Homers
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JPL's C League Softball
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Schedule
| Apr 18 |
1. Space Force 11, Homers 24 |
| Apr 26 |
2. Eclectic Eccentrics 17, Homers 14 |
| May 4 |
3. Homers 18, Crawdads 10 |
| May 18 |
4. Mercy Be Crazy 9, Homers 21 |
| May 24 |
5. Homers 17, Titans 7 |
| May 31 |
6. Homers 12, L.A. Radars 6 |
| Jun 8 |
7. Cinco Equis 9, Homers 11 |
| Jun 14 |
8. Homers 12, Bruisers 20 |
| Jun 22 |
9. Voodoo TOAD Fury 19, Homers 17 |
| Jul 11 |
10. Homers 21, Paper Tigers 18 |
| Jul 18 |
11. Homers 16, Cinco Equis 14 |
| Jul 26 |
12. L.A. Radars 21, Homers 17 |
| Aug 3 |
13. Titans 11, Homers 27 |
| Aug 10 |
14. Bruisers 29, Homers 19 |
| Aug 16 |
15. Homers 20, Eclectic Eccentrics 21 |
| Aug 23 |
16. Paper Tigers 17, Homers 25 |
| Aug 31 |
17. Homers 14, Voodoo TOAD Fury 8 |
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2022.08.31 Your 2022 Homers
standing, L to R: Ryan, Scott, Sue, Ron, AJ, Will, Lisa, Jeff, Daniel,
Richard, Robb, Mary
kneeling: Christina, Abby, Chloe, Daisy, Annette, Tony Gr
missing: Tony Ga, Chad, Mark (photographer), Dylan, Johnny, Sophie
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# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 $
1 Jeff Osman 5 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 4 2 1 1 1 2 2 1
2 Ron Baalke 1 4 4 2 7 1 2 5 1 3 6 1 3 2 2 1 1 1
3 Abby Couto 7 7 14 15 15 10 12 14 14 14 10 14 14 8 12 9 1
4 Richard Chen 14 7 11 10 12 3 4 4 8 9 4 5 13 4 6 8
5 Scott Morgan 3 2 6 6 5 5 7 5 1 5 4 4 5 7 4
6 Annette Nasif 11 8 9 12 12 13 7 11 11 11 16 7 11 12 1
7 AJ Bolduc 7 10 7 10 6 14 12 14 10 14 14 8 12 13 9
8 Robb Warren 5 3 3 6 6 3 6 4 3 7 3 3 3 5
9 Lisa Garcia 10 11 13 9 12 9 6 7 9 11 10 16 11
10 Sue Kientz S S S S S S S S S S S S S
11 Tony Ganino 2 2 8 9 10 10 1 1 6 9 6 10 1
12 Chad Galley 4 5 5 11 7 5 11 4 9 6 4 14 1
13 Ryan Kinnett 8 13 11 8 2 13 12 10 8 13 9 8 11
14 Daniel Limonadi 11 8 9 9 14 14 11 11 16 8 15 1
15 Will Reid 14 12 16 16 13 13 13 17 12 15 14 11
16 Tony Greicius 6 13 4 2 3 5 10 3 2 5 3
17 Daisy Ramos 3 4 8 9 9 4 8 7 6 10 10
18 Christina Toldbo 4 8 S 11 9 13 10 4 6
19 Mark Garcia S S S S S S S
20 Dylan Wilbur 10 16 14 16 18 S
21 Chloe Kinnett S S S S S S
22 John McGrory 7 3 4 6 8
23 Sophie Garcia 6 7 8 11 10
24 Ben Solish 13 13 12
25 Ethan Kinnett S S S
25 Kim Kinnett S S S
25 Sheila Ganino S S S
25 Leo Reid S S S
25 Ana Morino S S S
25 Genevieve Reid S S S
31 Dustin Graf 5 8
32 Lacie Fradet 11 10
33 Haley Ganino 1 S
34 Cin-Young Lee 7
35 Kevin Carpenter 9
35 Ian Tan 9
37 Daniel Castano 12
37 Becky Castano 12
39 Gabe Arthur 13
40 Natalie Bitetti 18
41 Kai Lee S
41 Jenelle Graf S
41 Rook Graf S
41 Jamie Shin S
41 Ross Weidman S
41 Michael Toldbo S
41 Bella Castano S
41 Lars Toldbo S
41 Mary Wittman S
#==current ranking,
*==previous ranking,
Out,
Spectator,
Late arrival,
Early exit,
Disabled/dead
Male player, confirmed
Female player, confirmed
male player, presumed
female player, presumed
The algorithm to determine the winner:
number of regular season games attended
if tied, irregular season games attended
if tied, lowest sum of order of appearance at regular season
games
if still tied, order of appearance at irregular games
Order of appearance also pretty much determines: 1) each game's batting
order,
2) the order of sitting out defensively,
and 3) who gets sent over to the other team if they don't
have enough. Note: the payment of team fees counts as an irregular
game.
