Game 22 - Damn Brew Jays

Tournament Weekend! 

Rosters. 

The YELLOW denotes the team captains.  My thanks to James, Steve, Derryl and Paul for taking this on.  Especially Paul who'll have to deal with The Beechey and Mason's super powers.  Paul, god help you if you call him anything other than "The Beechey".  His friggin' priest calls him The Beechey now.  Also, Scott, The Beechey, Bob, Dennis and Cal all like to play shortstop.  Should work out fine. 

Oh, the guys in blue I should have changed....that just denotes that they have some conflicts in there schedule and is in no way related to the ongoing PED investigation.

The captains have all signed off theirs and each others rosters, know how to deal with subs and manage the particulars of the game.  Lets have some fun with this gang!

Schedule:

About the schedule....We wanted to make sure that all teams that got a minimum 4 games in the tournament. 

At the end of the round robin, the 1st place team will automatically go to the final at 4:45 on Sunday night.  The 2nd and 3rd place teams in the standings will play an elimination game in advance of the final for the right to make it to the last game. 

See you all on Saturday Morning!

Thanks:

Our league captains to a good job of communicating the message of getting involved very well as a rule.  Some are quieter than others about it.  But in particular, I'd like to thank Bo, Pully, The Beechey, Rob Farah and Bob Candy who beat the bushes to find people and dug out email addresses and phone numbers for me at less than convenient times.  Not to dismiss other peoples hard work, but thanks fellas.

The Game

On August 14^th, 2013, the Grisslies reached a major milestone.  For the first time in franchise history they became the league’s first team to clinch a playoff spot!

The BLOG was onsite for this monumental occasion to get quotes from some of the players. 

BLOG:  [Yelling over the crowd] Gord Dol, you’ve shuffled between 1^st base and outfield all year, how did you manage to keep it together?

Gord: [Yelling] Prayer.  I pray a lot.  I have to thank Jesus for this opportunity.  And Rob Farah of course.  That goes without saying.  I never thought I’d be in this position to clinch so early!  What a season!!!

BLOG:  [Yelling] Brad Wadden, you were 5 for 5 in the clinching game.  How does that make you feel?

Brad:  [Screaming]  Top of the world baby!!!  This kind of stuff doesn’t usually happen to me, its like, WOW; Radical in a tubular kind of way.  Wooooooo!

BLOG:  [Yelling] Dave Muirhead, you’ve worked with multiple pitchers over the year and yet you’ve been able to maintain your consistency can you tell us about that?

Dave:  [Subdued]  Its really about focus and keeping your eye on the prize.  I’m a little put off by this celebration, we’ve accomplished nothing yet.  Nothing at all.  Sure, we finished last and that achieved one of our goals.  And ya, we were the first to clinch and that was another goal.  But we’re still 2 losses away from recording the worst season ever.  We have to stay focused!  If we blow it now, its all for naught. 

 Dave At The Bottom of the Pile

BLOG:  [Yelling]  Doris Casullo, come on over here.  [Arm around Doris] Doris, there’s only one thing to ask, how do you do it?  Year after year, you just don’t waver.   How?

Doris:  [In his monotone voice]  Sorry, I’m a little overwhelmed right now by what’s been accomplished here today.  This is a great group of guys here and I’m simply honoured that they’ve gravitated to my natural leadership as I brought us to this place of glory. 

BLOG: [Yelling]  Rob Farah....All these years with the Grisslies.  The championships.  The batting titles.  The legend just continues to grow.  You’re comments?

Rob: [Crying]   There are....there are.....there are no words. 

BLOG:  [Yelling] Rookie Rick Greenfield!  1^st year in the league and this kind of hubbub surrounding you?  What do you think?

Rick:  [Screaming]  F’N A Cotton; F’N A!!!!

There you have it, live from the Keogh Park field in the midst of the celebration.  Oh, the BLOG has a free beer ticket if you can identify where the “Rick & Brad quotes” came from.  But you have to comment on the BLOG to collect. 

See you Saturday!