LL Softball Recap: 7/20

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 21, 2008 2:45 PM PDT

Smegmalicious and his friends (whose names I do not remember, I am sorry) showed up a full hour early to LL Softball. I got there at 1pm and the rest of the crew slowly but surely rolled on in. When ten of us had made it there, we decided it was time to try a game, but we knew we had to adjust the rules.

Special Rules for 5v5 Softball:
1. All balls hit in the infield are outs; balls must land on the outfield grass on-the-fly to be considered hits.
2. The fielding team must furnish 4 outfielders and 1 catcher. If the ball lands in the outfield for a base hit, the fielders complete the play by throwing the ball to the catcher at home plate. All runners who are NOT standing on a base when the catcher receives the ball and steps on home plate shall be considered out.

We attempted this in the first game and got an uncharacteristically low 1-0 score for the first five innings, in favor of the Cones. After five innings, we switched from hitting softballs to hitting baseballs. Smegmalicious bombed a homerun in the bottom of the 7th inning to tie the score at 1-1 and send it into extras.

Neither team scored in the 8th inning and we went to the ninth. With two runners on, I hit a long fly ball to the wall in center that I didn't think had enough power to get over, when to my surprise, it bounced off the CF's glove and over the wall for a three-run homerun, making the score 4-1. Team Tractor would come back in the 9th and score another on a homer to make it 4-2, but they would get no more.

We tried to mess with the rules again, but it just didn't go, so we continued with the rules described above and tried another game. This time, the Cones would be the home team, and I thought to grab a digital video camera I happened to have on hand. I wasn't able to get it set up in time for the top of the first, but I did get the rest of the game.

A group started playing some softball across the way in the park, and we asked them a couple times if they wanted to join us. Finally, once they had a quorum, we got to play LL'ers versus... um, I'm not actually sure who they were. Hopefully we'll catch up to them again and we'll get the chance to play another game.

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That group's from Underdog Sports League

They usually practice on Saturday afternoons…at least that’s what they told me.

They invited me/all of us to play with them in the near future.

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by wwbaker3 on Jul 21, 2008 3:22 PM PDT reply actions

Baker, your 3rd HR in game 2

was after the top of the 4th. We ended the game while we were at bat in the 4th, so I cut that part out of the video.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 21, 2008 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions

oh snap

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by wwbaker3 on Jul 21, 2008 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, I just bust on people all day.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 21, 2008 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions

And I think you're going to enjoy the video anyway, once it finally loads.

I tried to cut as much dead-time out as I could, but it still left me with 28 minutes.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 21, 2008 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions

wait,

so the 3rd HR isn’t on film? or did you just cut it out?

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by wwbaker3 on Jul 21, 2008 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions

I do have it on film, but I don't have it on the clip

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 21, 2008 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions

oh c'mon!

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by wwbaker3 on Jul 21, 2008 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions

It looks like I'm not going to be able to get it done while I'm at work.

I’ll see if I can get everything fixed up on my way home. If the video is not up by 6pm, it won’t be up until after 9:00am Tuesday.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 21, 2008 3:51 PM PDT reply actions

VIDEO IS UP!

Unfortunately, it’s in three parts, so you’ll have to watch almost a half hour of video to get the full thing, but it’s done (finally).

This is the second video I’ve produced under basically any circumstance, and definitely more ambitious than the Gomez: Power Hitter clips. You may be sad to not hear music in the background, but if you keep watching, I think you’ll like what you see.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 22, 2008 9:37 AM PDT reply actions

Thank god there's no cone humping animated gif.

by Smegmalicious on Jul 22, 2008 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 22, 2008 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Heh heh heh

If I ever acquire the software and ability….

by Gomez on Jul 22, 2008 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions

I take pride in seeing this even though I am in no way associated with this game.

by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jul 25, 2008 7:34 AM PDT up reply actions

Also, I cringed a little bit allowing that at the end of the video.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 22, 2008 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions

I cringed a little bit when I was doing it.

Where is the rest of the video? I only see the one clip.

by Smegmalicious on Jul 22, 2008 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions

I had to split it into three in order for it to fit on youtube.

It probably took me just as much time to upload as it did to edit.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 22, 2008 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Part 2

Part 3

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 22, 2008 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions

Daniel,

nice bat flip btw! haha

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by wwbaker3 on Jul 22, 2008 6:34 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, I looked at that later and visions of Boone were in my head.

I don’t think that’s a good thing.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 22, 2008 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions

Haha, I loved the bat flip as well.

You can hear Baker get real excited as you hit that hr.
The ending with Smeg is also classic. Good video, thanks for taking the time to do all that editing and stuff.

by LantermanC on Jul 22, 2008 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions