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Gameday Twelve.4: Ducks vs. Militia

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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.

Game Seven Recap: Walk Away. Ducks 4, Matadors 3

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South Oakland of the North Side quacked it’s way above .500 for the first time this season with an extra-inning victory over the slumping Matadors.

Thanks to Getty Images for photo of Matadors' ex-head coach R. Tiedeman.

Perhaps the Mighty Zeus is punishing the Matadors  for being named after a human entity which kills the god’s favorite animal in a manner that is not in accordance with traditional Greek cow sacrifices. Zeus is always turning himself into a bull and banging some half god-half mortal lady in the myths.

There’s no other explanation.

At least they weren’t struck by lightening, that would’ve been too much.

Once again, Mark Guthrie played a key role in the Ducks win; going the full eight on the hill in a Zeus-like performance. All the marvel comics are basically adaptations of Greek Mythology, including this guy (disguised as a WWII propaganda device – note: shield similar to that of Ares)  …

The Ducks hit at least five line drives right at their center fielder who was playing on top of second base.

Guthrie K’d 4 of the first six outs recorded in the first two innings for South Oakland.

All 4 down on strikes, two looking

The Ducks struck first in the bottom of the second, Jesse Smith singled, Kirk walked, Gwin hit into a fielder’s choice and stole second.

Runners on second and third for Rob Baumgartel

Smith scored, and Old Man Gwin was meat at the plate. Although it appeared he jumped over the catcher and avoided the tag.

The plate ump saw otherwise.

Gwin broke his hip in the process and would sub himself out later in the game.

I was over the tag, I'm telling you.

The ‘doors scored in the top of the third on a fielder’s choice.

and again in the top of the 4th

In the top of the 5th, Kenny Cool (who subbed in for Gwin who left to watch Matlock and yell at teenagers) made a Brooks Robinsonian attempt at a ball down the line at 3rd and nearly got the guy at first.

IN the bottom half of the inning Cinefra drove in two runs with an RBI single to right center.

Cinefra is a beast.

3-2 Ducks.

He made a nice catch in the 6th to preserve the lead.

The Matadors scored another unearned run in the top of the 7th.

3-3

The Ducks left a runner on second in the bottom of the 7th.

I told Jones he was going in to pitch the 8th.

Guthrie wasn’t havin’ it. He went out to the mound before i could say anything.  If one guy got on base he was comin’ out.

Captain retired the Matadors in order.

The Ducks loaded the bases and Ken Cool stepped to the plate and the Matadors walked him.

Game. Ducks.

  • We’re effectively a whole game behind the 4-2 Black Sox, and we have a tough three-game stretch this weekend.
  • We’ll have just about our full roster.  We’ll get an accurate gauge of where we are when the dust settles on Teusday.
  • One game at a time, but we can’t afford to drop two games to the Black Sox.
  • The Bulldogs and Hurricanes games will be used to see who is going to fit where.
  • Not the best two teams to still be tinkering with shit against, but the Black Sox game is the big one.
  • If we don’t win the division, we can’t play for the AA title and we don’t get a bye in the playoffs.
  • This year its the team with the best division record who wins the Wales Conference.

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

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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.

Season Recap

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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

Duel.

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Saturday Aug. 29th.
JOHN HERB FIELD 10AM.

Ducks vs. Bulldogs scrimmage on the 29th as well.

Anyone else who wants to get in some work before fall ball/labor day tourney is also welcome to attend to help fill out the teams, and to watch the highly anticipated Yoda vs. Guthrie showdown.

An additional thank you to Kirk Gibson for being the catalyst of the Erie trip, and for not taking that job in CT which will allow him to remain a Duck next season.

quack.

Tremel

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This post marks the first time in the Ducks blog’ s history I have spelled John Tremel’s name correctly.

The All Star Game was called after 3 innings when the lights malfunctioned with The Monongahela leading 3-1.

Guthrie had the game winning rbi, with a 1 out 2-run bases loaded shot to deep second base the guy had to dive for and make a tough throw the firstbaseman couldn’t hold onto.

the lights came back on after 15 minutes or so, but the Allegheny All Stars and the umpires left had left.

The Owlz boycotted the All Star Game, apparently.

BP Thursday at 6pm.

Kenny, get your team together for the labor day tourney.

quack.