The mundane egg (vs Betgenius, Regent's park)

The kiss-off

BD 26 - betgenius 16

How do you like them apples

Okay now we are over that, what happend..
if you don't know what the Mundane egg is , you should read more or follow this link

Despite more organisation and planning than previously.. we arrived a bit late. however...
we did have a full complement. in fact we had subs...
Our slightly bedraggled arrival was offset by some unruly footballers, who fortuitously delayed the strat of the game allowing us to make it all on time, and with beer


Calvin started pitching and despite some quick light catching showed a bit of rust... giving up 5 runs..

BD 0 Betgenius 5
at this point the post was going to be called the squirrel wood but the sheer rush of only being down by five runs was almost a cause for celebration...

Up came BD.. and went to work...
as with previous efforts we have never had a problem with the bat... and it showed, our stacked order of Chris C, Antonio, Jacki and Gary, quickly and efficiently started putting the Betgenius pitcher under pressure

We finished the inning (almost batting through the entire order)

BD 5 betgenius 5

The second inning saw the team shaking off the rust and contending with a very bumpy infield, . despite all the sligs and arrows of outrageous misfortune (blatant Hamlet reference) and one contentious run..

Bd 5 Betgenius 9

The scond inning of batting was just as good, with BD playing some good small ball and Gary becoming the batting coach..along with the rest of the team...

we scored three runs again with the top of the order bringing home the bacon

BD 8 Betgenius 9

The pitching and and fielding then kicked in with some great plays, Debs playing a shallow outfield spot went for a high fly ball, which bobbled out of her glove, but she was able to make the catch by clasping the ball to her chest...


The general level of play particularly in the field was high, Nick Collins playing in his first game showed he had a good arm, firing in the balls hit into the deep with great conviction, in fact one with so much that it got ruled a dead ball conceded a single run.

BD 8 Betgenius 10

Calvin stepped in to the batters box and lead off with a good single , however this gave us no inkling of what was to come , patience in the batters box and some quality hitting from Nick s drove in the run, however nick in his haste and pressing play, decided to try and a turn a safe single into a dangerous double, despite the shouting from the pretty much everyone on the team yelling...

Thick and fast the runs came, but the highlights of the inning where the Big Home Runs from Gary B and Calvin 'The Big Hurt' S

We scored 8 runs.. count them 1...2...3...4...5...6..7...8

BD 16 Betgenius 10

The next betgenius inning was a rough ride, with Louisa getting into something of an argumetn with the umpire .. who was very good giving us clear calls , explantions where appropriate and he also did all the signals...

At this point we were playing sharp we had also got our first BD cheerleader.. Sheila S came along to sit on the sidelines distract the opposition drink beer and smoke cigarettes.. and she did it to good effect...

The game was very much on , and some of the guys on the betGenius team were taking it quite seriously, and that was just the lasses..

The guy with the green shirt (TGWTGS) was definitely the most enthusiastic of the lot, and he had a run in with Gary.. literally, as TGWTGS was running to 1st base , and ran directly into Gary who was standing on the bag...

TGWTGS then complained and was basically stared down, followed by the always classic stop whining and get up" with shrug off the shoulders from Mr B...


BD 16 Betgenius 16

BD now came to play, cheering everything , from dropped catches to good sarcastic comments...
and we had proper reason to .

We were hitting with confidence, and getting on base and scoring...

Caroline had the comedy moment of the day.. running from 2nd to 3rd under pressure she realised that the ball was going to arrive at the same time as she was... and clasped her hands to her head and then shifted them to her back.. (it did no good as she was still hit , and despite the name, it isn't a SOFTball)

The entire team batted round and we scored 10 Runs ... sealing the game...

Notes:
If it is sunny we are going to need more Beer..., I want some little creatures).....

Play of the Game
Debs for "the catch"
Player of the Game : for great batting Chris c, contact on base almost all the time

Honourable mentions
Calvin for putting his body (or foot) on the line...
The three big hitters who got the big scores going
Calvin again
Chris C , and Hardman Bonsels

Jacki for playing for a bit after a pulled quad...

special mention for intimidation: Bonsels and the knock down...

Rookie of the game : Nick collins, more of that please but less of the bunny hops when trying to catch the deep fly balls
super honourable mentions for Dee and debs

added genius:
Foam Fingers- the more I think about the better this idea becomes..
T-Shirts or a button down baseball tops are very good but Foam Fingers.. it's a winner much like our team

Follow up :
Okay we have mentioned we have talked it through, a client mashup bd softball tourney, mixup the players forom bd and the clients so we have some good competitive, possibly slightly drunken fun, and I think locating it somewhere like New York, maybe even book out the following park for it... or Miami's south beach would be an EXCELLENT idea.. right go do the client talky thing people

Special Mention for Sheila our first cheer leader .. definitely distracting and that was just in the pub... now if we can only get more , maybe even some uniforms.. just thinking aloud

watch out for harker she'll steal your beer while you are busy watching the game...

Additional props for motivational speaking to Stroudley... see Nick we delivered on your inspired words just before you left, "I want to see that you have won on the blog tomorrow"
maybe you have an alternate career

The Final kissoff:
We won BD 26 - 16 BetGenius ... no really!!

Photos as soon as i download them tonight, and or get the alternative off antonio

The team
Louisa H
Chris C
Antonio
Jacki M
Bonsels the intimidator
Ravi (still needs lozenges)
Matt H
Caroline
Calvin S
Nick C
Dee
Debs


ps I genuinely get home and scribble an outline, and then try and finish it during the day or before work.. as shown by my accidental post early, which prompted comments by Antonio...More feedback please