Conference 7.286::sports_90

    Digital Charlotte started its season with a close win last night in the
    Charlotte Co-Rec League...
    
    
    
    21-1 against the mis-named Sluggers.
    
    Kind of reminded me of the Duke-UNLV game.  
    
    	--dan'l

    What?  Softball season started in January!  

    Advice?  Yeah, use an aluminum bat and watch Mr. Spaulding fly
    outa da park!
    
    Clay

No, no, no....

The only answer is a woody.  Never never use a foreign object 
like aluminum when a woody will do.

In fact, the great song Louie Louie was originally written about
woodies, but at the time people with fake eyes got upset:

	Woodie, wood-eye, oh, oh....


I mean, would the Jan and Dean song about sidewalk surfin be the
same if they were singin' about having a '34 Aluminum????

Nosireebub!

    Aluminum is not *foreign*.  It is mined from the good dirt of the
    USA.
    
    hot dogs, apple pie, motherhood, aluminum bats = America
    
    Claybone

    Hey dan'l,
    
    	Out here in the west, the plants from CXO, Denver, ABO, Tempe, and
    	Phoenix get together in Sep. or Oct. and have what is called the
    	Southwest Tournament.  Softball is one of the sports.  Each site
    	takes turns being the host.  Do you folks do anything like this?
    
    	I always wondered why DEC didn't have a national tourney for the
    	top finishers in each sport.  Maybe........
    
    Claybone_member_of_the_CXO_Raiders

    Nosirreebub,
    
    	We pay our own way.  Oh, and BTW, ASTERISK THIS PAL! <insert
    picture of Claybone groping his crotchal region>  8-O
    
    Claybone

    I hear the Southwest Tourney is in Phoenix this year.
    
    Mike

    Jake, you slay me.......
    
    Mike, I think the Phoenix site had to relinquish the host title
    this year due to the transition situation.  However, I think
    Tempe was next in line, so, for all practical purposes, it will
    be in Phoenix.  But, the lil' weenies are conspiring against us
    members of the Raiders who hunt Bambi by holding the tourney in
    October.  We are going for our 5th consecutive champeenship this
    year.
    
    Claybone

    Hit the cutoff, bunt, rah rah rah...
    
    Another mediocre year is in store for the Slimy Swingers...

    RE: .6
    
    That tourny sounds cool.  Unfortunatly, There's really not enough sites
    in the southeast outside of Charlotte and Atlanta to organize something
    like this (i.e., most of the sites in the Southeast U.S. are sales and
    services...not enough employees for a poker game).
    
    The closest thing we have is something called the Charlotte Corporate
    Fitness Challenge.  We compete against other companies in Charlotte in
    events including softball, basketball, volleyball, tennis, horseshoes,
    table tennis, 5K run, etc. (all coed).  We usually finish near the
    bottom because DEC Charlotte only consists of about 300 personnel; IBM
    has a site here with over 1000, and the banks in this town employ most
    of the Charlotte population.
    
    The damn thing starts on Thursday night and ends Sunday.  By that time,
    the 30 or so people competing from Digital split between all those
    events are ready to drop dead from exhaustion.  
    
    We also compete every year in the NC state softball tourny.  We've been
    knocked out in the first round the past two yearsby these teams with
    these huge monly-women (that's opposite of girly-mon) that look like
    East German speed skaters (you know the type).  We lost by one run both
    times.
    
    Hey, Claybone, maybe we could stretch your tourny this year and just
    call it the Southern Tournament.  Considering the NCAA Basketball
    seedings, just cause we're from the Southeast don't mean we can't be
    put in the western bracket!
    
    	--dan'l
    
    
    

>    Kind of reminded me of the Duke-UNLV game.  
    
	Hey, teammate, I resemble that remark.

		-- Cliff

    I don't believe any site is excluded from the Southwest Tourney as long
    as you can make it to the host site.
    
    DECwest (Seattle area) almost sent their softball team a couple years 
    ago to Phoenix, but couldn't quite get enough people together.
    
    You (& your team) have to pay your own way, that's why it could be
    difficult.
    
    Mike
    
    

    Digital Tigers Rule...
                    
    Tinker/Evers/Chance_Bach
    
    P.S. RE: Woody, we used to call something else a "woodie" at good
    ole EKU! 

    
    See ya monday Walt....
    
    mike

    dan'l,
    
    	I'm sure the host site would welcome all teams that wanna
    	participate (to a point).  If you could somehow get in
    	touch with the Employee Activity person in Tempe, you 
    	could probably work something out.  If I'm not mistaken,
    	there was a team from a Mexico site at the last SWT.
    
