Ok, so we didn't get to play a league game this week and that's a drag, but it would have been a bigger drag mud wrestling in Belmont 4, which was not only in standing water, but the natural clay surface had turned to goopy mud.
Now, those who have followed the decisions of the CCSL to add extra teams without adding extra field permits -- and cutting down on the margin for error for getting the schedule in -- will remember that the management was solidly against that decision and, not to be redundant, told the General Manager not to vote for this plan. Careful readers know what happened, and know all about LCBDPBJ (Low-Cut Blouse Day at the Philadelphia Business Journal) and my man's thoughts were not about the inner workings of the Fairmount Park bureaucracy.
Fine. That's water over the bridge as Tap Room Ogre would say. We must move forward. I have no idea when our scheduled game vs. National Constitution Center/Old City (yes, that will be shortened) will be played. The rain date picked out by the league office is July 3. I am not making that up. But we will find a day. Perhaps some Thursday. Sure why not?
Anyway, we did get to play a game over the weekend, an early season friendly with FourPlay (so named because it is the fourth team sponsored by Westbury Restaurant), which was the former Valanni Swallows, of the Philadelphia Gay Softball League.
Kerry O'Connor, who is on both rosters, played for our side on Saturday -- which was good, because we had only 10 players.
It was a very good scrimmage, probably went 8 or 9 innings and I would guess it was very close to a draw. We hit the ball well, fielded reasonably well and did not, as far as I know, lose any additional players to the other side of the field.
Chris Yasiejko started on the mound and started us off with a three-run home run in the first inning and that set the tone. Good hitting also from O'Connor, Snyder, Rubin, Galan, the Management, Brennan, McElhatton, Kenney and Matheson.
Nevins came by with the kid and the dog, only one of which took a big, smelly, gooey dump almost directly on the FourPlay equipment bags. Nice, Chief. So Nevins walked around with a bag of dog poop and God-knows-what in the kid's pants. FourPlay moved its stuff and if that's a double entendre, I apologize.
Big hit of the game was by Al, who had a flower behind his right ear and crushed the ball into deep left field for an amazing home run late in the going. No offense in any way, but the guy has a unique home run trot. Kerry, try as he might, couldn't emulate that, but he'll be able to get some practice.
See you next week.
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