Tweeners at Killer Bees

Bees 4, Tweeners 3

As the Tweeners’ bus rolled into Music City, we were intent on playing spoiler to the Bees’ precarious playoff hopes.  When the dust settled after 7 games, little had changed on the NASOMA landscape.  The Bees remain in the running for the 11th pick in 2012, while the Tweeners still have a shot at the familiar pick #10.

In game #1 the Bees score 3 in the 1st and 2 in the 2nd and cruise to a 7-3 victory, handing MadBum his 10th loss in his final start of the season.  Tweeners miss 2 ballpark homer rolls (1-18, 1-19).

Game #2 was one of the better battles, with Kennedy prevailing over Wainwright for a 4-3 Bees win.  Another missed ballpark homer for the Tweeners.  It was the same score in game #3, but this time the Tweeners were on the winning end.  Felix and friends fan a dozen Bees.

Then things got squirrelly with the expanded September rosters.  Daniel Hudson allowed only 1 hit in 6 innings, a solo homer to Adam Dunn, and turned a 7 run lead over to the bullpen.  A 5 run 8th gave the Bees renewed hope, but we still led 9-6 going to the bottom of the 9th.  Sergio Santos and K-Rod carefully constructed the bonfire, then Javier Lopez and Sergio Romo provided the gasoline.  K-Rod did manage to get a couple of outs, and we still led 9-7 when he departed with 2 on and 2 out.  Lopez intentionally walked pinch-hitter Mike Cameron to load the bases, and Romo was summoned to face Starlin Castro.  In a move that raised some eyebrows, Bees’ manager Hal called Castro back and called on long-time Tweener Alfonso Soriano to pinch hit.  And in a finish that had obviously been pre-determined by Hal and his techno-geek lackeys, the dice roll was triple snake-eyes, ballpark homer, which was something like 1-23 in this effin’ bandbox, which begs the question how in the hell did we miss another ballpark homer earlier in the game, but this all now led Hal’s lame scrivener to report that “the highlight belonged to Alfonso Soriano who made the crowd happy when he launched a rocket-shot out of the park for a Grand Slam homerun.  Due to a poorly pitched ballgame, scoring in 6 different innings was still not enough for NORM to come away with the victory.”  Bees 11, Tweeners 9.  The “poorly pitched ballgame” reference really pissed off Dan Hudson, who was unrestrained in his post-game remarks.  “Hal manages the opposing team while paying his flunkies to script the outcome in advance so as to fulfill his beat writer’s prophesies.  While everyone turns a blind eye to the obvious conflict of interest.  Random dice roll my ass.  And as for Soriano, who never did shit for the Tweeners with some pretty decent cards, to show us up as he did with that Cadillac trot – hell, with that stacked deck, he would have beat us using Adam Dunn’s 2012 card.  He better not dig in the next time I face him.”  Tweeners coaches intervened to stop the Hudson rant, but it may have been too late to prevent a likely fine and possible suspension.

But I digress.  In game #5 Tweeners got some revenge with our own 9th inning come from behind win, capped by a clutch pinch hit by Paul “Babe” Janish.  NORM's manager was feeling mighty fine as he answered questions in his office after the game.  'Now that was one fine ending! Did you see how the crowd just sat there in silence after the winning run scored? Here we are celebrating wildly, and the stadium is cloaked in virtual silence. Weird. but GREAT!' Tweeners 6, Bees 5.

Game #6 went to the Bees 6-2.  CG for Kennedy, 3-run HR for Francoeur.  In the finale, Tweeners again entrusted a 9-2 lead to the bullpen, but they managed to preserve a 9-5 victory.  A homer, double, and 4 RBIs for Nick Swisher.

Where are the fucking cards?

