Game 5, Win 13-7 aka "the first win vs a B team"

The Sons of Monty took the field in sort of a must win game. After showing know energy in the last two, the Ringers needed to put something together. The A-Team was the opponent and the game was played under ominous skies. The Sully Boys Bangers were missing their fearless leader with what he claimed was a "wrist deformity". I Googled wrist deformity this morning and this popped up.

Now if that is the case, then it is safe to say Bags will NOT be playing anytime soon and he should really consider a job in the Haunted House circuit that comes once a year...

The game got off to a tough start as some fielding miscues got us in a bit of a jam...but like a Cornerback with a short memory, MBags came back to make some great plays and crisis averted. Boonton had the honor of Christening the Miken, but walked on 4 pitches, bringing up the man, the myth, the legend, Two Hole. Two Hole had already heard that Adrian Beltre took his patented "dirty knee" and hit a bomb with it. You remember the dirty knee right? The kid would ALWAYS have dirt on his knee from wiffle ball...well Beltre must have heard about this and stole it.

Two hole proudly smacked one in left field and the Miken has been born...and she is a real bad bitch. The line drives, ground balls looked like lasers off the bat. Noyes even got into the action a bit when he unbuckled his seatbelt, locked his car, walked up to the plate, and hit a sharp grounder to short.

What we had going for us was our speed. Looking at the A-Team, they looked like a bunch of muscle d-bags that would crush beers on their heads at keg parties back in the early 90's. #3 would walk directly in front of me warming up EVERY time, real pricks. There outfield resembled the stunt doubles in Spaceballs. So slow and if you hit it in the right place you could run forever. Case in point Mr June getting an inside the park HR on a Texas Leaguer down the right field line. Or my single up the middle that 3 people looked at and NO ONE hustled to get it.

McGrath also had the same luck with a misplay in right center that the guy all the way on the left of this picture didn't want to run full speed.

Solid defense by Sully, Josh, TC and Danny, and a great play by Boonton to get a short hop in right and keep it in front of him with Sweet helping out. We won by playing sound defense and speed stretching singles to doubles and taking Home when they were dogging it...a good recipe all year.

Dodged a bullet in the 5th with bases loaded and no out...how that kid 1. let that pitch go for a 3rd strike, and 2. how the f that wasnt a strike is beyond me. That stirke zone was the size of the short umpires prick...but that is neither here nor there. MBags geta a grounder, third to home for a double play, then we get a pop up, that saves the game.

We hold them off and they go 1-2-3 in the 7th. A big win for the program and we found out a great recipe to win.

In the crowd: Peter Brown (peterxbrown@gmail.com), Noyes butt buddy Tony, the Daily Boggs bitching about the schedule, Rudelyn Tilingting Smith with Rude Jude in tow.

3-2, get some

Can this bat deliver us to the promised land?

Schedule 2

Last 2 games, L 11-3 vs Demons, L 17-8 vs On the Hill

bleh

Topps Comeback Player of the Year, 2 Hole

Game 2 Win 12-10 aka "she's got a nice can for a lesbian"

Boston's oldest Softball team took the field last night hoping to ride the waves of Wednesday's nights win. The Daily Boggs were the opponent, a rag tag bunch of beer ballers that were the last team to sneak into the playoffs last year. A formidable foe, they faced our Lefty for his first start of the year. The Lefty's contract expires mid-summer as the Ringers did not want to pick up his 2 million dollar extention...he could always pick up with Raso's Grill forming a Beckett/Lester type tandem.

In true Noyes fashion he walked the first batter of the game and you could already see former Manager Sully biting his nails. Noyes settled down though, figuring out the zone and working side to side trying to nibble the corners. Maybe having a hunchback behind the plate helped his aim and velocity. Seriously Crupi...how is your back today? Looking at you made MY back hurt.

The bats were warm most of the night, Sully stays hot and TC kept peppering left field. We really capitalized on their errors. I have never seen such awful overthrows, fast throws, slow throws, it was pretty amazing. That third baseman is lucky he still has his head with the lasers we were hitting at him. As the ex-skipper said while he wore a Bud Light mustache "nothing wrong with hitting ground balls at a bad team"

The lineup changed a bit, giving birth to the kid we all now call "2 Hole". At first we all thought the 2 hole stunk. He was the only starter not to have a hit in the first game . But the 2 hole is tricky, sometimes you cant really find him, sometimes he really stinks...yet sometimes he can be the most fun you've ever had...especially when you've had a few Ice houses. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=2%20hole 2 Hole really proved his worth last night with 2 solid hits and a fly ball which Bags really should have scored on...although his knees looked rickety all night, maybe a good choice not to run.

On to the field where the Shortstop really wanted to make his mark. Sully cannot stand when people make better plays then him...hates it. His entire basement is filled with pictures of people that have made rad plays and he vows to either top them or kill them. It is like walking into the Lair of James Gumb from Silence of the Lambs...you do NOT want to be on that wall.

