Author: mightyeskimo

Spagnasty leads Groundhogs to first victory: Groundhogs 10, Giants 3

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Joe Graff and his new friend.

Went to Harvard.

Jim Spagnola pitched seven innings allowing 3 runs, on four hits, striking out three Giants, and walking two.

The Pittsburgh NABA Groundhogs Modified Rules Winter Baseball Club played solid defense behind Spags, turning between two and four double plays.

Brian Strom went 3-4, Joe Graff continues to run fast and get on base while recording base hits and drawing walks.

If Ben Gwin and Vinny Gala start hitting at the same time, the Groundhogs will be unstoppable.

Groundhogs mid-season acquisition, Blue Shirt, hit a triple and brought pine tar. The other guy from the Huskies whose name I don’t remember is a solid hitter and continues to drive in runs.

The Giants started Jeff Hostetler on the mound for an injured Phil Simms, but he was ineffective early, allowing six runs in the first two innings.

I think Joe got a hit, possibly two.
Strom surprised everyone going without eye black, or sunglasses. blinded by the bright indoor lighting, he relied heavily on his sense of smell, and played an unreal game at third.

The Giants relied heavily on these two, Banjo and Accordion. not the devastating double play combo you might think

The Groundhogs jumped out to a 7-3 lead and added three more in the last two innings.

The game started ominously for the no longer undefeated Giants:
Jimmy Spagmatic hit the first two Giants but they refused to take their free base, leading to a pop out, a walk and a double play for a 1-2-3 first inning.

Then Jeff Kent ate a dead bird


The Groundhogs have scored 16 runs in their last nine innings and are undefeated since, starting pitcher, Jim-bo Spagmania joined the team, he fields the position well, and will contend for a spot in the Ducks rotation while helping to solidify what is shaping up to be a very deep South Oakland bullpen this summer.

Winter Ball Game 3: Groundhogs (0-1-1) vs. Giants (2-0)…Ducks News

2009 Ducks Baseball, pittsburgh NABA

Some questions on the minds of the Pittsburgh NABA Groundhogs Modified Rules Indoor Baseball Club:
Will guest player, Blues outfielder, Brian Strom wear his sunglasses inside?
will he go with eye-black?
Or will Strom go with both shades and eye black and intimidate the Giants into a forfeit.

Will someone bring pine tar?

How much beer will be consumed at the pre-game meal?

Is this guy on the Giants?

Bad News for the Giants.


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DUCKS:

Get your money to Coach TC Jones.

Dr. Theodore “Indiana” Jones

434 South Graham St. Apt. #4
Pittsburgh, PA
15232



Turnout at practice has been great.
The Next practice will be this Sunday at 5pmat the Greentree Sportsplex

Jesse Smith is in the best shape of his life.

Coach knows who has been in attendance.

Those of us who can’t attend regularly won’t have it held against us, but showing up to practice regularly will be considered when Dr. Jones makes decisions on playing time.

Get your money to TC.

Dr. Theodore “Indiana” Jones

434 South Graham St. Apt. #4
Pittsburgh, PA
15232


There’s still a bounty on the mystery commenter, (see the last post. )



If this was someone who randomly stumbled upon our blog, then whatever, but if it’s someone from the league their teammates will pay for their actions.
Granted, one of this blog’ s functions is to provide a forum for trash talking, we dish out enough that we can certainly take it, but at least be a little creative, and show your team colors.

Quack.

Ducks

Uncategorized
I’ll buy a six pack of the beverage of your choice for whomever identifies the person who left the comment
at the end of this fall ball post

If they play in the league, we bean their team’s best player and their coach but not the person who left the comment.

If we can’t figure out who it is and no one comes forward, we bean the best player and coach of every team just to be safe.

Quack.

League Dues

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The first team deposit of $500 is due today.

Bring your first $50 installment to practice this evening, or mail it to Coach Jones asap.

Dr. Theodore “Indiana” Jones

434 South Graham St. Apt. #4
Pittsburgh, PA
15232

Practice is at 5pm at the Greentree Sportsplex.

Today’s league meeting was rescheduled for next weekend.

Everyone be on the lookout for potential sponsors. It’s a bad of a time try to solicit money, but everyone can at least ask their boss and the manager of their favorite bar.

Quack.

