Friday, August 19, 2011

The Night I fought Rocky



LAST NIGHT:
Herd 3 Tarheels 15
Novant 6 Galafainaks 6
Flex 12 OSC 2
Mixed up 12 Haws 11

Next Week:
7:30 Purple v/s Mixed up 7:30 WP#2

Absent Next Week:?
Biggie

Tale of the Tape:
The Tarheels had more women baserunners in the 4th inning than the Herd had TOTAL in 6 innings.

Game Notes:
Poop. Vomit. Uncontrollable flows of blood from the cranial region due to being turned into a zombie after eating a deli sandwich from Panera. Snookie. Prior to last night, these were the most disgusting things in the world. We can now add the Herd’s game v/s the Tarheels to that list. The Purs were unable to get things going, despite an epic and historic pre pre game festivity that saw the majority of the Mighty Purple Herd converge on Bib’s in downtown Winston salem in what many patrons considered a hostile takeover after the primal “HERD UP!!” scream from Herd Pitcher Goose.

Even though the bats have been deafly quite for the majority of the season, Herd Superstar Biggie Gazelle continued his torid pace, going a blustery 2-2 on the evening, proving to be one shining star in a dark dark universe. Another amazing effort behind the plate was turned in by Ice on this evening, recording a Herd record two putouts and an assist that brought the capacity Herd crowd of 2 to their respective feet.

Staying with the defensive theme, Misty (you needs you a nickname) Inch continues to show the world why she was the most sought after 2nd basewomen this offseason. Her range at 2nd base reminds Herd management of a young strapping Ryan Sandberg. Despite being stricken by the Haneline/Miller injury curse in the 3rd inning, J-Mill held down 1st base with aplumb and respect, and even offered sound relationship advice which we may or may not get to later in this report.

A lot can be said for on the field contributions, where Herd Rookie J-Dub continues to grow and excel, but even more can be said for her consistent and almost violent Purple Herd Passion off the field. One of the most anticipated features of the week for Herd Management includes stalk…er.. reading J-Dub’s facebook posts about her love, desire and unadulterated affection toward her new brothers and sisters in purp.

Herd managements favorite athlete at any level of all time falls squarely on the shoulders of superstar C Freak Nix. Nix was pounded like the kid who fought rocky at short stop all night long by scorching missles hit off the defiantly illegal bats of the tarheel athletes, yet time and time again made the spectacular play that not even the most conditioned major league baseball player could ever make in his wildest dreams.

Herd management is a firm believer of voodoo conspiracy theories when it comes to Co-Rec softball and that belief was affirmed on Thursday evening when it became evident that the Tarheels had planned to take the transportation device of the Herds most fierce Hitter, Sparkles out of the equation. Sparkles refused to let the mystical pastel blue powers detour him from arriving to the field full of determination and exuberance and yet again performing at an exceeding high level.


Fantasy Report:
I have so many things to say to you.
POG Report:

No Herd player deserves POG more than the mighty Herd’s on Shannon Craft Award. Award is 2-2 on being the last person to the field, making this the most consistent stat of any Herd athlete on the season. Craft has also become the most unlucky player on the team at the plate. Despite being one player that is hitting the ball with any level ferocity thus far, unfortunately the oppositions defense has managed to bumble their way into robbing Award of more than one extra base hit.


EVENING AWARDS:
On an evening such as this, awards will be shelved until next week.

Random Herd Factoids:
Police often question the Herd…just because they find them interesting.
The Herd taught a Horse to read their emails for them.
The Herd is the only person(s) to ace a Rorschach Test.
Alien abductors have asked the Herd to probe THEM.
Thank you for your continued support of Herd Athletics,

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