Game Results: July 25, 2019

GAME RECAPS…….

groh…….11

brafman…1

by marc brafman
The Late great Blues Guitarist Albert King once sang “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all” and that is the second half of the season for Team Brafman so far as they fell to Team Groh 11-1. Once again when it comes to Team Brafman we seem to have a knack for turning the other team into gold glove winners. Kudos to Team Groh for playing outstanding defense all game. We really smoked the ball the first couple of innings and had nothing to show for it.
The offense was led by Brad “The Human Rain delay” Wagner who tripled, the ageless wonder Jerry “Doc” Kirzner with a double, Marc Brafman for the lone RBI, Ryan “the Hebrew Hammer” Small who got robbed twice but hit the ball hard every at bat and David “the Minister of Fun” Cohen with a single in his first game back.
On defense Aaron “Straight Outta” Compton, Zach “The Wild Horse” Zackem, Randy “The Big Kahuna” Broyles, Mark “Big Blue” Tenenholtz and Howard “Goldie” Goldwasser all played very well in the field as Team Brafman didn’t have a single error all game.
Team Brafman looks to right the ship (And welcome the Feldmans back) next week vs. Team Leader
League notes:
For reasons only known to them, Jason “The Mad Hungarian” Faust and Ken “Let it” Groh decided to toss a shoe at the TV by the snack bar. Maybe it was because Mr. Clutch, Joey Votto made the final out of the game for the third time in one week which might be a record for a player making 25 million dollars.
In the “you never know what you will hear around the field” department, Jimmy Lefton was discussing the merits of wearing an adult diaper at concerts. For more information on this please ask Jimmy next week
Getting caught up in the dust up on field 3 last night Scott “Shorty” Adams who, playing on field two, forgot that he actually got a single and wasn’t coaching first base when play started up again. Somewhere Trey and Fishman are shaking their heads.
In an update from last week’s notes Mike “Flash” Creemer reports that, just like Danny Grefer, he too is a lifelong fan of KC and the Sunshine Band. In fact, he informed me that he was a roadie for the Sunshine Band, but not KC, in the mid-70’s and would be happy to show anyone his Boogie Shoes if they would like to see them.
In what can only be described as the biggest reunion since Burt and Ernie or Ace and Gary, the #1 roommate pair of JCC Softball, Taylor “May the” Schwartz be with you and Leon “The Bull” Seserman will be playing on the same team next week when Schwartz subs for Team Leader. Amy, Taylor’s girlfriend, was heard sobbing to herself last night on the bleachers as she told me that “it’s my job to console Taylor and fix his bubble bath for him post game. Now that Leon will be playing with him, I know that Taylor will want Leon to do it for him.”
Finally, Team Brafman has had some interesting excuses for guys to miss games this year. From Zach “the Wild Horse” Zackem getting batting tips from Yasiel Puig, to Randy “The Big Kahuna” Broyles learning to surf in Hawaii and Howard “Goldie” Goldwasser missing most of the first half with a broken wrist from tripping over his own feet in the outfield. However, nothing tops last night when Eric “The Mouth of the Midwest” Gruen told me he couldn’t play because he was going to dinner with two-time Olympic gymnastics champ and all round amazing Jewish athlete, Aly Raisman.  Gruen reported that Aly is very nice, and strong enough still to hit a ball out of the park.



leader       7
kamrass   5

by greg leader

TEAM LEADER won their 7th in a row with a 7-5 victory over TEAM KAMRASS…..

JAMIE KURTZER was stellar once again, however he did walk a batter ending his streak of six consecutive games without a bases on balls…..

The victory was in doubt when with the score 7-3 going into the bottom of the 7th inning, KAMRASS added two runs, but the game ended with a line-out with two men in scoring position….

Game balls were presented to LEON SESSERMAN and YITZ CREEGER, who each played stellar defense and came up with key extra base hits……

TID BITS…………

by roger rosenthal

CONGRATS go out to long time JCC fan, MARK KUHR on his recent marriage……and a BIG shout out to JOEL FOGEL for giving plaudits to the BLOG……he “loves” it……..

Longtime player STEVE OSTROW was spotted in the stands, and he knew his nephew MIKE KAHAN wasn’t playing, but wanted to show his support to his former softball mates…..

Also, before the game at the concession area, KEN GROH took the shoe (don’t remember which one) off the foot of ROGER ROSENTHAL and booted in the air….it hit the tv making a mark…..thanks to JASON FAUST in putting a napkin on his glove and reaching up to the tv and cleaning the mess up…..though he meant well, it made more of a mess…………..

Finally, if you didn’t hear about it, there was a brief scuffle in the LEFTON/SOLOMON game in which no blows were thrown and the participants were held back, however order was restored in a timely fashion and the two involved were seen making up (not out) after the game……..


