The Mother's Day Break for the 2008 WCFBL comes just in time. Am I the only one hearing the "Baseball, again?" Honey what are all these checks for BASEBALL? Hey you know that unfinished cabinet we bought five weeks ago that's still sitting in the garage? Do you know how much gasoline cost? Probably not the only one, but this weekend coming up is Mother's Day so don't forget to remember your mom and the mother of all your children. Please don't break the couth rule and get them some cute baseball memorabilia that you just gotta share. Flowers, brunch, and a weekend away from Hugh-dog should be enough.
Is anyone else getting miffed at Tenner's misunderstanding of San Francisco weather? Hey Matt it's summer here in August, we're still waiting for the ground hog (is that Hugh-dog or Hartkop?) to see over his Dunlop's affliction to see his shadow.

930 AM GAME

by Jim Realini

Is there a better pitcher than Heath Keller? Not lately. For the second week in a row Heath brought his "A" game to the A's. Another 6 inning shutdown. The game started with Weishaar and Haines miscommunicatin' strategery around how to execute a routine double play for the only scare of the game, so Heath just shut Philly down for the next six innings. It was really depressing behind the plate watching one hopeful A come up to the plate with thoughts of Simmons, Foxx, and Cochrane only to go back to the dug out muttering where's the pine meat? The end of the game found San Francisco pleasantly surprised at the gritty performance of old hard throwing Mike "DJ" Desjardins. There were firemen a ready to come to the rescue but DJ never even let the A's get hot. If DJ keeps throwing that way, playing the Giants won't be fun.

John BHL Haines and Capitan Steve Bennett both continued their torrid hitting with two hits apiece. Heath Keller slapped the A's with a huge 357.5 foot double to center field while Desjardins, Weishaar, Donig, and Pool Boy Chen each ripped bingles.

The San Francisco Giants are leading the way following the three common rules for WCFBA success: hit the ball when you bat, catch the ball when they hit it to you, and pitch Heath Keller for the first six innings.

130 PM Game

by Matt Schmuck (with a poignant additional point by the Colonel)

Hey boys - this week in baseball,

Another fine summer day in California. It had to be at least 50° today. The field at College of Alameda, as always was great. The highlight at the field had to be the fake foxes scattered around trying to scare the geese away, which had no effect. This picture says it all… So the game starts today and in the first inning. We get a man on second and third, Coach Miller steps to the plate. Gemello, Pitching for the Tokyo Giants decides to intentionally walk him. It's the bottom of the first. Gemello says, "that's good baseball". Bottom of the FIRST? Well it does turn out ok, as Pool Boy Realini fly's out to end the inning. Guess Mark was right.

(ED note: Mark was kind of nice to apologize to Realini after the inning. Realini was kind of nice to drive in the go ahead run with bags loaded a couple of innings later. Realini apologized to Mark on the way back to the dug out but Mark's retort is unprintable.)

Buzz takes the hill for us, and pitches great. Buzz went six strong only giving up two runs. Doug Meyer came in and cleaned up the next three innings. It also helped that we actually played defense today, only committing one error on the day by yours truly. The play of the day had to be No Johnson's popup catch behind the plate. I heard Doc say "Poetry", referring to the many steps, twirls and pirouette's that Lorne took. The best line was PeeWee who said "Hey Lorne… Look in your glove". After that, all I heard the rest of the day was "Lorne's got it"…. Lorne's GOT IT", even if the ball left the infield.

Coach Weil was instrumental today in showing the team by example just how NOT to play the "Freeze on a line drive" play. By the way Coach Weil is not only coaching our team, but is coaching a bunch of 9-year olds in little league. Coach Weil's on first (You all know what's coming don't you). Sure enough SMACK… Line-Drive, and coach Weil takes off. PICKED of course. Even Coach Weil's 9-year old son who was at the game knows to freeze on a line drive… Thanks for that lesson coach. By the way, that's a buck for each of your coaching positions.

We had some great defense today like the 8th inning with the Tokyo Giants on first and second, 1-out, Popup to the mound, pretty darn high one too. Well it turns out that the Tokyo Giants coach also wanted to give some base running lessons. The umpire yells (softly) Infield FLY, Batters OUT! Coach Doug's on first and takes off to second. Scotty rounds the ball by the mound and lets it fall to the ground, on purpose of course. Now I didn't hear the umpire so I'm yelling to throw the ball to third to get the force since Kim, at second, didn't run… I think Doc was also yelling for third, Coach Miller is screaming to throw the ball to first as Coach Doug now realizes his example is a good one and is tearing back to first base. This is exactly why our brand of defense has us in fourth place. Unfortunately Coach Doug jams his ankle sliding back into first, and is out for the game, he did make it back safely. And yes that was a great example of running on an infield fly rule out.

Late in the game No Johnson playing Third nabs a slow roller and fires a seed to first to get a key out in the inning. Nice job. Real Defense.

Coach Miller, playing third, dives for a hot grounder in the 5.5 hole, Snares the ball, and rolls over, from a sitting position throws to second to get the force… NICE!