FB: Liberty League

[Garnet]

Garnet's work here is done.

['gro]

ask and ye shall receive. thanks garnet.... 

[JT]

Wonder if we can order reprints? 

[johnnyadmit]

Admit never dreamt he'd call himself a soccer fan

['gro]

'Gro was just on hold w/ a local vendor and treated to some country radio station hold music... the song was "honkytonk badonkadonk" I wish I was kidding.

[JT]

'Gro was just on hold w/ a local vendor and treated to some country radio station hold music... the song was "honkytonk badonkadonk" I wish I was kidding.

Every morning zoo crew plays this song on Friday's. 

JT even saw the video for this when he fell asleep on the couch and woke up at 3am.  Hot Chicks in the video grinding their butts in the singer's face.  Stoopid song... nice video.

[dewcrew88]

'Gro was just on hold w/ a local vendor and treated to some country radio station hold music... the song was "honkytonk badonkadonk" I wish I was kidding.

If you live in Tennessee, that song should be all over the place!

[johnnyadmit]

Hot Chicks in the video grinding their butts in the singer's face.  Stoopid song... nice video.

JT echoes Admit's exact thoughts on the song. 

[Regulator]

UPDATE......
So Reg spent a few hours traveling up I-95 to view the boat below.  Everything checked out alright and I bought the thing.....Soooo It looks like this weekend is going to be spent taking it from it's home on the Delaware River to the Chesapeake Bay on Saturday.  So far only Mrs. Reg is slated to go...but papaReg is strongly considering it.  The only bad part is that the GPS doesn't work, so I need to buy one today and get express delivery for tomorrow. (The one on the boat is still under warranty, but the turn-around time is a week, and Reg has a hard time with paper charts...I'm digital baby!

Reg is completely miserable, San Diego.
After spending all day surveying the soon to be new boat, there were several things wrong with it.  Reg is going to pass on it guys.  It was the small things that would really add up if I decided to take the plunge on this one. 

Reg is optimistic though!....he is going up to Philly to look at a 2003 Monterey 302 tomorrow.  It is no Sea Ray by any means....but something Reg can drive all year and still turn for a profit (sistership)

[Jonny Utah]

LLPP story..........
Ok so I play for this softball team with some guys from work during the week, (slow pitch, wooden bats, we wear shorts, no one slides, beer is consumed during the game, etc...you get my drift).  Its a joke and fun.  Well its a big league with about 15 teams and 14 of them dont really care who wins or loses, we just drink and have fun.  There is one team however that takes this league like its the world series every game. 

These guys have full uniforms, they slide into every base, they keep a full scorebook with stats, they have an actual coach (who has a garnet "U" on his basball hat...and this will come into play later in this story) that yells the whole game, they call the league commissiner before the game if they are unsure who is "home" or "away".  Basically these guys are squids, and the entire league hates them.  Well last night, things took a turn for the worse......

We are down 7-3 after 2 innings, but then come back with 9 runs in the 3rd.  We have only enough players to field a team and dont have a coach to keep a book so no one ever knows the exact score off the top of their heads.  We now go out to the field and their coach (the Union guy) yells out to us and ask us how many runs we had last inning.  No one knows for sure but we say 7 runs.  Now the inning ends we go back and check the book and realize we had 9 runs and not 7.  We let their coach know that we have 9 instead of 7 and the guy throws a fit.  He complains to the ump that we dont have the score right and basically says he is protesting the game. 

Now this is even more rediculus than it sounds as this clown doesnt even know the ridicule that he is in for.  Now I work with a Union guy that plays with me and the kid was actually a good pitcher at Union and did real well there.  So I'm like "hey, is this guy what Union college is all about?"  The kid goes, " I recognize that kid, he got cut from the JV team at Union when I was a freshman, and he was a junior." Now its getting interesting......

Now Ive had about 4 or 5 beers so far because Im pissed and the whole team is now getting on this coach, and I start yelling at the guy when Im in the field.  As im running off after the field I yell out to the guy "hey, did you actually play for the douchemen or did you just keep the hat when you got cut from the JV team?" 

The guy turns gets pissed as says "shut the f#!* up, who the f$#! did you play for?"

Now for whatever reason LLPP gets into my head at this point and I blurt out a lie for no apparent reason....."I played for RPI those years we kicked your ass, but you wouldnt know because you got cut from the JV team."

