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The Body Shots ship finally set's sail for another voyage of pillaging, plundering, drunkness and mayhem. We take on the teams in Sante Fe Springs leagues and go back to where there are some of the best kept fields. We have lost some major players and key contributors, gone are: Janae, Katrina, Daniel and Cheyanne. We will miss them all and hope prosperious sails and rich booty.
Coming on to the team is Arlene Hernandez, Norman Hernandez, Jonathan and lastly Capt. Jack. We look forward to a fun season and a rich tradition forged by those players today and those from the past. Our priorities are not of championshis to win, but the alcohol to drink and the mayhem that purses afterword. So on a cold dark night with the water still and the fog rolled in be weary for ye might just see our mighty Body Shots vessel coming to reek havoc!!!
Game #7 would be against $30. Cleats a good time, with our girl side of the roster being depleted again I was left with the task of trying to find girls that would fit into out chemistry already. I knew Norma would be out, but I get a text from Kari, she is out, then I had picked up Brittanie from old friend who use to play on UpnOver, she is small but a mighty might :) Thinking ok we picked her up to shore up on a dropping girls only to get to the park to find out, no Aida, no Arlene, to go with the no Kari and no Norma, oh wow, another blow out. Rene play's hurt with her fingers and ankles hurting, and my wife Fess helps out. we have 4 girls and 5 girls cause with Brit, I was able to beg Kitty Kat to show up. So we take the field We take the field with only 9 players, I feel like crap cause Rene is such a gamer and even hurt will take the field. Fess my wife also takes the field. We go neck and neck with $30. cleats for 4 innings. In the 5th is when we were able to goose them and able score 3 runs. We goosed them again in the 6th and scored 3 more runs to make it 15, Their last bats they could only answer with 3 runs and it was over. We did lose Rene for the rest of the season. The rumitisume in her hands was so severe I had to take her home. Get better Rene!!!
Final Score:
$30. Cleats: 12
Body Shots : 15
next week vs. Young Guns.
Game #6 Would see us go for our 14th win against Crossfire, a team we mercied the 1st time we played them. With myself and Rene out, we had again no show's Arelene - out, Mario - out, Manny - out, Kari was left capt. of the ship, With Arlene out, we had to call on Katrina to help, but even that wasn't enough, we only rolled in with 4 girls and 3 guys, Kari done her best by picking up one of crossfire guys only so he can leave in the 3rd inning, "oh great", She was also able to recruit a guy from the basketball courts. Fernie showed up and pitched and shore up some of the holes. One thing about Body Shots is we will give it our all for 7 inngs and my understanding was as a team we tried to respond but there was just too much damage and too many holes left for a vessel unfit for the ocean and before you can say ball game our 13 game win streak was snapped and the mighty body shot's vessel laid at the bottom of Davey Jones locker!! Well there is next week and a start of a new streak.
Final Score:
Crossfire 13
Body Shots 7
Next Game
vs. $30 Cleats
Game #5 Is usually the mid point for the league and a team. The team should be set and jelling. The other teams are also coming into their own. I honestly feel even with some major losses, we still are top of the league talent wise. Well the Body Shot ship has taken on some major damage in it's battles leading into game 5. Injuries to Rene, and not signing a 6th girl has made us vulnerable. So we roll to the game with our usual crew of Aida, Jonathan, Manny, Eli, Capt. Jack, Norma, Kari and myself. Kari brought in old friend Milly. We take the field against Bomb Squad, who only has only 2 wins in the league, how hard can this be?? Well they gave us everything they had and then some. 13 games on the line, 13 wins, 13 victories. When we started this team it was something I never imagined happening. Well we are here with a battle going against B.S. and they have hammer. Rene is needed, she is battling through injuries and takes the field as catcher with the wrong sided glove. Everything is coming up aces for a lose. We roll 4 with their pitcher walking everyone and their mom. They have girls that can hit and catch. They answer with 6 runs of their own. The whole game it was a battle, we were patient with walks, but they would answer with hits every inning. Only one inning we goosed them, but they goosed us also that inning. We didn't have the hammer and we go into the final inning it was tied up and we roll a 4. I wasn't comfortable with us taking the field, players stepping up to play out of postion and doing a great job but there is always that question mark. Ok up 4 runs and here they come, base hit and an out, base hit and another out. 2 outs we are up 2 runs man on 2 and 3, their manager hit's a single to right, and the runner comes charging from 2nd to home. Rene is covering and and Eddie throws a perfect strike from right field to Rene, Rene makes the catch with the wrong glove. The runner comes home he jumps up to avoid the tag, Rene makes the tag on his foot for the final out and we escape with the win.
