alas, the stress and strain of playing with just ten players (no rest at all), the cumulative age of the team (over 40), waiting around too long, and crappy fields caught up with us as we finally lost a game to the #22 seed (who ultimate finished fifth overall, one spot ahead of us) in extra innings 10-13... we should have won that game, but i gave it away giving them pitches to hit in extra innings and the defense behind me did not pick me up making a few errors... worst of all was the #1, 2, and 3 batters failed (me being #3) and a cruel end with the last out at 3rd base as the coach tried to push the runner to third, a very foolish move considering we needed 3 runs to tie... alas, the amazing streak was done, but we came back and won the next game against the #2 seed 13-7 to move us to play on the final day... out of the 54 teams, only eight stay alive to play on the final day and we were one of the eight... unfortunately we didn't show up saturday morning... but out of all the orlando teams that qualified for the world series this year, we were the only ones to make it to championship saturday, limping more and more all the way...
out to dinner with the series roommate (since everybody else was either broke or downtown at clubs drinking heavily {not that the series roommate didn't} and nobody else was a foodie) at ruth cris, a high-end steak place (spent $150 with tip... roommate spent more cuz he had a lot of alcohol including a $40 glass of cabernet... he said it was wonderful) and i had a lobster appetizer, then lobster bisque, then a 16 ounce ribeye with lobster mac n cheese and asparagus, then a decadent chocolate dessert... overstuffed, but loving every minute of it...
narf :)
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