Last night, in thrilling softball action, TR took on one of the many GMAC teams, with the potential for TRx's first ever playoff berth on the line. With the game starting late, TRx took advantage of the added time to consume copious amounts of alcohol instead of practicing, which paid dividends in the long run. Knowing of TRx's affinity for alcohol, and despite their 2-9 record, GMAC didn't want to be known as the team that let TRx into the playoffs, and brought in many ringers. Initially, this seemed like a poor predicament for TRx, as they were playing without both manny and orr, due to a honeymoon... I'll leave it to you to determine if they were on a honeymoon with each other. Yet despite missing these two studs, TRx was confident, as they welcomed blin back from his tripod injury, Kelly back from an alien abduction, and the new addition of Shannon to the team.
Up first, TRx got off to a fast start, fueled by hits by the mad elf, young johnson, and a towering homerun by glg. Glg hit the ball so far that it even would have gone over his bulbous head had he been in the field. After jumping out to a 5-0 lead after the first, TRx was confident, with jr on the mound, wearing more headbands/wristbands than ever. I think peanut actually set a new world record for most "bands" worn by a bear, as he was attempting to impress his girlfriend flex (making her first appearance as a fan). however, early in the game, there were some defensive lapses, as glg let a few routine grounders go by, as he kept looking towards the stands for a certain special someone to arrive. "that kid loves his babies momma..."
Glg's first HR was enough to forget his defensive lapse, but he was not done yet... Once he finally spotted someone in the stands who suited his fancy (it may have been the 400 pound guy keeping the book for the other team), glg reverted back to his usually all-star caliber defense, as he got to demonstrate his patented running into the outfield, over the shoulder catch. Other key defensive highlights included golden's stellar play at third (to which the ump said "wow not many guys can catch the ball and make such a good throw like that. I'm impressed"- it looks like AT may have some competition in the future... KB also played an excellent game, both defensively and offensively (although he's usually pretty good at the offensive part anyway), going 3-4, and being robbed of a hit.
One person whose defense may not have actually hurt the team (except for the stomach pains they all got from watching and laughing), was the usual culprit- berardi. B-rad exhibited his true elf-hood, making most catches in the outfield look difficult, due to the minuscule stature of his little elf hands. this for some reason made him fall to his knees on each fly ball. In fact, berardi spent more time in the outfield on his knees than on his feet... which in reality makes sense, as he was likely quoting the name of a future best selling book and praying "dear god, please let me catch this ball." even the ump noticed this horrendous style, proclaiming "what kind of catch was that....he doesn't have style like your 3rd baseman." on top of these hijacks, the elf also had another patented display of the worst arm on the team... Late in the game, he caught a routine fly ball, but as usual, made it look as difficult as possible. however, there was a man on third at this time, who decided to tag up. After he finally realized this, b-rad did his patented elf-spin and attempted to throw home. unfortunately, his throw ended up closer to his home in nj than to home plate, as bear let out a ferocious growl.
On the offensive side, TRx continued to be led by glg (who hit a second home run), golden (who also had a hr), and kb (who had to both play the game, and attempt to remember things for this very write-up after whatever beverages he may have drank at the pregame happy hour). jr also had a solid day, with 3 rbi's, although he did get thrown out at first on a slow ground ball that even dom deluise would have beaten out. Other contributors include lori (1-2 with a walk), tom legrand/steve loomis (2-4 with a run and rbi), blin (2-4 despite playing both rightfield and hiding in the bushes), and TO (1-4). shannon also demonstrated the most powerful swing on the team, showing the force that most people only use when they're trying to get berardi to go away.
the fans included team mom/super-fan dana, flex, amanda and her kept man, and golden's mom... after golden put glg on notice that he noticed him noticing his mom, he put greg on notice again that if he noticed him noticing her again, there would be problems, to which greg responded "your mom goes to college..." after golden told greg to stop being an idiot and start hitting more homeruns, all our big-headed friend could say was "you're a towel." what does it all mean? the world may never know...
in the end, TRx prevailed 11-6. after remington retired the final batter, and TRx knew that they had made the playoffs, many tears of joy (as well as clothes) were shed. glg may have put it best in congratulating remington with a huge hug, and expressing the sentiments of the whole team, "i love you johnny cakes."
TRx has another makeup game tonight... its not to late to jump on the bandwagon (or just use it as an excuse to go to happy hour). unfortunately, they will be without star first baseman kb, which much to the chagrin of everybody means there will be either a sub-standard write-up by someone else, or no write-up at all... after learning of this sorry state of affairs, the following conversation was had
jr- wish me luck
kb- good luck
jr- good luck
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