Final Score:
Body Shots 15
Bomb Squad 14
Next Week
vs. Cross Fire
Game #4 saw us take on Team Exreme. With our 11th win in a row under our belt, we have to feel pretty good about ourselves. So we take the field with only 4 girls.......Great, Rene is out due to having her wisdom tooth extracted. So we ask her to take the field and she does as a real trooper, She was hurting but enjoyed playing. As it is I am concerned about us running up the score against inferior teams and my name being mud with the Director. The first 2 innings we just were flat, but by the end of the 2nd we found our groove and just dismantled team exreme. When the smoke finally cleared we saw us mercy them and us getting our 12th win.
Final Score:
Team Exreme 2
Body Shots 20
Next Week
vs. Bomb Squad
Game 3 pitted us against Young Guns, the team that is going to give us the most competition. With Rene and myself out it left the running of the team to Kari and Mario; Mario show's up late and Fernie pitches. My understanding is with us batting for our 11th win, this was our worst game played. Luckly everyone convinced Manny to take a baseloaded walk for the win.
Final Score:
Body Shots 10
Young Guns 9
Next Week
vs. Team Extreme
Game 2 saw us face a new team called $30.00 Cleats. We are at game time and know Arlene, curse her!! I figured FLAKESVILLE....So Fess is about to suit up when my youngest son VETO's the move citing he dosn't want him mom getting hurt??? Great a little drama before the game. On a positive note Capt. Jack returned form the abyss. So I do the line up and we are visitors and Manny is pissed because he has too much work and decides to take it out on the ball. Plus with him using one of the banned bats it was lights out. HR 1st at bat. Then Arlene decides to play and say's I'm here!! uggghhhh thanks for giving me more white hairs.
Jonathan comes up with base's loaded and hit's a Grand Slam and we are rolling on 8 runs. $30. cleats answer with a zero. We kinda went on cruise control and we were up 14 to zero and thinking mercy, I'm freaking because if we do, I am picturing the Director giving me crap. Well we blow a couple of defensive plays and before you know it we have a game. It is 14 to 9 us, but just as fast as they rolled 9 on us we rolled a 10 spot to answer back. Kari was pretty much hitting her shot's with a double and triple on the righ side and Manny hit another HR. We win this in 5 innings giving us our 10th win in row.
Final Score:
Body Shots: 25
$30. Cleats: 18
Next Week: 6:30 vs. Young Guns
PS: Myself and Rene will be out this game
With game 1 vs. Crossfire and us losing some key componets, I really didn't know how well we would do in our 1st game. I usually had my hands full when I battled with w/Ya Estuvo against Crossfire. Well this isn't Ya Estuvo and the 1st inning pretty much told me how we would do. Like a comfortable pair of jeans or an old sweater. We found our grove and we didn't so much role against a weaker team, it was more of finding a grove upon each other, knowing our outfield is going where and where our infield was playing. The little things, we just clicked. With Crossfire missing players and it being a team of lesser talent it wasn't much of a game, we rolled in 3 inning to a mercey.