Practice, League News

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Ducks Practice this Sunday at 5pm
Greentree Sportsplex:
600 Iron City Dr.
Pittsburgh, PA 15205.

Mapquest that address or click on this link: directions to sportsplex

On Monday at 7pm we’ll have a modified, scrimmage game against the Black Sox at the Sportsplex.
it will be the most intense indoor bullpen session with live batters and catchers with hits decided by the coaches that has ever occurred during February in Greentree.

There’s supposed to be a league meeting on Sunday.
Get your money to TC,
go to this post for his address.

Sorosky is out of his mind, literally and figuratively:
checkout his GrayBats/Pitt Greensburgh Blog
Good stuff, I admire his confidence.
Quack away in his comment section.

I wrote this about the Super Bowl

Spagnola’s T-shirt guy can get us shirts for around six bucks apiece, but we’d have to order 50 of them.
We’d all be on the hook for part of the other 30 or so shirts, (about $10 wholesale in shirts per player) which we could sell to our fans to pay for our own away jerseys.
It’s worth considering.
other shirt vendors are in the $9-$12 per shirt range for 30 shirts so the total money is close, but we wouldn’t have a wonderful T-shirt surplus to use for fund raising.

We will need to know how many new players we will have by March 1st so we can order green jerseys.

Go Ducks.

Six More Weeks of Winter: Groundhogs rally late, pound Beavers for six runs.

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Groundhogs 6, Beavers 6

Jimmy Spagnola made his pitching debut for the PGH NABA Groundhogs Winter League Modified Indoor Baseball Team. He allowed 6 runs, 3 earned, and struckout maybe five Beavers over six innings.

The Beavers did not appear interested in swinging the bat early. The took a 6-0 lead by taking a bunch of borderline pitches, walking and hitting weak grounders that were misplayed by the ‘Hogs.

Errors by Vinny Gala and Ben Gwin led to 3 unearned runs.

Having been shutout 6-0 by the Sharks on opening day, and continuing to struggle to string together good at-bats, the Hogs appeared to be reliving the same game over again, entering the bottom of the fourth, the Groundhogs had gone ten Winter League Modified innings without scoring a run. The sleepy atmosphere on the bench and the cold and general lack of intensity provided a creepy sense of deja vu on Groundhog Day. The Beavers were really into the game, they wanted to win badly, while it seemed the Hogs were mostly interested in getting some work in before the start of the spring season.

Then the PNGWLMIBT seemed to grow tired with the bush league antics of the Beavers, and realizing they were all at least 10 years younger than the competition, decided to play baseball. The Hogs scored four in the fourth, one in the sixth, and one in the 7th to comeback and tie the game.

John from the Huskies (I think) drove in the first 2 runs of the season. Then we scored 2 more somehow.

I wasn’t paying much attention.

Mike Martin drove in a run in the sixth, and Gwin had the game tying hit in the bottom of the seventh.

I think Martin had two hits, Graff had one, Gala ripped the ball right at guys all game. Spags was on base a lot. Wino had at least a single maybe two, whatever.

I’m out in front of everything. shitty.

I would play for an over 28 team just to beat those guys in the regular season.

Go Groundhogs.

Ducks pre-season happenings

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Fantastic White Stripes video

South Oakland’s first practice, last Sunday at the Greentree Sportsplex was well attended especially for a mid-January workout.

Our next practice will be Feb 8th at 5pm. Then a controlled scrimmage against the Black Sox the following day at 7pm at the Sportsplex.

Seven of us met earlier to discuss fund raising, uniforms for new players, and yellow road
jerseys (T-shirts).

Here’s the gist:
  • We have plans for an NABA golf outing sometime in early to mid-May. Ideally this will cost around #120 per foursome, it will be a scramble with half the proceeds going to the league and the Ducks, the other half as prize money.
  • Clear your calander, St. Patrick’s Day Party at Guthrie and Gies’s.
  • We’re going to try to have another event on the South Side at Town Tavern.
  • Visit Adam’s South Oakland Ducks Myspace Page, which will be linked to the blog soon.
  • We’re still working on how to offer t-shirts at a lower price than the current online store. (although you can save on shipping cost per item if you order in bulk. )
  • The blog will be upgraded by the end of February.
  • We will soon be operating on southoaklandducks.com
  • Everyone do your best to find sponsors.

Groundhogs vs. Prowlers Tonight


Bad News for the Prowlers.