So how do you pull a rabbit out of a hat? You pull off the unthinkable. You do what Kevin Mitchell did a long time ago for the Giants. You get a good jump on something...but you dog it just a bit...you think to yourself this is my moment, this is where I prove I am the best at everything. This is my time to shine and I can finally take all of those pictures down. No more Daryl Clark bulletin board, Davis Tyree gets pulled down tonight. So Sully extends that claw of a hand he has...and quielty tops all the one handers that caught a smaller baseball in their hand, or use a gey glove to stick it. Sully extends, Sully sees, Sully grabs. He smirks, he wants to talk about it, he's the man.

Noyes continued to work the corners, running into some count troubles but letting them hit it and getting out of a few jams. One play may be a precursor to a little thing we like to call, The Golden Glove award. This award is given to someone who just makes the plays, no bs, no dressing things up, and no errors. The award has eluded Noyes the last few years...actually finishing dead last each year...but with darkness comes light and he has added a new move to his repetoire, the sky hook to first. Patented by Kareem (Lew Alcindor) Noyes has been watching tape and figured if Kareem can average a double-double and win a few Championship, he can at least throw over to first with a signature move...should have went to third with it, but that was too pretty not to go to first with. Tip of the cap to ya.

Noyes gets out of a jam in the 7th and we take the game 12-10. Now starts a stretch of really really tough games, we need all hands on deck. Here's to being 2-0, buckle up...it's gonna be a bumpy one.

...and the lesbians ass kind of looked like Erin Andrews'...here's to feelin good all the time.

Drive.

Dan Crupi, bottom of the order hitter and only OF to play with a First Baseman's mitt in the entire American Softball Association:

"You know what drives me? I know my glove is going to turn up tomorrow after I buy one"

What Drives You?

Game 1 Win 8-6 aka RIP Hammer, we hardly knew ya

Maybe it's just me being sentimental, or maybe I was the only one stupid enough to use the Hammer, but he served the team well in his short 1 year stint. God Speed Hammer. As Danny said "it sounds like their is a squirrel inside it". Well, maybe that squirrel was an angel of God...if so take him to a nice quiet place squirrel, where every bunt is a Home Run, and every suicide squeeze gets layed down. (Ironically I hit in the 7th with the Green Machine and had a single but oh well)

The Sons of Monty took the field on a brisk day in May ready to start the season of right. The usual suspects were there minus the Lefty and Connors. Started out a bit slow, a lot of grounders and Josh with one GIGANTIC pop up in the first, the thing barely went to 3rd. TC started out hot at the plate as did Sully. Nothing to show for it through the first few innings. I came up with the bases juiced grounded out to bring a run in but didn't get that big hit we could have used. Defense and pitching was the name of the game last night. Great plays all around the infield last night, Mbags a huge hot corner, Sully solid all night, Josh two great plays going first to second to get 2 force outs. Timmy and Danny covering a lot of ground in the OF...and our own Danny Crupi with what looked to be a first basemans mitt. He tried to pull a reverse Willy Mays and position his glove to scoop a fly ball coming at him but had some trouble snatching it. Made up for it with a fly grab to end the inning though. Welcome back to the team Danny Boy.






Most people run to first like this...but not the Brothers Bagshaw. They go into first like a brick shit house and bulldoze everything in sight. Bags gave a new meaning to the phrase Dirty Thirty as he flopped into first as did MBags with a half moon job pointing straight at Paz-ay's two family joint across the street. If the Bagshaw train is pulling into the station...it's best to get out of the way.


I K'd a kid but I think he may have been a re-tard. Jury still out on that one.


Rally starts in the 7th with a single by Riz, a few errors by the SS, big hit by Sully, and a clutch two-bagger by the King of Late Night tele....ah just the King of Late. Kid places it in the same spot every time, nice rip Boonton, clutch hit.

The Bandits go 1-2-3 in the bottom of the 7th and that's the game folks.

Ringers 1-0


*special thanks to Boonton with help on the pictures, TC for reminding me about the Bagshaw flop...never go into first like that at home...

Opening Day vs the Wet Bandits

The Ringers open the season tonight agains the Wet Bandits...a "Hill-less" Wet Bandits as apparently he is fixing ships in St Thomas. Yes, the same Hill that took a liner from Sully and ended his season. It will be a chilly one at Tufts Park tonight, hopefully the rust comes off early.

The Ringers have arguably the hardest schedule in the league for the first few weeks. The Kid takes the hill tonight, Noyes is on the bump against the Daily Boggs tomorrow night.

Bring on the Wet Bandits

(I have to thank some of our listings girls for running/swimming in the L Street Brownies thing in Southie and getting Wet Bandits uniforms)

League info

2010 Schedule (1st month)

2009...ends in the Finals

swept by the Demons