Rebels Week: Day one.

The Ducks look to rebound after pair of humbling, if not humiliating defeats at the Handz of the Owlz.

Saturday will be here before we know it and we will have a chance to redeem ourselves and get back on track.


In regards to the blog on the rebs mysite news, (which the commissioner apparently removed as part of The Conspiracy"), now, having a chance to respond at a time other than 4am, in a more coherent, manner that doesn't involve a leftist rant:

• I should have told our coach to call that game last season.
• I should not have tried to get a cheap forfeit win two years ago.

We can end the discussion on these topics.
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Dan Stell is a fierce competitor and one of the top outfielders in our league, he has worked hard to put a winning team on the field, and I can empathize with his, and "Ray" Finkle's struggles of late.
The have put in a lot of time and effort into the radical reconstruction of their squad.

(Laces out, Dan)


I coached a bad team for a long time.

That said;

Southern Pride is a fierce motivator, and they have a solid core of talent on that team.
The Confederacy must fall this Saturday.

Games 6 & 7: Owlz Ground Ducks

Things started sloppy for the South Oakland Ducks and quickly headed further south as the Mother’s Day double-header against the Owlz transpired. The game itself was delayed while the teams waited on umpires (who never showed) causing agitation and leaving the game with scrimmage-ish feel.

My memory of the early game is murky, but Homa pitched better than his line will show. The Ducks as a team were guilty of committing countless errors prolonging innings that allowed the hard-hitting Owlz to rack up runs. The Owlz simply do not strike out, forcing the Ducks to field an insane amount of balls, with a final score of 9-1 (I think). Sorry for the lack of recap, but there aren’t really too many highlights.

The second game started off pretty well (an ump did show for this one) for the Ducks as they jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning as Nick Homa plated Wojton with a single to right field. The Ducks also staved off a potential rally in the bottom of the inning only allowing 2 Owlz to cross the plate.

The game remained close until the bottom of the third when the floodgates opened as the Owlz put across six runs through monster hits and the Ducks errant ways. The Ducks responded the next inning as Homa hit another run in, closing the gap to 8-2.
Coach Jones came in the pitch in the 4th and the results weren’t any better. The Owlz kept clobbering the ball and the Ducks weren’t helping their own cause. By the time we were heading into the fifth, the Owlz needed only one run to enforce a ten run rule against the listless Ducks. A fly ball that carried over Roland’s head, gave the Owlz that advantage. The final score of both games combined: Owlz 21, Ducks 3.

Bullet Points:
-We were all responsible for this, nobody played up to potential.
-Jones, Smith, and Homa didn’t pitch that bad. The Owlz are the best hitting team in the league (by a country mile) and the defense just wasn’t there.
-The Owlz number 3 hitter (Flip maybe? Something like that) is absolute machine. I’ve rarely seen a hitter of that caliber.
-No excuses.
-Homa had all 3 Duck RBIs.
-Kolaja and Jones were not pleased with themselves and their terrible ABs.
-This umpire thing has become a joke. They are never on time, they don’t show, it’s just ridiculous. People lose jobs for less than this. I would be ashamed if I was the manager of the organization (The umps, not the Owlz).
-A lot of trash has been posted here about the Owlz, but today we must tip our caps, they were by far the better team.
-A special thanks to Speedie’s Pizza of Imperial for their delivery of a feast midgame.
-The Ducks were brought back to reality, but will soon again soar.

Game Day [6] Ducks at OwlZ

The South Oakland Ducks of the North Side will travel to middle of nowhere, PA and take on the Owlz at their home field at the Findlay Twp. Sportsplex.

DIRECTIONS


The Ducks will be without seven regulars.
Good luck to our green and gold PCB players as they take on some team in Utica for the National Club Baseball Championship of the World. (I think)

The University of Pittsburgh English Department prepared me well for the tough grind of the service industry, make this alumnus proud, boys.

So much about a baseball season is story-worthy. Not only in the way your journalism teacher taught you to "look for the story", and have a lead that includes the most important elements of the game, and the 5H's or whatever, but in a narrative sense.
The narrative arc, the conflict the climax and resolution. Good vs. Evil, internal and external struggles of individuals and teams, battles of wills and ideals;
Of photoshops and odd youtube videos.

With a five game winning streak in their wake our heroes travel to the edge of Ohio, under-manned, and hungover, to take on a team that doesn't think they belong on the same field.



It would be a story if the Ducks won in Findlay on this mother's day, one of the three busiest days in the restaurant business, but to do so without their starting catcher, center fielder, left fielder, two infielders, last years ERA leader and Gies, would be Philip-Rothian.

The deforestation in the Pacific Northwest is killing Owls.






Lumberjacks and the letter "s"
Bad Newz for the OwlZzzzzz

Quack.



Part Two to follow.

Game Day [7] Ducks at OwlZz: When Jesse Smith falls into water he doesn't get wet, the water gets Jesse Smith.

{Slight edit - contains profanity -]

I'd like to chastise the commissioner for not realizing that I would have to work on mother's day, and that the Pitt club team would probably have a playoff game this weekend - due to Ryan Novak's Abe Lincoln-esque leadership, mostly - I'm sure.

Seriously could this be any more unfair?


The OwlZz have been busy plotting against America.

The Owl is the symbol of all that is wrong with everything in this country.




the only more offensive symbol?

(Civil or Revolutionary? WOOOOOOO!)

I guess I'm retarded for associating gray uniforms and "rebels"
with the American Civil War.

Yousimete Sam was a key player in the Battle of Trenton.


Clearly that team is a group of Confederate sympathizers, there is no other plausible explanation, none, what so ever.
Seriously.

I would have gone with the Star Wars Rebel logo, no confusion.

Or name your team the Patriots.

check out the 0-3 Rebels my site news,

Another team crying conspiracy, and hating on my attempt at serious, intellectual, literary self-expression on my beloved blog.

Not much in the game recap department or even cheesy, "Get to know a Rebel" segments, but they made it clear they don't like this blog, so from now on no more bad mouthing a team for naming themselves the rebels.

Calling the Ducks blog's writing, "on a second grade level" is an insult to second graders.



George Washington was a slave owner so I'm sure he'd name his team the rebels.
And really, many of the revolutionary heroes who freed this country form British rule (after and during the slaughtering of the Native Americans,) laid the frame work for the fucked up social structure we have now, where poor whites blame poor blacks for their lot in life instead of the system that keeps them all poor, without a voice and without class unity, while the owl-worshipers (so to speak) get richer, and richer.

So it's almost worse to name your team after the revolutionary war "heroes" than the Confederacy - at least the Confederates were honest - if that is the case.
But I'm not re-photoshopping that pic with George Washington so "The Confederacy" it is.

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Keep trying to put that chip on your team's shoulder.


It's always someone else's fault.

(I'm Larry, I'm old, but i can take a fucking joke)

On a lighter note, The Commish responds to the conspiracy claims on the bulldogs blog. Joe has clearly been conspiring to have the Rebels and Gray Bats combine to go 0-8 to start the season.

There was no conspiracy for the Ducks (5-0) to score four more runs than the Rebels (0-3) two games ago.

Since losing to the Rebels last season the Ducks have gone 12-2-1 in regular season games (that's got to be near the top in the league, if not the best)
While the Rebels have gone 2-14
(definitely near the bottom, probably the worst)

Even a second grader can interpret those numbers.


Go Ducks.


Knock that "z" off the end of their name today.