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Retards, Shitheads, Dickheads and Snapperheads sounding off...
"Hey Focker I've got tit's, why don't you milk me?" - Kristy's friend, Shortbus
"Does anyone else's feet and ass hurt" - Fitzy - the morning after...
"Officer, have you seen a sheep running around here with duct tape on it's ankles?" - Shortbus
"Nope, this one has a scuff on the end cap, it's definately your bat." Ronnie talking to one of the Amish kids
"Oh, well - Semper Fi then" - unanamous
"Cuz you opened your f***ing mouth, that's why" - Smokey
"All they wanna do is have fun and drink beer" - Robbie
"Yeaaaah ***es...." - Focker
"I'll play second, what the ***, how hard can it be?" - Pagel shortly before catching one on the nose
"I can't even win a coin flip" - Steve Dimitry shortly after Brennan tells the story of his wife's winnings and losings in Atlantic City
Buckeye's Best...
"It sucks to try and pull it out on your own. One time when I was younger my Labrador retriever ate a 72 inch shoelace and when she tried to poop only the first 7 inches came out so I had to stand on the end and I made her run away.....awesome...don't try that at home"
"Remember folks, help control the retard population. Have your Scoob and Shortbus spade or neutered"
Deep, Incoherent thoughts by Matthew Richards...
"...Word of wisdom, don't suck tonight..." - Focker
"I actually read the whole thing and understood it. I'm getting smater everyday" - Focker
" The smatest of the smat eat diner at diners "
" Why would I bring my tent to the campground? So you ***s can F with my tent? Besides, i can camp whenever I want in my yard back home."
A Fockerism by Shortbus...
" Did you see it? That thing hit the backest part of the plate."
Saturday, March 24
2007 Season Highlights
Icebreaker Tournament - Not so good, 0-2, We more more interested in the Eagles vs. Saints playoff game - no big deal
Norristown Early Bird - cancelled due to the ice sheets on the field
Millenium Early Bird - should have been postponed or cancelled. fields were a filthy mess. Not a bad showing, though we were 1-2. Lost to Brown's/JG Chemical 9-8 and then lost to Monahan's Pub 25-24. We hit well for the most part but too many costly errors, a few too many walks and some no so good timing on bad at bats led to the losses. Pat was crushing the ball. Pugh didn't make an out. Focker hit the ball well. Buzz talked to everyone at the field. Killer didn't yell at anyone or kick dirt on them. Mick hit one through a 747 and back down to earth - the guy still caught it. Lefty's pussed out and went home to give us one W.
Norristown Opening Night - vs. Cannon , lost 21-5
Didn't hit too well. Couple of calls that didn't go our way cost us about 13 runs since they would have been inning ending outs. They made a couple of great double plays and a couple good bounces went their way. Adam played well at 3rd. Pugh continued his hot start at the plate. The field blows right now. The lights are horrible and I can't wait to get to the new field.
vs. ODL, win 30-29
Great game, lot's of fun to be part of. We hit the ball real well and more importantly we fought back when we were down. They scored a bunch and we came back and scored a bunch more. We rolled a double play to end the game. Buckeye went yard for the first HR in Norristown. It was actually our first win of 2007. It's been a rough start. Maybe we're on our way now.
Opening Night in Gap vs. Longhorns, we split. lost 16-15, then won 16-4
Chilly opening night in Gap. We lost in 9 innings to the new Longhorn team. Couple of big errors cost us pretty bad. Next game we were pretty pissed off and came out and put up 12 in the second inning. Roger hit 2 HR's for our first one's in Gap. Bucky threw a laser to get a guy at home (I think it rolled from the pitcher's mound to the plate...LOL)
Opening Day at the YMCA - Taylor Electric forfeit
vs. Spikes - rained out from Nor'Easter
vs. Bulldogs - swept them, 20-0 and 25-24, Robbie and Brownie didn't make an out all night, Roger, Robbie and Focker went yard, defense was horrific in the second game, but we are hitting the ball right now, so that's a plus
Gap League Tournament - won the tournament with a 5 - 0 record, Ash was named MVP. he hit the snot out of the ball all day and played an awesome 3rd base. beat the Panthers, Longhorns, Brawlers, Predators, and the Outlaws (finals). Best part of the day - the umpires were great! well, let's not get carried away....they did a very good job...more to follow
vs. the Pretenders - won 15-5, new team at the Y, not very good at all, Kristy made her 07 Tribe debut, played very well at first and got on base a couple of times too
vs. Paragon - lost 18-6 -didn't hit the ball, ump blew a great call at first - lol. they went to turn two on us and the ball hit off the firstbaseman's glove and went into right field. ump turned his back and called the double play and we let the ump get the best of us - myself included. Paragon hit the ball well and they certainly deserve to have their shot in "A"
vs. Spikes (make-up from the rain) - won 19-14 - came back in the 9:00 game after a couple beers and hit the ball real well against a Spike's team that was up and down all night. defense was great. focker hit his first HR out of Heel's field. Adam was 4 for 4 that game and Bucky is starting to catch fire after a slow start with the Tribe.