M. Homer (food)
# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
1 Jeff Osman + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
2 Robb Warren + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
3 Richard Chen + + + + + + + + - + + + + + +
4 Annette Nasif + - + + + + + + + + + + + +
5 Scott Morgan + + + + + + + + + - + + + + -
6 Daniel Limonadi + - + + + + + + + + +
7 AJ Bolduc - + + - + + + - - - - + - +
8 Abby Couto - + - - + - + + + - - - - + - +
9 Ron Baalke - + + - - - + + + - - - - - - - +
10 Sue Kientz - + - - - + + - - - - - +
11 Christina Toldbo + - + - - - - - +
12 Tony Greicius - + - - - - + - - - +
13 Tony Ganino - - - - - - + + - - - +
14 Ana Morino - + +
14 Ben Solish - + +
16 Sophie Garcia - - + - +
17 Chad Galley - - - - + - - - - - - +
17 Ryan Kinnett + - + - - - - - - - - -
19 Ross Weidman +
19 Gabe Arthur +
19 Kevin Carpenter +
19 Mary Wittman +
23 Lacie Fradet + -
24 Sheila Ganino - - +
24 Leo Reid + - -
24 Genevieve Reid + - -
27 Johnny McGrory - - - - +
28 Dylan Wilbur - - + - - -
29 Mark Garcia - - - - - - + -
30 Daisy Ramos - - - - + - - - - -
31 Will Reid - - - - - - + - - - -
32 Lisa Garcia - - - - - - - - - - + - -
33 Jamie Shin -
33 Rook Graf -
33 Ian Tan -
33 Jenelle Graf -
33 Kai Lee -
33 Bella Castano -
33 Michael Toldbo -
33 Natalie Bitetti -
33 Daniel Castano -
33 Becky Castano -
33 Cin-Young Lee -
33 Lars Toldbo -
45 Dustin Graf - -
45 Haley Ganino - -
47 Kim Kinnett - - -
47 Ethan Kinnett - - -
49 Chloe Kinnett - - - - - -
# current ranking
* previous ranking
+ attended dinner
- skipped dinner
M. Homer (soul)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 sum
Tony Ganino 1 1 1 1 4
Johnny McGrory 1 1 1 3
Richard Chen 1 1 2
Daniel Limonadi 1 1
Chad Galley 1 1
Tony Greicius 1 1
From: Tony Greicius
FINAL game of 2022 and the temperature was at 108 degrees. Most teams would have forfeited, but if Richard can play with an infected, swollen and pink elbow, then we all decided we had to endure the heat. "There's no crying in softball, there's no crying."
There were a few signs that we shouldn't play. Annette found a belly up dead frog (maybe a TOAD) on the field and several of the frisbee teams were playing topless and it wasn't an attractive view. But we did play and we had an amazing win against Voodoo Toad Fury.
The TOADS played dirty as usual, bringing ice cream for only their team. No sharing was allowed unless you were under five years of age. They also brought a female lefty who hit to the opposite field for a home run. This isn't even done in the majors.
Richard started us off with a home run in the first inning. Christina caught a foul popup in the third and there were three shoe string catches by Abby, Daniel and Ryan. Tony Gr had the best catch of the game saving the Ultimate Frisbee team who were sitting in center field. Actually he caught it about 20 feet away from them, but if he had missed it, it could have taken a bad bounce and hit the British guy with the red, white and blue hat who just became an American citizen.
We ended the game with a team photo and several hugs.
Dinner was at Round Table with Ron, Sue, Mary, Rob, Abby, AJ (aka Ryan), Jeff, Richard, Scott, Tony Gr, Annette and Daniel. Pizza toppings were pepperoni with bell pepper, mushroom with sausages and a truly healthy, mushroom with onions.
Next game is April 2023, but we'll have BP three times a week at 6 am at Hahamonga. Contact Richard and Jeff if interested.
Homers 1 3 1 0 4 0 5 14
Toads 5 0 1 0 0 0 2 8
Ron P P P P P P P
Tony Gr LC LC LC LC LC LC LC
Richard 3B 3B 3B 3B 3B 3B 3B
Christina C - C 2B - C -
Ryan RF C 1B C RF - C
Abby SS SS SS SS SS SS SS
AJ 1B 1B - 1B 1B 1B 1B
Will LF LF LF LF LF LF LF
Lisa 2B 2B 2B - 2B 2B 2B
Daniel - RF RF RF C RF RF
Annette RC RC RC RC RC RC RC
Field Manager: Scott
Coaches: Jeff, Robb.
Injured Reserve: Daisy
Spectators: Mary, Sue, Kim, Chloe, Ethan, Mark
From: Lisa Garcia
noun: paper tiger; plural noun: paper tigers
something or someone that claims or appears to be powerful or threatening, but is actually ineffectual and unable to withstand challenge.
On Tuesday 8/23 at Hahamonga south field the Paper Tigers were just that. They started out with the appearance of strength and bravado, only to be unable to withstand the constant bombardment from the Homers bats and unrelenting Homer's defensive genius.
The highlight reel starts with Will's audition for the Australian ballet. In left field he ran down a high fly foul, making an unbelievably graceful leaping catch. The second inning was another display of heads up play by the Homers. Chadley made an impossible shoestring catch in left center, then as a true athlete had the presence of mind to throw the ball to the second basewoman for a double play that demoralized our opponents. In the 3rd inning T-Ga took the cowhide for a joy ride adding to what was to be the Homers second highest scoring inning. This brings us to the 4th? Inning, when Shoeless Ron Baalke was on the mound serving up strikes to the a wife beater wearing, testosterone oozing Paper Tiger who was waiting for the perfect pitch to drill at Awoww and drill he did. BIG mistake. Awoww firmly planted and at the ready and caught that bullet before the batter even dropped the bat.
Other offensive highlights include AJ going 4 for 4, Christina of Denmark with 3 hits, apparently aiming to impress her fans and Awoww turning her HOMER into a triple in the 6th.
To add insult to in jury eagle eye Speedy Osman noticed our opponents using illegal bats and called them on it.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Paper Tigers 0 5 0 0 8 3 1 17
HOMERS 4 0 8 9 0 4 - 25
Shoeless Ron Baalke P P P P - P P
Sir Richard LC LC 3B RF 3B - LC
Daniel - Legs C RF RF - 1B C RF
Christina of Denmark 2B C - C 2B 2B -
Ryan - Mr. Utility RF 1B - RC C 1B 1B
T-Ga 3B 3B - 3B P SS 3B
AJ (already a nickname) 1B - 1B 1B RF 3B -
Annette - Gopher RC RC RC - RC RC RC (she goes for anything that comes near her)
Chadley - LF LC LC LC LC -
Will - Barishnikov LF - LF LF LF LF LF
Abby - Awoww SS SS SS SS SS - SS
Jeff "Speedy" Osman - - C - - C C
Lisa - 2B 2B 2B - OF 2B
Field Manager: Scott - Mr. Steady
Base Coach: Robb - R. Dawg
Spectators: Lars, Micheal (Christina's relatives), Sweet Daisy with her injured ankle, Genevive and baby Leo.
