Hello Fish and Friends,
It was a rough game last night against the Pitch
Slappers. The team itself is a very sportsmanlike and polite one. But
they sure can slap those pitches out through the ozone layer.
The game was painful not only literally but
metaphorically. Marc “M Lo” Lowenthal took a bad tumble while leaping
for one of those balls in the outfield, breaking his collarbone in the
process. Please join me in wishing him and his magical
clavicle a speedy and restful recovery.
Despite the pain there was joy, just as we had both
rain and sunshine. Jon “Butters” Elwell had many sweet snags at short
stop, and he slapped a pitch into the stratosphere himself, getting us
on the board in the bottom of the 2nd. Really
everyone hit well, though some of us waz robbed. Nathan “The
Lawyerator” Band made it to base, as did Kate “The Scalding née
Caldwell” Ellwell, Rich “Richie Rich” Wladkowski, Matthew “The Baffler”
Abbate (who also pitched supremely and displayed creative base-running
techniques), Katie “The Personable” Persons (who also had some nice
snags at 3rd base), and Erin “The H Bomb” Hasley. Beth “The Mórrígan”
Moore displayed much hustle in the outfield, as did John “The
Abbatoirist” Abbate in short field. (Perhaps everyone made
it to base, if so please correct me!)
As you can see we were a lean team, just 10 of us
after M Lo made his exit, and we were once again stuck at 5 runs (our
magical number from last year). It will be a rebuilding year for the
Fish, as we’ve lost several core players: Katie
“HellieKat” Helke to distant lands, Andrew “Sweetie Pie” Sweet to a
pesky rotator cuff, John “Tslammy” Tsai to woeful back woes, Evan “The
Maus Beast” Mauser to the land of adorable babies (though he does plan
to join us this year), John “@butchie007” Costello
to retirement, and now it looks like Marc “The Magical Clavicle”
Lowenthal will also be out for the season, if not the rest of his
softball career.
Nevertheless, we Fish will soldier fishily on, and
we shall meet our next enemy with our heads held as high as a Catfish
can. No game next week; please join us on June 2 when we face our old
pals the Whybunts on the Women’s Softball Diamond.
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5/19/14
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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total
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PSs
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2
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7
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10
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10
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mercy
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mercy
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mercy
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29
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Fish
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0
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2
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3
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0
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mercy
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mercy
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mercy
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5
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