LORRY GREENBERG– On August 2nd, the SweatSox defeated a bunch of guys that were mostly wearing Coyotes jerseys, 14-1 at Southgate. If you looked at the starting lineups cards this was probably the expected outcome: the Coyotes had 9 guys that included 3 spares, and we had 10 of our finest on hand, with a fully somewhat healthy rested Eric White on the bump. In the days leading up to this game though, things were looking very different for the SweatSox.
For the past few weeks, the SweatSox have been talking about having a practice. After losing 4 of our last 5, including the last 2, and with a long weekend free of games sitting right in front of us, the time seemed right to finally put one together. Plus, if we didn’t at least try, half the team might have quit in protest. We put the call out and got 4 bites, but 1 of them was Larry + family, so we really had like 20. It turned out that was too many people, so practice ended up falling through, but enough was done to keep the team together. The SweatSox live to play another day.
Final No SweatSox Practice Notes/Thoughts:
- I wouldn’t know until 9:30pm whether or not I could make the 6:30pm practice.
- Josh would like to have a chew with Ace.
- Beer is implied when you say you’re bringing pizza.
- You can never have too many shaggers.
- We weren’t down from 15 to 3, we were up to 3 from 1.
- Jas was upset there was no practice. It was probably for the best though, the last time we had a practice:
So we had no practice, fine, we weren’t going to get much better anyways, but then there was the issue of who our starting pitcher vs the Coyotes would be. Come gameday afternoon, we were still looking for one.
- Dave Rotari and Dillion Lowry were both out, so they were out.
- Cory Bond was in, but declined on the account of his bum arm.
- Josh Ramage was in, but declined on the account of his long weekend sunburn
- Mark Bond was in, but declined on the account he had just done some roofing, his kryptonite.
- Eric White was in, but was reporting pain in the nerve that branches from the lower back through the hips and buttocks and down each leg, so he was a maybe.
- Craig Cornell was ready, willing, and able if necessary.
We ultimately decided to go with White, much to the dismay of our Consultant.
GAME RECAP: We scored 14 runs in 4 innings, and only gave up 1.
The winner of the 2004 A&W Kamloops International Baseball Game MVP Award was: Jaspreet Sanghra. Bollywood went 1/1 with 2 walks, but really made his mark with two 3rd inning stolen bases while we were up 9, that enraged Craig Cornell so much he had to take an old school GLE bullpen walk. It did go down as the quickest bullpen walk ever though, since of course the pen at Southgate is right behind the dugout.
The highlight of the Apres Baseball Hyjinx was Cop swearing Kent was signaling for another beer, so he threw Kent another beer even though Kent wasn’t expecting it because Kent clearly didn’t actually signal for another beer, so it hit Kent right in the face. This was right after Eric learned what a wedgie was.
Final SweatSox vs Coyotes Notes/Thoughts:
- Southgate is never good, it’s either wet or not wet.
- Josh’s favourite type of hammock is banana.
- Mark “don’t call him Hust” Bond is back.
- There’s a lot of pressure inside of Kent and Eric’s pants.
- What is Kent doing on a piece of wood?
- The Yankees are the first team to 69 wins. Nice.
- It doesn’t get any better than rec league baseball Twitter beef.
- I, Shaun Keay, also don’t want to deal with this shit.
- The Sandwich Factory in Kanata is much better than
aSubway. - Why weren’t the SweatSox invited to Cop’s baby shower?
- I’m pumped to golf with my dad this Saturday at the Marshes.
- Craig is White Chocolate. Eric is Cornell Chocolate.
- It’ll cost us 25 mill to get Josh to waive his SweatSox no-trade clause.
- My ETA was 5:47PM, my actual dugout arrival time was 5:50PM
- Who still uses their phone to make calls?
- #22’s got plunked 3 times tonight.
- The #500 ball is for everyone to play with.
- Did they chop down a tree over there?
- Can you come to a pause from the full windup?
- Josh’s humour requires levels.
- Jas needs to bleed to feel something.
- Coach Wade is playing 3B tonight.
- The Athletics Friendship Test was seeing if we’d give them our bases. We passed.
- The Reapers money guy has to be running some kind of scam.
- Cop definitely has CTE from the many pile drivers he received as a kid.
- R.I.P. The 2020 Tecate’s
- The Barons are confirmed coming up to Tier 3 next year.
- Was the paramedic actually here for Kent’s face?
- Josh likes his bartenders like he likes his masseuses (and strippers), with vaginas.
- My tires are forever unclean
- I can identify Kate’s bush anywhere.
- I really did want another beer.
- The Padres trades were too much for Vin.