Final Score:
Body Shots: 17
Crossfire: 5
Next Week:
Body Shots vs. $30 Cleats
So we go into the playoffs as the #1 seed facing Come What May. We just watched Get Down dismantle Nuts and Jugs. NnJ pitcher Rick and I go back to Touch of Power days. He pulled me to the side and asked about Jessica playing with Get Down, I commented about does she have enough at bats to qualify for playoffs? So we get to playing our game and after a rocky start roll past Come What May. In the championship game, during the rules, I get crap for calling out Jessica? What the fuck?? Well that is the last time I comment about a person's elgibilty.
So Get Down is fired up to beat us and tell me stop crying, and they have their cheering section of drunks chirping away. Again there is that tension in the air and they are fired up to beat us. Can't blame them since we owned them during the regular season. Soon their fans start chirping in about going middle on me as well as the guys? Like it would be a challenge to tag a bean bag with arms?? What is disappointing is what one does in the name of competition for what amounts to a $5.00 shirt. After insults exchange back and forth and unpleasant compliments. The umpire finally takes control of the game or tries to. They have 3 guys that go middle with authority. Us maybe 2. Sure enough Dave send's a shot to him and tag's me on the chest. What is f'd up about it is the comments afterword by Get Down. The game moves on and it's a battle of scratch and claw. We are up and I went with a pitch by Eddie only for me to buzz past him. He goes balastic thinking it was intentional and threats me as if I stole his last dollar. Umpire starts to argue with him and I finally tired of all the crap and tell the umpire it's ok, lets just play. If I get hit AGAIN!!! then so be it. Try as hard as he did he hits a candy hopper that goes barely over me all of 1 inch jump. During this time they had the lead throught out the game. I give so much prop's to my team for staying the course, being positive be it down by 12, 10, 5, or 2. With Mario out due to work and Daniel covering, our infield made some great plays. In the 6th we finally caught them and tied it up. Also Mario had come rushing back to make the finaly inning. Again controvery assumed due to Get Down believing I couldn't add Mario in for the finaly innings. He pitches a perfect inning and shut them down 1-2-3. Having been in the game for about 20 years and going, I thought I seen everything. What I seen next disappointed me of my past players. In protesting which for me putting in Mario, they thought they were right and I couldn't. Their fustrastion manifested to the point it got the better of the WHOLE team. Opting instead of taking the field because we were home team, THEY QUIT!!!! Didn't take the field. Maybe they didn't want to be left on the field?? Why?? They just gave up Who know's but themselves. I would never allow that on my team. Even if I have to go out there with 8 guys, 7 guys. I don't care, you never quit!!Never give up!! The scorekeeper was shocked and confused the umpire was happy and we were glad to get out of there.
Final Score:
Get Down: ????
Body Shots: Champions!!!!
With a huge win for us last week against Get Down, I was concern it we would have a let down and come out flat in this game. Well I ran late, Rene ran late, and the team was there looking at us as if saying,
"Dumb Ass why are you late". I get the line up going, Eli is out and Daniel filled in for him. Katrina had asked if she could bat in the game. With such a pretty girl, I was like ahhh, so my response was "F YOU KATRINA!!!, YOU DON'T WANT TO ADD ME TO YOUR LIST OF FRIENDS ON MYSPACE WHY SHOULD I ALLOW YOU TO BAT!!!? HA HA HA No I didn't say that, I said for sure!!!. We rollED with 7 girls in our line up, which we haven't done before. It didn't matter our girls our solid. the best in the league bar none!! So she rotate's at 3rd with Janae is is solid. We started off against Come What May slow, just plating 3 runs to their 1 in the 1st. In the 2nd we saw them roll a 7 on us, with some terrible miscue's on defense. Not covering bag's, throwing the ball away, etc. So they roll a 7 and I'm thinking great we now have a game. We answer with a mesley 2. I honestly felt the ump had something against us cause Janae was robbed early of a infield hit and it happen again. I am thinking man let's get back to what we do best and get out of here. So we continued to play. We finally goosed them(0) for one inning and rolled a 2 again. Damn, freakn 2, we just couldn't get going. In the 4th they plated 1 and we rolled a 10 spot, from there our defense shut them down and we won.
