Tag Archives: Kenny Powers

And We Start Again…

Posted by mightyeskimo in South Oakland Ducks Baseball, who names their team the Rebels? and tagged with , , , , , ,

James Fago is our manager this season, and he’s in the best shape of his life.

Get in touch with him (or me, if you must) if you plan on playing this season. As always, roster spots go to returning Ducks before we fill in the gaps with Dominican League players Rob Cool knows through some ex-AAU coach, who used to play DII ball in Eastern Ohio, and sells sneakers out of the back of a truck at Waynesburg away games.

We owe the league our first $500 in the next few weeks, and Nike is sending people to my home trying to shake me down for the money we didn’t raise to cover our unis last year.

We’ll get it figured out soon.

We run a tight ship in South Oakland.

Motivation?

Quack.

South Oakland Looks to Sweep Brookline for The First Time in team History

Posted by mightyeskimo in League Champion South Oakland Ducks and tagged with , , , , ,

We’ve never finished the regular season with a better record than Kenny Powers and the Sox.

A win Saturday will assure that and all but clinch us the 3 seed in the end of season tournament.

Now some extended East Bound and Down highlights.

Quack.

Gameday [14] Ducks vs. Express

Posted by mightyeskimo in 2011 Ducks Baseball, Gameday and tagged with , , ,

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (10-3, 4-2)

vs

Carrick Express (5-12, 0-8)

9pm

Springview Field

#17′s coming down from the rafters tonight

We have ten games left. Realistically, to win the division we have to win the rest of our games and have Elliot lose at least once. It’s possible they’ll drop one in their last nine or so. They have Brookline twice and two against the Militia and I think either of those teams could steal one from Elliot if they get good pitching and defense.

 I think Kenny Powers and Brookline win tomorrow.

 We have to win out. One game at a time starting tonight with another division opponent in the confusingly-named Express.

I have no idea what this picture is

Let’s quack tonight. Bounce Back City.

Abe Lincoln ends losing streaks before they start

Bad News for the Express

Opening Day Eve

Posted by mightyeskimo in 2011 Ducks Baseball, League Champion South Oakland Ducks, South Oakland Ducks Baseball and tagged with , ,

Rain is dominating the Pittsburgh NABA through two weeks of play, but it looks like we might actually play tomorrow.

Bullet Points.

YODA will show up at a bulldogs game and get into a fight with Trojan and/or Trojan’s “partner.”

The Militia will finish the regular season ahead of the Black Sox for the first time since they were the Rebels.

Clearly, the Sharks based their team name off West Side Story

The Bulldogs will finally win a playoff game/series…

 in the 28+ league.

Elliot will lose to the Black Sox in the playoffs when that guy who yells ‘Kenny Powers’ climbs the fence at Moore Park and knee-drops Elliot’s Ace in the 3rd inning, sparking a rally and a controversial win for Brookline when, after a two hour delay for the paramedics to cart the guy off the field and half the lights go out and the game is decided in a beer shot-gunning contest in the parking lot.

Then the Sox lose to the Ducks in the semis.

Anthony DeFilippo for MVP – believe it.

I don’t think there were league awards awarded last season. And where’s our trophy. It belongs in Guthrie’s living room until someone dethrones us.

We should move to a title belt.

Militia vs. the Fightin’s wil be heated. The Canes have more heated intra-division rivalries than anyone.

Rumor has it the Militia made a run at Rafalski in the off season.

Halloway is not pleased.

The big question is will the Ducks repeat.

We’re taking applications for Ducks Manager for the 2012 Season.

Thanks for reading.

Quack.

PGH NABA News: Peter “Pan” Chalfin Perfect in B-Sox Home Opener vs. Express. Ducks Coach Spends Evening Polishing Trophy.

Posted by mightyeskimo in 2011 Ducks Baseball, League Champion South Oakland Ducks and tagged with , , , ,

Pitching for the first time since he lost to Guthrie and the Ducks in the 2010 Championship, Pete Chalfin tossed a perfect game against the Express Thursday night at Moore Park.

Brookline wins 6-0, and move to 1-0 in the Patrick Division.

Kenny Powers is pumped.

The Express did not reach first base Thursday.

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The Defending Champion South Oakland Ducks hare set to open the season against the Eagles on Wed, April 27, 9pm at Springview Field.

Quack.

