PTG Author Thin Skinned

So I made a couple of comments about the PT Green blog. Obviously, meaning to start a bit of controversy. Seems as though it was a bit hard for him to take. He immediately went on the defensive about his wine drinking habits by listing off some nicknames of wines that he may have seen before, and a region in which there are some vineyards. As if to make us believe that he is an expert....sorry, not fooled. He was also horrified that I don't appreciate his over use of exclamation points and an urban slang term for our Lord and Savior. He then went on to foolishly try to demonstrate his offensive skills by ripping me about the number of readers I have. I've already taken care of that myself. Once again, I already know how small my readership is, I was the one that told him!

I would like to make a comparison of our two blogs. Mine: edgy, controversial, cutting edge, insightful, interesting. His: boring, elementary, irrelevant. I am the Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh while he is the Mr. Rogers and HD DVD. (I will be honest, this is not what I had intended, but what could be better for my readers in the off season than to watch thier favorite blogger rant away about an opponents blog.) This really isn't a fair fight, maybe I should go easy on him?

Returning Upon Request From Fans

Today I began receiving mail from my loyal reader, requesting that I continue to blog. Since this blogger aims to please, and he makes up somewhere between 25 and 50% of my readership, I decided to toss him a bone. However I have decided to lay down some ground rules to make this more interesting. So here are the rules:

1. Y'all know the rules!

2. It could be murder?

3. No matter how much you beg and plead, I refuse to use excessive exclamation points!!!!! I hate that!!!!!!

4. I will not use the word "Jeez". I'm not even sure that "Jeez" is a word. Either way, I don't believe it should be used liberally.

5. I would like return comments after reading my posts, just to keep it interesting for myself.

6. I would appreciate a ranking of each post. Maybe on a 1-10 scale. All rankings below a 9 will be disregarded, and yes, I will accept an 11.

7. There will never, ever, be any references to White Zinfandel. For two reasons: I don't consider it an acceptable beverage for human consumption, and I prefer to forget any occurrence where I have been exposed to that "oops" of wine making. Oh, I guess there is one more reason: THIS IS A SOFTBALL BLOG, not to be confused with a wine snob blog (which may be the next venture, would probably attract more readers).

I think that this does it for my rules. There's only 7 of them. It's not like The Ten Commandments or anything. I know, some of them seem rather selfish, but when you only have 4 readers, tops, and I am including myself in that, I don't think that is too much to ask. So onto softball related items.

Dead Money finished in first place again in the fall season. We knocked down the first place team in the final game of the season to give at least the two of us just two losses on the season. We did it with only 9 men on the field. What a show of defensive dominance. There may be as many as 4 teams with an 8-2 record. We still have two more games to go in our Chanhassen league. We have had a great season so far and I would just like to say: Thank you for reading and suggestions for topics during the off-season would be greatly appreciated.

The Proof is in the Pudding

Nothing brings me back to the "blogger" faster than a heated game with some trash talking losers. We had our 4th game of the year against Team Alliance/Miken last night. Let me just say that, when we gazed into our bowl of pudding last night, it showed that we dominate. Team Alliance's bowl of pudding....well, it was spilled in thier laps. They showed thier true colors once again in a similar fashion to our last meeting. Trash talking doesn't even begin to describe it. These guys are a bunch of busch league losers. They don't respect the game, thier opponents or even themselves. Once again the biggest douchebag of them all wouldn't give up home plate after being dismantled by Dead Money's performance. I bet he went home and beat up his boyfriend after the game. In all honesty, we have played much better softball than we did last night and still Team Alliance/ Miken looked like a lower classed team. I mean, not even one long ball last night. And still we get the job done. So in short, they suck, and we rock. We are 3-1 against them this year and have out scored them 58-37. The one loss we had against them was by one run and we were missing a few core players that game.