Celebratory dinner was at Round Table. It was well attended, but as this author was unable to join the festivities I'm not certain all that were there.
From: Annette Nasif
When you can't think of a witty intro for the Homer's report, start with a joke:
Two old women had been best friends for years, and they both live to their early 90's, when one of them suddenly falls deathly ill. Her friend comes to visit him on his deathbed, and they're reminiscing about their long friendship, when the dying woman's friend asks, "Listen, when you die, do me a favor. I want to know if there's softball in heaven." The dying woman said, "We've been friends for years, this I'll do for you." And then she dies. A couple days later, her surviving friend is sleeping when she hears her friend's voice. The voice says, "I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there's softball in heaven." "What's the bad news?" "You're pitching on Wednesday."
A joke about aging softball players after a heartbreaking loss to the Eclectic Eccentrics. Coincidence? Hmmm...
The Homers did not live up to their name, with nobody hitting a homerun, though we had some strong offensive innings in the 3rd and 4th. The defensive highlight was three putouts by Abby at shortstop and Sophie at 2B. We were leading by one run at 7pm when last inning was called, but we couldn't hold the lead. We scored zero the last inning and they scored 2, sealing their win.
The agony of defeat was soothed by sweet s'mores treats brought by Sophie to celebrate Lisa's birthday. Happy birthday Lisa!
Homers 2 2 7 9 0 20
Eclectic 3 4 8 4 2 21
Ron P P P P P
Chad LC LC LC LC LC
Tony Ga 3B 3B 3B 3B 3B
Annette RC RC RC RC RC
AJ 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B
Will LF LF LF LF LF
Abby SS SS SS SS SS
Jeff C - C - C
Sophie 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B
Ryan RF RF RF RF RF
Lisa - C - C -
Field Manager: Scott
Base Coach: Robb
Spectators: Sue, Shiela, Haley, Dylan (for a few minutes at the end to say goodbye since he is going back to UCLA for training camp), and Apollo (Ryan's dog)
Dinner at Los Gringos Locos was enjoyed by Jeff, Scott, Lisa, Sophie, Mark (who showed up with a bouquet of red roses for Lisa), Robb, AJ, Abbey, and Annette. The service was so-so, but the tacos were cheap and the company was good.
Next week's game will be on Tuesday August 23 against the Paper Tigers on the grass field (HS). As usual, please notify Richard and Jeff if you won't be there.
P.S. In case you didn't know or forgot, the Homers have a webpage with all sorts of good stuff. http://homers.jplsoftball.org/
From: Dylan Wilbur
Dylan got swamped with items concerning his final presentation and
offboarding. He:
- leaves for a month-long camp on Aug 17
- enjoyed playing with the Homers this summer
- is continuing for a year-round internship in the fall.
Bruisers 5 11 0 1 5 1 6 29
Homers 2 1 0 7 0 4 5 19
Ron P C P - P P -
Tony Gr LC LC LC - LC RC -
Chad LF LF - LF LF LF LF
Daisy 2B 2B - 2B 2B - 2B
Ryan RC 3B - 3B - 1B 1B
Tony Ga 3B P - P 3B - P
Christina C RF - C - 2B -
AJ 1B - 3B 1B - 3B 3B
Sophie RF - RC RF - RC -
Richard - SS LF LC - SS LC
Jeff - - - - C - -
Abby SS - SS SS SS - SS
Daniel - 1B 1B - 1B RC C
Annette - RC RC RF - RF RC
Dylan - - RF - RC - RF
Lisa - - 2B - RF - -
Annette made a great catch in right field in the 6th inning.
From: Daniel Limonadi
Cough - this report totally isn't late. It's the best report ever written - no one writes better reports. Just ask my amazing kids. The best kids. They should run the country after me. Wait, where is my wife? You've never seen a more fit softball player, just ask my doctor - I hit nothing but home runs. So then they did this thing, how dare you look into my personal files to see why the report was late! This is worse than Watergate! Other than that I take the 5th. What a mess this country is in. Who made it this way? Those January 6th protesters, beautiful people. Such a great HUGE crowd. The biggest ever really, they just love me. That report was never late - don't make up nasty lies. They compare me to Babe Ruth - Its True! Lies, lies, lies. But man, it's incredible, I mean, I could literally not ever write the report and I wouldn't lose voters. Ok?
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Who was that guy??
Anyway, the Homers had a great game with over-the-top turn out of 16 players, not including spouses, babies, and small children. Dylan (summer intern playing with the team) brought his high school friend Natalie and she played her first Homers game - the fact that she played softball in high school clearly showed - we appreciated her contributions, even if only for one game, though she is welcome back in the future.
Offensive highlights included a home run by Tony Gr. Daisy, Richard, Chad, Christina, Natalie, Dylan, Daniel, and Abby all got on base every at bat. Defensive highlights included a nice foul ball catch by our Danish guest player Christina in the 3rd inning. Spectator highlights included a largely un-noticed balloon accidental homicide, and multiple very young humans being very cute.
