Impenetrable Blog of Fish: Fish Score Five More Runs Against Wall of Beefcake!

Dear Catfish Nation,

Though the scoreboard belies it, our bats were veritably ON FIRE last night. Let me first note that each and every Fish got on base last night against the BE Natural Killers! We began strong, with Eric “Li’l Commish” Throop hitting yet another homerun to bring home Rich “It’s Pronounced ‘Vlad-koff-skee’” Wladkowski and the Mighty Jon “Butters” Elwell. Vlad-koff-skee would go on to get a double later in the game, and everyone else got singles—Nathan “The Lawyerator” Band, Kate “The Scalding Caldwell” Elwell, Beth “The Mórrígan” Moore (who has in fact earned herself another nickname, “Bat of Death Beth,” courtesy of M Lo), Matthew “The Baffler” Abbate, Levi “The Leviathanator” Rubeck, Marc “M Lo” Lowenthal, John “The Battler” Abbate, José “Hot Stuff” Herrero, and even yours truly, Captain Batty. And there was some very fierce and aggressive base running, most notably by Li’l Commish and The Scalding Caldwell.

As you can see from this list, we were a leaner, meaner team of Fish last night, only 12 of us to face this Wall of Beefcake. And no one can deny that we Fish rose and floated up to the occasion. Our fielding, though again the scoreboard belies it, was veritably ON FIRE. Butters and The Leviathanator turned a neat double play just for kicks, because they could. Scalding Caldwell and The Baffler were stellar as usual on the mound. The Lawyerator, Hot Stuff, Li’l Commish, and M Lo all had fine catches in the outfield—as did, surprisingly enough, shortstop Butters, who halfway through the game started pulling a sneaky shift on the Beefcakers to rob them of even more of their beefy hits.

In sum: each and every Fish is a rare and glowing prize, a bit of twinkling pirate’s gold in the sparkling green sea that is Barry Astroturf Field 2. For this game, however, the MVF (Most Valuable Fish) Award goes to M Lo, who caught no fewer than four (FOUR!) of the Beefcakes’ hits in the outfield. Huzzah M Lo, and huzzah to All Fish!

Please join us next week, June 27, when we face the Koch Blockers at 5:30 on Astroturf field 2.