Rhinos at Nads

Rhinos 3, Nads 2

15 April - Rhinos beat the Nads 4 – 1.

16 April - C.J. Wilson pitched a complete game for the Nads propelling them to a 6 – 2 win over the Rhinos.

10 July - Joey Votto slammed 2 homeruns and had 4 RBI as the Rhinos beat the Nads 8 – 4. 

11 July - C.J. Wilson pitched a complete game for the Nads propelling them to a 8 – 2 win over the Rhinos.

12 July - Rhinos beat the Nads 5 – 4.

Rhinos at Zaps

Zaps 3, Rhinos 2

The Zaps clinched the AWD title in this series.

13 April

Max Scherzer, tossed a 5 hitter complete game for the 3 to 1 Zapper win.

14 April

Rhinos win 6 to 5 behind Joey Votto’s  homer  and 2 RBIs.

7 July

Jose Bautista slammed 3 homeruns and had 8 RBI and Wandy Rodriguez tossed  a complete game as the Zaps win 20 – 3.

8 July

Max Scherzer reeled off a total of 13 strikeouts as the Zapsbeat the Rhinos 6 – 5.

9 July

Jeff Francis pitched a complete game beating the Zaps 4 – 2.

Buckeyes at Mavs

Buckeyes 4, Mavs 3

Buckeyes 4 Mavs 3 to fnish the Buckeyes season in 7 games at Mavs.

June 21 Mavs 4 Buckeyes 3 - Hensley works out of 9yj inning jam to get the save

June 22 Buckeyes 3 Mavs 2 - Big Papi with a 2 run HR in the 8th.

June 23 Mavs 10 Buckeyes 5 - Mavs with a 5 run 7th to blowit open. Uribe with the HR

June 24 Buckeyes 12 Mavs 1 - Ortiz and Prado with homers in 15 hit attack

September 17 Buckeyes 6 Mavs 2 - Ortiz with another homer (number 39 of the year).

September 18 Buckeyes 5 Mavs 4 - Posada's single scores Rios to break 4-4 tie in 8th.

September 19 Mavs 4 Buckeyes 3 - HR's by Young and Upton in 4 run 3rd was too much

The Buckeyes have clinched at least a tie for the MFD title.

Rhinos at Drillers

Rhinos 3, Drillers 2

10 June

Rhinos win 5 – 1 behind 3 homeruns.

11 June

Andre Ethier launched 3 homeruns for Rhinos but his effort was wasted as the Drillers win 7 -5.

22 July

Matt Garza took a no-hitter into the 6th inning and ended up pitching a 2 hit shutout as the Rhinos win

3 – 0.

23 July

Tim Lincecum pitched 8 2/3 and David Murphy had 4 hits for the Drillers 4 – 2 win.

24 July

PlacidoPolanco had a big day for the Rhinos driving in 4 runs with a double and a homerun as the Rhinos win 4 – 1.

Mavs at Buckeyes

Buckeyes 4, Mavs 3

game one 4-3 walk off win for the Bucks

game two 6-5 walk off win for the Bucks in extra innings

game three 4-2 win for the Mavs.  Bucks come up short in the ninth

game four 10-9 win for the Mavs in extra innings

game five 5-1 win for the Bucks.  A boring game

game six 6-1 win for the Bucks another yawner

game seven 2-0 win for the Mavs.  nailbiter.  The insurance run in the ninth didn't make me rest easy after the first two games.

Sidewinders at DVs

DVs 5, Improving Draft Position 0

DVs swept the Snakes at DVLand in a netplay battle that featured close games that could have gone either way. Mauer hit .455 and Sanchez .417, but the rest of the team didn’t lend much help as the Snakes hit .230 as a team. Meanwhile the DVs hit .279 with Elvis leading the way at .471. Halladay and Lirano won 2 games each.

Scores were: 4-3, 6-5, 6-3, 3-1 and 5-4.

Trade

The Drillers traded Tim Lincecum and Michael Pineda to the Sidewinders for Jay Bruce and Desmond Jennings.