Titans 5 1 1 4 0 0 11
Sharks 4 7 8 8 0 x 27
Tony Gr LC LC - LC LC -
Ron P C P - P P
Tony Ga 3B P - P 1B -
Daisy 2B - 2B 2B - 2B
Richard RF - SS - - SS
Chad LF 3B - LF 3B -
Ryan C - 1B 3B - 3B
Annette RC - RF RF - RC
Daniel - 1B LC - RF RF
AJ 1B - 3B 1B C -
Christina - 2B C - 2B C
Jeff - - - C - -
Natalie - RC RC - RC 1B
Will - LF LF - LF LF
Dylan - RF - RF - LC
Abby SS SS - SS SS -
Scott --field manager--
Spectators included Robb, Sue (for a few minutes), Kim, Leo, Genevieve, Ethan, and Chloe. Dinner was at Fresh Brothers (old Georgie's site) and was attended by Jeff, Richard, Robb, Scott, Annette, and Daniel. The pizza was reported to be ok not great and there was no beer... soooo, not likely to be a future destination.
The next game was Wednesday 8/10 at HS against the Bruisers (spoiler alert - it was not pretty). The game after that will be Tuesday 8/16 against the Eclectic Eccentrics at HS.
From: Chad Galley
With Scott nervously vacationing during last week's game, concerned that everything would fall apart after all the victories and years of sweat equity, the HOMERS tried to win one for the Gipper against the LA Radars and put his mind at ease so he could enjoy that mojito on a distant equatorial island beach.
After an impressive 7-run first inning by the HOMERS, the Radars dribbled balls off their bats to a 16-run second inning to go up by 10 and, fortunately, end the inning by the mercy rule. Many HOMERS were seen filing Incident Surprise Anomaly (ISA) reports at the end of the inning (including more than one by yours truly) for rare anomalies and surprises encountered fielding the balls that the Radars got past the pitcher. However, the HOMERS resolved to close their ISAs by the next inning and turned in great defensive performances after that, allowing the Radars only 4 more runs the remainder of the game. Legendary memories of Richard's running catch in right-center and a Richard-to-Abby-to-Ben double play (and possibly another double play involving Abby that eludes me right now) will enshrine the HOMERS Hall of Fame. The game included other interesting events such as Dylan making his first out as a HOMER (recall he hit a grand slam in his first HOMERS game!), Abby kicking the ball to first to almost get the runner out, and Robb & Jeff filling in admirably as Manager and co-Manager. The HOMERS grew a slow and steady comeback but ultimately fell short by 4 runs in the end. Scott's never going on vacation during the season again.
Next game is today at Hahamongna's north field, the dirt one, against the Titans! (Yeah, I'm a bit late on the report - sue me.)
L.A. Radars 1 16 0 0 1 2 0 21
Homers 7 2 2 2 3 0 1 17
Ron P P P P P P P
Jeff - -/C - - - - -
Daisy 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B
Richard RF RF RF RC RC LC RC
Chad LC LC LC LC LC - LC
Cin-Young LF LF - LF - LF LF
Sophie RC RC/- - - RF C RF
AJ 1B 1B 1B 3B 3B - 3B
Ben 3B 3B 3B 3B - 3B 3B
Lisa C C/RC RF RF C RF C
Abby SS SS SS SS SS SS SS
Gabe - - LF - LF RC -
Dylan - - C C 1B 1B -
Field Manager: Robb & Jeff
Base Coaches: Robb, Jeff, et al.
Spectators (hope I get everyone's names right): Sue Kientz, Mark Garcia, Jamie Shin, Kai Lee, 2 dogs (?), heckling by a groundhog in the outfield, and jeering from multiple frogs near the dugout.
Special thanks go to Sophie, Ben, CY, and Dylan for rounding out the team!
Dinner was at Round Table and attended by the people who went.
From: Christina Toldbo
An exciting game where HOMERS almost made everyone believe we were going to live off the very first inning starting with the now dubbed: 'Tony-combo' and scoring 9 points. After that it was the outfields game for both teams and the innings passed fast!
Sophie was back again for her second week and added a new position (catcher) to her resume. Dylan came flying in in the late part of the game as mister track-runner and scored a much-needed point by sheer speed. Haley debuted the team and is the 4th NCAA Division 1 athlete to play for the HOMERS over the years.
In the end it was almost a tie, but HOMERS (and Abby in particular in this inning) didn't let the pressure get to them and caught Cinco Equis out before they had a chance to score the much-needed points.
Next week's game is on Tuesday, July 26. Vacation season is continuing so make sure you give Richard and Jeff plenty of notice if you will be missing the game.
Homers 9 0 0 0 2 2 3 16
Cinco Equis 3 1 4 3 0 3 0 14
Tony Ga 3B 3B P - 1B P 3B
Tony Gr LC LC - LC - - -
Jeff C - - C - C -
Sophie 2B C - 2B RF - 2B
Ron P P - P P - P
Richard 1B - LF 1B 3B LC LC
Lisa RF RF 2B RF - RF RF
Chad LF - 1B RC LC LF LF
Christina - 2B C - 2B 2B C
Ryan - LF RC 3B - 3B -
Ben - RC RF - C RC -
AJ - 1B 3B - RC 1B 1B
Abby SS SS SS SS SS SS SS
Haley RC - LC LF LF - -
Dylan - - - - - - RC
From: Jeff Osman
Summertime, and the living is easy. Unless you are the managers of the HOMERS C-League softball team and you have hit vacation season.
While all of HOMERS members are certainly entitled to their well earned vacations, do they always all have to happen at the same time??? This last weekend Richard must have sent in excess of 30 email entreaties trying to line up appropriate HOMERS substitutes. Fortunately, Richard is well skilled for this endeavor, and demonstrated his commitment to once again allow the HOMERS were able to field a team skilled enough to defeat a determined set of Paper Tigers.