Oilers Set Rotation to Stun

Posted by mightyeskimo in 2011 Ducks Baseball and tagged with , , , , ,

Amidst a flurry of shit talking via email correspondence, Big Oil boasted of their ability to receive government subsidies and enjoy tax-free status, while the middle class, as represented by the blue collar Brookline Black Sox and manager, Kenny Powers, continues to shrink and pay $4.00 a gallon.

South Oakland has a healthy respect and disdain for our long time rivals in Brookline who have been busy collecting seasonal unemployment and tossing beer kegs and cinder blocks at one another as part of an intense off-season conditioning program.

I imagine words insinuating milkshake drinking were thrown about while Oil management sauntered about Brooks Brothers buying polo shirts during lunch hour, and unwittingly hit ‘reply all’ on on of their team iPhones.

Big Oil plans to throw their ace tonight against Brookline with a game against the defending champion Ducks on Wednesday.

Clearly they think we’re a bunch of pussies. I don’t know what other conclusion can be logically drawn.

 In other news, I finally saw There Will Be Blood, and the Oilers homepage finally makes sense. Solid flick.

Well played there for sure.

Ironically, the Black Sox picked  their new team slogan, “Use a fucking piano leg with a nail in it if you have to,” from another Daniel Day Lewis movie, Gangs of New York.

If it doesn’t get rained out it should be a good one tonight at Spring View, as the revamped Big Oil squad takes on the always dangerous, Black Sox in a 2010 semifinal rematch.

Quack.

Redundancy

Posted by mightyeskimo in 2011 Ducks Baseball, pittsburgh NABA and tagged with , , , ,

Cranberry brings an imposing starting rotation and a very shrill voice to the Allegheny Division in their inaugural season

No word if suspenders are part of the uniform.

Jack White for President.

Ducks,

Register online at pittsburghnaba now and send money if you still owe outstanding dues.

Once again,

send checks made out to Ben Gwin to

Ducks Baseball

PO box 9181

Pittsburgh, PA, 15224

Still waiting on the final cost per player. My fault there.

There are several players who have paid me nothing, this is not ideal.

If nothing changes it’s going to be over 250 thanks to the uniforms, but they look great and we won’t have to get new ones for eight more years.

This number should drop.

You won’t have to buy a hat if you still have last year’s and want to save a few bucks.

Anyone who wants a breakdown of costs let me know and I’ll pass it along.

If you’re sick of lame posts about admin shit that (almost) no one wants to help with and finances, then send in your money and I’ll get back to writing lame posts about amateur baseball that no one wants to read.

Seriously we will forfeit games if we have to.

*

See Win Win. It’s hilarious.

Quack.

Kenny Powers is a Champion…

Posted by mightyeskimo in pittsburgh NABA, South Oakland Ducks Baseball and tagged with , , ,

An AA division regular season champion anyway, the Sox earned the one seed sweeping the HURRICANES! 2 games to 0, at Spring View.

Sox won game 1, 3-2 and game 2, 6-3.

Kenny Powers hit a game winning home run of Rafalski  in the 8th inning of game 1.

The Hurricanes are in the Ducks bracket. They will play the Militia in the quarterfinals unless something goes terribly wrong and the Titans upset Michigan.

The Ducks could play the Hurricanes in the semi finals if South Oakland beats the Knights and the Maulers over the weekend.

Gameday [21] Ducks at Black Sox

Posted by mightyeskimo in Gameday, pittsburgh NABA, South Oakland Ducks Baseball and tagged with , , , ,

South Oakland Ducks (15-5, 5-1)

vs.

Brookline Black Sox (14-5, 5-2)

9pm

Moore Park

That’s the mindset you got to be in if you want to be a champion.

First, Ducks News:

Anthony DeFilippo has signed a 20 year extension with South Oakland, making him a Duck for life.

Ken “The Windmill” Cool has been promoted to co-manager.

The All Star Game will be held Aug 8th at a location to be determined, hopefully not Spring Hill.

There are many Ducks deserving consideration.

I feel like league-wide numbers are bloated this season due to some lopsided games vs. A teams.

Despite their prowess with explosives, the A-team is not very good at baseball.

Tomorrow’s game vs. the Knights will be replaced with a game against the Militia, that game may be moved to Monday or Wednsday. (I know; there’s a lot up in the air right now as we try to get the season finished before the playoffs.)

The Knights game will be rescheduled.

A Ducks win tonight keeps South Oakland in first place and alive for the division title.

