Oh The Huge Manatee!

Well friends, it was a long/short night at the Hawkeye Softball Complex for your Bayside Tigers. We looked like Tinker stuck under that stuffed bear by the end of this debacle. We managed to last 5 innings which lasted approximately 28 minutes and the game ended in a tooth rattling knockout. My head still hurts too much to even remember the score...something like 72 - 4. Sweet Jesus we sucked bag last night. On the bright side no one died and I got to touch Ed Hinkle's ass once. We are also one week closer to the return of the mighty Global & the two guys that wore the collar last week managed to go a combined 4 for 4.

The game started nicely on the defensive end. Both teams got the lead-off hitter on only to strand him on the base paths in the first inning. We politely delined to score again in the second inning. Apparently Lear Hawk didn't get the memo about making this the longest scoreless game in the history of Iowa City softball and they plated 4 runs in the bottom of the inning.

Top of the third is when we got crazy with the bottom of our line-up. 8-9-10 Strung together a single & back to back doubles to score 2 runs. Things looked like they were setting up for a big inning then the baserunning bug struck again. Brett tagged up on a shallow fly ball to center and scored easily...we thought. The ump ruled that he didn't touch home and that turned into double play that deflated our spirits faster than finding out you have the herp.

Over the next two innings Lear Hawk treated us like a Charlie Weis would treat a box of Bavarian cream pies (that means they ate us up). They banged in 11 more runs while we returned to our effort to go scoreless (mission accomplished). The game was then mercifully called and we are left with just one question.

Are we too legit to quit?



Tune in next week to find out.

Love - El Tigres