Homers 6 6 0 3 4 2 21
Paper Tigers 4 0 2 7 0 5 18
Jeff C C C C C C
Ron P P P P P P
Chad 3B LF LF LF LF LF
Lisa RF - 2B RF 2B -
Richard LC LC LC - - -
Ian LF 3B RC LC LC LC
Dylan RC RC - RC RC RC
Christina 2B 2B - 2B - 2B
AJ 1B - 1B 1B 1B 1B
Ryan - 1B 3B 3B 3B 3B
Sophie - RF RF - RF RF
Abby SS SS SS SS SS SS
Field Manager: Scott
Base Coach and Prepared Sub: Robb
Spectators: Chloe, Sue, Mark, Spanky, and Mia
Special thanks go out to super substitutes Christina, Dylan, Ian, and Sophie. Christina has filled in for us for several games already this season, all the way from Denmark. Ian has played against the HOMERS for years, but was nice enough to join us this week. Sophie grew up in a household of softball players, but had never joined in herself until this week. Dylan becomes what I believe to be the 3rd NCAA Division 1 athlete to play for the HOMERS over the years.
Dylan made quite the HOMERS debut offensively by hitting the HOMERS only home run of the game. He even made it a grand slam!
Defensively there was the all Chad inning where Chad made all three outs in left field. There was also a nice double play turned by Abbey and Ryan.
Post game dinner was held at Round Table, attended by Robb, Scott, Jeff, AJ, and Abby. The sheriff's department once again decided to crash the dinner events, but this time they took their suspect into custody while keeping their guns holstered.
We have now completed our first time through the C-league teams and now begins the rematch section of the season. Next week's game is on Monday July 18 against Cinco Equis on the dirt field (HN). Vacation season is continuing so make sure you give Richard and Jeff plenty of notice if you will be missing the game.
From: Scott Morgan
The rain earlier in the week brought out multiple species of toads to the Hahamongna field. The reptilian toads were hopping across the field (being chased by dogs) and the human toads arrived to hand the HOMERs their second consecutive loss, 19-17.
The HOMERS offense was powered by home runs from Johnny and Tony Gr. Defensive highlights included catches of foul balls by Daniel, AJ, and Tony GA behind the plate.
Shout out to Tony Ga for dragging the infield prior to the game. All welcomed Leo Reid to his first HOMER game and noted that he did not cry, even when the HOMERs were unable to come back to win the game.
Dinner was provided by Richard and delivered by Stephanie, Clement, and Dora of ChenHub. Dinner was enjoyed by all attendees.
Next game is Monday, July 11, on the North field against the Paper Tigers where the HOMERs will try to break their losing streak. If you decide not to accept this assignment, please contact Richard and Jeff.
Voodoo Toad Fury 0 6 2 6 5 0 0 19
Homers 3 2 4 0 0 5 3 17
Tony Ga 1B 3B 1B P - 1B C
Ron P P P - P P P
Daniel C RF RF - C RF -
Daisy 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B
Richard RF LC - C 1B LF RF
Chad 3B C - 3B RF 3B -
Johnny LF - 3B RF 3B LF 3B
Annette RC RF RC RC RC RC RC
Tony Gr LC - LC LC LC - LC
Will - LF LF LF LF - LF
AJ - 1B C 1B - C 1B
Abby SS SS SS SS SS SS SS
Others: Jeff (coach), Scott (FM), Robb (coach), Nova, Ana, Sue, Genevieve, Leo (HOMER debut), Christina, Ross, Dora, Clement, Stephanie
From: Richard Chen
For those too young to remember, one big difference in national mood between the Watergate scandal and now was that Watergate was a 2-year water torture of revelation after revelation. First was a burglary at the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate Hotel so lightly regarded that only a local paper initially covered the trial. That paper dug for months to discover that the burglars were paid by the Committee to Reelect the President (CRP), and that Watergate was just one of a year-long series of dirty tricks by the CRP. Subpoenas started flowing, and in heeding a Senate subpoena, an aide testified that the White House recorded all conversations, which opened the possibility that Nixon and his chief of staff discussed the burglary and covering it up. The White House resisted turning over the tapes until ordered by the Supreme Court, then the impeachment, and finally the resignation.
Yes, that paragraph was long, but real-time was immeasurably longer and more confusing. This time, the uncovered secrets are few, as everyone knows the core facts and the characters of all the major players, leaving one fundamental question: how far do you back your guy? His version, which seems completely plausible to me:
- the Homers scored double-digit runs, more than enough to win most games
- the Homers led midway through the game, but then a bunch of fraudulent runs somehow showed up for the Bruisers
- the runs were tabulated by an entity with insufficient loyalty to the Homers w.r.t. the Bruisers
- Hillary Clinton's emails
Homers 1 0 9 0 0 2 12
Bruisers 6 2 1 11 0 x 20
Ryan RC LC LC 3B LC LC
Richard LC 1B SS 1B SS 1B
Ron P P P P P P
Christina 2B - 2B 2B - 2B
AJ 3B RF RF LC RF RF
Tony Ga 1B SS 1B SS 1B SS
Annette RF RC RC RC RC RC
Will LF LF LF LF LF LF
Jeff C C - C C C
Abby SS 3B 3B - 3B 3B
Lisa - 2B C RF 2B -
Thanks to Christina for subbing on less than 24 hours' notice and starting a nice double play on a medium pop-up in the 3rd. Tony homered on a hard line drive that went through a Bruiser in RC and stopped before the dirt, but otherwise the highlights were on the other side, as the Bruisers rode two big innings to their first victory ever over us, 0-27 from 1997 to 2021. Their 11-run 4th was massively painful and entirely legit, with hit after hit falling cleanly, after the Homers had battled back to overcome the first big deficit.
Our next game is the solstice game, Wednesday, June 22, against the Toads. Regulars, please let Richard and/or Jeff know if you can't make it.
From: AJ Bolduc
Last week, the Homers came ready to play. After scoring 10 runs in the first 3 innings and holding Cinco Equis to no runs through 4 innings, we were celebrating an early victory. However, after realizing that the mercy rule in effect was not in fact the end of the game, Cinco Equis took advantage of our lifted spirits and managed 6 runs in the 5th inning. Despite a valiant comeback attempt, the Homers managed to hold out and take the victory with a final score of 11-9.
