Spring 2012

2 – About The Batter’s Box

3 – Announcements

4 – Schedule & Standings

5-10 – Blue Diamond Recaps

11 – Social Calendar

12- Charities & Sponsor Bar

13-15 – Wiffle Ball for Dummies

16 – DOs & DONTs

17 - Pictures

James Salgado & Charm Reyes

Spring 2012 – Issue 4

We can pass for siblings!!!

Don’t forget…if you have pictures from the games or the bar, please submit them!

Coming Soon To a “Batter’s Box” Near You

Then email them to me at backyardsportsclub@gmail.com

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Contests

Every team will be offered a space every edition of the Newsletter to submit something funny... write about their game... whatever...and since we’re doing a newsletter every Tuesday of every week, you have plenty of time to come up with something! If your team doesn’t submit anything, and isn’t in the newsletter, talk to your captain!

Ideas for Team Submissions When I say, submit something for your team, here are some ideas: • Play by plays of the game • Document the debauchery at the bar - i.e. describing someone’s amazing acting skills hobbling across the bar with a “sprained ankle” just to Ice a teammate. ] • Draw pictures!!!!! • Favorite quotes, poems, song lyrics, movie scripts, YouTube video, or motivational speeches! • Email chains from the morning after . • Funny pictures of you, your team, or something random on the internet • Give your team member awards - drunkest, loudest, person with the least shame, best off the face catch, etc.! • Anything. Really. Someone on your team is creative.

Submissions are due EVERY Tuesday by 7 p.m.

Backyard Sports Club’s email is

backyardsportsclub@gmail.com. I look forward to working with all of you!

** If you need extra time, email me and just let me know.

DISCLAIMER: if you have problems with keeping your language in check, not bashing refs, being overly nasty to other teams, and other no-no’s, the Editor does have the right to not include your write up in the newsletter if the content is deemed inappropriate or out of line. We will try to screen write ups as they are received, will try to let teams know so that they have time to resubmit, but there is no guarantee. The easiest thing to do is to keep it clean, be nice, and remember this is all in good fun.

Announcements

Please send any requests for “Announcements” to backyardsportsclub@gmail.com

REMINDER: There is NO smoking at the fields! And please be

discreet if you are drinking alcoholic beverages. Coolers and Solo cups are your friends!!! We do not want to lose these fields, so PLEASE respect the rules! Thanks

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Please submit all scores and write ups about your teams to backyardsportsclub@gmail.com

Wiffskey Militia 7 6 1 0 Da Bombers 7 4 3 0 Take a Wiff of This 7 4 3 0 Down Wiff It 7 3 3 1 Sons of Pitches 7 2 4 1 Holey Balls in your MOUTH 7 1 6 0

6:30 Games • Wiffskey Militia vs. Da Bombers Field 1 • Holey Balls in your MOUTH vs. Down Wiff It Field 2 • Take a Wiff of This vs. Sons of Pitches Field 3 7:30 Games • Holey Balls in your MOUTH vs. Da Bombers Field 1 • Sons of Pitches vs. Down Wiff It Field 2

Blue Diamond Week 4 Score Board

Standings

Week 5 Schedule- Thursday, May 17th

Teams Score Wiffskey Militia vs. Holey Balls in your MOUTH 9 - 7 Sons of Pitches vs. Da Bombers 6 - 15 Take a Wiff of This vs Down Wiff It 9 - 11 Wiffskey Militia vs. Take a Wiff of This 20 - 10 Sons of Pitches vs. Holey Balls in your MOUTH 12 - 11 Down Wiff It vs. Da Bombers 18 - 15

Team Name GP W L T

Captains and players, please remember to read the rulebook which is posted on our website, www.backyardsportsclub.com. We made a few revisions. Please note, that there are NO SUBS allowed. You can play with 3 girls, but you have to take an out for the 4th girl in the lineup. If you have any questions, please direct them to either James, Jon or Charm.

Holey Balls in Your Mouth

Wiffskey Militia

So, Holey Balls was determined to do much better than it's Week 1 performance against Wiffskey Militia. On the first game, it was a slaughter to say the least. But that was Week 1 and we put that loss behind us. This time around, Holey Balls, gelled together as a team on offense and defense. Kim was ripping it down the 3rd base line and Rachel almost had a homerun but the wind pushed it into foul territory. The wind was holding down Wiffskey on any attempt for a homerun. The game was going back and forth til the 3rd or 4th when Wiffskey hit a grandslam. If it wasn't for the grandslam, we would have won the game. It was a good game and nice to see them shaking! Great game by all!