    Claybone

>    	could probably work something out.  If I'm not mistaken,
>    	there was a team from a Mexico site at the last SWT.
    
    Correct Claywad!  The new folks were from Chihuahua, which is in the
    state of Chihuahua.  I think they only brought a volleyball team.
    
    Mike

< Note 214.20 by UPWARD::HEISER "i can c clearly now" >
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Helps when you get the lint out of the way, eh Mike? ;^)

>Helps when you get the lint out of the way, eh Mike? ;^)
    
    Yeah, now I just need to figure out what register to flip bits in to
    get the lint out of my belly button.
    
    Mike

    We got a game Monday?  Thanks for letting me know...

    
    monday 5:45 at MR2 to be exact Walt. You guys are the visitors...
    
    mike

    As long as I show up by my time at bat, I'll be there...

Why did he call the game?  I mean, I've been on teams that have picked
up mega runs in a half inning (we scored 22 runs one time in the bottom
of the seventh to win 23-22, no sh_t!).

Wasn't it possible that they could have put together two good innings
and tied?

Just curious,
'Saw

    They may have had a "mercy" rule, where if one team is leading by
    a certain amount once it becomes an official game, the game ends
    at that point.
    
    John

    Correct.  There is a mercy rule in our league that if a team goes up by
    12 runs after four innings and the other team can't answer in the
    following inning, the game is called.
    
    There's also some kind of mercy rule in our league that I think is that
    if a team has shut out another team in three innings and has at least
    10 runs, the game is called.
    
    I guess the name implies it all; it's mercy for the losing team to not
    have to stand out there and get clobbered.  Kind of like the Broncos
    only John Madden said they aren't allowed to stop.
    
    	--dan'l

    Like a SKUNK in volleyball!

Real men would stand out there and take it.

	"What say you? will you yield, and this avoid?
	 Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroyed?"

Yield?  

Never!

Chainsaw

    Slimy Swingers beat the Panthers 20-16 last night in the MRO-B division
    opener for both teams.  Mike Childs got at least a triple and a single
    or two.  I think I'm currently the league leader in walks with 3.
    
    -Walt

    
    why interfernce is a no-play Walt haha...
    
    and Walt himself had a mighty triple after he accused me of telling
    the pitcher to walk him. I said no way his name wasn't "Homer
    Schneider" the Arizona player of the year......
    
    :^)
    
    what thing Walt were there more errors than hits for both teams
    combined last night? 
    
    mike_who_did_go_3_for_4_unlike_O-FER_WARDLE....  ;^)

    Glad to see Wardle's softball prowess hasn't diminished any!
    
    HAW HAW HAW
    
    Claybone

    I think so Mike, I only had 2 I think  what do you expect opening day? 
    ha ha... didn't realize we picked up a pitcher that could cover first 
    base, not a luxury I'm used to.  I heard him say "I got it" and I 
    thought it was the base coach.
    
    The pitch I hit for the triple was inside too, just swung at it because
    it was "close enough"...
    
    I did hear the Schneider comment... I want to know how much you
    paid that guy to wear a Pistons cap and a Tigers jacket to distract
    me...
    
    -Walt
    

    
    Walt, Tom (in the detroit gear) is orginally from Detroit and his
    brother in law owns a sporting goods place....
    
    mike

    Last night Digital Charlotte clinched an unprecedented 3rd straight
    city-league championship.  We are the first and only team ever to win
    three championships in a row.  Our final record was 13-2 (one loss was
    a forfeit because we decided to compete in the Charlotte Corporate
    Challenge one week instead of our regular league).
    
    What a team!
    
    	--dan'l

I just saw Captain Joel Athy walk into the building with a very large
trophy.

Way to go!

TTom

    
    	What the hail would a Jersey boy know about grits anyway?
    
    	Claybone_the_grits_consultant

>    
>    	What the hail would a Jersey boy know about grits anyway?
>    
>    	Claybone_the_grits_consultant
>

Claybone, you should value diversity here.  Just because JoJ was
born in the state that glows in the dark, and all the corncobs
grew to four feet from the radiation, doesn't mean that you should
be unsensitive to his lifestyle.

Yeah, JoJ, what would a Scorpions_VillagePeople_Fan_Jersey_Boy know
about grits?

