That's More Like It!

Goooood Morning A’s,

What a wonderful game that was!  Playing in our first away game of the season, the First Effing Amendments started their road trip in style, decimating the Muckrakers for the first victory of the 2012 season!

TheWertz about to kick some ass

It was a beautiful late spring day for softball; the sun was shining and the humidity wasn’t yet up to its stifling summer level as hordes of tourists mobbed the mall all around us.  Tired of constantly fighting from behind, the A’s sprung into action early as TheHoffandTheWertz started a first-inning rally that saw the first five batters score.  New additions to the lineup Brian Levine and Lefty Will were brought in for their defensive prowess, and helped hold the A’s first early-game lead of the season.  Two scoreless innings for the A’s followed while the Muckrakers continued to produce a few runs each frame, and all of a sudden the A’s went into the 5^th inning down one.  It was beginning to look like the A’s would fall yet again.

Skip just after NOT swinging at the first pitch. It paid off.  

But with an abundance of determination, a plethora of clutch hitting, and possibly a little divine intervention, we turned things around in a big way in the 5^th.  With the meat of the lineup leading things off, we began our second, even better rally of the day.    A few singles started things off before Alex “Eff the third base coach I ain’t stopping” Stamm hit a moonshot that almost landed in the duck pond, giving him a home run and further solidifying his hold on the MVP cerveza.  We went back to our bread and butter, with everyone from rugged veterans like our runner-up MVP Kelly Trout to intriguing farm prospect Prashanth knocking singles all over the field.  After we batted around, we scored our tenth run of the inning and first mercy-rule of the season.  Then we tightened things up on defense for the last few innings and the A’s had yet another rally in the 7^th, netting us 6 more runs.  When the dust had settled, the A’s left the Vietnam War Memorial with our first victory of the 2012 campaign, with a final score of 24-11.

So we are now right back in the thick of things in the CSL.  We moved to within a game of .500, and we can improve upon our record next week as we look to continue/create the first winning streak of the season.  On Tuesday at 6:30, we’ll take on the Economic Hitmen, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.  

I’m imagining a bunch of folks that look like this:

So we should be in pretty good shape.  We’ll be getting the field and shooting to grab our usual spot at 15^th and Constitution, in the Ellipse.  Please let me know if you plan on playing.  Also, I need a beverage sponsor for the game; let me know if you’d like to volunteer.

And quickly, I’m going to order jerseys soon (I promise); hit me up if you want one and haven’t told me already.  I’ll have a price for you when I order them.  And if you have not yet paid your team fee, please pay me at the next game or next time you see me.  Thanks!

Effing A, Mike

(PS – image searches for Alan Greenspan turn up some weeeeeird stuff)