The defense ensured the Homers went home as victors with Will running down a deep fly ball in right-center and making the near-impossible grab as well as Christina (in her impressive softball debut) taking care of pop-ups at 2nd base.
From the plate, Johnny made sure we lived up to our name with a massive homerun in the 3rd inning that sent the ball to the opposing field's bench.
Cinco Equis 0 0 0 0 6 2 1 9
Homers 4 2 4 0 0 1 x 11
Ron P P P P P - P
Richard RF - 3B RF RF P C
Tony Gr LC LC LC LC LC LC LC
Christina 2B 2B - 2B 2B 2B -
Johnny LF LF LF - 1B LF LF
Ryan 3B 3B - 3B 3B 3B 3B
Annette RC RF RF -C RC RF RF
AJ 1B 1B 1B 1B - 1B 1B
Abby SS SS SS SS SS SS SS
Will - RC RC LF LF RC RC
Daisy - C 2B C - C 2B
Lisa C - C RC C - -
Field Manager: Jeff
Dinner: Round Table: Ron, Richard, Christina, Annette, Jeff
From: Tony Ganino
"The Fibonacci Sequence turns out to be the key to understanding how nature designs... and is... a part of the same ubiquitous music of the spheres that builds harmony into atoms, molecules, crystals, shells, suns and galaxies and makes the Universe sing." -Guy Murchie
After giving up a sizable lead (at least from a Homer's management perspective) in the first inning, there was some consternation as to whether our trusty bunch would be able to recover the lead in time to down the quick-out-of-the-gate LA Radars ball club. The author assured management that we would be OK and were taking the slow roll approach to our comeback, but after some early zero run innings, I admit I scrambled for the most JPL appropriate, geeky answer I could muster and ended up likening our run production to the (in)famous Fibonacci sequence. After an inning or two of sequence breaking goose-eggs, sure enough the world showed that a mathematical order does exist, and the Homers finished out the game in true Fibonacci form, taking the lead with a strong 1, 2, 3 and 5 run finish in the last 4 innings. You could say it was the skill of our roster, but all those Fibonacci and Golden Ratio theorists will just say it was a pre-ordained universal correction to the golden spiral.
Also noted that if we were to extrapolate these results to a 9 inning baseball game, our run total would be (12 + 8 + 13 =) 33, it becomes clear with recent games in that sport scoring as 25-22 (NCAA), 29-15 (NCAA), and 20-5 (MLB) that the scores of that sport may also be self-correcting themselves to approach this universal pattern.
Field Manager: Scott
Spectators: I forgot
Dinner: I missed it
Next game: Today (Wed, 6/8/2022)
Opponent: LA Radars Date: 5/31/2022
Homers 1 0 0 1 2 3 5 12
L.A. Radars 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 6
Ron P P - P P P -
Jeff C - C - C - C
Tony Gr LC LC LC - LC - -
Daisy 2B - 2B 2B - 2B -
Johnny 3B 3B - 3B 3B - 3B
AJ RF C - RF 3B RF
Tony Ga 1B - P 1B 1B - P
Lisa - 2B - C 2B C 2B
Ryan LF - 1B LF - 1B LC
Richard - 1B 3B LC - RF 1B
Daniel - RF RF - RF LC -
Annette RC RC RC RC RC RC RC
Will - LF LF - LF LF LF
Abby SS SS SS SS SS SS SS
Field Manager: Scott
Coach: Robb
Spectators: Mark, Sue
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
-------- ---------------------------------------
Ron H-FC(1) H-RS F-RS H
Jeff H-FC(2) (1) (2) (3)
Tony Gr FC-RS (2) H-RS
Daisy H H H
Johnny 2B H H
AJ (3) (3) (3)
Tony Ga H (1) (1)
Lisa (1) (2) (2)
Ryan (2) H-RS H-RS
Richard (3) H-RS H-RS
Daniel (1) 2B H-RS
Annette (2) (3) H-RS
Will H H-RS H-RS
Abby (3) H-FC(1) H
From: Will Reid
Apologies for my tardiness, this is the Homers Report for the game against the Titans on May 24.
Given that the news for that week was pretty terrible, let's talk about a contest almost as important as the Homers taking on the Titans... the Australian federal election. On May 21 Australia went to the polls after a six-week (you read that right Americans) election campaign. The election saw the titans of Australian politics over the past decade, the Liberal party (who are actually the conservative party), up against the Labor (slightly left-of-center) party. It saw the incumbent Liberal Prime Minister, Scott "ScoMo" Morrison, battling the opposition leader, Anthony "Albo" Albanese. ScoMo is colloquially referred to as the Bulldozer, forcefully taking down those who get in his way, while Albo is seen as a rough-around-the-edges Aussie battler. The winner of the night was Albo's Labor... sort of. Much like many American voters, Australian voters looked at the two main candidates and decided that they weren't very impressed. Both major parties saw their primary vote share drop as anti-corruption climate activist independent candidates featured prominently.
The Homers against the Titans was a distinctly shorter and more entertaining event. Like the Labor party, the Homers took the honors with a 17-7 victory. Johnny and Tony Ga were offence standouts, each hitting home runs, while Richard hit an impressive triple. On defense, double plays seemed a common occurrence with our steadfast short stop Abby combining with Tony Gr in the first inning, Chad with Lisa in the fifth, and Johnny and Tony Ga in the seventh.
The best part about elections in Australia is that you typically vote at the local elementary school where the parent teacher association puts on a "sausage sizzle." To translate, the school grills a bunch of hot dogs to raise money. From second-hand accounts, my nephew's school did a roaring trade with the local Canberra (the Australian capital) population. Similarly, the Homers took part in a post-contest meal at Round Table. I unfortunately was not able to make it due to baby duty so I cannot report on the attendance. Thankfully, the Homers don't fine people for not attending dinner, unlike the Australian government, that does so if you don't vote. Democracy in action.