'Saw

    re: Claywad and Frankwa
    
    I'm really disappointed in you guys. You are immediately stereotyping
    me because I'm from NJ. I'll bet Claywad has never even been east of
    Arkansas. I think you boys from the south and west should take a
    valuing differences course. Why, just the other day Jack Hunter called
    me a typical East Coast heiny_hole (Tech(tm) for short). 
    
    And Frankwa...do I call you a typical
    Crew_Team_Velour_Shorts_Volvo_Driving_Bay_City_Roller_Loving
    Connecticut boy?
    
    No, I don't. Because I can't believe the whole state of Connecticut
    could be just like you...it's beyond imagination.
    
    So, before you make fun of me for being from the Garden State you'd
    better give it some thought.
    
    JoJ

    JoJ,
    
    	Well, I've thought about it some more...........and you're
    	still a tech  (tm)!!!
    
    	Good thing you didn't bet.  I've been to Mississippi, 'Bama,
    	and some place called Massachusetts a few times (strange
    	place indeed).  I was in Marlboro (isn't that where they
    	make cigarettes?) and the waitress at the restaurant where
    	I was eating breakfast said that they did not serve grits.
    	She walked away mumbling something about stoopid hicks......
    
    	Claybone :^)

    
    Any of you notebums playing in the USSSA class D tourney in Joisey
    Labor day weekend?
    
    
    
    Steve

    I'd love to play, but my team is playing modified, not arc....
    
    You coming down here Digger? 
    
    Where is the tourny..?
    
    JoJ

	Big game tonight in the DEC Maynard C League. My Telcom Turkeys (14-1)
go up against John's Hendry's Outlaw's (12-2) in a battle for 1st place and
top seed in the playoffs!!! The first matchup this season went to the Turkeys,
in a low scoring affair, 3-2. The Outlaw's did have a *very* tidy scorebook
that game however :-)

	I have a couple of requests to make. Those you you how attended the
infamous Beach-ball game, could you tell me if there are any particular types
of beachball that send John over the edge??? I'ld like to have a good selection
of beachballs for the game tonite!!!

	One other request. Dins could you put the KOD on the Outlaw's for me?
Thanks!!!!!! :-)

JimH

    look for the outlaws to kick some serious butt tonight,
    
    Jim,
    
    is this game at the maynard field   across from gas station?
    
    
    dinz
    

	Thanks Dins!!! Yup, the game is at the Maynard fields up the road
opposite the Maynard CC and that gas station on Rt 27.

JimH

    The Outlaws have the best scorekeeper in the league and the neatest
    scorebook.
    
    My personal stats are 8 hits in 25 AB, 3 RBI, 1 run, 1 walk and
    1 K.  As a hitter, I'm a great statistician.  My .320 average is
    the lowest on the team.
    
    Thanks a lot, Dinz.
    
    John

    
    john,
    
    we could talk, i am put the whammy the other way at the right cost
    
    :))
    
    dinz
    

	Dinz, don't think you can get away with collecting from both teams!!!!

    
    ok..... sorry john.. ha
    

Good luck to both the Outlaws and the Turkeys cause neither of you will get past
the Jousters in the playoffs!!!

Scott  8^)

    Yeah, but at the other field in Maynard, there will be a battle for
    A division first place between IPC (my team) and the Express (boo,
    hiss).  
    
    Dan

    
    wow, 2 games i get to see.. all right
    

    
>    wow, 2 games i get to see.. all right
    

Dinz you going to stand on the IPC side of the field?

Don, I'll give you IPC and a run....

;^)

Are the Division A and B similar to, let's say, Division 1 and Division 2
in English League soccer?  Or is it similar to like the NFC East, Central
and West... (ability vs just dividing up teams).....

	What's the line on the Turkey/Outlaw game???

	'Saw the A, B, C designations reflect the teams' talent levels, in
other words, we ain't called Turkeys for nothing!!!

JimH :-)

I understand.

Well, no matter what division you play in as long as you have fun, 
and are competitive and yet sportsmanlike, that's all that counts.

Best of luck to all who are playing...

'Saw

    lines going even.. as of a few hours before game time..
    
    of course theres always the wildman chant to change the odds :)
    
    
    dinz
    

>Don, I'll give you IPC and a run....
    
    Take it Don.  IPC is going for the 3-peat...  Besides we won 12-3
    against them last week.
    
    Would I steer you wrong?
    
    Dan

    
    Plus two key Express members will be playing in Marlboro on the
    Indians in the finals v.s. Rebels... (game 1).  NO LINE AVAILABLE!

