, there was a dog there that collapsed at the sight of Mark Doyle (who will throw balls at dogs for sport). The Beechey performed mouth to mouth on the pup for a good 15 minutes. It didn't revive, but he's already been nominated by PETA for a humanitarian award. Oh and his team won.
Squirrel 1; The Beechey 1 (long live night hearing)
PLAYOFFS
Play off schedule, final standings and 'where they finished table'.
Final Standings
The angst can end....the teams are in the right order. The color chart below and the playoff sched were always right, the ties have been resorted in the standings now. Thanks for those that pointed out the error.
Table
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