Wahoos vs Nads

Wahoos 3, Nads 1

July 16 Nads 5, at Wahoos 3

July 17 at Wahoos 2, Nads 1

Aug. 29 Wahoos 6, at Nads 2 (10 innings)

Aug. 30 Wahoos 4, at Nads 3

 

Migilito Olivo Was the surprise hitting star (5-for-12) for the Wahoos. Austin Jackson was 6-for-17. The team hit only .260 thanks in part to an 0-for-10 from Jimmy Rollins and a 2-for-13 from Jayson Werth. The team had a 2.68 ERA.

The Nads hit .235 in the series. Dan Uggla and Adrian Gonzalez combined for an 11-for-28 series.

Wahoos at Sidewinders

Wahoos 2, Snakes 0

Aug. 20 Wahoos 8, at SSWs 4

Wahoos jump on John Danks in the second when backward 2B Will Rhymes hit a bases-loaded double to score 3. The only Wahoos starters to not get a hit? Austin Jackson and Jayson Werth both finished 0-for-5. Wahoos had 11 hits and were led by Fausto Carmona. Jay Bruce hit a 3-run homer in the ninth off Nick Masset.

Aug. 21 Wahoos 2, at SSWs 1

Tommy Hunter was masterful, allowing only a homer to Joe Mauer with 2 outs in the ninth. Will Rhymes and Johnny Damon combined for the game's first run and Justin Morneau added a pinch hit homer in the ninth that proved to be the difference.

Inmates at Wahoos

Inmates 2, Wahoos 0

Two games played on the reservation.

 

INMATES 2 – WAHOOS 1: A solo homer by Beltre turned out to be the game winner as Wahoo base running blunders prevent the tribe from scoring more.

 

INMATES 5 – WAHOOS 2: Howard hits a 3-run tater in a b-flat game. Inmates match longest winning streak of the decade with two.

 

The HEAD INMATE

Killer Bees at Tweeners

Tweeners 3, Bees 1

We suck.  Tweeners take 3 of the last 4 at the Hive to finish 5-2 in Beeville.

(Editor's note: The games were actually played at the Hooverdome, not the Hive. And since they were played BY the Beeboy, you'd think he would know that. As they said in Animal House, "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.") 

Bee attack kills 1,000-pound hog in Arizona

Story posted 2011.09.16 at 08:35 PM CDT

By MARK CARLSON

Associated Press

PHOENIX (AP) - A southern Arizona hog farmer said Thursday that she watched in horror as thousands of bees swarmed a 1,000-pound hog during an attack that lasted about two hours.

"I went out three times to hose him down," June Hewitt told The Associated Press. "The very last time I went, he lifted his head when I called his name, flicked his ears, and that was the end."

Farmers were trying to move a hive that weighed around 200 pounds when about 250,000 Africanized bees swarmed like a black cloud and attacked animals and workers, KOLD-TV ( http://bit.ly/nd3tO3 ) reported.

Hewitt said the attack killed her male pig, Franklin. An 800-pound pregnant sow nearby also was stung so many times that she went into a coma and lost her litter.

"It was very unpleasant," said Hewitt, who lives in the border town of Bisbee.

Bee expert Reed Booth said Franklin had no chance because Africanized bees had spread pheromones all over the farm animals, riling up other bees.

"The pigs started getting stung, and the pheromone was on the pig and that was the target area for the rest of the bees," Booth said. "So the rest of the bees went completely goofy and killed that poor pig. We watched him take his last breath."

Booth said he can't explain why the bees are so agitated this year.

"It doesn't make any rhyme or reason," Booth said. "I've been doing this over 20 years. For some reason, this year, they're (Africanized bees) just going completely insane."

Bee attacks aren't limited to the southern part of the state. A 49-year-old man in northern Arizona remained hospitalized after he was stung more than 1,000 times on Sunday. Yavapai County authorities say DeWayne Spires disturbed bees nesting under a cattle trough.