Homers 1 3 0 6 2 3 2 17
Titans 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 7
Jeff C C - - C C C
Tony Gr LC LC - LC LC LC LC
Johnny LF 1B 3B 3B 1B 3B 3B
Daisy 2B - 2B 2B - 2B -
Ron P P - P P - P
Dustin RF - LC RF 2B - -
Tony Ga 1B - P 1B - P 1B
Annette RC RC RC RC RC RC RC
Richard 3B - 1B LF - 1B RF
Chad - 3B RF C 3B RF -
Lisa - 2B C - 2B - 2B
Daniel - RF - - - - -
Will - LF LF - LF LF LF
Abby SS SS SS SS SS SS SS
Field Manager: Scott
Dinner: Round Table
From: Ryan Kinnett
In an address to a joint session of Congress, Rear Admiral Flintridge of the U.S. Navy revealed previously undisclosed details regarding recent encounters with unmanned aerial phenomena (UAP) in Southern California. Flintridge described the encounters as periodic in nature, occurring roughly weekly, and featuring flurries of activity from unidentified fluorescent yellow orbs. The most recent incident occurred on the 18th of May, 2022, in Hahamonga Park in Pasadena.
"The orbs move in ways that, frankly, the Navy does not understand", said Flintridge, adding "our pilots observed these craft accelerating at astounding rates from ground level to high altitude, unlike any known aircraft, friend or foe." The orbs appeared to levitate at times and were also seen to change horizontal flight path suddenly in ways that appeared to defy physics as we know it.
Representative Quack (I, IA) asked Flintridge "what's your leading theory on the cause of these phenomena, and why is it aliens?". Senator Sensible (D, CA) inquired whether the Navy had looked into what might be attracting the orbs to Hahamonga Park and whether the target of the extraterrestrials' interest might be goings-on at the nearby Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), humankind's prominent foundry of interplanetary spacecraft. "We'll look into it," said Admiral Flintridge.
In a bombshell follow-up interview, Dr. Laurie Leshin, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, revealed "that's just the Homers, a phenomenal C-league softball team!" Dr. Leshin went on to explain each of the observations from the May 18 incident, noting key catches by Jeff behind home plate in the 2nd inning and by Annette in right-center in the 5th. Seemingly physics-defying horizontal direction changes were explained as great plays by Daisy with a pat-out at 2nd in the 2nd, and an astounding double-play by Abby to Lacey in the 4th inning.
In response, Congress has increased the Navy's funding for UAP research.
Mercy Be Crazy 0 1 0 1 2 4 1 9
Homers 9 3 0 0 2 7 x 21
Johnny SS LF 1B LF - LF LF
Jeff C C C - C C C
Ron P P P - P P P
Daisy 2B 2B 2B - 2B 2B -
Tony Gr LC LC - LC LC LC LC
Dustin RF LF - C LF RC -
Richard LF - LC 3B SS RF -
Lacie 1B 1B - 1B 1B 1B 1B
Tony Ga 3B - 3B P 3B - 3B
Annette RC - RC RC RC - 2B
Daniel - RF LF RF RF - RF
Ryan - 3B RF RC - 3B RF
Abby - SS SS SS - SS SS
The U.S. Navy plans to monitor the Homer's next scheduled exchange on Tues 5/24 against the Titans on the grass field at Hahamonga Park.
From: Robb Warren
Even the most casual of baseball fan realizes that the game is ripe with statistics. This is particularly true given the wave of metrics inundating today's broadcasts with launch angles, exit velocity, and defensive alignments based on numerically driven hitting tendencies. There is, however, a historical aspect of the game that allows us to remember not only the greats, but the goats as well (and not a Tom Brady type GOAT). Certain streaks, both good and bad, are remembered for eternity. Teams and players strive to break the good streaks and avoid the bad ones. For your consideration a few of each, many of which will most likely live for eternity:
THE GOOD
Joe Dimaggio's 56 consecutive game hitting streak
Cal Ripkin Jr's 2,632 consecutive games played
6 consecutive shutouts by Don Drysdale
Ted Williams reaching base 84 consecutive games
Ty Cobb with 23 consecutive seasons hitting .300 or more
New York Giants (1916) 26 game winning streak (albeit with 1 tie thrown in)
Cleveland Indians (2017) 22 game winning streak (no ties)
New York Yankees victorious in 14 straight World Series games (although Dodger fans may want to put this in "The Bad" category)
THE BAD
Aaron Judge striking out in 37 straight games
23 straight losses by the 1961 Philadelphia Phillies
13 straight World Series games lost by the Red Sox
The Pittsburgh Pirates suffered through 20 consecutive losing seasons
Ben Revere went 1,466 at bats to start his career before hitting his first HR.
New York Yankees victorious in 14 straight World Series games (just for you Dodger fans)
The Homers in this week's game were looking to avoid a couple of small streaks of their own, although certainly not of the Philly or Ben Revere magnitude. Facing game 3 of the season, the Homers had yet to hit a home run, and were intent on avoiding the dreaded 2 game loosing streak, both seldom encountered in recent Homer history. And yes, the Homers avoided both.
This one was decided early, with the Homers scoring 9 runs in the second. A 6 run 5th pushed the game into mercy status, and the losing "streak" was in the rear view mirror. Daniel insured the homerless streak would come to an end with a blast in the second inning. Chad matched Daniel's feat with one of his own in the 4th. Every Homer ended up on base at least once during the game. The defense was highlighted by Chad's juggling "ok now it's in the glove" catch in the second, and Lacie (in her inaugural Homer game, thank you) providing solid defense at 1st base while being introduced to Homers "creative" throwing.
Now for the details...