- James Salgado

Holey Balls had us worried for a few innings and that’s putting it lightly. We started really slow on offense in this game. That is, until we had a seven-run third inning, jump-started by three solid base hits and a grand slam by yours truly. The inning gave us the lead for the first time in the game. A big homerun for April to the opposite field, which was dead into the wind, was really impressive, also. But, I’ve come to expect it from her by now.

- Ryan Roebuck

Sons of Pitches

Da bombers

I made a poor lineup and we weren’t able to string together any offense. When we scored, it was one run at a time and that’s not how you win wiffle ball games. When we played the bombers in week one, we beat them 22-3 but had a sense that they were new to the sport and were learning on the job. That fear was confirmed as they came back for the rematch and pounded us. As usual, we were short-handed again and fell asleep on defense far too often. But there is no defense for a home run and they hit a bunch of them. Props to Da Bombers for taking advantage of sweet field conditions and living up to their name sake. Play of the game on defense was Jay slapping a sure home run back into play for one of the outfielders to make the catch for the third out of an inning. That was pretty cool.

- Will Buker

This was a fun game. Da Bombers brought there bats for this one. Everybody hit really well. We got off to a big lead but Sons of Pitches managed to chip away and make it a close game. They are a really good team and we held on for the win. They smoked us 22-9 last time so it was good to take the win on this one. Shout out to Wade, Ash T and Sara (who had a bad back) for hitting homeruns.

- Gordon Boothe

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Take a Wiff of This

Down Wiff It This was a pretty competitive game, even though Take a Wiff of This was short a girl. The game was played in the pee wee league field, which was different, but fun none the less. My team came out swinging from the beginning and jumped to an early lead. I thought the game was pretty much over by the end of the second inning but Take a Wiff kept fighting until the end. You could tell that Robbie wasn't playing like he usually does, probably because he's thinking of joining my team next season and the Reyes folks were already thinking about the playoffs and forgot to bring their game. As usual, our music was loud and our game was sound and even though the Umpire absolutely sucked, neither team let that ruin the game.

- Antonio Pazos

Yea…..what can I say. We didn’t have the best game ever. Plus I’m sure Antonio remembered the slaughtering we handed them the first week, and I’m sure he rallied the troops for some practice every single day that week. And I’m pretty sure he called his team out to the batting cages before the games to get some BP in. I even think Antonio called Robbie to see if he was interested in coming out to the cages free of charge, to try to entice him to join his team next season. Too bad for us though, Robbie didn’t take him up on his offer and get some swings in free of charge. Down Wiff It brought their A game, and were ready for some payback. They pretty much demolished any kind of confidence we had after the 2nd inning….and took advantage of our short handed team. Great job to Down Wiff It, and we’ll hopefully see you in the playoffs!

- Charm Reyes

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Wiffskey Militia

Take a Wiff of This

Finally, we put together a solid game against Charm’s team. The bats stayed hot throughout the contest for the Militia. The homerun counter saw April and myself add another one each to our total. Take a Wiff kept up with us for a while, but we opened up the lead towards the second half of the game. Even though Take a Wiff put up some runs against us, I felt like our defense was really key. Charm’s team had to take an out at the bottom of the lineup, which sucks, but we had to do the same thing when we played them in the first week. So, now we are even. Mad props goes to my team for an awesome night of wiffle! And afterward, I was definitely in the mood to celebrate. I was hatin’ it on Friday at work...that’s for sure! BOOM!

- Ryan Roebuck

After a terrible loss to Down Wiff It, it was hard to to get momentum to go up against Roebuck’s team. It was pretty close for most of the game, but then Wiffskey was like…F this, lets crush these guys and put Them in their place. That they did! Surprisingly, I took this loss pretty well…cause we all know how I hate to lose. Normally I would want to drop kick Ryan or John D or someone in the forehead, but I was just ready to get to the bar and forget about this nightmare of a day on the fields. You know…I think its either the t-ball field we were on OR it could be Jonell’s husband, Peter. He must have brought the bad Juju! Good thing he works late the rest of our games Just kidding, of course! Great game, Wiffskey!

- Charm Reyes

Sons of Pitches

Holey Balls in Your Mouth

The second game featured the greatest comeback in wiffle ball (sports?) history. Bottom of the 6th trailing 4-11, Nicole got on, then the next two batters got out. Looking glum with one on and two outs in the last inning. But then Cristin hit a seeing-eye single, Susan followed suit to bring in Nicole. Then the top of the lineup came up and we got that momentum working. I plated Nicole and Susan and we were only down 4 runs now. Daniel hits a clutch shot down the line that scores me. Paula hits a bleeder and gets on base. An error moves her and Dan to second and third. Ricky hits a rocket triple to right field and scores them both. Now we've clawed back to within one run, all with two outs in the inning. Ricky on third, Jay comes to the plate. The pitch... the swing... BOOM! two-run walk off homer from the big man takes us from down 4-11 in the final at bat to a 12-11 victory and sparks the momentum we need to carry us through the rest of the season and the tournament.

