McWhaley Is Headed to the Championship Game!

McWhaley Wins 15-12 over the PD's Office and we're headed to the Championship game on Wednesday against Rosen!

Highlights

As Terry put it in the movie, Miller's Crossing, "It seems the old man is still an artist with the Thompson" and if you were at the game last night the same thing could be said for the "Big Dawg" Dawes as the PD's office came in thinking he had no power but then it would appear that Dawes is still in artist with the softball bat hitting three doubles and a single. It could have been four doubles but he was thrown out at second as he tried to stretch one out. Dain parked one even after being heckled by the other team's ladies. Bryant parked one. The ladies (Mel, Karen and Ann) are swinging the bat well. Although Harper had a bit of an off game he made up for it with his defense. Jay Jones finally started getting the hits he wanted. Jim and Ann, the dynamic duo, played to their usual high level. Jay-Bird notched a couple of doubles and with an assist from Jim turned a beautiful double-play.

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The Machines' guns were blazing against the Public Defenders last night!

McNair improved to 2-0 for the season, defeating the Public Defenders 20-11 last night at the Navy Base. Congratulations to the team for another well deserved win!

The Machine will return to the Navy Base next Monday to face Finkel. Please drop me a line if you can make the game!

Go Mighty McNair!

Our Next Game is Monday, June 4th Against the Public Defenders!

Our next game will be against the Public Defenders on Monday, June 4th (6:30 PM) at the Navy Base. Please send me a message if you can make it!

McNair is 3-0 all-time against the Defenders, but the PD are 1-0 this season having won this week 19-14.

Directions
To Academic Magnet H.S. (Old Naval Base)
· Take I-26 West and take the first Cosgrove Exit (Exit 216B)
· Stay on Cosgrove and follow it for 1.1 miles (you will go through three stop lights: Azalea Road, Rivers Avenue, and Spruill Avenue)
· After you cross Spruill Ave, you will go over Railroad tracks, continue until you reach the stop sign.
· Turn left onto Avenue E (You will see the old shipyard parking lot on your right) Follow Avenue E until you reach a stop sign.
· Turn right at the Stop sign onto MacMillian Avenue (a.k.a. 3rd Street). Follow MacMillian Ave and go through the security gate until you reach the traffic light.
· Turn right at the light onto Hobson Avenue (a.k.a. C Avenue) Continue on Hobson Avenue for about .4 miles.
· You will cross over railroad tracks and after the curve in the road, turn right and enter the opening in the chain link fence.
· You will see a sign that reads: Academic Magnet High School, the building will be on your left.

The softball field is the second on the left as you drive down the road. (Click here for directions from Google)



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Tonight's game hydration and Brad does the Charleston!

With a Heat-Index of 115 degrees, our game against the Public Defenders tonight looks to be a hot one. Please hydrate yourself before the game. We will have Gatorades and H2O for everyone in addition to the usual libations. Just so you know, B-Rad Hiers said he is going to dance the Charleston all over the Public Defenders tonight. And from what I can tell by looking at the photo, this dance machine means business!

Go Mighty McNair!

The Mighty McNair Machine

McNair played a great game against the #1 team in the league, the Usual Suspects, losing by 8 runs 20 to 12. Although we lost, I count this game as strong showing of our ability to come together as a team. We showcased an outstanding display of effort and never gave up. Considering the Usual Suspects are number one in the league and that they usually beat their opponents by at least by 14 runs, I think 8 runs is respectable. Especially when you take into account that they won last night's game more with luck than they did with skill.

Our final game for the season is against the Public Defenders @ Orange Grove next Wednesday (August 2). Our record is 5-5, so we pretty much have to win in order to be considered for the playoffs. Good job team, and thank you to all the fans for coming out last night.