Killer Bees at Tweeners

Tweeners 2, Bees 1

Game 1: Tweeners 6, Bees 1 - Luke Scott blasted 2 homeruns and Adam Wainwright retired 12 batters on strikeouts at Great American Bpk as the NORM TWEENERS beat the PHILLIP Killer Bees 6 to 1.

Game 2: Bees 5, Tweeners 4 - Jeff Francoeur launched 2 homeruns as the PHILLIP Killer Bees defeated the NORM TWEENERS 5 to 4 at Great American Bpk.

Game 3 - Tweeners 2, Bees 1 - At Great American Bpk, the NORM faithful were treated to an intriguing pitcher's duel. Daniel Hudson(1-0) finally bested his PHILLIP counterpart, Tim Hudson(18-10), by the score of 2 to 1.

 

I will probably play the remaining 4 tomorrow night after drinking about 22 beers.  Hopefully that will get my bats going.

DVs at Sidewinders

Sidewinders 3, DVs 2

Sidewinders win 3 of 5 in the Snake Pit to thrash any DV playoff hopes. A rather lackluster performance both ways as the winning team scored either 3 or 4 runs in every game.

Scores are:

Game 1: SSW 4-1

2: SSW 3-1

3: DVs 4-3 in 17 freaking innings

4: DVs 4-2

5: SSW 3-1

Where are the cards?

Extra Reserve Contest

Congratulations to the Rhinos for winning the extra reserve pick. The competition was apparently close, although with something as bizarre as picking the final order of the California League, who could keep up?

Here are the final  number of teams picked correctly by each of us:
1. Rhinos (7 out of 10 teams picked right on the money)
2. Wahoos and Nads (6)
4. Drillers and Tweeners (5)
6. Warpigs, Sidewinders, and DVs (4)
9. Inmates and Fungoes (3)
11. FFTs and Zaps (2)
13. Killer Bees, Buckeyes, Mavs, and SuperGoofs (1)

Tweeners at Nads

Tweeners 3, Nads 2

Tweeners mess with draft position by taking 3 of 5 at Wrinkled Pink Park.  Only Hal's beat writer can properly report the action.

In game 1, The DAVE NADS ended a long winless drought and toppled the reeling NORM
TWEENERS by a 10 to 6 score at Kauffman Stadium.

DAVE went ahead for good in the 2nd inning plating one baserunner.  Josh
Willingham clubbed a solo home run.  Miguel Montero followed, but he was set
down on strikes.  J.D. Drew then reached on an error.  Cody Ross followed and
he drew a walk.  After another out, Erick Aybar got his turn next, but he was
a strikeout victim.  DAVE ended up with 12 hits for the game while NORM had
6. 

The winning pitcher was Ryan Dempster(4-8) who allowed 4 runs in 7 and 1/3
innings. Brandon Lyon earned his 9th save.  Gio Gonzalez(7-6) was the loser.
He got hammered, allowing 10 hits and 4 walks in 6 innings. 

'Ahhh, that victory was surely needed.  Man alive, things were getting awfully
grim,' noted DAVE's manager.  'Now, we need to string a bunch of wins
together and turn things around!'

Next day at Kauffman Stadium the NORM TWEENERS snapped a 7 game losing streak and
outdistanced the pathetic DAVE NADS by a final score of 5 to 1.

NORM brought 4 runs across the plate in the top of the 5th inning.  The
critical plate appearance was by Mark Reynolds who deflated the crowd as he
launched a Grand Slam homerun.  NORM and DAVE each finished the night with 4
hits. 

The victory was credited to Felix Hernandez(13-10) who went 6 innings,
allowing 1 run. C.J. Wilson(4-9) ended up with the loss.  'It's been a rough
ride lately, but this was a good win for us' said NORM's manager, 'Maybe this
will put us back on track.'

