Grunley Bears Friendly, Fierce, 8-4-09

So I’m sitting here trying to come to terms with our defeat last night at the hands of the bears of Grunley. What I think is most difficult to bear is that we played a darn good game but just couldn’t pull it all together and get the hits in the clutch moments. Despite a valiant effort and great play all around, we were only able to get 6 people across the plate (would have been seven if it wasn’t for jennie effing finch on first base) and that turned out to not be enough to overcome the Gruns.

The game had numerous highlights, about as many as injuries. Mr. Goldberg unfortunately acquired a hammy pull on a tremendous diving attempt in left field, and needed a pinch runner for the rest of the game. Katy Nelson was dodging balls left and right as the bears bore down on her through the middle innings, but still took one off the toe that would have felled a lesser woman. My hand has a nice sized welt on it from the 50,000 mph line drive I snagged in left.

Dan “Big” Mach and Emily “Easy” Zia intoned the great Wizard of Oz for some diving stabs on the infield. James “Rocky Mountain Oyster” Owens and skip nearly collided on a shallow fly ball, while Brian Levine and Steve Rietzke rounded out a solid outfield effort. All in all, we played great and (I hope) all had a good time.

So while this game was one for the ages, or at least for an exciting Tuesday night by ole Honest Abe, we must move on to our next game, tomorrow. Yay!

We are playing the CDT/Fleeting Expletives in a rematch of the 2-inning, DizzyBat-shortened game from a few weeks ago. The game will be at 6:30pm tomorrow, but you can, as always, show up as early as you’d like to start warming up. The fleetin’s are supposed to be getting us a field, which will likely end up either right at 15th & Constitution or on that strip of mall between the monument and the Capitol.

Effing A,

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Everyone Wins, 7-30-09

Hola A’s and A's Fans,

For those of you who couldn’t make it to last night’s game, you sure missed a good one. After forging an unlikely alliance between the Effing A’s and the Department of Justice, the A’s/DOJers thoroughly trounced the Un-Indicteds/some other DOJers with a whopping 22-4 smackdown. I think that means we re-indicted them.

The game was highlighted by Jeremy Goldberg’s unfathomably long drive from 14th street to practically the Lincoln Memorial, stellar fielding that should have landed at least 1 or 2 people in the Nats’ farm system, and an amazing 7 ribbies from James “I crush every pitch” Owens (which almost didn’t happen because the batboy was dogging it around the bags (yeah, I saw you). Heck of a game.

So now we can cruise right from this victory into next week, and keep up the great effing momentum we’ve built. We square off against the Grunley Bears, of the Grunley Construction Company, on Tuesday. Since they probably are all massive construction workers, we’ll likely need a full-out onslaught of first amendment action to put them in their place.


Effing A,

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Called and Backed Up

Though A's Pitcher Struggles, Team Continues to Have Fun, Unlike Bass, 6-29-09

MVP Christiaan Sends Bri-guy to Second, 6-15-09

Happiness is a Warm (Softball) Glove 6-15-09