Chico's (0-3) Loses in Mudfest

It looked like Woodstock-- so much mud, so many good musicians. Chico's takes on a whole bunch of guys in baseball pants (always a bad sign). One guy even had that black stuff under his eyes. If you are wearing that stuff under your eyes, you should not be playing Single-A softball. Chico's plays Single-A softball because there is no league that is lower in purported competitiveness. The team wants to have fun, win a few games, and get together with the guys. There are a number of teams who have deliberately entered into Single-A because they could not win it all in Double-A. That sucks.

Anyway, it was muddy and rainy all day making this game awful. Chico's lost 9-0. The other team had one big inning off hurler DK1, but that was really it. They hit a few to the gap, a few outfielders slipped, etc. Rumors circulated that it was so muddy around third base that you could not even see the bag. The Bondsmen never made it that far to find out. Porterfield is hitting it solid. Leatherman is hitting it hard. Giuliani and Kelley are solid solid gloves all around. Nelms could make it and he was a fine fielder at catcher and at first. Batchelor made that play he ALWAYS makes, going backwards to field a shallow fly ball in the grass-- the toughest play in softball.

Highlights of the game included Leatherman making some fine defensive plays in right field. Mac made a great catch, diving in the mud from behind home plate to pull in a weak popup. He was filthy dirty by the end of the game, as was everyone. Foreman, who spent most of tehgame on the bench, was even filthy, splattered with muddiness. A large group gathered at 123 afterwards and had fun over a few beers.

May 30-31 Make-up Games

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5/31/2009, Sunday @Liberatore Field

1:00pm S4 Pronto Prints at Chico's Bail Bond
2:00pm S4 Chico's Bail Bond at BUCK'S

Double Header!

Chico's (0-1) Opens With Loss

Finally, the Chico’s Bail Bonds team takes the field for its first game of the 2009 season. The skies cleared and a cool breeze wafted over the squad, a full 15 men in orange, ready to play. It was a good game, but Chico’s lost 10-3 against the Buckethead Pub. Is there an emoticon that expresses bad hitting? :-(

The game started off on the wrong foot when Jimmy the Umpire declared the new, highly effective Beatles Club Revolver bat to be illegal. It has double walls. Who knew? After stroking a clean single to lead off the Bonders’ hitting, Krovich’s beloved Wombat was also deemed illegal because of the improvised duct tape handle. Not a good way to start the season.

Misfortune continues when the first Bucketheads batter of the game hits a grounder to the Chico’s shortstop and he manages to knock down the ball off an ugly hop with his upper lip. After stanching the blood, Jimmy stayed in the game and managed to make some fine, super-smooth, digitally enhanced plays with both glove and arm. The Antonini-Batchelor axis of fielding prowess is Crosby-Malkin-like in its beauty and grace. Nothing lost in the off-season there. Krovich elicited the ghost of Freedom with an earnest “flop” on a sharp line drive. Foreman and Vehse turned a bang-bang double play off a sharp line drive to the box with a man on first.

Batting was off key for most of the team-- wrong notes at the wrong time and not enough of the power chord-innings we need to produce to make beautiful softball music. Porterfield, always on stage and ready to rock, has the hot bat with a few singles. March continues his workmanlike batting, a steady Keith Moonish anchor. He knocked in a run on a single to -- you guessed it -- the left side. We got some more hits here and there, but not enough in bunches and not enough big noise hits like doubles or triples. This will come with time, we hope. Bucketheads accounted for their 10 with a few big hits into the gaps—almost all of their hits were to the third base side.

But such minor inconveniences like illegal bats, busted lips, and bad hitting were overshadowed by the return of Meatball from California and Ravi from Evansdale. Both contributed mightily to the cause. Welcome back to the fold. Leatherman suited up and provided support, especially tips of hitting, "back elbow up." Lots of wonderful fans with children and dogs in orange lifted spirits and enhanced the evening dusk with cheers, beauty, and loving adoration.

Another Game Cancelled

Too much rain, but it looks good for Wednesday the 13th at 8!

First Game Tonight ????

Chico's is scheduled to take on Buck's at 7 pm on Wednesday, May 6, on the Liberatore Field. But rain is in the forecast. Coupled with over a week of heavy rains, this game is questionable. But don't bail on the Bonders until you call 292-6865 and press 3 for the BOPARC cancellation hotline.

First Game Cancelled

Rain in the afternoon was sufficient to ruin the fields and postpone theSiingle-A kickoff. It is going to rain all week so it may be a while before the team sees action. A handful of Chico men take BP and fielding practice in the soggy outfield. Toby and Lucy romper galore in the outfield and got bad dirty. Bad but fun dirty.

First Game Wednesday at 6

Chico's Bail Bonds opens up the 2009 season with the opening game of the Single-A league on the green grass of Liberatore Field at 6 pm, Wednesday, April 29.