Now the guy is kind of scared because I know way too much information to be blurting out for him to feel comfortable anymore.  The ribbing continues throughout the game.

Now later in the game I'm yelling things out like.  "Hey! wheres Holladawg?!?" or "Ill see you at the shoes game coach".

Who coaches a mens softball team anyway??

We play them again in August, LLPP newscrew will be there.

[icgrad87]

LLPP story..........
Ok so I play for this softball team with some guys from work during the week, (slow pitch, wooden bats, we wear shorts, no one slides, beer is consumed during the game, etc...you get my drift).  Its a joke and fun.  Well its a big league with about 15 teams and 14 of them dont really care who wins or loses, we just drink and have fun.  There is one team however that takes this league like its the world series every game. 

These guys have full uniforms, they slide into every base, they keep a full scorebook with stats, they have an actual coach (who has a garnet "U" on his basball hat...and this will come into play later in this story) that yells the whole game, they call the league commissiner before the game if they are unsure who is "home" or "away".  Basically these guys are squids, and the entire league hates them.  Well last night, things took a turn for the worse......

We are down 7-3 after 2 innings, but then come back with 9 runs in the 3rd.  We have only enough players to field a team and dont have a coach to keep a book so no one ever knows the exact score off the top of their heads.  We now go out to the field and their coach (the Union guy) yells out to us and ask us how many runs we had last inning.  No one knows for sure but we say 7 runs.  Now the inning ends we go back and check the book and realize we had 9 runs and not 7.  We let their coach know that we have 9 instead of 7 and the guy throws a fit.  He complains to the ump that we dont have the score right and basically says he is protesting the game. 

Now this is even more rediculus than it sounds as this clown doesnt even know the ridicule that he is in for.  Now I work with a Union guy that plays with me and the kid was actually a good pitcher at Union and did real well there.  So I'm like "hey, is this guy what Union college is all about?"  The kid goes, " I recognize that kid, he got cut from the JV team at Union when I was a freshman, and he was a junior." Now its getting interesting......

Now Ive had about 4 or 5 beers so far because Im pissed and the whole team is now getting on this coach, and I start yelling at the guy when Im in the field.  As im running off after the field I yell out to the guy "hey, did you actually play for the douchemen or did you just keep the hat when you got cut from the JV team?" 

The guy turns gets pissed as says "shut the f#!* up, who the f$#! did you play for?"

Now for whatever reason LLPP gets into my head at this point and I blurt out a lie for no apparent reason....."I played for RPI those years we kicked your ass, but you wouldnt know because you got cut from the JV team."

Now the guy is kind of scared because I know way too much information to be blurting out for him to feel comfortable anymore.  The ribbing continues throughout the game.

Now later in the game I'm yelling things out like.  "Hey! wheres Holladawg?!?" or "Ill see you at the shoes game coach".

Who coaches a mens softball team anyway??

We play them again in August, LLPP newscrew will be there.

Good story JU..thanks for starting my morning off with a laugh!!  + K for you...btw...did you guys beat them?? 

[lewdogg11]

JU, that is pretty funny.  I wish I had been there.  I actually DID play for RPI as a freshman before my shoulder fell off.  4-5 beers and I would have been humiliating that kid. 

I played in a league like that for 2 summers and there's always one team.  They wear pants, and stirrups, and metal cleats and let the batting gloves hang out of their back pockets.  Those guys are dead ringers for guys trying to -re-live- or experience for the first time, their glory days.

I played in a tournament down here in February at Camp Lejeune.  Needless to say, we were the only team without military guys, in general marines.  My experience with softball is it's a drinking sport.  We get there, no smiles, no shorts, all business.  Everyone was there to win.  So we roll through like 3-4 teams, and we're still in the winner's bracket, and LD11 recruits 3-4 guys to hit the on base bowling alley, and many beers were consumed.  My theory is that I play MUCH better after beers.  SO my buddy leads off the next game, puts one off the fence, which was damn near unreachable.  I get up, also put one off the fence.  We play nasty.  The bad part?  A few beers and LD11 starts to run his mouth.  After a few glares from the jarheads, LD11 sobered up, lost two games, and left quietly.

If I ever 'COACH' a beer league softball team, remove my nuts, and send my kids to Union.