vs. Misfits - won 27-14 - they still stink, we played 9 vs. 9, Kristy finished the game for Koach as he was needed to heel a battle scar on Carli, Scoob started the game off with a bomb to centerfield, he missed 3rd so the retard was called out - that's our boy! Sr. made his 07 debut with Tribe after missing some time with his 50 + team, Shortbus rolled with a 5 for 5 game
vs. TNT/Mel's - lost 32-29, we showed a ton of heart in this game and did so for the first time since we started playing in Norristown. Down 28-8 going into the bottom of the 5th, we put up 15 runs to keep things going. we outscored them 21-15 in the last 3 innings but we hurt ourselves with cold bats and a few mistakes in the field in the early innings. great game to be a part of. i think we earned a little respect and proved to ourselves once again that we can play with anyone in the league.
vs. Outlaws - split with them on the night, surprisingly we didn't have much drama with them, most of the team hit the ball pretty well, defense is still a little suspect right now but it will come, Focker finally really got into one down there and yanked one over the RC fence, they appear to still be using "the bat", but what can we do?
vs. Bonecrusher's - 21-0, not much to say. everyone hit the ball well and the other team stunk it up
vs. Predator's - make up games, lost 22-20 and then won the second game 22-21, way, way, way too many stupid errors cost us a game and almost both games.
D National Qualifier what the F....we sucked. couldn't hit our way out of a wet paper bag. lost 9-7 to sun's village and 9-8 to the outlaws of delco. modi's team ended up winning it all. we were in the parking lot before lunch was even over.
vs. Cannon won 19-9 in 5 innings. we bounced back well to stay hot down in norristown. ash pitched a nice game and was 4 for 4 at the plate. Robbie had a grand slam in a big 8 run second inning. that was the first time we've beaten Cannon and now puts us at 5-3 and in 3rd place.
Monday, January 29
Tribe Team History
The official begining of The Tribe began with the introduction of the signature lime green back in 2002. I can remember talking with Ty Jones in the off-season about getting lime green shirts. Ty, being the fashion queen that he is, wasn't real keen on the idea, but he produced the first set of lime green uni's for us. Why lime green? No particular reason. I just hate having the same ole uniforms as everyone else. Either gray or some version of blue, maybe red or kelly green. I wanted something different that no one else had. I wanted people to know exactly what team they were playing against or watching when they showed up at the field.
The unofficial begining of this team begins back in 80's when Rick Pratt began playing at the Brandywine YMCA on Sunday's with the Sheller Oiler's. The team was sponsored by lefty 1B Bruce Sheller of Sheller Oil, who was also a relative of Rick's wife. Rick asked my father to play on the team, Ron, Sr. and, eventually, in the midst of my college years, he would get me to come join the team bright and early on Sunday mornings - fresh off of a late Saturday night in Millersville. I joined the team in 1995, although I made a few guest appearances here and there starting back in 1992. The mid 90's team eventually was taken over by Rick's future son-in-law Billy Wasko, who was better known in the earlier years as one of "the 4 Woodsmen". Billy, Denny King, Greg and Mike Takach would come strolling out of the woods on the upper field about 45 seconds before game time. Other members of the team included my classmate Bear Stephens, "skinny, black" Mo, big Shawn...Billy got tired of coaching and collecting money and getting sponsors and he was starting to put a family together himself so he gave the book to Bear and the little cub decided to run the team around 1998. Bear brought Jeff Miller, Chucky Brown and Paul Carpenter to the team, (along with those hideous orange with red lettering shirts) and I added another infielder in bringing my Dad's longtime teammate in the Phoenixville league, Steve Forgue. Bear started camping a lot down the shore and he too was starting up a family of his own so the coaching thing was geting a little more difficult to committ to. I had just moved back from living in Reading for 9 months and decided that after only playing about half the season in 1999, that I wanted to play full time again in 2000. When I came back, Bear basically handed the book down to me and said that I was welcome to take over if I wanted to. I gladly accepted, although my Dad warned me of what I was about to get myself into. So I took over in 2000 and mid-way through we wore the navy blue shirts with the Merrill Lynch bulls on them - yeah, I know. Navy blue - plain, but hey, the shirts were free and Jonesy did the numbering pretty cheap so, who cares? I think that was the year we added Adam "Smokey" Miller and Brian Pugh to the team and starting losing "the Woodsmen". Bear still played, however, not as much. Each year we somehow managed to get him enough games to be playoff eligible. Just as Billy, Denny and the boys were parting with the team, Billy mentioned he had a friend that wanted to play so we added Rodney McKee to the mix, Rodney played a couple of years with us in the outfield. Sometimes he was coming off of a double shift over at Lukens. In the playoffs in 2004, Rodney blew out his knee and hasn't made it back to the field since then.
