Ducks vs. Gray Bats 3pm Pie Traynor Field. Undoubtedly some bad “fireworks” puns ahead on the Gray Bats blog.
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tipper is concerned for our nations youth, and potential PGH NABA players who would otherwise join our league, but upon reading my blog will change their mind.
Batting Practice: 11am Pitt We will leave at 12:15
A lot of good baseball teams will lose to the Owlz this season, the Warriors hold the best regular season record in the league over the past five years a split is not what we would have liked, but we have to move on.
All-Star snub, Captain America is batting .397 It’s all politics.
A crucial two game stretch against division opponents is in front of us, starting with the Eagles tomorrow. A 12-5 team with aspirations of making a deep run in the playoffs will beat a 4-10 team to stop the bleeding after losing two straight.
How the balls is this already the eighteenth game?
If we lose tomorrow we don’t deserve the two seed.
last gameday I went with reader requests for 1980’s Keifer Sutherland pics and Roadhouse youtubes.
they were dominated.
With a crappy band like the Eagles who made their living bastardizing rock n’ roll for yuppies. There’s only one answer.
The Greatest Rock Star this city, maybe the planet, has ever seen.
This video will never get old. When the season ends I will blog only about the second season of East Bound and Down.
I am looking forward to a viewing Saturday Night, while we hopefully celebrate our victory over the Electric Light Orchestra.
We’ve got the “Eagles” tomorrow – today is the longest day of the week. Batting Practice today at Pitt at 6:30, then we all er…i guess i can’t avoid this – “Take it Easy” tonight before the game.
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Huge divisional game tomorrow, 2pm at Gateway Middle School in Monroeville.
{Ducks: Practice Friday at the Pitt Field at 6:30} “One thing I know is that I know nothing.”
Starting with the game against the Eagles on Saturday the Ducks (12-5) have seven games remaining, including two against the Black Sox (12-4) who have a game at hand, and are 1/2 game ahead of us for the 2nd seed in the playoffs and the all important first-round bye. We have to win on Saturday to keep pace with Kenny Powers and the Black Sox, we can’t count on the Sox losing.
The Gray Bats (3-15) are planning a victory parade after defeating Don Henley and Co. (4-10) 9-1 last night.
The Eagles will not want to fall out of the 5th spot, we will get their best on Saturday and we just quacked by in a 3-2 thriller last game, thanks in part to a stellar pitching performance By The Eagles’ Joe Walsh, who threw last night against the Gray Bats.
I guess losing 2 games to fall to 12-5 1s considered a tailspin for a 7 win team that should have won 11 games by now.
WOOOOOOOOODRRADICAL4LIFEOOOOOOOO!!!
Wonder if they won last night against the new look Matadors? Did the new Matadors’ regime also [allegedly] offer bribes? Doubtful. I’m glad all those guys get a chance to play.
Party at Guthrie and Keeper of the Helmets’ on Saturday all ducks blog readers are welcome. 6pm-3am.
lots of booze and meat. hopefully a quality ratio of women to men. Dr. Jones’ sister is a “maybe” at this point. It’s a cookout
Vote Jesse Smith for the All Star team at the link below.
It is the month of August, a resort town sits next to the shores of a lake. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.
He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 dollar bill on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.
The hotel proprietor takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.
The Butcher takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the pig raiser.
The pig raiser takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.
The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the town’s prostitute that in these hard times, gave her “services” on credit.
The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 dollar bill to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.
The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 dollar bill back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.
At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 dollar bill, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.
No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism .
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.
The Soth Oakland Ducks of the North Side (12-5) face the Eagles (4-9) this Saturday. The Ducks are coming off their worst loss of the season, and are looking to get back on track against the 5th place Eagles.
The Black Sox (12-4) play the Bombers (5-12) at 8am that day, a potentially dicey proposition.
The Ducks will know the outcome of the game before they take the field that afternoon. They will either be tied with or a full game behind the Brookline Bullies.
Regardless of the result of the morning contest, a Ducks victory over the Eagles will set up a showdown for second place when the Black Sox travel to SpringView Field the following Monday. Naturlly the Black Sox are the home team Monday night
The Ducks have defeated the Eagles 3-2 and 9-2 in two previous meetings, and have never swept the Eagles in a season series. Practice today 6pm at John Herb Field.
Vote for McCray, Murphy, Guthrie, J. Smith, Dowling, and Fletcher for All Star reserves at the league homepage.
click on the ad sense banners to help the Ducks raise money so we can get sweet windbreakers and alternate, nightgame, away jerseys like the owlz, those (talented) sons of bitches.