[Knightstalker]

KS used to play on a beer softball team called IDGAS, I Dont Give A S@#*.  We had a coach, he kept score and made sure the keg was tapped by the time everyone started showing up.  We kept our record in 1/4 Kegs, 1/2 Kegs and cases drunk.  We had T-shirts for uniforms, KS number was 666, we had two number 69's one -69 and a -13.  Softball is for fun not reliving the glory days, if you want to do that join a serious league.  Wednesday night softball has been replaced by the EDB Wednesday night jam.  Beer and fun have remained the wednesday night priority.

[Jonny Utah]

LLPP story..........
Ok so I play for this softball team with some guys from work during the week, (slow pitch, wooden bats, we wear shorts, no one slides, beer is consumed during the game, etc...you get my drift).  Its a joke and fun.  Well its a big league with about 15 teams and 14 of them dont really care who wins or loses, we just drink and have fun.  There is one team however that takes this league like its the world series every game. 

These guys have full uniforms, they slide into every base, they keep a full scorebook with stats, they have an actual coach (who has a garnet "U" on his basball hat...and this will come into play later in this story) that yells the whole game, they call the league commissiner before the game if they are unsure who is "home" or "away".  Basically these guys are squids, and the entire league hates them.  Well last night, things took a turn for the worse......

We are down 7-3 after 2 innings, but then come back with 9 runs in the 3rd.  We have only enough players to field a team and dont have a coach to keep a book so no one ever knows the exact score off the top of their heads.  We now go out to the field and their coach (the Union guy) yells out to us and ask us how many runs we had last inning.  No one knows for sure but we say 7 runs.  Now the inning ends we go back and check the book and realize we had 9 runs and not 7.  We let their coach know that we have 9 instead of 7 and the guy throws a fit.  He complains to the ump that we dont have the score right and basically says he is protesting the game. 

Now this is even more rediculus than it sounds as this clown doesnt even know the ridicule that he is in for.  Now I work with a Union guy that plays with me and the kid was actually a good pitcher at Union and did real well there.  So I'm like "hey, is this guy what Union college is all about?"  The kid goes, " I recognize that kid, he got cut from the JV team at Union when I was a freshman, and he was a junior." Now its getting interesting......

Now Ive had about 4 or 5 beers so far because Im pissed and the whole team is now getting on this coach, and I start yelling at the guy when Im in the field.  As im running off after the field I yell out to the guy "hey, did you actually play for the douchemen or did you just keep the hat when you got cut from the JV team?" 

The guy turns gets pissed as says "shut the f#!* up, who the f$#! did you play for?"

Now for whatever reason LLPP gets into my head at this point and I blurt out a lie for no apparent reason....."I played for RPI those years we kicked your ass, but you wouldnt know because you got cut from the JV team."

Now the guy is kind of scared because I know way too much information to be blurting out for him to feel comfortable anymore.  The ribbing continues throughout the game.

Now later in the game I'm yelling things out like.  "Hey! wheres Holladawg?!?" or "Ill see you at the shoes game coach".

Who coaches a mens softball team anyway??

We play them again in August, LLPP newscrew will be there.

Good story JU..thanks for starting my morning off with a laugh!!  + K for you...btw...did you guys beat them?? 

Nah, we actually lost like 30-15 or something but I feel better not caring about the game than actually winning. 

Its kind of like the US in the soccer world cup.  I hope they lose as its actually un-american to be good at soccer in the first place.  The US should be the worst country in the world in soccer but I guess they're actually ranked like 5th or something...

LD, I forgot to mention the stirrups and metal spikes.  Their cleanup hitter (who sucked) actually had those black eyeblack strips you put under your eyes and he would step out after every pitch and act like Wade Boggs or Tim Raines.  he had long shorts and socks up to his knees and TWO batting gloves and wristbands.  It was comical, we were down by like 15 runs in the last inning and he starts backing out after every pitch and adjusting his batting gloves and whatnot.  Our shortstop (one of those guys who is the biggest a-hole in the world but your glad to have him on your side) yells out "Buddy, your up by 15 runs in the last inning and you suck anyway, just swing the bat and stay in the box before your coach makes you run laps after the game.".......It was a scene to remember.

['gro]

great stuff LL, JU thats a great story.  Reminds me of the kids in high school football who had every piece of equipment (rib pads, visor, gloves, wrist bands... remember the schools isn't providing this stuff).

I'm in DC now at Dulles airport. America's capital... no one speaks english.