A warm gentle Thursday, the leaves dangled delicately in the early may evening air at the wonderfully bumpy Bundy field. There were two dugouts enclosed in secure cages, and an executive decision was made to merge team dugouts into one cage party in the shade. And it was exactly that. Music blaring, beer drinking, hanging out, with a minor distraction every few minutes from the softball field, a change in cage population every inning. oh right, we are playing a game here people!
Did anyone even notice K-lo’s spectacular 1st inning catch and a whip throw to first to get some dude out, which she further punished by saying, “I didn’t even throw it that fast.” There was a fantastic outfield collision between micah and ned – I swear, it’s the first time TWO Blers have ever even been close to catching an outfield pop-up. Sue caught a pop-fly at home plate which we all agreed kicks khlamad out of catcher position. Jennie made her debut there too, and also had a few successful whacks. All we need is to work on her sprint, as it only took her about 3 gazelle steps to reach first base. Our other new recruits Fletch (6-4 with the afro) and Billy T showed their mad skills on the field and the flip cup table and we welcome them.
So yeah, we held strong for the first inning, we hit better than ever, had some great plays….but I don’t think we ever scored again and the natural disasters started to get drunker…and better. Their alien thirdbaseman was unstoppable. Phatt thinks he may have hatched from another softball playing planet, or perhaps a cyborg sent back in time. We may never know. My personal favorite highlight though, was when pitcher jules shapiro, pitched to their dave shapiro who then popped out to right field and caught by this shapiro. The triple shapiro motzah ball shutdown!
When the 5th inning finally came around, no one knew what inning it was, it was sorta getting dark, there was a rumour that were out of beer and panic started to spread. We tried to play an inning with a bright yellow ball but it proved futile, as ball color didn’t change the fact that we were all seeing double. I threw to phatt and I could see his fuzzy distant gaze and his brain thinking, “come one big glove, please, big glove…” Somehow we managed to make it to My brother’s Place, where we were shunned to the private party room, a fancy affair with smooth jazz, evidence that they are trying to clean up their image. We promptly soiled it.
Khlamad helped himself to some beer from behind the bar, we turned up the tunes and the flip cup commenced. The Natural Disasters proved their superiority at drinking, too. Man they fucking suck. That guy chuck is unstoppable. even by his wife...honey don't drink so much...I shall organize a team flip cup training. I tried to chug a beer at asylum afterwards and I was just useless. Though Micah, your cup flipping proved a weak link – get practicing.
So there you have it. An extremely enjoyable first game, we're actually not that bad! we've just got to get our groove back, and we have the whole season to do so...
My fellow team mates,
