TheKid33
Star Player
So while this story isn't really about me, I saw something in a game I was watching tonight when I stayed after mine were finished. In a pretty lopsided game, a team with mashers/speed is getting embarrassed by a team with one legit hitter and a bunch of guys out for fun, mostly older guys so really not much speed, station to station bunch. The score at this point was something like 22-8, and the team that was losing had a pitcher that couldn't find water if he fell out of a boat on the Pacific Ocean. He's probably walked atleast 6-7 guys up to this point, several 2-0 counts to start guys off. It's late in the game and the winning team walks 5 times in a row when there were already runners on 1st and 2nd, and the bases were loaded for their one big hitter. Pitcher throws the most accurate pitch he's made all night, and big hitter pissed it out dead center, grand f'in slam. Just the way you draw it up. This ended the game, I'm not even sure what the score was.
The pitcher of the losing team was pretty frustrated after the game, and tried to resort to fisticuffs after the game with the other teams manager and big hitter (he pimped the slam pretty hard, flipped bat out toward the mound) for disrespecting the game, and was calling the whole team ******* for walking. The manager of the winning team said "we won, it's within the rules, you should try throwing the ball over the plate dude" and this drove the pitcher nuts. He said "all in how you want to win I guess".
I thought it was funny. This is league ball, and a league team completely embarrassed a team that plays 3-4 nights a week and tourneys pretty much every weekend. Which makes me wonder how they don't have a new pitcher by now, and why this guy takes issue with another team walking when he's not throwing strikes. But I definitely enjoyed watching a team of good dudes that just want to have fun and maybe win some games, who play hard and give it their all even if it's not their favorite/best sport, beat down a prototypical douchey tourney team filled with clowns that think they're the best in their area, boombah bags and digicamo jerseys, and want to blame everyone else when they lose.
It's funny cuz guys like that will never act out or speak up at a tournament, knowing some of the tanks on the power hitting teams will make them S their pants. But they want to come to league and act like asses against inferior competition. The baseball/softball Gods were surely smiling tonight.
The pitcher of the losing team was pretty frustrated after the game, and tried to resort to fisticuffs after the game with the other teams manager and big hitter (he pimped the slam pretty hard, flipped bat out toward the mound) for disrespecting the game, and was calling the whole team ******* for walking. The manager of the winning team said "we won, it's within the rules, you should try throwing the ball over the plate dude" and this drove the pitcher nuts. He said "all in how you want to win I guess".
I thought it was funny. This is league ball, and a league team completely embarrassed a team that plays 3-4 nights a week and tourneys pretty much every weekend. Which makes me wonder how they don't have a new pitcher by now, and why this guy takes issue with another team walking when he's not throwing strikes. But I definitely enjoyed watching a team of good dudes that just want to have fun and maybe win some games, who play hard and give it their all even if it's not their favorite/best sport, beat down a prototypical douchey tourney team filled with clowns that think they're the best in their area, boombah bags and digicamo jerseys, and want to blame everyone else when they lose.
It's funny cuz guys like that will never act out or speak up at a tournament, knowing some of the tanks on the power hitting teams will make them S their pants. But they want to come to league and act like asses against inferior competition. The baseball/softball Gods were surely smiling tonight.