Homers 0 9 0 2 6 1 18
Crawdads 0 1 6 0 2 1 10
Tony Ga SS SS SS SS - SS
Ron P P P - P P
Chad RF RF 3B - 3B LF
Annette 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B
Richard 3B LF - P SS 3B
Ryan C 3B - 3B C RF
Daniel RC - RF RF RF RF
Lacie 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B
Will LF - LF LF LF -
Tony Gr - CF CF CF CF -
Jeff - C C C - C
Field Manager: Scott
Spectators: Sue, Robb
Dinner at Round Table was attended by the collective brain trust of Sue, Ron, Jeff, Daniel, Annette, Lacie, Richard, Ryan, Tony Gr., Scott, and Robb. Next game is Wed. May 18 vs. Mercy be Crazy on the dirt field. As usual, Richard and Jeff would be quite appreciative to be notified if you are unable to attend.
From: Abby Couto
Last week was a tough one for the Homers, and it took a baker's dozen of runs
for the Eclectic Eccentrics to wake up our offense. Though the rally wasn't
quite enough to recover from the initial deficit, it was enough to get out of
mercy-territory and maintain a more respectable loss of 3 runs!
Defense kept the game going, with Lisa making an expert play on a hard
grounder in the 2nd inning, Tony delivering a laser-beam throw to AJ for a
textbook tag and out at 3rd base in the 4th inning, and AJ robbing the young
EE prodigy of a line drive base hit in the 7th.
Dinner at Rounds was enjoyed by Richard, Ron, AJ, Abby, Jeff, Scott and
Robb.
Next game is Wednesday, 5/4 at Hahamonga South against Crawdads. Good luck!
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total
Eclectic Eccentrics 11 1 1 0 4 0 0 17
Homers 0 0 3 6 3 1 1 14
Jeff RF RF RF RF RF RF RF
Ron P P P P P P P
Chad 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B
Abby SS SS SS SS SS SS SS
Tony Gr LC LC LC LC LC LC LC
Daniel LF LF LF LF LF LF LF
Annette RC RC RC RC RC RC RC
AJ 3B 3B 3B 3B 3B 3B 3B
Lisa 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B
Richard - - - - - - LF
Becky C C C C C C C
Field Manager: Scott
Base Coach: Robb
Pinch Runner: Danny
Spectator: Bella
From: Jeff Osman
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, had a simple message this week: We need you.! We are short handed and need the help of volunteers from all over.
The savvy follower of international news might of course assume he was referring to Ukraine's struggle to defeat the unwarranted and devastating invasion of his country by overwhelming Russian military forces. Those savvy individuals would be wrong. He was instead referring to the almost as noble, but far less dangerous, struggle to find enough players to fill out a roster for the first game of the HOMERS 2022 season.
Fortunately, thanks to the hard work, and shameless begging, of Richard enough eager and talented substitute players were rounded up to allow the HOMERS to field a strong team that was able to defeat a strong and eager Space Force, and get the season started on the right foot.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total
Space Force 1 7 0 0 1 0 2 11
HOMERS 4 1 6 11 2 0 x 24
Ron p p p p p p p
Tony Ga 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b -
Chad of of of of of - of
Abby ss ss ss ss ss ss ss
AJ c of of 3b - 3b 1b
Kevin 3b 3b 3b - 3b c 3b
Daniel of c - of c of of
Lisa 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b
Ben of - c c of of c
Will - of of of of of of
Annette of of of of of of of
Field Manager: Scott
Base Coaches: Robb, Jeff
Spectators: Ana, Sue
Special thanks goes out to the substitutes who answered the call ahead of the game: AJ, Lisa, and Ben. We couldn't have had the success we did without you. Another thanks goes out to Kevin who thought he was showing up to play for the Titans only to discover he had the wrong night, but stayed to help out the HOMERS anyways.
Offensively it was one of those rare games where the HOMERS did not live up to their name by failing to hit any home runs. It turned out not to matter, however, as everyone contributed at least one hit to the offensive effort that found the Space Force down by the mercy rule in multiple innings.
Defensively the HOMERS were strong for a first game of the season. Abby was her usual solid self at shortstop making several put outs with her accurate throws to first. Lisa contributed a couple of its from second base, and the outfield had a couple of strong running catches and even a few strong throws to home trying to catch those Space Forcers trying for an extra base.
The post game dinner was was celebrated at Round Table by Annette, Daniel, Scott, Robb, Kevin, and Jeff.
Next week's game will be held on Tuesday April 26 against the Eclectic Eccentrics on field HS. As always let Richard AND Jeff know if you aren't going to make it.
Also a reminder to those of you who have yet to pay your team fees of $45 for the new season, fees are payable to Jeff who accepts cash, check, or Zelle.
History
After each game, she or he who chooses the dinner location
writes a reasonably factual Homers Report:
2021 |
2019 |
2018 | 2017 |
2016 | 2015 |
2014 | 2013 |
2012 | 2011 |
2010 | 2009 |
2008 | 2007 |
2006 | 2005 |
2004 | 2003 |
2002 | 2001 |
2000 | 1999 |
1998 | 1997 |
1996 | 1995 |
1994 | 1993 |
1992 | 1991
who played when
| who hit what
Team Song
submitted by Linda Ikami
_------_
/ \ DO RE MI DRINK, by Homer J. Simpson.
| |
| | *ahem* La la la la.... *ahem* LAAAAAAA!!
| __ __)
| / \/ \ DO...... the stuff... that buys me beer
/\/\ (o )o ) RAY..... the guy that sells me beer...
/c \__/ --. ME...... the guy... who drinks the beer
( ) FAR..... a long way to get beer...
\_ _-------' SO...... I'll have another beer...
| / \ LA...... I'll have another beer...
| | '\_______) TEA..... no thanks, I'm drinking beer...
| \_____) That will bring us back to...
|_____ | (Looks into an empty glass)
|_____/\/\
/ \ D'OH!
|  |
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last update:Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 03:35:23 CST