Sarcastic Shaefer POTG posting

[Guest AG/DC]

That's worth celebrating.

In my experience, 10- and 11-year-olds aren't allowed to break until the pitch reaches the plate, so stealing home is sort of right out. Are they allowed to break with the pitch now?

[seawolf17]

The kid steals home to win the game and you only give him a point and a half? Tough dad.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nice job Soupy Jr.

I might throw a half-point to the batter whose potential glory Soupy Jr. also stole.

[soupcan]

They can't break until the pitch crosses the plate.

Jr. stole home on a delayed steal - after the catcher threw the ball back to the pitcher. He just barely got in under the tag.

It was way cool, His whole team mobbed him at the plate. I was verklempt.

For you dads of young children I can't express enough how supercool it is to watch your kids play, do well and get this ear to smile on their faces. Its just the best.

="seawolf17"]The kid steals home to win the game and you only give him a point and a half? Tough dad.

Well, my voting was for the whole game not just the last inning and he didn't really do much up til then. Besides itrs not like he's gonna see this.

[soupcan]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Nice job Soupy Jr. I might throw a half-point to the batter whose potential glory Soupy Jr. also stole.

Who, Drew?

If Jr. hadn't stole home we might still be playing.

[Guest AG/DC]

My only steal of home was when there were two outs and Keith up. Poor Keith didn't know that it was pretty much team policy to look to swipe the plate if he was up with two out.

I actually was called out (thought I was in there), but it turned out the pitcher quick-pitched. The damn umps, though, had a conference, and sent me back to THIRD, based on our league rules to give the pitcher a warning on his first balk.

No steal for me.

[HahnSolo]

Everett gets too many points there in my opinion. He walks (OK, tie game, winning run gets on base), but was it a hard-worked walk, or was the pitcher wild?
Then he goes to second on a passed ball. Again, no great effort on his part.

But now he commits a colossal blunder. In scoring position, he tries to get to third on a grounder to short? Bad play, especially if you are the winning run. Getting tagged out, he leaves a man on first with 2 outs.

The key player here is Harry. His double scored the first run, then his stolen base allowed him to score the tying run on an infield out. Big time right there.

So I think you should adjust Harry to 3 points, Soup Jr. to 2, and Everett to 1.5.

[soupcan]

HahnSolo wrote: Everett gets too many points there in my opinion. He walks (OK, tie game, winning run gets on base), but was it a hard-worked walk, or was the pitcher wild? Then he goes to second on a passed ball. Again, no great effort on his part. But now he commits a colossal blunder. In scoring position, he tries to get to third on a grounder to short? Bad play, especially if you are the winning run. Getting tagged out, he leaves a man on first with 2 outs. The key player here is Harry. His double scored the first run, then his stolen base allowed him to score the tying run on an infield out. Big time right there. So I think you should adjust Harry to 3 points, Soup Jr. to 2, and Everett to 1.5.

See, the problem is that I only gave you guys one inning but I scored the kids based on the entire game.

Everett had 3 big hits in the game AND asked me to show him how to score the game. Paid great atention when I showed him and scored one inning himself.

Getting tagged out going from 2nd to 3rd wasn't really his fault. Soupy, Jr. hit a missile of a groundball. The SS should never have had a chance at it but it but somehow he stabbed it. He bobbled it so had no play at first but Everett had assumed (as did everyone else) that the SS would not be able to get to the ball in the first place. By the time Everett realized the ball didn't go through, the SS finally had control of it and tagged Everett who was right next to him.

Harry is totally big time. Best player on the team and a nice kid. He pitches, he hits. Back story: His mom is Puerto Rican and his dad is Jewish. The mom was single with two kids and took a job as the dad's secretary. They started having an affair and, Harry's dad jokes (or maybe not), that to avoid the sexual harrassment suit, he had to marry her..

[Benjamin Grimm]

soupcan wrote: His mom is Puerto Rican and his dad is Jewish.

http://lavieenrobe.typepad.com/la_vie_en_robe/images/2007/11/30/fro.jpg

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ="soupcan"]His mom is Puerto Rican and his dad is Jewish. http://lavieenrobe.typepad.com/la_vie_en_robe/images/2007/11/30/fro.jpg

He looks like Harpo and sounds like Chico.

[soupcan]

That's fucking funny and I'm sure that I once had that issue of Dynamite

[metirish]

I'm changing my allegiance to Soupy Jr.'s team , was he stealing on his own right there?

[soupcan]

Are you kidding? No way. The coach would've killed him.

They play the Royals this Saturday for a share of first place, tix availble on StubHub.com.

[metirish]

I know nothing really about LL but is that typical for a coach to push things like that? , a ballsy move and I love it . Is he a bunt kinda guy , becasue you know there might be a job for him.

[Guest themetfairy]

Little League coaches are about as consistent as a pinball machine. They call all sorts of crazy plays.

It's the good coaches who own up to it after the fact and tell the kids that it was their fault that DJ was called out at third trying to stretch a double into a triple because the coach told him to keep running....

[soupcan]

="metirish"]I know nothing really about LL but is that typical for a coach to push things like that? , a ballsy move and I love it . Is he a bunt kinda guy , becasue you know there might be a job for him.

Interesting that you ask those questions -

Normally I wouldn't be happy about winning a game with a delayed steal like that. But our kids were doing it the whole game - not stealing home, but 1st to 2nd, 2nd to 3rd - and the other team's coach didn't alert his team to it or tell them to be extra aware of it or anything. Usually if you do that once, the other team becomes aware and makes it a point to take better care of the ball and not let it happen again.

It was also getting late - there had been a 15 minute rain delay and we were pushing curfew time (8:10) so his coach wanted to end the game then and there.

Soupy, Jr. badly wants to be a bunter. He tried to lay 'em down three seperate times yesterday. The first time he got called out for stepping out of the batter's box and making contact with the ball (instead of reaching across the plate). The other two times he kept fouling it off and once he got to two strikes had to swing away. He'll keep at it though.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Soupcan - "Soupy, Jr. badly wants to be a bunter. He tried to lay 'em down three seperate times yesterday..."

Soupy Jr. must be a fan of WWSB.

[Guest themetfairy]

MiniKnight is also a fan of bunting for a base hit in LL.

[Willets Point]

Indiana Jones 4

[Guest sharpie]

When I was coaching Lenny's team and was in the third base coaching box (coaching at a higher level when stealing can happen anytime, major league rules except no infield fly) I told my fastest runner that he could go for the straight steal of home because I had observed that there was a nervous catcher behind the plate. The play worked, we all went home happy. The kid who stole home had managed to get on base on a walk probaby because he couldn't hit at all but he got his moment of glory there.

[Elster88]

Martinez 10


Welcome back Pedro.

[Elster88]

Tatis -25

-5 for each man left on base. 0 for 0 hits.

[Guest themetfairy]

-5 to Sandy Alomar for holding up David Wright at third.

[Fman99]

Mets -82

[Benjamin Grimm]

Vic Sage wrote: Wagner = -10

Sorry, I had to move this post, Vic. Left where it was, it could have ended up giving Wagner 10 points, and I'm sure that's not what you intended.

[Guest *62]

(on edit)

Never mind.

[Fman99]

Baseball -1

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

R.A. Dickey 10

[Guest themetfairy]

6/25 cooby - 6!

[Elster88]

Manuel -10