Victorious as Season Reconvienes

Even with the distraction of just winning a championship last week and a veritable goulash for a defensive roster, Dead Money pulls out two more wins in the Minnetonka Tuesday night Double Header league. However, it was somewhat of a disappointment to go 6 innings with the Hopkins Fire Department. Those guys (and a girl!) are not even close to being tough competition. That game should have been put away after the second inning. The second game was a bit tougher and appeared that it might give us a little more trouble. But, once again we overcome adversity and come back after being down 0-7, and ten run Mainstreets in the bottom of the 5th. Amazing.

Season Totals

Note that we scored over 10 runs in every game and held our opponents to under 10 runs in 13 of 19 games. Also, our only 2 losses were by 1 run each. Very nice.

Dead Money Banned From Wild Turkey's Blog.

We're really sorry Wild Turkey's for all of the mischief. We really do enjoy reading your blog and hope that you will reopen it for our view. The truth is that if it weren't for your blog we may not be in the position we are now. Since discovering your blog we have had a perfect record in both leagues that we are in. Seems we just needed something to fight for. Perhaps it was just enough to get our blood pumping a little more. We meant no harm by any of our posts on our page nor by any of our comments on yours. It was just a little gamesmanship. We do respect your team for its record in the regular season and just felt we should give you a little needling for good measure. We were hoping that you would discover our blog and we might be able to get a little rivalry going. Remember, you started your blog first. We just answered back. Do you remember this comment that you made, "They are annoying people, and I don't like them very much."? Well if you don't, it was a comment made about us, by you. We found this among other parts of your blog rather funny and enjoy reading about the ups and downs of your team. You will be able to view or comment on our blog as much as you like, and we hope that you will allow us to to the same. If not, it was a good run and we hope to see you next year. After all, we do owe some of our success to you.

P.S. nah nah nah nah boo boo!

Dead Money Wins!

Dead Money's first championship is a marvelous one. We had a 10 run second inning that for all intensive purposes sealed the game for us. The game was certainly less dramatic than expected. Ballz Deep was completely taken out of their game by flawless defence. And by flawless I mean spectacular. There were diving catches, double plays and smart ball control. Dead Money has certainly played as a stand alone first place team should...perfectly! So the final score was 17-7, yet another 10 run game in 5 innings.

Ballz Deep was without a doubt the second best team in the league. They were definitely seen as the best competitors, the one team that had a chance to beat us. They certainly have the bats and the speed, but seem to be lacking the defensive prowess that it takes to win a championship. I would also like to note that they were very good sports, which was much appreciated when compared with some of the other teams that we have played lately. No talking about how good they are before the game and not a single bit of trash talking during or after the game. Thank you Ballz Deep for good, clean, friendly competition.

On another note, it turns out that I was wrong about the Wild Turkeys. They did not go running away from the Tuesday night league. My mistake, and I apologize sincerely. What actually happened is that they were sent on a highly classified mission by an undisclosed higher power to really make something out of the Thursday night league. A good choice for the "higher power" to choose the team that only won one game in the playoffs against the worst team in the league. Way to go Wild Turkeys! You really showed us all what you are capable of. As far as your clandestine mission to the Thursday night league, our thoughts and prayers will be with you. Godspeed Wild Turkeys, Godspeed!

Wild Turkeys Running From Tuesday Night League

It appears that the Wild Turkeys have become scared and flushed out of the Tuesday night double header league at Big Willow. The self-declared "dominate" team in the Tuesday night league is running with their tail feathers between their legs. Must be embarrassing. They have already declared themselves the champions of the Thursday night fall league without a game even being played. This must have been done tongue in cheek, because we all know what happened the last time they made such a ridiculous declaration. For those of you who don't know what happened, they were eliminated in their fourth game of a double elimination playoff tourney. They also like to continue to refer to themselves as the regular season champions, which we all know is not true since Dead Money defeated them in head-to-head play, making Dead Money the obvious winner. Plus we have the trophy to prove it (refer to post from July 11).

Trash Talking Teams Are Nothing But Hot Garbage.

Well it turns out that The Wild Turkeys aren't the dominating team in the league, and that we in fact will not be seeing Team Alliance next Tuesday as their douchebag second baseman had promised us after they took a severe pummeling in a 11-1 loss. I mean really, douchebag second baseman, you're not gonna give up home plate after you just suffered a humiliating loss? All that means, is that you lost, and then you were a dick head. There is nothing positive in that. Oh, and then you lost again to Ballz Deep.