Re-cap of game against the Public Defender's Office

And the Hits just a keep on a coming…
Last year, beating the Public Defenders was bittersweet because they had so much heart and team spirit (even though they had not won a game) that the old guilt came creeping in when we sent them home. This year not the same feeling. I felt glad to see McNair bring home a victory-a hard fought one at that. The Pubs did some serious recruiting in the off season because they were not the same team we played last year. The Mighty Machine blanked the PD office in the first two innings and in the fourth. As previously noted, we brought our bats to this game and went straight to work. Both Mr. Dependable Bluestein and Jay-Bird hit homers in the first inning as we put 5 runs on the board. We added one each inning and then pulled away with 6 in the fourth inning. Bad news though and I take full responsibility; I forgot to stick a fork in the PD office to see if they were done-they gave us a tough time adding doubles all the way through their line-up which put 10 runs on the board. (BLAST-those one innings where we fall apart!) McNair came back at the bottom of the fifth with 7 runs and 3 more runs in the sixth inning to provide a cushion the Pubs couldn’t break. Final score McNair 23, Public Defenders 15. Our next game will be Thursday, July 14 against Motley Rice.
Dug-Out
Where do I begin? Let's see, the girls (Rhonda, Corbett and Maggie) all batted .500, each earning a RBI for the record book. Jay-Bird (1.000) was swinging "Ol'Blue" again and went long ball twice and put 5 RBI's on the board. We just knew the party was on when his first hit cleared the fence. Mr. Dependable lived up to his name and he not only batted a 1.000, but was one single short of going around the world. Funny, I always thought the single was the easiest of the four to hit. John Rosen (.500) picked up were Brett left off and hit a double. Adam (Stoler-MITE!) batted a thousand as DH and came in for Trabert in the 5th. Craig Blackmon (.750) showed up to hold down Short (stop) and smack 3 doubles. MC-Hammer (.750) held down 1st base and kept his average up with 3 singles and some nice D-Fence. T-Boone (.750) showed off his range in the outfield and went single, double, triple for his rotation. Big Daddy Warren (.250)worked some serious D out in the outfield with Jay as his right-hand man. Trabert(.600) followed Turner's lead with a single, double and a triple as he held down the hot corner.
Bring it Home!
We put up a hard fight and kept things in check to bring home this one and it makes me proud to say this game produced the most runs the McNair Machine has ever scored. Our next game is Thursday, July 21st at the Parkshore Field in West Ashley. We will be playing our old pals from across the river Rice a Ron-i.
Stats
At Bats Hits Single Double Triple Home Run Batting % RBIs

Adam 4 4 3 1 0 0 1.000 3
Brett 3 3 0 1 1 1 1.000 5
Jay 4 4 0 2 0 2 1.000 5
Craig 4 3 0 3 0 0 .750 2
Michael 4 3 3 0 0 0 .750 0
Turner 4 3 1 1 1 0 .750 2
Jim 5 3 1 1 1 0 .600 3
John 2 1 0 1 0 0 .500 0
Corbs 4 2 1 1 0 0 .500 1
Maggie 4 2 2 0 0 0 .500 1
Rhonda 4 2 2 0 0 0 .500 1
Joel 4 1 1 0 0 0 .250 0

Team Total 46 31 14 11 3 3 .452 23
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News Flash-McNair is back! Re-Cap of the Public Defenders will be published tomorrow

In the immortal words of Montezuma, "Who's that out there singing in the halls?" Oh yes, the Machine is back, storming the hard, beach sands of Park Shore like Mr. Williams' Marines. Unfortunately for the folks in the Public Defenders office all of our built up energy was let loose on them. McNair beat the Public Defender's office 23-15! YES! THE MOST RUNS WE HAVE SCORED IN OUR THREE YEAR HISTORY OF SOFTBALL! It was a tough game and the Pubes put up a good fight; they came back to keep it honest, but we turned up the heat in the end.

The update should be posted by Friday-once we get all of our stats in from MC-Hammer. I just want to say thank you all for giving your all. We finally left everything on the field, made the hits and went back to our old school Green Machine style softball-kicking butt, having fun and taking double or hyphenated names.

I haven't heard back from the Commissioner yet, but we should have a make-up game against Rice-o-Ron-i next week. To our fans, I wish you could have all seen this!
Go Mighty McNair!

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!