Saturday – Edit –

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“When we got to the ballpark, we knew we were going to win. That’s all there was to it. we weren’t cocky. I wouldn’t call it confidence either. We just knew. Like when you go to sleep you know the sun is going to come up in the morning.”

Great quote by Swoosh there, I hate to interfere with a nice simple post, but things are getting out of hand.

I don’t really believe in bulletin board material in most cases, but this is ridiculous, and i do enjoy keeping Kenny Powers entertained.
From LarryZ in this comment thread:

Hey fag Anonymous, instead of kicking your punk ass why not come on a 20 mile run with me and let’s see what you’re made of? Yeah right, I thought so. Same for smokin’ Ben and any other loudmouth, stats-padder. Show some respect asshole.

Ben, at least I don’t pad my stats. I’d say you’re probably closer to .200.

And you never take yourself out of games when your batting average sucks either Gwin. I hear stories about your whining and cry-baby shit, so look in the mirror first before you cst the first stone.

I just look at all the attention of my age as flattery. Thanks. Pretty amazing that a 44 year old guy can play better than most disrespectful punks in this league huh? Most of the Owlz team. Just shut up.

I am who I am. If you want me to see me angry, try me. I’ll shove some hot chicken soup up your ass.

Ii feel sorry for TC. He’s too nice a guy to be a puppet for the Ducks squad.

Our coach is not a puppet.
That’s what has me fired up, TC doesn’t need your pity.

the Ducks and Gray Bats stats are available online here for comparison. – ours are missing our last 3 games.

How much you want to bet I can slam dunk this tray into the garbage can?

Quack.

Gray Bats, Weak, Day 1. Grey Album: Encore.

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DUCKS:

BP tonight at 6:30
Scrimmage vs. Owlz tomorrow, details to be announced, asap – Cool feel free to chime in in the comments section or email TC when you know what’s going on – .
BP Wed. 6:30
BP Thurs. 6:30

Take one for your team

The Gray Bats are not as bad as their .125 winning percentage suggests.
Baseball is a humbling game sometimes, I’ve seen weird things happen, just ask the hole in the fence at Pie Traynor.
No one wants their season to end on Saturday.
As a competitor I appreciate the Gray Bats confidence, but still, the Ducks have proven over the course of 24 games to be the better team.
We have also proven in the 3 games against the Gray Bats that we are the better team.
We have to prove it when our season is on the line.

We have seen unreal amounts of trash talking between both teams all season.
There’s the Gray Bats manager and his fucking views on censorship – that’s another sub-plot.
If i ever hit under .200 when i was coaching i would have benched myself…

He took a shot at the Ducks Blog’s affiliation with Abe Lincoln.
Probably because Abe Lincoln was a real leader.

During Fall Ball I edited the Gray Bat wikipedia entry, not sure how that is looking now.
Someone should do that again, and get a screen shot of it…

I watched the entire first season of East Bound and Down yesterday.

I think “Ducks Die Together” is a great screen name, clever at worst…

Dangermouse is unreal.

Foes that wanna make sure my caskets closed

If we want a shot at redemption for the beating we took at the hands of Kenny Powers last season, we must win on Saturday.

Quack.

{Edit by busy} Scrimmage Teusday

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The ducks will scrimmage the owlz Tuesday night at either 6pm or 8pm most likely at Findlay Field. We are in the process of finalizing field availability.

this will be a great way to tune up for the playoffs. Jones hasn’t pitched in ten years, and we can all use the extra live at-bats.

Gray Bats Blog is firing away already….

3-21 is the worst record in the history of the Pittsburgh NABA.

scrimmaging a 23-1 [ the best record in league history] should prepare us well.

Also, we will be having batting practice today, Wednesday, and Thursday at 6:30PM at the Pitt IM Fields.

Ducks Finish Regular Season with a Win. Look forward to Playoffs.

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The South Oakland Ducks of the North Side finished the regular season with a win over the Bulldogs today at Ohio River Boulevard.


Tony Casale broke out and scored both runs today in the 2-1 victory with two hits.

The Bulldogs struck first to make the score 1-0. The Ducks then tied it up when Casale made it on base and then made his way to third for Ben to hit him in on a sac fly. Casale made it on base again for the second time in the game and scored once again when two errant throws were made on a steal attempt to plate the winning run.


The rest of the game consisted of a great pitching from both sides, BJ Rankin and Mark Guthrie. Captain America came out on top pitching a complete game, only giving up one run, and throwing seven strikeouts.

Ben had an additional single and there was a bevy of infield hits by the bottom of the order. Adam Smith was a machine in left field. He caught everything hit anywhere near him.

Its playoff time. The Ducks look forward to the highly expected game against the Gray Bats on Saturday. I’m sure there will be plenty of talk about this match up throughout the week, but thats for another post.

Gameday [24] Ducks vs. Bulldogs

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Ducks (15-8) vs. Bulldogs (12-11)
12pm
Ohio River Blvd. Field
(right off rt. 65)

The Black Sox (16-6) beat the Matadors [ (11-10-1) by a score of 9-3, and clinched 2nd place on Saturday.

Congrats Kenny Powers.

It is official, we play the Gray Bats in six days.

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Martin is here

Today’s game against the Bulldogs is “meaningless” for both teams.
The Bulldogs (by way of the Matadors forfeiting too many games) have already locked up a conference semi final game against the Warriors, while the Oilers and Bombers will have a play-in game the winner of which gets the Fightin’ Rafalski’s.

16-8 looks a lot better than 15-9.
Primarily we want to get everyone in and get our pitchers some work.

I have no idea what this is about.

Bad News for the Bulldogs.



Quack.

Ducks & Graybats – Playoff Preview?

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The 2009 NABA playoffs are quickly approaching, and matchups are being determined with each passing day. However, one contest looks like it may already be set, with potential epic consequences.

Ducks vs. Graybats
It is coming

Much has been said of the previous meetings between the two teams. Guaranteed victories and threats of retirement have both been parts of the division series. Now it comes down to this.

Playoff time.
With the new format this year, all teams make the playoffs (not counting forfeiting teams) regardless of regular season record. This was voted on by all teams during the offseason, and it passed with little opposition. While there are a number of positives about this format, it takes away some of the intensity of the regular season as well. We all know the great playoff run by the Ducks at the end of 2008.

But now teams in the basement of the division standings have a chance to upset better teams in the first two rounds of the playoffs. The Graybats are counting on this.

They are praying for it.

Praying for more juice, just like the Bats

But while much has been said of the previous games, much is expected of the one to come. The Graybats have one vision of what will happen

Larry Z wants to be flying high

The Ducks, however, also have a vision of what is to come

The booted ball has been the calling card of the Graybats all season and now that the pressure of playoffs is upon us, will they perform any better?

Graybats Home Run Ball

Not likely.

The Ducks enter the game ready to dive, dip, dodge, duck…
and smash the cover off the ball.


Get ready for the playoffs.

Quack