Re-Cap of Game against the Public Defenders (Season 2)

Subject: Mc Nair Continues Winning Streak! -E-Mail from 5/26

Re-Cap of Mc Nair Win Against the Public Defenders

Introduction:
Let me begin my diatribe by saying that last night we played the best team that we have faced this and last year. To clarify: we have lost to teams that have better individuals and losses because of our own mistakes, but we have not played a “better team” than the Public Defenders. They have not won a game this season, still they remain positive, tenacious and never forget the main reason we are out there-to have fun! They talked trash to us about Jay and Corbett (their intern), but Tom centered our team by pointing out the naturalistic beauty of the field, Jay could not be ran over at first by an 80 lb. girl and that although she interned with their office, Corbett was PAID by Mc Nair during that time. People often wonder why Coach Phil Jackson and Tom Mc Tighe make the "big bucks"; it is due to their "Zen Style of Leadership" that clears their team's heads and brings focus. Tom inspired our bats to do our trash talking. By the way, I asked Corbett to add an inspirational-victory quote for our team to today’s absentee list; I believe she chose the perfect one. “Victory is sweetest, when you have known defeat.” –Malcom Forbes
We were in a bind this week, with M.A. Scar-DiMaggio and M.C. “Hammer” Scarafile unable to attend. Fortunately, Brett (Mr. Dependable) Bluestein was able to make it, and J. Donahue-Walden score keeper (part-time scout) recruited Capers Owings, esq. to play last night. Janet excellent job scouting! The Dynamic-Duo of “Cover-girl” and “Callander-girl” played to complete our list of attorneys. These four barristers played wonderfully and gave us an exciting-suspenseful game!

THE GAME:
At the bottom of the second inning we were up 10-0. Everyone batted great! Aggressive base running added numerous extra points to our score. Going into the fifth inning the score was 17-7. Everyone was able to play last night, and we finished off the Defenders (23-11). Luke Jeter-mini held down short-stop and was 5 for 5 at bat. J-Bird Alexander went 3 for 4 at bat-getting at least a double on everything except his pop-fly. His skills playing first base were excellent; turning numerous high throws from extra bases into easy outs. Brett "Mr. Dependable" Bluestein took advantage of their poor grounding ability up the center and in short left field. JET had back to back in field home-runs (I told you we had a aggressive base running) and one out before being Tom Mc Tighe took over in the fourth inning. Tom played excellent and ran the bases harder than I do. For those of you that missed it, before Tom came in for me, he batted clean-up putting him in front of Luke Jetermini. Here's the set-up, Tom's on second, Luke's at bat. Luke gets a double; as I am telling Tom to bring it home from third, I happen to be telling Luke as well, since he was about 6 inches behind Tom. They both came home to score-excellent base running by both of you! Capers Owings helped Brett out in left field and went 2 for 4 at bat. Corbett played a mean second base and made to base 2 for 5. Jordan (You can never leave us) Bowers wore many hats during the game, and wore them well. Jordan continued his excellence in pitching, held down third base and was 4 for 5 at the plate. Paul Callander played short-out and then left-center, with a double and a single before Ms. Rylie pulled him out of the game. Bob "Charlie Hustle" Ailstock took over for Paul and continued his excellence playing right-center and going 2 for 3. Bob's aggressive base-running combined with his super speed added a few points to the Mc Nair tally. (I bet you never thought you would read Bob and super speed used in the same sentence-just kidding Bob) Speaking of fast wheels, "Covergirl" Mary Shahid brought home the bacon at home-she was 3 for 4 and what she missed at home was covered by Jay-Bird. Amanda "Callander-girl" did an excellent job in right field. She went 2 for 5 at the plate, but she did have 5 R.B.I.s Excellent job Amanda!

Dugout:
This has to be one of the most humorous plays of the season. Let me set this up for you (queue the Circus music): Bob is on second base, Mary is on first and Amanda is up. Amanda smacks one high to their short-stop (His name escapes me, but it is fitting that she hit to him; as he is their version of the covergirl attorney-he is a model for Ben Silver-yes, that is where you have seen him before.) I digress, he misses the ball, tries to grab it out of the sand and tag Bob. Bob does a human slinky to miss the tag and stays on third. Mary is safe on second, but Amanda thought she was being waved to second. After grabbing on to Mary, she realizes that something is not right and heads back to first-where she is thrown out. Obviously, with no umpires and at least 8 attorneys on the field this needs to be discussed. Mr. Ben Silver believes he had a cuff-link tag on Bob's bow-tie; to prevent further discussion we call Bob out, and the ladies stay on base. I did not think that we should argue with them when we were up by 16 runs. The Defenders did rally in the sixth inning putting 7 runs on the board, but we were too far ahead to be caught. Final score Mc Nair 23, Defenders 11.
NEXT GAME IS TONIGHT!!! JUNE 8th @ PARKSHORE
Tonight we face Pierce, Hearns, Sloan & Mc Leod. They beat Haynsworth last week by two runs. As of today, the North Division standings are as follows:
1.) Rosen 4-0
2.) Solicitors 3-1
3.) Mc Nair 2-1
4.) Pierce, Hearns 1-1
5.) Haynsworth, S & B 1-2
6.) Hood Law Firm 1-2
7.) Young, Clement 1-3
8.) Public Defenders 0-3
As you can see this is a big game for us as we are in third. Pierce, Hearns could tie us with a win tonight, but if we stay focused, play well and have fun-WE WILL BE TIED FOR SECOND PLACE! In addition, Bob's roommate plays for Pierce Hearns-we need to give him bragging rights for his house! We have Joel and MC-Hammer back in the line up tonight. I still need to hear from MAS. Make sure you send me an e-mail for player of the game. See you tonight at six!
P.S. Mr. Williams has extended my contract as team Captain.
Go Mighty McNair!