Author: mightyeskimo

Gameday Twelve.4: Ducks vs. Militia

NABA, pittsburgh NABA, South Oakland Ducks Baseball, who names their team the Rebels?

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (6-5, 1-1)

vs.

Michigan Militia (6-2, 1-0)

9pm

Spring View Field.

Lost in the buzzzzz surrounding the Ducks absorbing players fromthe team that lost to the Black Sox in the Whales Conference Final last season, the cheating machine known as Big Oil, the Bulldogs and HURRICANES!!! battling for the top spot in the Campbell Conference, the Michigan Militia has quietly pipe-bombed  its way to a 6-2 start, and, after a dramatic win over Kenny Powers, they are atop the Whales Conference as the Pgh NABA dives into Divisional play.

Two of the Ducks Blog’s all timem favorite teams, the Gray Bats and the Confederacy, have combined their resources, stockpiled weapons and canned goods and, after spending the off-season literally underground contriving ways to undermine the government and the bleeding heart homos in Washington and their big government welfare machine, they are back with a vengeance, invoking their 2nd amendment rights while assembling a solid roster for their “Patrioticly”-themed baseball squad which has been funded by by an unnamed group of jingoist, hyper-nationalist fundamentalists who will shoot first and ask questions later, the shadowy organization is using the team as a front for money laundering the profits from gun running, heroin distribution, and the show Jersey Shore.

This is a battle for first place in the division.

Rumor has it the Militia  wear star-spangled uni’s.

Jeremy Barchie, seen here after a night of blackout drinking, high stakes black jack and horseback riding, models the new Militia uniforms.

We’ll need the White Stripes.

Bad News for the Militia.

Gameday 12.2: Ducks at Black Sox

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Ducks at Black Sox

9pm

Moore Park.

If you’re a Duck and you don’t know how big this game is you’ll find out as soon as you get to Moore Park tonight, provided the rain holds off.

We should have most of our team on board.

Fago’s on the hill.

We can’t drop this one.

Bad News for the Black Sox

Ducks Matadors Rained Out

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This is the uneventful jump to wordpress.

The Ducks played 2 and a half innings and led the Matadors 1-0 when the game was called for lightening.

As of now the Black Sox game is still on, but the weather is plotting against us.

We’re gonna need to acquire another field or two to accommodate all the make up games.

Huge stretch of divisional games coming up.

Game 10 Recap: Ducks 3, Big Oil 1

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James Tessyer (sp.) pitched 6 2/3 innings striking out 12 or so in his South Oakland debut.
Jimmy Fago singled in his first official plate appearance as a Duck, and pitched 1/3 of an inning for the save. Fago’s whip is 3.0.
Tony Casale drove in Mike Cinefra for the winning run in the bottom of the 5th, and the Ducks defeated Big Oil and their lefty ace Exxon Val-Reuf in a hard-fought pitchers duel.

Tessyer was perfect through 3 1/3. Big Oil strung together two hits, and scored on a fielder’s choice in the top of the 4th.

Casale made the defensive play of the game in the top of the third, ranging to his right making a diving stop and throwing out a stunned Oil exec from his knees.

The Ducks took the lead in the bottom of the fifth Lipp walked to start the fram, Cinefra bunted for a base hit, and Lipp advanced to third on the throw to first.
Cinefra stole second Casale hit a blistering shot to shortstop Big Oil threw it away.
2-1 ducks after five.

South Oakland struck again in the bottom of the 6th, Nick Berdine hit a pinch-hit single, advanced to second on a wild pitch and stole third. Kirk walked increasing his solid OBP. Cinefra drove in an insurance run with an RBI fielder’s choice.

3-1 Ducks after six.

Big Oil threatened in the seventh after a Ducks error and a single.

Fago relieved Tessyer. He walked a guy, then got the last batter to ground out to end the threat.

Game. Ducks.


South Oakland resumes divisional play Wednesday night against the Eagles.

It’s Ironic when someone who was on this team for one full season tells me what it means to be a Duck.

I’ve been here since day 1.
This isn’t a sandlot league anymore.
Some people don’t adjust well change, then blame others for their inability to adapt.
We’re all wearing green.
We’re here to win another title.
If this team gels, we can take it.
Chemistry doesn’t form in three games, we’ll be fine.
***

I’ll mix up tomorrow’s lineup to get guys in who sat last game.
That’s the first time we’ve had all 24 guys show up in the seven years I’ve been on this team.
All I can do in that situation is ride the pine myself and try to put us in position to win.

Quack.

Gameday 10: Ducks vs. Oilers

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South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (4-5) vs. Hebrew Oilers. (who cares)

9pm

Springview Field

To hell with your Natural reference; Roy Hobbs strikes out and dies in the novel.

An oil spill currently ravages New Orleans.

The last natural disaster to hit that region was Hurricane Katrina.

One item used to stop the flooding during Katrina:

Sandbags.


The Oilers clearly cheat, hate the poor people in New Orleans, and want to destroy wildlife.

The ultimate conspiracy theorist


Bad News for the Oilers

Saturday Gray Battery

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It is with great sorrow that I report the White-nose Syndrome fungus has been found on gray bats. Friday, we received word that five bats tested positive in a genetic test for the White-nose Syndrome fungus outside a cave in Shannon County, Missouri-one of only a handful of gray bat hibernacula.

Gray bats are very near and dear to Bat Conservation International’s heart. For decades, we have worked to recover the declining gray bat populations and the species was well on the road to being removed from the Federal Endangered Species List.

That was until White-nose Syndrome showed up in New York four years ago. BCI and bat scientists around the country have been nervously monitoring the spread of this devastating disease that has killed more than one million bats since 2006. This winter, the White-nose fungus spread to Tennessee, the epicenter of gray bat territory, and we feared the gray bat would be the seventh bat species and the second federally endangered species to be affected by the disease.

At the end of winter, the Tennessee Nature Conservancy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and Bat Conservation International’s Caves Coordinator, Jim Kennedy, returned from surveying Hubbard’s Cave-one of the largest gray bat hibernacula-with hopeful news; the colony was stable with no sign of White-nose Syndrome. But now, the future isn’t looking as bright.

Because of Bat Conservation International’s strong emotional tie to this species, the gray bat was one of the first four Adopt-A-Bats to be released this past holiday season. If you’d like to support gray bats and the work we do, consider adopting a gray bat or donating online.

Friday Youtube.

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It will be interesting to see who’s behind this.
Name your price. Quack.

Due to some ridiculous and unfortunate circumstances, I will need a baby sitter during Ducks through the second week of June.

My daughter will be three on September 1st.
She’s awesome – has a great arm for a two and a half year old.
Anyone who knows someone who would watch her during games [either at the field (this would be past ehr bedtime, but i’d make an exception once a week) or elsewhere] would help greatly.
I’ll pay whatever is the going baby sitting rate, and can include ducks hats, t-shirts and hoodies in the deal.

I’m probably gonna miss a few games due to this.
Dr. Jones and Jesse Smith will run the team in my absence.