- Will Buker

KARMA is a B! Let me take you back to Week 1: Holey Balls rallied by 8 runs to beat Sons of Pitches. Now to Week 4: We had this game in the bag! They were packing up their table and finishing their beers so they could leave the game. It was the bottom 6 and Holey Balls was up by 7 runs. I had the chance to get the 3rd out but I couldn't get around the pitcher to catch the ball. Somehow they pulled 8 runs to rally and beat us. Nothing is worse than losing to a rally. Great game by all.

- James Salgado

Down Wiff It

Da bombers

We started off cold and Down Wiff started off blazin, getting off to a huge lead. They were hitting everything that first inning. We finally got warmed up and made it a tight game as we cut into there lead. In the end we could not overcome it and lost a close one. Great job by both teams. This was one of the best games of the season.

- Gordon Boothe

Holy Cow! Home Runs galore. That's what this game pretty much summed up to. We didn't skip a beat from game one and came out scoring a whopping 11 runs in the first inning. As usual, I gotta give some props to Da Bombers for not quitting and keeping this game interesting, but as I promised on my write-up after the first game, we had revenge on our minds tonight. Thanks to Ashley for not hitting so many home runs and let us have this one. See you guys in the play-offs.

- Antonio Pazos

Social Calendar of Events

Charities & Sponsor Bar

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Food Specials

Wiffle Ball

Well, since no one wants to read the official Backyard Sports Club Wiffle Ball rules, here is a simple Wiffle Ball for Dummies to help you out as the season starts out!

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When running to first base, remember to run across the outside base. The reason for this is so the first baseman doesn’t crush you trying to tag you out. However, if you’re running to 2nd, you can touch 1st base and book it to 2nd.

Wiffle Ball

Well, since no one wants to read the official Backyard Sports Club Wiffle Ball rules, here is a simple Wiffle Ball for Dummies to help you out as the season starts out!

NO SLIDING! NO CLEATS! Unless the ground is wet!

NO GLASS BOTTLES! NO SMOKING!

Wiffle Ball

MOST IMPORTANTLY….DO NOT, DO NOT THROW YOUR TRASH

BAGS WITH EMPTY CANS OR BOXES OF “ADULT BEVERAGES” INTO THE TRASH RECEPTICALS THEY HAVE AT THE FIELDS.

These DO NOT Go Into the Trash Cans at the Fields:

The Field Manager has already warned us about this, and if he has to tell us one more time, he

will take away our drinking privileges at the fields…or worse, he can end up kicking us off these fields all together! So PLEASE take your trash bag full of cans, cups,

and boxes with you!!!

The Dos and DONTs

• DO NOT bring alcoholic beverages to the field….or at least be discreet about it! • DO clean up after yourselves! Unfortunately, maid service was cut out of Backyard

Sports Club’s budget due to the economy. • DO be friendly to the Refs: Please do not yell at them…just remember, you’re the one

that will look like a jerk if you yell at them. • DO NOT be “that guy.” We do not own Uno Chicago Grill or the premises around it; so

when you do something stupid, you’re not excluded from any laws just because you are wearing a Backyard Sports Club t-shirt.

• DO NOT leave a fellow wiffleballer behind; we take care of our own. Don’t let your

teammate drink like a champ and drive home. Find the closest decent looking guy/gal, introduce them, and have them go home together.

• DO NOT be bitter. It’s super important that if you end up having a “sleep over” with a

fellow wiffleballer, be cool with them for weeks to follow. We’re a small community, you’re gonna end up seeing them all season! When they drop you off at your car, hug it out, smile…and say “hi” the following week.

• DO NOT try to guess that persons name! • DO go to our sponsor Bar, Uno Chicago Grill. It’s what the cool kids are doing. • DO NOT fight! This is a fun league, HAVE FUN! If you fight, fun’s over for you, you’ll be

kicked out. • DO always wear your Backyard Sports Club shirt. I know laundry once a week may be

too much, so it’s cool if you go a couple weeks without washing….unless you’ve got bad B.O. like Robbie Wright!

• DO NOT smoke at the fields!

**DISCLAIMER** Nothing in the Backyard Sports Club Newsletter is to be taken seriously, except for the schedules and scores! Please send scores, recaps, pictures, questions, funny quotes, and/or any information that you would like to be added into the week’s newsletter to backyardsportsclub@gmail.com

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