Author: mightyeskimo

When are the Winter Meetings?

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I have no idea.
The bulldogs might know.

  • Depo is most likely going to represent the Ducks at the meeting.
  • Who wants to set up the 2nd annual golf outing?
  • The Ducks are still looking for motivated individuals to take on some administrative duties. Such as pestering businesses for sponsorship money, arranging fund raisers, taking on some of the blogging duties, and serving as treasurer.
  • Doesn’t doing all that sound fun?
  • The agenda of the winter meetings will include discussing realignment and other exciting issues, I’m sure.
  • The pro’s and cons of splitting into A, AA and rookie divisions have been beaten to death.
  • I’m contemplating moving the blog to wordpress.
  • There are conflicting reports about the start of East Bound and Down Season 2.
  • Free rubber duck to anyone who can confirm a start date.

Any left handed pitchers, or natural center fielders who want to join the 2010 Ducks are more than welcome.

I have no idea what our team will look like next season.

Quack.

hello there

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BULLET POINTZ! out of no where…

  • I wouldn’t wish the insanity that I’ve had in my life over the last four months on the Rebels.
  • I got a kenny fucking powers t-shirt for christmas, which I’m basically going to wear as my jersey when we play the black sox. I’ll get a #4 screen printed on it.
  • i’m in grad school.
  • One day I will teach your kids English. This could make the ducks blog home of the most over qualified blogger in the pgh NABA.
  • That is until dr. venkman takes over on the bulldogs site, which i hear has been active and awesome as ever.
  • Depo is busy doing all kinds of crazy admin shit.
  • South Oakland will most likely win the championship this summer.
  • what happened to 2009?

happy holiday’s

you tube city:

Got me confused…

John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin is making the most interesting music of any former member at this point.

I’ll be blogging about the new season of east bound and down as a lead in to the 2010 season.
Time permitting.
anyone still checking the site?

quack, quack.

Fall Ball Recap Week 3 & 3rd Annual Turkey Bowl Early Announcement

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As far as I can tell the Red Tide and Green Machine are the only teams to see any action this weekend as heavy rains from the night before left fields unplayable. The matchup between the Tide and Machine was delayed until Sunday. Both teams worked several hours on Saturday in an attempt to make the field playable. Eventually it was deemed too dangerous to play and decided to pick it up on the day after.

On Sunday, neither team could find a way to score a run in the first game until, in the third inning, the game was moved from Jon Herb to Pie Traynor since another team had a permit for Herb. After some human ingenuity at its finest, Pie Traynor was ready to be played on with some help from my pick up and a plank of wood with nails driven through it.

Not my truck.

Eventually the machine would score the only run of the game and win 1-0.

The second game proved to be just as exciting but with more scoring. The highlight of the game was an inside the park grand slam to put the Machine up by four in the top of the 5th. The Tide responded with their own 4 runs and eventually won the game by scoring in the top of the 7th. Highlight for the Tide was in the top of the sixth when Martin threw a laser from center to gun down the go ahead run.

Duck’s notes:

  • Jesse crushed the ball on Sunday.
  • I had two sacrifice bunts.

Third Annual Turkey Bowl

This is an early announcement of the famed Turkey Bowl to be held on Nov. 21. Everyone is invited as long as the Bulldogs don’t piss in my living room. More info to come later on.

Fall Ball Recap Week #2

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After putting up 13 runs against the Royal Has-Beens last week and winning easily, the Red Tide had to squeak out a close one at Avonworth on September 19. The first inning and a half took what seemed like an hour to complete. Both teams came out scoring runs and a plethora of walks and errors contributed to the length of the game. Highlight of the game was in the bottom of the ninth when Della Pena completed his complete game win by striking out the last two batters with runners in scoring position. Final score 9-8 Red Tide.

Red Tide Press Room:

  • The Red Tide will miss Crafty Veteran David Wallis. The Red Tide will play the rest of the season with this patch on their jersey.
  • Do not urban dictionary crafty veteran. I made that mistake only once.
  • Rumors have surfaced that the upper brass of the Red Tide have managed to acquire one or two top notch pitchers to help the cause throughout the ’09 campaign.
  • I was able to snag an impromptu photo of our pitching staff the other day.
Why does it look like Greg Maddux was photoshopped into this picture?

  • Week 3 games were postponed because of rain and have been rescheduled to the end of the season. Check the Pittsburgh NABA website for more details.

Ducks around the league:
None of the teams posted recaps so I have no idea what happened to the other teams, but heres some scores and standings.

Green Machine 8 – Columbia Blue Jackets 11
Orange Crush 9 – Royal Has-Beens 4

Standings:
Red Tide 2 0
Gold Nuggets 1 1
Orange Crush 1 1
Green Machine 1 1
Columbia Blue Jackets 1 1
Royal Has-Beens 0 2

Season Recap

South Oakland Ducks Baseball
This is going to be youtube and photoshop-less.

We’ll start with the big picture:

Once again Commish was unable to rig the league well enough to have the Bulldogs win a championship.
Try as he might.
I love you, Joe.

