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 7kamrass 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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