Month: May 2010

Game Day [7] Ducks vs. Matadors.

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South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (3-3)
vs.
Etna Matadors (1-3)
9pm
Springview Field.

Batting Practice 6:30 Pitt IM Field

Candlesticks are nice.

A couple years back, the Matadors really pushed the conspiracy theory to the limit.
The team’s head bullfighter allegedly offered a bribe to a current Duck who once ran another team in the Pgh NABA. The Bullfighter asked the former coach to throw a game to spite the commish and his team and take a playoff spot form the Bulldogs.

Last season, the Matadors were taken over by a new guy who did not have the good sense to change the team name to the Bulls, or anything that doesn’t have to do with slaughtering perfectly good bovines.


However the Matador unis are solid and they look expensive, and while the lack of a team named the Bulls is bothersome, buying new threads for the sake of having a more humane and baseball relevant name is not the most fiscally responsible decision.
So the Matadors they remain.
They lost to the Confederacy in the ’07 finals.

Back in the 1860’s the Confederacy formed one of our nations most bothersome militias

The Matadors will be tough; they have lost big to the Black Sox and HURRICANES!
So have the Ducks.
A win tonight will put South Oakland at 4-3 before the calvary arrives and the Ducks roster takes shape.

Captain’s on the hill tonight.

Ducks continue to migrate to South Oakland.


Kelly’s 3-for-3

Bad News for the Matadors

Game 5&6 Recap: Suck My Balls Heckman or Where Have You Gone Doug Ryba?5

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I got to the field at 10:45 and chain smoked for an hour while i fielded text messages and tried to piece together a lineup  without our starting second baseman, who was trapped outside his car by a scorned acquaintance, and our backup second baseman who wouldn’t arrive till game two.

It was cold and wet and windy. Duck weather.

Bag it, Tag it.

The Ducks player of the game(s) was Mike Cinefra, who pitched a complete game victory in game one,  reached base in each of his at-bats from the leadoff spot over the double header and hit a sweet triple in game 2.  I’m pretty sure Heckman beaned him on purpose after he bunted for a base hit and reached safely on an infield single.  Mike stole three bases and scored all four times he reached base in game 1.

South Oakland had scored eleven runs in four games going into the double header and plated fourteen in the two game sweep.
The Warriors’ Malone hits well to all fields, we had no idea how to pitch to him. Overbaugh hit a 3-run homerun for Emsworth.

Craig Boley is a beast.

Game 1:

Cinefra was on the hill and retired the side in order to open the contest.
Then he hit a lead-off double in the bottom of the inning. Gwin bunted Cinefra to third and Jesse Smith singled him in.

1-0 Ducks.

The Warriors scored two in the top of the second. 2-1 Homos.

South Oakland took the lead in the third.

Baconator played second in game 1; he and Castle turned two double plays.

the two double plays were not turned in the same inning

Depo and Kolaja both recorded infield singles.

Kolaja put down a great sac bunt, to move pinch runner Murphy into scoring position.

Cinefra was beaned, Gwin walked.

The Ducks then pulled off a delayed double steal when Gwin drew a throw to first allowing Cinefra to take third.

Castle hit a 2-run single.

3-2 Ducks after three.

Wojton walked twice: Solid OBP.

The Warriors threatened in the 5th, after an error and a couple walks. Murphy doubled off some guy at second on a fly ball to left to end the threat.

Ultimate Warrior, Craig Boley was not his usual intense self. As if he has a one year old child to raise now or something.

Baumgartel singled in two runs in the bottom of the fifth, and Gwin doubled in two more in the sixth. While the Warriors scored two more runs i can’t account for. Malone hit a foul ball over the street in right.

7-4 Ducks after six. Cinefra closed the door with a K, a single and a game ending double play.

Game. Ducks

Game 2:

Reinforcements arrived in the form of Mike Duffy and Kenny Cool. Bacon took the hill. Rob didn’t have his best stuff but he battled and earned a tough win.

Questionable obstruction call on 5-4-3 double play ball Lesher killed Kenny, the ump said he didn’t slide into the base Boley was called out at first.

So it goes.

The Ducks led 7-2 after five innings. The Warriors came back to make it interesting in the 6th before Jesse Smith closed the door with his first save of the season.

I forget how we scored in the second game. Duffy and Cinefra were on base all day. Mike C. hit a triple, I had an RBI single. Jesse and Tony also drove in runs.

