Next Time We’ll Skip the Game and Go Straight to the Bar….
While we hoped it would be different, the 2008 Hitmen campaign began with a whimper Thursday evening on a soggy field in Anacostia. Taking on Raising Arizona, the good guys (and gals!) demonstrated what a winter of beer drinking and pizza eating can do to a not-as-young-as-we-used-to-be set of (mostly) twentysomething softballers… Shockingly these favorite pastimes do little to contribute to one’s ability to catch, run or hit a softball. Who knew?
Yes. It was an ugly scene. Perhaps the only saving graces of the evening were InsuranceClaim’s unintentional plunking of a Raising Arizona baserunner’s noggen and Ice’s diving grab in the mud to keep the Hitmen within 10 runs of victory. Other than that, our performance pretty much sucked. There were enough bad throws, dropped balls, missed calls (I think someone was summoning JR), and weak hits to last a season.
Fortunately, however, there was also cold Coor’s Light awaiting us at My Brother’s Place after the game. So, while the game was lost (in spectacular fashion), the evening was a win.

May 16, 2008, 12:19 am
Lord you’re dirty, Mark. And that’s a pretty colorful squad.
May 16, 2008, 9:34 am
It looks like my shirt needs to be flushed…
May 16, 2008, 7:05 pm
Yesterday’s game was teh sux.
Yesterday’s post-game reminded why I’ve played on this team for 6? 7? years? Christ… typing that hurt my back.
May 16, 2008, 7:05 pm
oh… right… and:
HAVE MERCY!!!
May 22, 2008, 11:34 pm
I was severly hungover for that game. Fortunately we brought out the win tonight! LOVE THE MONTAGE JONES! xoxo kb
May 21, 2009, 11:48 pm
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