Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
i recently completed a poll of over 400 people i know and the hands down winner of "best baseball team of alltime" is the 1994 Canaan All-Stars (minors). with only one loss and a league leading 2 homeruns (both by brooks senna) this team was a monster. i believe we won the championship game by over 30 runs. the team was coached by a Duwayne Mansur (the very same man who once headed up a garbage collecting monopoly and now drives pitiful racecars at the Canaan USA speedway). here are a few of the major happenings throughout the season, in no particular order:
1. An errant throw to home plate by thirdbaseman Matt Johnston causes catcher Silas Ayres to reach across the plate only to catch the ball but have his ankle snapped by some fat kid from Newport. Silas would miss the remainder of the season.
2. Keith Mansur, son of Duwayne, walks 9 straight batters (all 9 he faced) before being pulled for the final out in the 42-6 pounding of Plainfield.
3. Following our only loss of the season to Enfield (dont worry we smoked em 16-2 in the playoffs), every member of the team had to run around the field for the first two innings of the next game while being verbally degraded by the enormously fat and grotesque Mansur family.
4. Everyone realizes for the first time (somehow) that Keith Mansur looks exactly like Uncle Fester.
5. Keith Mansur cries and throws a fit when dad/coach wont allow him to eat a hotdog between games of a doubleheader.
6. Wesley Mansur, son of Duwayne and brother to Keify, guest umpired a game for approximately 3 innings before the other team packed up their equipment and left on a bus, forfeitting.
7. Lee Lemieux pitched more innings than was allowed in everysingle week of the season.
8. So did Brooks Senna.
9. We got those fake little-league baseball cards. They still sit in their plastic package in my room, untouched.
10. Jeff Shepard was called out after yelling "I Got It" loudly next to a small secondbasmen trying to catch a pop-up. this "unsportsmanlike conduct" was refined in practice and encouraged by our coach.
11. Duwayne got a new snowmobile (i dont know why he got in the summer ....) and made us all admire it for a minimum of 10 minutes. some spent upwards of 45.
12. I puked after seeing Sharon Mansurs (Duwaynes BUSTED wife) face.
13. I played under lights at Eliots Field for the first and only time in my life.
14. I distinctly remember being pissed that our championship plaques had only right-handed gloves on them. what the fuck?
15. John Ignacio broke someones helmet off their head with a fastball. they cried and went to the hospital.
16. They installed those queer red bases at Huse Park and as a team we refused to use them, instead using the regular base which angered the bitchy parents of enfields mediocre team. enfield also used the helmets with the plastic faceguards. wussies.
1. An errant throw to home plate by thirdbaseman Matt Johnston causes catcher Silas Ayres to reach across the plate only to catch the ball but have his ankle snapped by some fat kid from Newport. Silas would miss the remainder of the season.
2. Keith Mansur, son of Duwayne, walks 9 straight batters (all 9 he faced) before being pulled for the final out in the 42-6 pounding of Plainfield.
3. Following our only loss of the season to Enfield (dont worry we smoked em 16-2 in the playoffs), every member of the team had to run around the field for the first two innings of the next game while being verbally degraded by the enormously fat and grotesque Mansur family.
4. Everyone realizes for the first time (somehow) that Keith Mansur looks exactly like Uncle Fester.
5. Keith Mansur cries and throws a fit when dad/coach wont allow him to eat a hotdog between games of a doubleheader.
6. Wesley Mansur, son of Duwayne and brother to Keify, guest umpired a game for approximately 3 innings before the other team packed up their equipment and left on a bus, forfeitting.
7. Lee Lemieux pitched more innings than was allowed in everysingle week of the season.
8. So did Brooks Senna.
9. We got those fake little-league baseball cards. They still sit in their plastic package in my room, untouched.
10. Jeff Shepard was called out after yelling "I Got It" loudly next to a small secondbasmen trying to catch a pop-up. this "unsportsmanlike conduct" was refined in practice and encouraged by our coach.
11. Duwayne got a new snowmobile (i dont know why he got in the summer ....) and made us all admire it for a minimum of 10 minutes. some spent upwards of 45.
12. I puked after seeing Sharon Mansurs (Duwaynes BUSTED wife) face.
13. I played under lights at Eliots Field for the first and only time in my life.
14. I distinctly remember being pissed that our championship plaques had only right-handed gloves on them. what the fuck?
15. John Ignacio broke someones helmet off their head with a fastball. they cried and went to the hospital.
16. They installed those queer red bases at Huse Park and as a team we refused to use them, instead using the regular base which angered the bitchy parents of enfields mediocre team. enfield also used the helmets with the plastic faceguards. wussies.
Monday, February 28, 2005
good weekend. party at our place on friday, good. went home and out drinking with pyle, ben a, erica w, angela d, and some other suckas, it was also good. hung out with my sister, brother, and jana, good. got stood up by dennis c, kaitlin b, asa and chiefy (they were hammered when i saw them at applebees at approximately 530 so they are excused) and jacob k. that wasnt as good. it really is a pain in my ass to take the effing bus to VT and bum around the greater lebanon area carless. it would be nice to see some people when i do. got to hear some SICK (both literally and figuratively) war stories from pyle. so check this out, his unit got ambushed by a crew of 10-15 young boys (approximately 12 years old) wielding AK's. so with pyle leading the charge the whole unit proceeds to bayonette the youngsters and then pee on their mutilated bodies. THEN, they physically violated the dead and dying until they could do no more. then they had some soup. pyle has videos. they are funny. and sad. ben also had a video .... it was a naked girl riding him and making a big mistake. silly freshmen girls.