Screenwriter Joe Esterhaus announced the selling of the movie rights of his 
soon-to-be-written remake of an ancient Greek classic for a whopping 
$3.5 million.  "The Homer Women", while honoring its predecessor's 
groundbreaking story of unsung victims, promises to modernize Euripides's 
tragedy by focusing on men.  The story begins:  "[Hueys fill the sky like
black flies in spring in Vermont.  As they descend, their gunners blaze 
away and litter the ground with the bodies of lots and lots of bad guys.
The choppers land and disgorge a special forces company, all with the Homers'
insignia on their sleeves.  The lead Homer gives the thumbs up; the
choppers take off.  Captain Jeff scans his men once, scans them again the
other way, and speaks]  Where the hell are our women?"<p>

That's right - at game time, the Homers did not have enough women, with only
Barbara present.  Consequently, the Homers traded for two Goat Scouts,
the sisters Alex and Lori, for two players to be named later, who turned
out to be Alex and Lori.
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    Homers       4  2  0  2  0  4  2     14
    Goat Scouts  1  1  1  1  1  0  0      5
</pre>
Still, the Homers played exceptionally well, especially against one of the
good C league teams.  The batting order was Alex (3B), Jeff (C/1B), Scott 
(P/1B), Richard (SS/1B/P), Barbara (2B/OF), Ron (OF), Dave (OF/C), Don (OF), 
Lori (OF/2B), Tim (1B/SS), Phil (OF), Martha (3B), and Amy (OF).  Sara and
Mickey sat chained to the fence and almost got knocked on their heads twice
by foul balls.  After the game, Amy, Phil, Jeff, Don, Tim, Barbara, Ron, and 
Richard hit Fuddrucker's to talk softball, tax-free bats, career-ending 
injuries, and Sharks.<p>

The Homers won this game on defense.  Tim started a big ground-ball double
play to end the second inning after the Goats had scored and had runners on
first and third.  Richard turned a similar double play in the fourth, and
Tim later doubled a runner off second on a line drive.  Jeff, playing
catcher, displayed KJ-like quickness in catching two foul pop-ups in the
same inning.  Phil and Dave each had an inning of catching two fly balls
in the outfield, with Dave's wormliness (ask Scott) in practice paying off
as his were his first real-time putouts.<p>

Offensively, the Homers seemed to get key hits from everyone in the lineup,
starting in the first inning when Barbara got a clutch two-out hit to right
to set up Ron's three-run home run.  Tim got a two-run dinger later, and
Richard hit a solo shot underneath the centerfielder to keep up in the race
for the title of Mr. Homer.<p>

Our next game is our last game at Pasadena High School.  It's Thursday,
July 6, on field 2, the usual field, against the Deep Space Cadets, a
make-up game from two weeks ago.  Amy is already a no-show.