Game 3, The NORM TWEENERS and the DAVE NADS locked up in an exciting one-run game at
Kauffman Stadium.  The final score was the NORM TWEENERS 7, the DAVE NADS 6
in 12 innings.

Both teams had scored 6 runs after nine full innings.  NORM won the hard
fought contest in the 12th inning.  After an out was recorded, Corey Hart
doubled.  Nick Swisher came next and he ripped a base-knock.  Swisher was
safe on a stolen base.  After another out, Ryan Hanigan came up and he was
walked intentionally.  Paul Janish came up to bat and drew a walk to load the
bases.  Ben Zobrist was a strikeout victim, unable to help out.  NORM rapped
out 11 hits for the afternoon. 

The win went to Javier Lopez(2-1) who allowed no runs in 2 and 1/3 innings.
Matt Capps(0-2) was the loser in relief.  He pitched 1 and 1/3 innings and
surrendered 2 hits and 1 walk.

More extra innings in game 4.  Erick Aybar had 5 hits and 3 RBI at Kauffman Stadium as the DAVE NADS beat the
NORM TWEENERS in 11 innings by the count of 5 to 4.

The score was tied at 4 after nine.  DAVE won it in the 11th inning.  Chris
Coghlan drew a walk.  Miguel Montero was the next batter, but he struck out.
J.D. Drew then was hit by a pitch.  Coghlan proceeded to steal third base.
Aybar stepped into the box and slapped a single resulting in an exciting win
for DAVE and a wild post-game celebration by the home town fans.  DAVE
finished with 8 hits in the victory. 

The victory went to Grant Balfour(2-1) who went 1 inning, allowing no runs.
Luke Gregerson(4-9) took the loss in relief.  For DAVE the victory was a
welcome one, indeed.  They had been struggling in their last ten games with a
disappointing 2-8 record.  NORM can't seem to snap out of their recent
'funk'.  Now they have a miserable 2-8 record over the last couple weeks.

In the rubber game, Corey Hart had 2 base hits at Kauffman Stadium where the NORM TWEENERS beat
the woeful DAVE NADS 4 to 3.

NORM had the game winning rally in the 8th inning with 2 runs on 3 hits.
After an out was recorded, Ben Zobrist keyed the rally when he lashed a
single.  Jose Tabata stepped up to the plate and he blasted a two-run home
run.  Luke Scott then slapped a base-hit.  Vernon Wells was next to the
plate, but was promptly struck out.  Hart was next to bat, but he was a
strikeout victim.  NORM had 7 hits for the afternoon. 

Sergio Romo(5-3) was the winner allowing 1 run in 3 innings. Shaun
Marcum(2-13) took the loss.  He allowed 4 runs and 7 hits in 7 and 1/3
innings.

Trade

"Who are those guys?"

The FFTs traded Daric Barton to the Warpigs for David Ross.

Trade

The Buckeyes trade Daric Barton and Matt Guerrier to the FFTs for Mark Ellis and Ryan Sweeney.

Mavs at Rhinos

Mavs 3, Rhinos 2

MAVS............. 1 0 0  1 0 0  0 3 0  -  5  9  2
RHINOS.......... 0 0 0  0 0 0  0 1 0  -  1  4  2

MAVS............. 1 0 0  0 0 0  1 2 0  0 1 -  5 12  0
RHINOS.......... 1 0 3  0 0 0  0 0 0  0 0 -  4  6  0

MAVS............. 0 0 2  2 0 0  0 1 0  -  5 12  0
RHINOS.......... 0 0 2  3 0 1  0 0    -  6  6  0

MAVS............. 0 0 1  0 0 0  0 0 0  -  1  8  1
RHINOS.......... 0 0 0  0 0 0  1 3    -  4  7  1

MAVS............. 0 0 0  3 0 0  0 3 0  0 1 -  7 10  2
RHINOS.......... 0 2 0  0 2 0  1 0 1  0 0 -  6 10  0