So, next week we will be playing Ballz Deep in the championship game. We need to beat them once out of two games in order to win. I do believe they are the one decent team in the league that has actually not been talking trash. I guess that means they are not "Hot Garbage". But, we have not lost to them yet.

Wild Turkeys Pick Dead Money!

Looking at The Wild Turkeys blog, they have Dead Money as the favorite over Team Alliance. Have these poor souls finally realized who the true dominating team in Minnetonka is? It sure sounds like they want no part of this plate of nachos! We've got them running for the hills boys, lets just make sure we follow through like Derek does with that sweet release.

Final Game of the Regular Season: Part Deuce!

Tonight, Derek will throw out the final pitches of the regular season in Eden Prairie. Our opponent, DTC, is virtually unknown. Their record shows that they are a below .500 team but they are averaging about the same number of runs per game as we do (about 12). Our defense should be the deciding factor, smart plays-we win, bad decisions-we lose.

Nice Play Nate!

A Great Start in the Playoffs!

Once again we were able to watch the sopposed dominate team in the Minnetonka League lose proir to the start of our playoff games. Seems that the luster of the Wild Turkeys has been lost. Maybe a more appropriate name for the their team would be, "The Choking Turkeys". Maybe they should be spending less time talking trash about other teams, and a little more time on not choking!



On an even more exciting note, Dead Money wins the first two games of the playoffs, and continues a nice little winning streak. We were sharp in the field, completing 5 double plays in the two games. That would be tough for any competitor to overcome. Also exceeding our homerun limit with runners on base helped out in the final tally.



Last Friday we also went 2-0 defeating a previously undefeated Wooddale Green. As predicted it was a bad decision on thier part to make up the game with Dead Money. They will not be able to get back thier undefeated status. Dead Money proves once again that they are a force to be reconed with.

Division Championship Trophy

We have been awarded the highest honor for our accomplishments in the Minnetonka League. We are The regular season Division Champions! Pat yourselves on the backs fellas, well done!

Wide Spectrum of Games Tonight

As Dead Money reconvenes the Friday night league after a Forth of July break, we will be playing a double-header, rather than the originally scheduled single-header. Wooddale Green wanted to play our make-up game at 7:50. Which was a poor decision on their part. I would have thought that they would like to preserve thier perfect record.

Tonights match-ups are polar opposites. The first game is against what appears to be a horrible team, the T.P. Terminators. I mean really, who can't terminate some T.P.? I do it at least once a day, if you know what I mean. Apparently just about everybody terminates these guys, 'cause they have a 2-12 record, with an average of 4.71 runs per game. I think that they may have accidentally signed up for softball when attempting to play in a soccer league.

Wooddale Green on the other hand is the stand alone number one team in the league with a perfect 13-0 record, with an average of 13.77 RPG. This is a very defeatable team. We lost a close game to them last year with an inferior Dead Money roster. We will have an hour in between games to discuss strategy and....drink beer? Relaxation is the key to this game, along with smart fielding and baserunning.

This is how we play!

We sacrifice life and limb for the "W". So to all the teams that think they can come in and walk to a victory, they can lick Nate's (or Brian's) leg wound!

Final Game of the Regular Season

Well, last night certainly was satisfying for the players and fans alike. Prior to the start of our final game of the season we witnessed the trash talking Wild Turkeys suffer a humiliating deafeat at the hands of a sub-par D&D team. To D&D's credit, they are a much improved team. Plus like us, they are an all Hopkins team. So at this point, we are number one!

Our game at 9:15 went as it should have, we win 21-5. This is the Dead Money performance that we all have been awaiting. Seems like the last month has been riddled with close wins and even a few losses. But we played last night like the way we began the season...completely dominating. Although satisfying to take that win, and finally score over 20 runs, our opponents were the worst team in the league and they should be dominated.

So lets take this momentum into the rest of the season in Eden Prairie and into the Playoffs in Minnetonka. Go Dead Money!