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Game Results: July 25, 2019

winners/losers……game reports will follow upon being reported in…..

field #1….leader/kamrass
field #2….schwartz, h/schwartz, t.
field #3….solomon/lefton
field #4….groh/brafman

bye……….grefer

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Game Results: July 22, 2019

BRAFMAN AND H. SCHWARTZ SPLIT IN A SUNDAY SIZZLER

by Marc Brafman

Team Brafman once again came off the mat to pull out game 1 vs. Team Howie yesterday. Down 8-7 in the bottom of the 7th, Eric “The Mouth of the Midwest” Gruen led off with a perfect bunt single. He was moved to 2nd on a David Wertheim (who was subbing) single and scored on a Griff Harris single (also subbing) to tie the score. As if it wasn’t hot enough, the game went into extra innings thanks to a 5-4-3 double play turned in by Team Howie to keep the score tied.
With two outs in the bottom of the 8th, Jerry “Doc” Kirzner singled, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored the winning run on a single by Zach “The Wild House” Zackem. “Once again I can’t stress enough how amazing it is watching Doc play every week”, Brafman said post game. “Here is the oldest guy in the league scoring the winning run from 2nd base with a great hook slide to beat the throw to the plate. What a way to end the first half.”
Team Brafman couldn’t keep the momentum going in the 2nd game as Ken Groh (subbing for Howie) shut them down with some more fine defense by team Howie. “I tell the guys all the time to hit the ball hard on the ground and good things will happen. Unfortunately the guys playing defense turned a couple of double plays, and hit the ball.” Brafman was led by The Wild Horse who had a couple of hits, Gruen, Aaron “Straight Outta” Compton, Howard “goldie” Goldwasser who hit the ball hard all game and Griff and David.
Next week Team Brafman is very excited to welcome back Dave “The Minister of Fun” Cohen who has had anything but fun this season so far.  They look to get back onto the winning side vs. Team Groh
League notes:
Props to former JCC player Jeremy “We’ve got the Meats” Cantor who captained his BBQ team to first place in the Kosher BBQ cookoff last week at Adath Israel.
Not since David “D-Sol” Solomon has a catcher made a bigger splash than new Reds catcher Ryan “The New Sandy Koufax” Lavarnway did on Friday night. Lavarnway had two homers, a double and a walk in a losing effort for the Reds. Said D-Sol yesterday “you know Lavarnway played for Team Israel and he told me when I was there earlier this year to eat this certain type of hummus and boom I’ve started to hit just like him. I hope he can keep it up.”
One way to beat the heat this summer is to go to the pool, and what better pool than the one that “Handsome” Sam Castellini manages at the JCC. Said Sam, “If you are looking for a basic pool that has some great looking Jewish moms (and life guards that look like me) come out to the J. You can even sample the great food offerings of former JCC Softball legend Drew ‘Kung Fu’ Hayes at the café.”
Besides being the tallest guy in the league did you know that Danny “Boogie Shoes” Grefer was once on Soul Train? He once again showed off his dancing moves two weeks ago when he saw KC and the Sunshine Band when they came to town. “It’s a crime that KC isn’t in the Rock Hall,” Danny said yesterday. “Who needs songs like Thunder Road, Yesterday, Brown Sugar and When God’s on Our Side when you can have Boogie Shoes, Shake Shake Shake your Booty, and of course That’s the Way I like It. What a joke!”
The leader in the clubhouse for Captain of the Year is our own Stu Solomon who asked in a group text earlier in the week if any of us would like to play basketball on Sunday (meaning yesterday when we had a game). Keep up the great work Stu (but thanks for the tent)
Maybe Babe Ruth was onto something because in between games yesterday Pete Soltesz drank a beer then went out and hit a homer and the game winning double. Said Soltesz post game “It was hot and I was thirsty. What do you expect me to drink, water?”
While all of you were bitching and complaining about the heat yesterday, the oldest guys in the league just went out and played. Gig was off playing hardball in Arizona where it was 112 earlier in the week and Jerry “Doc” Kirzner, Keith Kombrinck and Mike “Flash” Creemer just put on the gear and played as if they were 20, hell 40, years younger.
Finally, Roger Rosenthal was very disappointed to learn that the Yasiel Puig bobblehead that the Reds released this past week didn’t come with a real horse but instead just had Puig sitting on one. Roger, in preparations for the release, had leased stable space at Traders World  to keep all of the horses. “Now what am I going to do with all this hay?” Rosenthal was heard muttering post game yesterday..
See you all at the fields Wed. night

Game Results: July 22, 2019

MAKE-UP DATE……..

THE JULY 17 GAME HAS BEEN RE-SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY AUGUST 18 AT 2 P.M……THAT IS CORRECT……..2 P.M.

If you’re unable to make it, please contact your captain asap……

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Game Results: July 21, 2019

winners/losers from Sunday’s Special……game reports will follow as they are reported…..

winners listed first……
completed first half game……..TEAM LEFTON WINS FIRST HALF ON TIE-BREAKER OVER 
TEAM SOLOMON…….
field #1……solomon/schwartz, t.
field #2……brafman/schwartz, h.
field #3……grefer/leader
field #4……lefton/kamrass
bye…………groh
second half game……………….
field #1……solomon/schwartz, t.
field #2……schwartz, h./brafman
field #3……leader/grefer
field #4……lefton/kamrass
bye…………groh
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