2006 Season HIghlights
1.) Icebreaker Tournament - 1st place Friday night, 2nd place overall
2.) Buzz landing on his butt after catching the line drive and then throwing the ball 10 feet over Roger's head
3. Buzz getting lost in the tarp and then jamming his thumb in the process
4. Buzz's "I love Lesbian's" T-shirt
5. Buzz falling flat on his face trying to run to first out of the box
6. Pat doing a heel kick with his bat and shooting it 15 feet in the air
7. Kenny getting a good listen at the ball that blew by him at 180 mph at 3rd base
8. Roger's picture...
9. Heath being the muddiest guy on the field 3 minutes after his arrival
10. The gay guy Joey from Weso's... (not friend's with Focker)
11. Winning the Millenium Early Bird and $400 and crushing the Tailgators along the way
12. Lighting it up on opening night in Norristown - 27-2 loss to Canon
13. Buzzy crushing one to deep home plate after he stubbed his toe in the mud
14. Pat's painted on pants
15. Making it into the FIFTH inning in our second Norristown appearance, still lost 24-9
16. Midget man pulling another fast one - Roger & Ronnie sit first game in Gap
17. Kenny hit the first Tribe HR in Norristown, lost the game 31-15 to Spike's
18. In a near constant rain...we swept the Amish - Robbie had like 16 HR's, Paul didn't make an out
19. Buzzy's cabeza got split sliding into 2nd - the fans thought it was hilarious - Buzz didn't...
20. Continued our hot streak, lost 27-7 to the Pub...Ash was 2 for 2, Jeff made an out down there - finally!
21. I was NOT the first "ejection" of the year, nope wasn't Roger either! hmmm....
22. Won the Gap League Tourney going 4-0, Outlaws left early again! Ha! no trophies...yet, I guess??
23. Robbie's son, Jonathan, ate a team record 46 hamburgers, 25 hot dogs, 13 orders of fries, and 37 sodas on the weekend. Final #'s - Robbie had to re-mortgage his house, again....
24. Welcome to the Brandywine YMCA - 2006......TRAP!!!!!!!!!
25. First win in Norristown - beat the Boner's
26. Outscored about 55-8 in first 3 games of USSSA Gap Tourney
27. 1st USSSA tournament, Won National birth to GlenBurnie, MD
28. K's - Ronnie swinging, Heath looking.....then we rolled through the bracket
29. 10 run win vs. Mel's - 23-13, Robbie hit salami over trees, Kenny 4 for 4
30. Roger playing dodgeball with Pat in the dugout vs. Nighthawks
31. Focker striking out swinging (after swinging and missing on the second strike too)
32. Buzz taking a leak on Shortbus's shoe after we split with the Falcons
33. "All they wanna do is have fun and drink beer"
34. The dead crow in left center field at Wierman
35. Two words....GOLD, BOUND
36. Won Bronze Flight at Budweiser Classic in Readington, NJ
37. Pagel's broken nose
38. The 3 stooges watching 3 Stooges together Sunday morning
39. Powder + Shortbus + Pigpen + Koach + 3:00am + hotel = early morning madness outside room 322
40. The greatest washer's comeback ever....
41. Blacksox up by 5 or 6 all game, bottom of 7th we wake up and take their hearts 12-11, after down 6
42. Appetizer anyone, beat pizza boys 19-11
43. forgot one for Readington....Dimitry's crash at first base
44. Kenny...got a new uniform...
45. 2nd place at Bridgeton - camping!
46. the late night phone call to Focker at the campsite in Bridgeton....D-E-B-A-C-L-E...
47. States - wow, did we suck
48. the bamboo fight at states - the pizza washer set - WTF?
49. SD, Brooks, Redz help us to get second place in Gap tourney - Brooks made 3 outs all day
50. Falling just short on Cannon - 27-26 loss, then *** the bed vs. Peanut boys 15-1
50. Roger's ejection, the illegal bat and the midget playing still - after being ejected in the tournament
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