Again, I
find it necessary to apologize to my loyal, frustrated fans.
I did not realize exactly what remodelling our kitchen would
do to my house, my wife, and my life. I have a gaping hole
where the range hood's supposed to be and granite dust in my
pillow case (OKAY, enough whining!!) Also, I spent four
consecutive nights at ATT Park watching the Reds vs the
Giants while chaperoning a family entourage through a hectic
visit with my wife's cousin, Bronson Arroyo. I have seen
things inside the Park and Union Square that only 3AM Cullen
might attest to. I also witnessed a disturbing, shocking
almost Milton Bradley-esque disturbance in game
three. The Oakland A's
and Philadelphia A's (ahh I love the memory of Jimmy Dykes,
Mickey Cochrane, Al Simmons, Lefty Grove, and Jimmy Foxx)
played a "real" game in the morning that actually saw only
two stolen bases, good job guys. Pat Macias, Don Luis, and
Felix Lu made the only hits for Philly as the graves of both
Jimmy's, Al, Mickey, and lefty remained undisturbed). In an
exceptionally well-played game (or one with pathetically
weak hitting) the '62 Giants jumped into the drivers seat
for the mythical second place of the WCFBL. Randy Saladana
was impressive in his one inning start followed by five
dominating innings by former CY Olde winner Joe Gagliardo.
Mark Gemello slammed the door on the Giant Birdmen with
three stellar innings to save Saladana's win. Lynn Lefevre
threw a stalwart 6 while Mike Hughey struggled over the last
three in relief. Break up the
Yomuiri Giants!!! They were relentless on the day pounding
the SF Giants for 20 hits on the day. Lorne Johnson turned
in a snappy couple of inngs off the mound while Mike
Desjardins was over bearing in his two quick innings off the
hill. John Haines floated through two innings to finish up
for Yomuiri that included an outstanding display of team
play and payback for a totally disrepectful (of the hallowed
game of baseball) display running (or actually, NOT running,
feigning faux injury) the bases. #1. John Haines
(maximum fine recommendation) for feigning injury and
allowing himself to be thrown out on a force play at third
base on Carl Vargas clean single to right field in order to
win a bet!! Didn't Pete Rose get banned for life for betting
oin Baseball?? #2. Matt Schmuck
& Jim Realini for plotting to disrespect Sally Jo by
convincing Rick Weil to let a routine grounder bounce by
with no effort to increase Haines ERA. #3. Chilly for
throwing the ball 500 feet into the sky further aiding and
abetting this prank. #4. T-Lee for
failing to score on this gift (even though his run did not
effect anything).
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JIM
REALINI
San Rafael, California
September 16th, 2007
Oakland A's (Vigil) 8 vs Philadelphia A's (Luis)
1
The Oakland boys (hopefully reminisent of Rudi, Jackson,
Bando, Hunter and Blue not the drug cartel A's of the
LaRussa era) found Kevin Zimmerman, Russ Greenfield, Dave
Conyers, and Mike Martinez banging out bingles each while
Ken Calloway, my pick for the "Crash Davis" lookalike
smashed two doubles on the day
'62 Giants (Terra-Realini) 6 vs Saint Louis Giants
(Moochy-Weishaar) 0
The '62 boys hit like crap, miraculously making four
scattered singles by Dandy Don DeWitt, G-Man Gemello, Dave
DeCruz, and Craig Nelson stand up for 6 runs.
The punchless Birdmen could only muster five singles by
Mark Bruzzone, Frank Weishaar, Doug Rusch,Guy Peabody, Keith
Dacosta, and Kim Rupert.
Yomiuri Giants (Schmuck-Miller) 24 vs San Francisco Giants
(Bennet-Lee) 7
Carl Vargas and Chilly had four hits each. Chilly's
included a lazer-beam double and Carl's included a hit
despite his teamates intentional attempt to deny him a hit.
DJ and Tenner followed with 3 hits apiece with the Count,
Leaders, Lorne, Dr Guy and the Colonel hit scraping out
singles too.
SF did hit the ball, but only got a touchdown, not enough
to match the 3 TD's and a field goal by Yomuiri. Doug Meyer
blasted a triple and a single. Gordon Simmons rapped two
doubles. Moochy got two singles. JC, T-Lee, Chester Arthur
(wasn't he a President?) Scott Pimpl. and Bobby "Lost his
stuff on the mound because he dyed his hair" (hey sorta like
Samson!) all chipped in singles against the Nipponese
terrors.