Solid Gold Hits Back on Track

Man, I don't even know where to start with this one.

I guess with the fact that we beat the lowly, but good-natured, West Coast Builders 5-1. There is so much more though.

I'm just skipping straight to the highlights:

* I managed to secure the legendary dill pickle flavored sunflower seeds. As soon as the first seed touched my tongue, I thought I was vomiting...not because the seeds were making me vomit, but because they tasted like vomit. More specifically, they tasted like the pre-vomit bile that builds in the back of your throat prior to vomiting. My partners in motion sickness know what I'm talking about. If you'd like to try them (and why wouldn't you after reading this) I've got a huge bag that's about 99% full you can have.

* Poor Ed. Every time he plays with us he really stinks up the joint. He swung at pitches so far over his head his bat couldn't even reach them. Embarrassing. however, we win every time he plays with us, so whatever.

* In what might be a co-ed D league first, game ball winner and starting pitcher, Matt, appealed to the home plate umpire after the second base umpire called a runner safe as she dove back in to the bag after a caught line drive. Sure enough, the home plate ump rang her up and we got the double play. That's just heads up ball, Matt.

* Hillary had a real adventure on the base paths. She was on first when a ball hit by KC was caught dramatically in the outfield. Unfortunately, by the time the ball was caught, Hillary was already on second. Our whole dugout was yelling at her to run back to first, but she only heard the "run" part so she kept moving on to third. This really confused the Builders who had just as little if not less of a clue than Hillary. So they threw the ball to third. At this point, Hillary grasped what was going on and began working her way back to first. There were any number of ways that the Builders could have gotten her out at this point, but they chose to simply throw the ball back to first base. For those keeping score at home, it was the ol' 8-5-3 double play. This also raises the question: Where was our base coach?

* My new hat!

* I liked the part of the game where Z was batting and Hillary said "Let's go, Ed!"

* Speaking of Z, he had a great slide - something he said he'd never do - into home. It was a mighty collision. I was so proud for goading him into it.

* This game had one of our highest fan attendance totals of the season with four. One of which was Tom who:

A) Didn't try to conceal his bottle of Sierra Nevada at all.

B) Tended to wander into the outfield with said beer in hand.

All in all, it was a solid game. Before I wrap it up, let me give shout outs to Jessica who had a great hitting night, Julie V. who didn't make me look like a complete fool for putting her in the clean-up spot, Leticia for getting back out on to the field and Sonya for babysitting the leftover pizza which I hope has worked its way back into the office.