It’s possible some of the happenings i attribute to game 1 were in fact from this game.

I was in a redbull and copenhagen induced fog.

Everyone hit well.

We managed to sweep the double header with three of our best pitchers out of town.

Rob Baumgartel raised his record to 2-0.

We stole many bases and played smart baseball.

With a win against the Matadors Monday night, we can get above .500 for the first time this season.

The Ducks welcome Tim Lipp, infielder from Gannon University, who will make his South Oakland debut against the Matadors.

Fago (pronounced Faye-GO) might make it down on Monday.

Saturday’s game against the Bulldogs should mark the arrival of DeFilippo and Cool.

South Oakland 4 Life

Quack.

Ducks Sweep Double Header: 7-4. 7-6

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Update:
DUCKS WARRIORS RECAP

South Oakland of the North Side improved to 3-3 on the season by sweeping the Emsworth Warriors in Saturday’s double header.

It is the first time in team history the Ducks have swept the season series with the Warriors.

Full recap at the above link.

The Ducks next game is Monday Night, 9pm at the Duck Pond in Spring Hill.

Quack.

Tin Foil Retraction

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From the comments of yesterdays post…

No fights.

We did get beat up on the field tho.

That lefty they have is legit.

TJ Morgan
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May 8, 2010 7:40 AM

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Anonymous Anonymous said…

Sir Duckington,

Please remove your tinfoil hat. No conspiracy here. At draft time the Hebrew Oilers had a team full of new people who were untested. So, I asked, not begged, to be put in A because I had no clue how we would do.
Dan Ruef and several other guys came on after the draft. Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good (see awful Oiler performance against Eagles).
Also confirming no fights vs. the Canes. Just bad umping.

Lead Oilman

***

My bad, guys.
No harm no fowl.

As of now the Warriors Ducks games will proceed as scheduled.

Quack,

– Sir. Duckington.

Game Day [5&6] and Big Oil

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Ohio River Blvd Field
12:30 & 3pm

Ducks at Warriors
Ducks vs. Warriors

Before we get to the upcoming Ducks Warriors contest, some thoughts on the current state of NABA affairs.
Joe, put Playmaker on the Oilers.

The Oilers have a witty, if not pretentious mysite news section which I find entertaining.
Big Oil has defeated the Bulldogs, no-hit the Warriors, and recently topped THE HURRICANES!!! 8-1.
Rumor has it there was a fight or something during or after the game.
I get my info from the Bulldogs blog.
Always solid.

these two are sandbagging

Interesting a team capable of such feats would beg to be in the 18A division.
Begged for it.
Big Oil manager Reggie was pleasent in our conversation to reschedule, and it is possible that they just added some guys after that decision was made, but my tinfoil hat tells me its a conspiracy.


A plot to gain a bye and better position themselves for an attempt to dominate an unsuspecting AA team in the end of year tourney. Plus they probably want the lame, smaller trophy awarded to the A champion.
Whatever.
It’s fishy.
Speaking of fishy, the Warriors are one of the Ducks oldest rivals they’re like the Black Sox, except they don’t have any outstanding warrants and are allowed to leave the state without visiting a parole officer.

The Warriors always seem to be around the top of the other conference. And it’s a shame we don’t play them more often.
And by shame I mean, it’s too bad Heckman is such a dick.
They are also the first team to get into a fight with THE HURRICANES!!!
Which lead to the first half of the Fightin’ Rafalskis moniker.

segue to…

Pittsburghgh NABA History

The Warriors were once called the Piranhas. The battles waged between the teal wearing fish and the Ducks out in Ambridge were epic. (They wore Miami Dolphin teal – it was terrible)
On the way to Ambridge we would pass the Ohio River Blvd. Field and wish we could play there instead of the rock hard, gravel covered, Pony League sized band-box ten miles down the road in smack-infested nowhereville.

Now the Ohio River Blvd. Field is a pain in the ass – it’s never mowed and the dugouts are too small, there is nowhere to warm up; there’s an on-deck phone booth you have to try and swing in.
At least we’re not playing in Ambridge.
I don’t know anything about the Warriors current squad except they probably will find two more top-tier pitchers by the time the playoffs roll around and hopefully knock out the joke Big Oil.

Kelly Leak is 1-0


Bad News for the Warriors.

