Impenetrable Blog of Fish: Catfish Club Clubs Shadow Masks Club (with their Clubs) in Season Opener!

No, my friends, this is no dream. The Catfish have at long last reigned supreme and dispersed the foul and pestilent congregation of Shadow Masks!

“Foul and pestilent” may sound a bit harsh, but bear in mind that our rivalry rivals the rivalry that rages on between the Red Sox and Yankees. The Shadow Masks are no gimcrack team: hailing from the Media Lab, with that fancy new building, they surely have an obscenely huge payroll. And though we are fairly matched in power, we have not managed to beat them for some years now. The Catfish have been playing the role of the Underdog-fish. But no longer. The bottom-feeding Catfish have finally risen to the occasion!

The Fishes’ might displayed itself proudly early in the game, when in the top of the 2nd inning both Jon “Butters” Elwell and Evan “The Beast” Mauser tripled, and John “Butchie/JC/’Stello” Costello singled. In the bottom of that same inning, the feckless Shadow Masks proved themselves unable to pierce the impenetrable Great Wall of Fish: Butters and Greg “The Menace” Dokshin pulled off a fantastic double play!

Our offensive oomph continued throughout the game: Butters got a homerun; JC and John “Papa Bear” Tsai got doubles; and Kate “The Scalder” Caldwell, Katie “Hi-Def Hell-Dawg” Helke Dokshina, Marc “M-Lo” Lowenthal, Rich “Ryszard {pr. ‘Rye-shard’}” Wladkowski, and even yours truly, Captain Batty, got singles.

Throughout the battle, our defense was formidable: incroyable snags and stops by the likes of Christine “Savagely Savage” Savage, The Menace, Butters, Ryan “The Pickler” Picazio, Hi-Def Hell Dawg; and perfect pitching by Scalding Caldwell and Alexa “The Perplexer” Lash.

Celebration at the Muddy Charles Pub ensued with beer and pizza and the inevitable grapefruit.

I must also mention that on the disabled list were Erin “The H-Bomb” Hasley and James “Scraps” Lynch. H-Bomb dutifully kept score and cheered on her team until she could cheer no more. And yet, even then, she cheered relentlessly on. And the next morning, as the sun rose on Catfish Nation, we are all cheering ourselves relentlessly on. Each and every Catfish played a crucial role in this victory, and we can hold our Fish Heads high in the secure knowledge that all is right in the world today, and the Dark Side has been vanquished, at least for now.

I salute you, Catfish, and I command you to salute yourselves.

Next game is a double-header, May 31, against the Boston Braves. Go Fiiiiiisshhh!