Final Score:
Come What May: 12
Body Shot's 19
next game vs. Nuts n Jugs
For the 1st place seed going into
the playoffs.
For me being around this game for over 20 years, I pretty much seen everything. The one time I hate playing this game is when it's against good friends and one's you even love; be it tournament ball or league. BEING COMPETATIVE - Being Competative, to me is a basic in human nature. It isn't a cultural thing or a nationality thing. It is human nature, and with that sometimes it get's the best of us. It effect's me and as with anyone else and those around me have seen it get the best of me as well; ask Kari, and Monica. I have learned......... or try to learn from such experiences, to walk away and say it's only a game.
GET DOWN is a solid team that can rack up the runs at will. Once they learn to play with each other and trust each other, it will be light's out even against the better teams. Right now it is still a guys/girls team. We get to the field and there is a little joking amoung the players, but u can tell they(Get Down) wanted a piece of body shot's and preferrable a shirt on a stick to burn. When one play's against friends and the way bat's are today there is usually a rule, no middle. Robert and Co, can go middle at will and with authority with the best of them. I preach to my team about staying out of middle cause your talking about a bean bag with arms covering it on our side.
There is tension, electricty like a play-off game, you can feel it and feed off of it. We our visitors and plate 4 and they answer back with 3 runs. The ump we had was fair but lack a good control for a game like this and verbal command, what can you say it is what it is, you roll with it. So the 2nd inning Eli comes up and he has been stinging the ball all season. What happen's no bat control and goes middle, I yell at him and Robert look's at me with the "What the Fuck look", I can't blame him since Rico AKA Iron Man is pitching and not Eddie. I like all these guy's I know Eli doesn't know them, But Eli isn't the type of player to go middle on purpose. Robert is pissed because it is the preception that it makes it look intentional, which again I totally understand. This is a scratch and claw game. We plate 4 more again, they answer with 2 runs themselves. The game time is going fast, in the 3rd I come up to bat and Rico pitches me short, I went with the pitch, unfortunetaly it went back up the middle, a place I didn't want to hit it to. Man with us having the lead and a couple of miscues by Get Down, Robert look's at me like I should be hung. Not even getting to 1st I am yelling at Rico, "Sorry Bro", I look at Pito and tell him bro it wasn't on purpose. None of it matter, they are pissed. We scratched out another 5 runs and they answered with 3. It was like that up to the last inning. We plated 3 runs they answered with 2. They will be in the championship, right now it's mental with them, we have the edge, hopefully we can ride it out and get out of dodge. GAME MVP goes to Rene Brill for playing 3rd.
Final Score:
Body Shots: 20
Get Down 13
NEXT GAME VS. Come What May
One thing I love about this team is versatillity. We can switch pitchers when I suck(almost always) or missing, to switching infielders and outfielders. Usually with coed teams you are limited to the girls, and what they feel comfortable playing. I GOD I LOVE THIS TEAM!!. Our girls rock, straight out. It has to be one of the best teams I have assembled as far as coed goes.
With that being said we take the field against blue balls. With a name like that I would hope that was something they didn't live up too. So they are short handed and we flip. We take home and they score 1 or 2. We proceeded to get the out's 1-2-3. Then it was our turn to hit and we did, we rolled. When the 3rd out was recorded we plated 14 freakn runs. We pretty much sent a message to the rest of the league. We are for real!!!You better bring your A game against us or it's out. Body Shot's style. We plated 35 runs to their 10. Ump finally seen enough and said mercy.
MVP AWARDS GOES TO ELI FOR HITTING THE CYCLE, CONGRATES ELI.
FINAL SCORE:
BLUE BALLS: 10
BODY SHOTS: 35
NEXT GAME VS. GET DOWN
So with us sporting our new shirts, we take the field against Under Dogs, who where over matched. We put on a great hitting display and rolled past The Under Dog's 24 to 7. Game Honor's went to Kari Esparanza for hitting a HR and Ron Leo's for hitting the cycle.
