Breaker - Week 8 Recap

The Regular Season is now over! All games have been played and now all that is left is the playoffs. Well and the end of season party... and the Crystal Pitcher Ballot.

Our first game of the night was between the Seminoles and D's Nutz. In a typical display of humility, the Seminoles showed up to this game with all of their old trophies for winnings season's past, little league championships, spelling bees, participation certificates for youth soccer, best in show ribbons from the state fair and Miss Klingon sashes from Star Trek conventions just to remind everyone why they have the reputation that they have. D's Nutz were hoping to topple the Seminoles and were quite excited about the one run that they scored but unfortunately they were a bit too late after the Seminoles were able to put up a 4 spot in the first inning. The Seminoles clinched the top spot in the regular season by winning 5-1.

Field 2 saw Barbara Ballters and 99 Problems. I don't even really want to talk about this game. 99 Problems is quickly hiring a private investigator to try to figure out what happened to their missing offense, and defense for that matter. After dominating the first half of the season, 99 Problems has scored only 1 run in the last 3 weeks and appears to have completely forgotten how to play kickball. The players don't seem to care though since they can still dominate on the flip cup table. Barbara Ballters played well and took advantage of every opportunity that 99 Problems gave them. No one is quite sure what the deal was with Ben Franklin and his kite and the Make a Wish foundation guy but it was definitely entertaining. These two teams will rematch in their first game in the playoffs but Barbara Ballters won this one 3-0.

At 8pm Asstastic Balls and Booze on First squared off. This game was filled with highlights. Rachel kicked a triple, Seth pitched a strike out as well as made an amazing one handed diving play, Geoff did some crazy shit on the bases and lots of running around and around. The best baserunning play though was made by Asstastic Ball's Gloria. She was on first base and the ball was kicked to the first baseman who was just in front of her. She sort of freaked out and did a lot of hands in the air stutter steps. Her fancy jazz hands might have distracted the first baseman just enough as he tagged her out but then dropped the ball and wasn't able to step on first base for the double play. When asked for his side of the story, he claimed he was tackled by a pink taco, an honorable demise for sure. Asstastic Balls tried to tell me the game was tied fun to fun but really this one was all Booze on First for a 5-1 win.

Our next game on field 2, or should I say the center ring in our three ring circus, was between Balls and Dolls and Jagerballs. For the most part this game was a comedy of errors. Gordon was on fire with his pitches. He claims that he's been practicing in his backyard and it shows. He decided to dedicate the pitch to an old flame because "that pitch is crazy"! His nasty pitches led the Jagerballs chasing at anything, no matter how far from the plate. He might have gotten into their heads on defense too as the Jagerballs looked like a troupe of clowns and allowed the Balls and Dolls to score anyway they could. Balls and Dolls won 8-3.

Last but not least was Masterbatters challenging Suck My Kick. Masterbatters may have had a legitimate chance in this one but after the 2nd inning it was all down hill. At one point SMK Melissa was running so fast after her bunt that the catcher freaked out and didn't know what to do. He threw the ball right at her head, trying to decapitate her. We are all happy that her pretty little head is still intact. This game had some rather interesting baserunning. First, CT kicked a homerun but almost overran Jamie. Then, later in the game, MIP (Most Improved Player) Mandy was aggressively rounding third only to realize how close the defenders were to her. She tried to scurry her way back to 3rd base and took cover behind all of her players on the bench, running just slightly out of the baseline. I asked Suck My Kick to comment on the game and their reply was simply, "We won". Thanks for the amazing insight guys. Phenomenal stuff. Suck My Kick won 5-3.

So that's it folks. The regular season is over. Below are the final standings for the regular season in the Spring 2011 season.