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1997
One
of the first things Joey and Scott found out when they saw the new
house (and thus, the new field) was that playing Water Baseball
in the backyard was just not a feasible possibility. However, they
noticed that the house sat at the tail end of a cul-de-sac. Looking
at the street with a bird's eye view, the sidewalk made a shape
decidedly reminiscent of a typical homerun fence (or a nutsack).
It was one of many "a-ha" moments the league would experience
at the new field.
A-ha...
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Joey
and Scott tested it out, and liked what they saw. Yes, there was
no more swimming and only a fraction of the shade, but in a way,
wasn't that better? Joey, Scott, and Terry were getting to that
age where it was getting tough to say you played in a "water
baseball league." It didn't sound nearly as tough as saying
you played in a "wiffleball league."
Right??!
In
any event, they put the experiment to the test, and failed miserably.
Gone were the talented Holmberg, Holt, and Carriere. In their place
were non-baseball players Wattenberg, Irvine, Montgomery, Stephens,
Markey, etc. And if that wasn't bad enough, Joey and Scott thought
an extra fielder would be needed, since the field "seemed"
much more expansive than their old field. Bad idea.
Wattenberg,
before the hair started falling out...
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These
"players" (if you can call 'em that) would have had less
success hearing 50 Cent today on the radio then they did getting
out at "The Sac" in 1997. The league average was a putrid
.226, and there were only 7 homeruns in 177 ABs. Oh yeah, did we
mention that due to the horrible state of the league, we cut it
short? We played a grand total of five games. The league leader
in ABs was Evan Markey, with 27. We would also be remiss to state
that Evan had only 4 hits and 1 RBI.
It
pretty much summed up the season. The league stepped up to the plate
with a brand-spankin' new idea, and came away from the meeting with
a .148 average...and 1 measly fuckin' RBI.
But
since you're reading this right now, we obviously decided to give
it another shot...
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