On Thursday evening we took on a provincial agency from a town near Birmingham called Zone 2 who've clearly been given special permission to take part in a London based league. WWhack Rank Colons is a specialist charity agency and with that in mind we did our best to keep them suitably endowed for 5 innings before we generated a response that would be the envy of an NSPCC TV spot during Countdown.
The game started slowly with both sides boring each other into submission during the early innings trading runs in equal measure to opinions about where the batting mat should be placed - has no-one heard that a good game is a fast game?
However, the gloomy conditions were brightened by the constant bitching of WWhack's resident softball expert, wearing his proper baseball boots, who got stuck into his team mates for their inept fielding and a delightful blonde German girl who made an extended visit to second base a must. When I arrived on her bag for my first visit she said, 'Mein Gott, you're so fast', which I took as a great compliment and showed that spring training can pay dividends.
Particular mention should be made of 'Bowler Buck' our exemplary tosser (last year's joke I know), 'Fumble' Waldie our 1st base stopper, 'Self-Mutilator' Beck who ripped her own ear apart with a softball bat, Jess 'Gordon' Brown for her off field organisation skills and Bridget 'Steffi' Graaf who was on the receiving end of some rough treatment at 2nd Base.
Next up we're playing someone else. Supporters welcome to share/carry the beers.
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