Final Score:
Underdogs: 7
Body Shots: 24
Next week game vs. Blue Balls @ 6:45
With myself and Rene gone for BSA Training it leave's the team with Kari and Fernie running the ship. Wish I could have heard that we won but due to error's and not enough hittting we lose this one by 1 run.
The game is reschedule due to rain out conditions.
The team is set and I'm pumped... Everyone that hasn't played with each other has raised eyebrow's to see if it's a legit team I put together. "Would I assemble a team if it wasn't??" On our schedule for the 1st game is "Get Down". This is Robert Soto and Co.: Monica, Melissa, Celeste, David, and Marina, Wow what a way to start the season. I know each and everyone of the player's Pedro assembled and I know they are going to be there when everything is said and done at the end. His guys can bring it almost at will. Monica is the girls team leader and can bring her own thunder when she wants as well. So we do all the formalities of hug's and good seeing you, but once the ump say's take the field..............It's all business.
Their lead off Eddie hit's a shot and stretches a double from a single. Next at bat was Celeste, she hit's it straight to Janae, who pump's fake to 1st and get's Eddie in a pickle, she chase's him to 3rd where I tag him out. This pretty much set the tone for the game. It was a scratch and claw battle. I was trying my best to kept the guy batter's off balance, have them chance bad pitches and not making too many mistakes. For the most part it worked, but the defense also made some key play's as well. Controversy came in the 3rd when I distracted Monica enough to ease up on a pitch she was going to swing at. She ended up striking out and needless to say I ended getting her wrath to my dismay. Later in the 5th with her standing on 3rd, Eddie hit's a shot down the 3rd baseline and it hits' Monica. Monica will always bring intensity to the game which I do love about her. Remind's me of well.....ME!!! So being commpetative like I am and wouldn't expect less from her. I instructed to the blue she is out. He agreed and sent the "Get Down" dugout into frenzie. In all reality she looked to be on the foul side of the bag when she got hit and it should have been ruled foul ball, but with them pressing and us only up by 4 I wasn't going to object. The game kept going back and forth with us having the lead the whole game. Even at the end with us up 9 runs. Pedro and co. made a run and before you know it scored 5 runs and had people on the bag with Robert up. I knew he would try to go for the homer and I was lucky to get him to pop up to end the game.
Final Score:
Get Down: 15
Body Shot's: 19
Next Game vs. Come What May
9:15
With the dismantle of my Friday team Ya Estuvo I was left to either find another team or not play on Friday's. I tried Pedro's team Get Down. Turn's out Pedro recruited most of my girls from old Sunday team and my good friends Robert and Monica Soto, Couldn't go wrong starting a team with any of these girls. But alas, due to the season fast approaching in only a week; their team was set. So with that being said it was the decision to try to recruit some of my other sunday player's and hopefully would mesh with those of us from the Friday Ya Estuvo team. I placed a call out to one girl I really wanted to see play and that was Janae Mosley. I always wanted to see if I could get her to play again and she was interested. With her came the other book end, and that was Aida Abuhakmeh. Now with these girls, youu can build a team around them. They are young and can bring it; it's just a matter of time before the rest of the softball community start's to come calling. So I pretty much had the core girls I wanted. It was now just filling in the slot's with quality guys. I knew I couldn't start my season with out the combination of Eli and Capt. Jack, So again with them and Manny Montes from Ya Estuvo my 3 core guys were set. Now just plugging a short and a big utlitiy player. I also needed to fill in a 1st base girl. Due to default beyond my control I asked Mario Sencion to help us out. My utility guy really came as a fluke, Fernie, play's on my Sunday team and couldn't make the drive to where his team relocated to which was BLD in West Covina. So he asked if I had room, which my response was sure. So boom we were solid now with guys. My 2 girl subs were Rene Brill and Cat Zarate. Again great pick up's and team player's as well. The last piece of the puzzle has been Cole, she is our work in progross who enjoy's being out there and being part of the team. So with the team set it's just a matter of the how strong teams in the league, to be cont.........
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