This is where things start getting a little fuzzy for me... Yeah, One beer will do that to me. While waiting for the next game to start Byron was traded to Long Gone (the team we played in the first round) as they were down a man... Hilarity ensued. Byron was stuck out in left field where he looked like a retard trying to hump a door nob. After getting burned a couple of times, he missed a routine flyball with a runner tagging at third and 1 out. Byron's comments about the play. "I felt pretty good out there, I beat the ball to the spot, I had the timing down for the throw to the plate and then the clouds parted for a brief second and the sun was right in my eyes. There was nothing I could do about it". This beats his last excuse of "I was running an a gopher just popped up out of the ground and tripped me". Byron hit well for LG sparking a couple of rallies sparking a late comeback and a LG win. The error machine that is Byron was then sent packing back to WW.
The next game on the clip for WW was against a AA team that hit lights out. These guys were pretty good and WW looked a little dead... Even though Pete brushed of a bruised elbow from a wild through throw during warm ups it wasn't enough to hang with what ever the hell that team was named. Needless to say we lost that one.
That loss pulled the team together as they were now 1 loss away from elimination. We played WW style softball for the next couple of games, stringing together hits and playing tight defense.
With a shot to make it to the final four WW faced off against Last Call. LC was beaten at the hands of WW twice last year and was hungry for revenge. Fatigue had started to set in for WW whose line drives were turning into fly outs. We were never able to really mount a comeback attempt or a late rally. If you ask me, I think we were all ready to pack it in and head over to Pete's for the cookout.
WWs finished the Tournament 5th place which isn't bad seeing as this was a combined A and AA tournament. The Defensive Player of the tournament goes to JW who was constantly make plays that a man wearing 3 leg braces should not be able to make. The Offensive Player of the Tournament is going to go to Mike C. It seemed like every time I came up to bat he was on base.
After last weeks rain out WW will play it's season opener March 14th against Budweiser at 8:00PM.