>Well, no matter what division you play in as long as you have fun, 
>and are competitive and yet sportsmanlike, that's all that counts.
    
    Yes, Saw, all in good fun, but as my close friend, Oscar Madison once
    said:
    
    Winning is better!
    
    Dan

    
    Do the winners get to keep their jersies, or only the ones who actually
    play in the finals??  Wouldn't wanna see some guy who has to work
    overtime get screwed out of his shirt, ya know.
    
    Dickster
    

    Is this DEC-ball you guys are talking about??
    
    Down here in S.C. we have a fair team. The last two years we won the
    div. but got our butts kicked in the playoffs.
    
    This fall we have a mostly new team with only five players off the old
    team playing this year. We started last week and lost our opener
    13-11. We have a new left fielder and he had two COSTLY error's that
    allowed six runs to come in. Once we had a two out, bases loaded and
    the ball was hit to left and he came in too far and it rolled to the
    fence. Plus our hitting was awful!!!!
     The second game we tied, another p*ss poor hitting game. Good defense,
    we just couldn't hit the ball. I went (I hate to say it) 0 for 4. I
    know, my tale should have been put on the wood.
     We have 16 games left, so I figure we will finish 16-1-1!!!!! If we
    can get our act together and hit the ball. Last fall we finished 15-3.
    We got rained out tonight and we play Locheed Aeromod thrusday. I will
    be back with the details that night.(I work 3rd)
        Wish us luck!!!!!!!!!! 
    
    You guy's in Charlotte, maybe we could play one day for a North/South
    Championship. I'm sure our team would travel there for a day or so!!!
    Let me know and maybe we could do something. That West thing would be
    most excellent.......BUT................................
    
                                                            M.J. 

    Turkeys	200 000 2	4
    Outlaws	110 001 0	3
    
    Congratulations to the Telecomm Turkeys for taking the C Division
    with a 15-1 record!  Last night's game was a lot of fun, even though
    we lost.
    
    John

    I guess i missed a good game, nice seeing ya john, and jim also
    
    
    dinz
    

    M.J.,
    
    Our team in Charlotte is co-rec.  
    
    I doubt that anyone up here wants to play again until next spring, but
    I'll ask Joel Athy anyway.  (You might want to send him mail,
    SHALOT::ATHY.)
    
    We finished our season last month as champs for the third straight year
    and I'm pretty sure everyone is about softballed-out for this season. 
    Besides, it's getting close to volleyball time here in Charlotte.
    
    	--dan'l

            <<< Note 214.59 by HOTSHT::SCHNEIDER "Thank you, Fay" >>>
                            -< Down to the wire... >-

    Yeah, but at the other field in Maynard, there will be a battle for
    A division first place between IPC (my team) and the Express (boo,
    hiss).  
    
    Dan
                            boo hiss 11
                            IPC       3

    WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF !!!!!!!

RE: Turkeys vs. Outlaws

Sounds like it was a great game!!  Congrats to the Turkeys, I'm glad to have 
played a part in that single blemish on your record ;^)

We, the 4th place Jousters, play the 3rd place Packers tonight, should be 
another good one.

Hey John Hendry, given last night's results, does your statistical wizardry 
indicate that the continuation of our rainout (at least I think it was against 
you) scheduled for Friday is still necessary??  

	-Scott

    Lets take this off-line.
    
    John

	It was a great game last night. Great pitching and solid D on both sides
of the field.

	John was the Outlaws hero for a half-inning. With the score tied 2-2
in the bottom of the sixth and a man on first, John layed down a nice bunt. The
Turkey's pitcher had to hurry his throw to first to have an chance to get 
John and he overthrew the 1st baseman. The runnner scored from first, John
ended up on 2nd and the Outlaw Bench went wild!.

	Unfortuntely for the Outlaws, Dinz showed up shortly after that and
the KOD kicked in big time!! :-) Thanks Dinz!!!!!

	Good Luck to the Outlaws, Packers & Jousters in the C League playoffs!

JimH

    I've never been much of an athlete so my high moments on a playing
    field have been few and far between.  Last night would have definitely
    been the athletic highlight of my career, not only because it was
    against the best team in the league but because it was against the
    best pitcher in the league.
    
    Thanks, Dinz.
    
    John

    um, possibly  for the right prize, i could be  coerced into puttinga
     hex on the pther team come playoff time, is a case of sammys by
    friday  to stiff aprice :))
    
    
    dinz