Perkins Eastman may have to consider hiring Nixon's White House "plumbers" to fix the leaks in their office. Trickled down to my inbox from a number of anonymous, but reliable, sources came PEA's in-house softball update.
According to PEA, they "humbled" PCF/HH on June 19. Furthermore, they must have consulted Wikipedia as one of their primary sources of facts for the game, as they clearly misstate that the game was a "... mercy-rule-shortened, 5-inning contest ...".
In fact, the game was shortened because the permit after ours prohibited the game from lasting longer than five innings. Granted, some of the blame for this has to do with the fact that PEA was able to stay at the plate for long periods of time. But it had nothing to do with getting mercied. Hey, they're S.L.A.M.'s rules, not ours: "If the visiting team is ahead by 11-runs at anytime after the fourth inning, the home team will have until the bottom of the inning to bring within 10-runs. If the home team is ahead by 11-runs anytime after the fourth inning, then the game is over." The score was 13-2 entering the top of the fifth. Neither team scored in the fifth inning before the game was called on time.
We, the management of the PCF/HH softball team, aren't going to make excuses. We're not going to talk about how our starting pitcher was out of town, or how other starters were likewise on summer vacation. We're not going to talk about the fact that the momentum changed the moment we swapped pitchers. You guys remember; Cate Foster, the one that led a teammate of yours to say, "What, did you put in Joba Chamberlain in?"
No, we won't make excuses because we didn't play well. But everyone already knows that because we publish our team reports publicly on this blog. Anything we have to say, we say it in the open. Like the fact that we're 4-4 and currently sit in fifth place while PEA rests in eighth place at 3-5-1.
Being called out in public ... now that's humbling!
This was posted in good S.L.A.M. fun, not out of anger towards PEA.
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