If the Black Sox win, the Ducks have to hope Brookline looses to the Eagles and South Oakland sweeps the Militia whenever those games are rescheduled.

Tonight will be a defining moment in the history of the Ducks franchise, I write that without hyperbole or melodrama.

The road to the Wales Conference title goes through Brookline and we wouldn’t want it any other way.

The Ducks can shrug off the weight of seven years of loosing to the Black Sox with a win tonight.

Tish and Fago are gonna tag team this one.

Bad News for the Black Sox

quack

Gameday Sixteen: Ducks vs. Black Socks.

Posted by mightyeskimo in Gameday, pittsburgh NABA, South Oakland Ducks Baseball and tagged with , , ,

South Oakland Ducks(10-5, 3-1)

vs.

Brookline Black Sox (9-4, 4-1)

9pm

SpringView Field

I updated our about page,(there’s a nice synopsis of our team history there now) and while i thought about the significance of the Ducks, the Black Sox appeared at every run-on sentence. They’ve beaten us every way imaginable.

Last year’s playoff loss to the Sox was probably the best pure baseball game in Ducks history – ten innings, blah blah, Slavonic’s game winning hit etc.

They beat us when I coached, they beat us when Jones coached,  we’ve never won the division (even when we won our lone title when Ken Cool was only ten years old) and we’ve never taken a playoff series from Brookline.

This is the year that changes.

Brookline beat us by 8 or something in May, a game we played without Duffy, Casale, Scioscia,  Berdine, Ken Cool, Defilippo, Tessyier, Fago,  Lipp, Alex Harsh and…

Rob Cool Jr.

(pictured above with 2008 PGH NABA Championship Belt )

Subplots rip through seasons like scars, there’s a story behind each one. Adam Smith left for the Eagles, but no one really cares because the Eagles are still stuck in the cellar, despite the myriad of chart-topping hits they put out in the 70′s, Joe Walsh’s solid but inconsistent solo work, and the odd obsession with Don Henley among  several generations of adults with otherwise normal taste in music.

Smith and TC are best friends compared to Kenny and Rob.

I’ve taken anonymous comment heat for bringing in 4 players from the team that went 22-1 last season, and also  filling spots vacated by Spagnola and Adam Smith with Tessyier and Fago.

Our roster is big, but ask the Eagles how they like playing with eight guys and forfeiting every third game.

They only had four show up vs. the Militia, a division game and they can’t put a lineup out there. They should add Depo and Bob Faust.

What a joke. There are guys who want to get in the league and still, teams forfeit.

[Congrats to the Bulldogs for beating the Canes.

Vinnt Gala is the best first baseman in the league by a mile.]

Winning turns question marks into exclamation points, hyphens and other fun punctuation marks which can be made into faces and things, and the .079 hitting, ex-Ducks fourth string first baseman who was the most vocal in his closed-mindedness and unwillingness to take a back seat and welcome new teammates in order to win more games, is no longer a Duck.

The cancer is gone.  It’s ironic given that the way we’ve been blowing out teams, that the nameless douche bag would have played a decent amount of ball had he stuck around, but boy did he show me what a dick I am by not playing ball this summer, despite my attempts to get him on another team.

Transition.

***

V-neck City next year.

It is if some smart ass blog spent two years fucking with the best team in the league creating odd conspiracy theories about bird worship in an attempt to rally an undermanned squad against a superior opponent, and some retard took it seriously.

I shouldn’t say retarded.

Anyway, last year  Sox upset the most talented team in the league in the Wales Finals, swept them 2-0. No one expected it.

Imperial disbanded, and those players who didn’t flee to the fed league and parts unknown, joined either the Ducks or the Black Sox.

Warren, Sloan, and that other pitcher went to Brookline.  Ken and Rob Cool, Scioscia and Defilippo are Ducks.

The rivalry will reach new heights at 9pm tonight

This game is the culmination of eight years of South Oakland Ducks Baseball and seven years of futility against the Sox. This is the best shot we’ve ever had at a title and it hinges on winning tonight at the Duck Pond, and beating the Sox again whenever we reschedule that rain-out.

Ducks ace James Tessyier brings his perfect record and 0.37 era to the hill against Sox ace Peter “Pan” Chalfin who we beat once last year, and twice lost to by one run.

The Ducks have won six straight. The Sox won 20-1 or something today and beat the Eagles 6-1 over the weekend they have won four in a row.

Bring the Hate.

It’s time for a new order in the Wales Conference.

Bad News for the Black Sox.