Saturday, July 12, 2008

Games

Lots of Strat going on this weekend. The Fungoes, Rhinos, Killer Bees, Sidewinders, and Tweeners met in Nashville for the Annual Let's Go To Nashville and Make Fun of the Sidewinders Trip. (By the way, be sure to have your sound on when you open the Standings page on nasoma.org.)

Meanwhile, at 6030 Bryan Parkway, another cluster fuck was taking place involving the FFTs, Warpigs, Wahoos, Inmates, Buckeyes, and Mavs. The deer dogs were fantastic.

Games between teams from the two places also took place via netplay.

The DVs couldn't attend either meeting, but got involved via netplay when Mrs. DV allowed him a few free minutes away from his chores.

Here are the results so far...
FFTs 8, Warpigs 2
Wahoos 2, Inmates 1
Killer Bees 3, Warpigs 0
Wahoos 4, FFTs 1
Buckeyes 5, Warpigs 5
Killer Bees 5, Rhinos 5
Sidewinders 5, Rhinos 0
Rhinos 6, Tweeners 4
Sidewinders 3, Inmates 2
FFTs 6, Mavs 4
Rhinos 3, DVs 2
Sidewinders 8, Fungoes 2
Killer Bees 10, Tweeners 4
Tweeners 8, Fungoes 2
FFTs 5, Inmates 5
DVs 3, Sidewinders 0
Killer Bees 6, Fungoes 2
Killer Bees 4, Sidewinders 3
Fungoes 6, Rhinos 4

There are more games to be played this evening. I'll update this list and the standings page when those results are announced.

The one trend that stands out is that the wild card teams will most likely come from the NERDD and the AWD. Well, the AWD, anyway. Which means, the tight battles in the BUD (Rhinos and Wahoos) and the MFD (Inmates, Buckeyes, and Nads) may have no reward for the runners-up.

Also, the battle in the Cliff Lee Sweepstakes has a 4th team now. The Fungoes have joined the FFTs, Mavs, and Pigs as the worst teams in NASOMA this year.

From the DVs (regarding his 3 game sweep of the Snakes)...
Snakes just werent hitting, probably due to the mass quantities of alcohol, porn and bean flickage that was occurring in the Nashville beehive.

From The HEAD INMATE...

Inmates still staggering along under incompetent leadership and are now 53-43.

Record on July 12 include 1-2 vs Wahoos; 2-3 vs SSWs; and 5-5 vs FFTs.

Dunn and Howard combined for 1 homer during the eighteen game debacle.

I don't have any other series write-ups to offer at this time, except for the Warpig/Buckeye series. I don't have the actual box scores in front of me, but as far as I can recall, in the 89 innings in which the Buckeyes batted, he had at least one runner on in 87 of them. He had two or more runners on in 81 of them. The leadoff Buckeye reached in 79 of the 89 innings. I'm pretty sure this is factual information.

The Pigs played three double headers today - one set against each of the three teams we played.

Oh, and the Killer Bees suck.

Feel free to add your own game stories.

And remember to get results to each team. If games were played on your computer, you are responsible for giving those teams their info EVEN IF YOUR TEAM WASN'T PLAYING. Check with the other teams to see if they prefer game files, subsets, box scores, html copy of stats, or some combination. All the Pigs need for our games are the box scores.

Thanks to the Bees and FFTs for hosting.

Zapper! Play some games, dude!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

A few interesting tidbits from the Inmates' series this weekend:

In a game vs the Snakes, who had Peavy pitching, the Inmates managed only one (1) hit in a 1-0 loss. That hit was by Hudson, leading off the game. The Inmates had three other baserunners (one walk and two by errors), but all were erased in DPs.

In the last game vs the FFTs, the Inmates were down 4-3 in the bottom of the ninth with two outs and Rivera pitching for the FFTs. Castro was hitting for the Inmates, when Inmates management said "we need a 1-6 right now." HAL obliged. Inmates won in 14 when Taveras (!?) hit a walk-off tater.

Tidbits (according to Johnny Hart of B.C. comics fame): All that was left of Tid after he smoked a stogie in a dynamite shack.

Patrick Shannon said...

In the 10 games of the Warpig/FFT series, there were a couple of items worth mentioning:
Vic Martinez had a 3-homer game.
Garrett Atkins went 14 for 33 with 7 doubles and 2 homers. He hit in 9 of the 10 games and doubled in the first six games we played.
The Pigs made an error in 9 of the 10 games. Coming into this series, we had only made 54 errors in 90 games, but we made 12 against the FFTs.
In the double header between the Pigs and FFTs, the Pig defense turned 9 double plays.