Game [5] Recap: Baconated. Ducks 6, Maulers 2

pittsburgh NABA, South Oakland Ducks Baseball

South Oakland has underachieved so far this season. We still don’t have a victory vs. a team above .500 on which to hang our hats. (new hats will be in for the double header saturday)

However, the 6-2 victory over the Maulers saw Rob “The Baconator” Baumgartel  find the zone and regain his command.

The Ducks also quacked out ten hits, almost tripling our season total.

We still have 20 games left. Monday’s win is something to build off of.

We will peak at the right time.

Our team is built for the long haul.

It’s a lot better to be 1-3 than 0-4.

Baumgartel retired the Maulers in order to open the game.

The Ducks picked up where they left off in the bottom half, leaving the bases loaded with no out, and the heart of the order up.

The Maulers opened the 2nd with a single, after a flyout to left,

Captain America started a 5-4-3 play to end the inning.

The Ducks went down in order in the bottom of 2, and Rob worked out of a jam in the 3rd. Then Castle and Captain doubled around a Duffy strikeout and South Oakland took the lead. 1-0

The Maulers stranded a runner on third in the 4th after a passed ball and a wild pitch

It's only a matter of time till we get a Major League Prequel.

Then, South Oakland scored five runs in the bottom of the 4th to put the game out of reach.

Kirk took one for the team. After Gwin popped out, Murphy drove a single to right.

And a Robocop prequel

Dr. Jones legged out an infield single

Baumgartel singled in Gibson.

The Ducks led 2-1 with two out and the bases loaded when Castle and Duffy hit back to back doubles to clear the bases.

6-0 Ducks after 4

Nothing else really happened till the top of the seventh.

TC Jones allowed two hits and a walk, Gwin threw out a runner at third, then overthrew Depot at first after Jones K’d a kid on a slider in the dirt.

The Maulers scored two runs to make it 6-2.

Jones struckout the next batter.

Game. Ducks.

Ducks News, Maulers Recap and Stuff.

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Ducks Maulers Recap on WordPress

Still working out the kinks and the layout there, soon we’ll go full time on the new site.

South Oakland of the North Side has agreed to terms with 2008 League MVP, James Fago.
James will add depth to the rotation and platoon at catcher till Scioscia gets here.
We will finally have the Homa to Fago battery.
Huge.
On paper it’s the gayest since Rankin to Graff.


The Bulldogs need a mascot.

South Oakland plays three games in three days starting with the double header Saturday, and a 9pm match Monday, at the Duck Pond against the Matadors.
Then we have five days off and play three more games in three days: Sat 8:30 at John Herb the Hair of the Dog Match vs. the Bulldogs.
A Sunday afternoon matinee against THE HURRICANES!!!
and a Monday night rematch against Kenny F-ins Powers and the B-Sox.

Pending the outcome of conference tournaments, exam schedules and such, this week will mark the arrival of Fago and a bunch of other kids who should help the offense – some of whom played on the team which lost to the sox in the semi’s last season, and some who did not.

We should have everyone for the 5/17 tilt vs. Brookline.

Quack.

Ducks Win.

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Thanks to Kenny Powers for donating home plate.

Coby Kolaja is now Keeper of the Helmets.

Ducks 6, Maulers 2
South Oakland pitcher Rob “Baconater” Baumgartel struck out 9 and allowed 2 hits over six innings and Tony Casale went 3-4 with two doubles, 2RBI to lead the Ducks (1-3) to their first victory of the season.
TC Jones struck out 3 in one inning of relief.

The Maulers fell to 1-5

Guthrie, Duffy and Baumgartel also had RBI’s for South Oakland.

South Oakland will play a home-and-home double header at Ohio River Blvd. Field against fierce intra-conference rival the Emsworth Warriors, 12pm this Saturday.

Warrior’s GM Steve Heckman models Emsworth’s new uniforms

Full Ducks Maulers recap later.

All Mark Guthrie does is hit doubles

Quack.

Game Day [4] Ducks vs. Maulers

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Ducks (0-3) vs. Maulers (1-4)
9pm
Spring View Field

BP 6pm at Pitt IM Field.
leave for the North Side at 7:30


symbolism

South Oakland of the North Side’s 0-3 start includes a loss to the expansion Maulers the second game of the season, in which the Ducks blew a 2-0 lead and gave credence to those calling for a simplified two division format.

The extra ‘e’ has been for ‘Error.’

South Oakland has yet to regain the form which earned the team 17 wins last season.

We need a revival.

Bad News for the Maulers