This is crunch time, we have hit bottom and it’s time to bounce back.
Stretch-run City.
Recap of last night’s horror film a couple posts down.
This recap is going to be dogshit. If you want to know how this feels, go into the bathroom slam yourhead off the toilet and piss yourself while your passed out. Then wake up and repeat.
I could give a gray bats ass about beating some of the teams we play I want to beat the best.
It sure didn’t look like we were a second place team playing our 17th game of the year, we were tight to start, we missed plays we usually make.
“It looks like were here for a business meeting“ -Dr. Jones.
Mike Fletcher started, after pitching 4 innings yesterday when – in a last minute decision, – coach decided to scrap the knuckle-baller idea. He pitched well the defense was uncharacteristically bad. We were down 4-o before That loud lady in the stands could get her voice warmed up. Kirk almost went yard, wound up with a double. They loaded the bases on walks, KT hit a hard grounder to first. Kirk took out their catcher when the first baseman threw home. they cried foul. Then they threw at Mars, well over his head, almost over the back stop. he walked in our only run. That was a hard baseball play, I would have done the same thing. I have done the same thing, and i’ve had it done to me as a catcher. I don’t think it was dirty or done with intent to injure. If hadn’t gone 0 for 3 like a joke, (2k’s and a broken bat on a double play) I might have gotten the chance. I give them credit for arguing the to try to get the out. That was about as exciting as it got.
4-1. after two Fletcher battled. Some kid hit a shot up the middle our secondbaseman made a diving stop, but rifled one from three feet instead of flipping it. these things happen. Some pop-up dropped in right center. This is what happens when we play sloppy baseball against the best team in the league. The Ducks got out of the inning down 6-1. We continued to not hit. Then we ran out of pitching and they effectively dominated us in a display reminiscent of the 2006 Ducks. Guthrie and Jesse Smith also had hits.
that Sinclair kid is the real deal, a little wild, and we weren’t (I definitely wasn’t anyway) as patient as maybe we could have been. But he’s got an extra gear when he needs it, and basically owned us.
I’ve never wanted to play a double header so bad in my life.
What a shit show.
I could have done without the guy in the stands who was loudly asking if they could call the game without us having our last at bat, so we “wouldn’t get embarrassed,” as if it wasn’t embarrassing enough.
I have No idea who that guy is and i wouldn’t write it here if I did.
It isn’t as if the Owlz didn’t put on a hitting display. they hit it hard and often, and to give a team like that extra outs is a recipe for disaster.
but at the end of the day, we are 12-5, 1/2 game out of the coveted 2nd spot. We play the Black Sox twice, and they also play the Owlz twice. We are owlz fans now, until we face them again.
A loss is a loss, a 2-1 loss would have counted the same in the standings.
I’m disappointed in myself, and that we, collectively, didn’t play our best, which is what it will take to beat this team.
It’s important we keep our sense of humor, it’s one loss, it might not even be the last.
Bullet pointz
We still have seven games left and are in a battle for a first round bye.
I think Mars gets his chance if we see these guys again.
If anyoen thinks I, or the Ducks have made any excuses go _uck yourself, we got our ass beat fair and square.
D is the missing letter
I’ve gotten my ass beat by worse teams, I’ve K’d against worse pitchers.
(pause for you to make a joke to yourself)
Scoscia, bwp model 243, 32 1/2 in.
Thank you to the fans who showed up to support both teams.
We need Novak back on as permanent a basis as possible.
Mantis’ ERA took a bit of a hit.
I really like the way Watson plays second, there was some rust tonight, but if he continues to show up everygame, that shot up the middle will turn into a sick double play when we really need it.
this is only the second worst loss to the owlz in ducks history
at least they didn’t run it up, no stealing or bunting or whatever, we just sucked.
If you think we can’t make a run at this Ill take your jersey and give it to some guy who can pretend to be you for the rest of the season.
I don’t think we were intimidated, just nervous, I take some of that blame.
apparently there’s something going on in the post after this one.
What a game of the week, eh?
Dr. Jones 4Life
Take the good with the bad, and hope we get a chance to redeem ourselves in the playoffs.
Seven games left, we still have hope. No one is going to kick us out of the league for this game. We are still going to be in the think of the battle for the bye. We need to put this behind us and focus on our next game. We have to respond by playing well down the stretch. Hope is a good thing.
Bad News for the Eagles on Saturday, at the Confederacy’s home field in Monroeville.
tipper is concerned for our nations youth, and potential PGH NABA players who would otherwise join our league, but upon reading my blog will change their mind.
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