The story of the season is the Owlz not winning the title, Cool and the gang lost to the Brookline Bullies in the Conference Semis.
Then the Hurricanes stepped in and beat Brookline.
Kenny Powers is still thinking about it I’m sure.
I know I would be.

Now more than ever teams win more based on who they can recruit than anything else.
The off season is a big deal.

I predicted there would be a bench clearing brawl this year, and we (as a league) were close a few times.
the umpires repeatedly lost control of games.
I think the only team that is satisfied with the umpires in the Hurricanes.

The Blues put our league on the map in AC (Scoscia is a beast), and then the four teams who played in Butler almost took it back off. see the bulldogs blog for the run-down.
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I am one of few guys who can say they have played on a team with Rob Cool and on a team with Kenny Powers.
they are both honored i’m sure. quack.

me and alex warren and Rob Swanger and a couple other guys.
The Sox could have used Warren in the playoffs, he’s a workhorse and a competitor.
he’s also level-headed.

There is talk of radical realignment.
rookie, A, and AA.

I’m an anti-gambling baseball purist, and would rather have a just rookie league, then split up the rest of the teams into Wales and Campbell, and then have all but the 3 or 4 worst teams in the league make the playoffs.
However Joe proposes it, the new alignment will be voted on and we will make a decision collectively that we will all bitch about later.

He likes brackets and the tourney he has drafted will be great fun.
Come up with your own ideas to present to him at the winter meetings if you think you can do better.

The Ducks may split, we may not. We may play in the top division, we may stay down since we don’t have any college players on our roster and are eligable as we are currently constructed to dominate the A division before we make the jump in 2011.

I stand behind whatever decision our coach makes.

This is a crucial off season, as Dr. Jones and I are old and have to find real jobs and all that other real life bullshit that hits when you get past 25 and still don’t have a career or any real structure in your life.

We need two or three guys to do the uniform work, find a sponsor or two, and get us a field.
someone talk to the city about getting Mellon Park which is getting lights installed.

I am absolutely done doing extra shit. Sorry, I don’t have time anymore. I am sad.
I won’t be able to maintain the blog as consistently as i have and certainly don’t have time to run around the city taking care of all the minutia i have for the past 7 seasons.
I put myself in this position because I’m too neurotic to trust others to do it, so I’m accountable, but whatever.
I’ll still play next year if coach needs me.

The blog was absolutely ridiculous this season, and I took some liberties that maybe I shouldn’t have, but mostly people need to lighten up.
If you don’t want the Ducks to have the loudest voice in the league start your own blog, homos.
or at least leave nasty anonymous comments.
Overall it was great fun, and Larry is a crybaby who sucks.

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Coby has been in touch with Al Gore about getting the internet and will have his thoughts sometime in October. Skip will post some individual awards in the next week or so, so I won’t mention any individual accolades, of which there were many.
ok just one, and that was Squints’ uniform heist.
#7 is a beast.

2009 South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (16-8, 3rd in Wales Conference, 4th overall) Season in Review.

Our season ended unceremoniously, with a crushing 10 inning defeat at the hands of the hated black sox. While I’m not one for moral victories, to call the season a failure is too simple.
This was the best Ducks team I’ve ever play on, and in any other season we would have probably been one of the last two teams standing.
We did it all without a true ace ( i think we were the only team in the top 3 or 4 in the league who could not boast a “Guy Who Throws 90”), or a natural center fielder or lead-off hitter.

It should be a point of pride among all of us that we were a tough team to play against this season. We never showed up at the park not having a chance to win (except the mother’s day massacre).
No one saw South Oakland on the schedule and set their rotation so we’d get their third guy who only pitched once in little league.

We straight out-classed the Gray Bats on all levels.
We defeated the league champion Fightin’s 2-0.
Only two teams posted better than a .500 record against us this year: The Owlz and Black Sox – the tow best teams in the regular season record wise.

My only team regrets are not giving the owlz a better game, even when we had our starters, and the Eagles game.
that shit will happen over a 24 game season.
shit like only beating the bulldogs by one run twice, our most unconvincing season sweep.
It also sucks a few guys bailed on us who had been contributing.
We won two of every three games we played.
We were five and oooooooh.
Then 12-3 before wrapping up the 3 seed and ducking around down the stretch.

We played inspired baseball in the post season beating the Gray Bats for the 4th time in 2009, before we came up 1 run short against the Sox in probably the most exciting game any team played during the 2009 season. Extras in the playoffs, can’t beat that shit.
Fucking Black Sox.

We represented the league well in Erie, but not so much in Butler. What a shit show.
let’s never talk about that again.
fuck that whole junkie infested town.
(note, the teams we played in the tourney were gracious in victory, and most likely don’t live in Butler, except for that one guy in the dugout who kept nodding-out and itching himself and drooling all over the place.)

Going in to 2010 we have 10 roster spots open, half our pitching staff, and a bunch of guys are moving away or maybe won’t be back. There is a lot up in the air.

Luckily, Ducks fly together.

Bad News since 2003.

Quack