Spring 2012

2 – About The Batter’s Box

3 – Announcements

4 – Schedule & Standings

5-10 – Blue Diamond Recaps

11 – Social Calendar

12- Charities & Sponsor Bar

13-15 – Wiffle Ball for Dummies

16 – DOs & DONTs

17 - Pictures

James Salgado & Charm Reyes

Spring 2012 – Issue 3

We can pass for siblings!!!

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Then email them to me at backyardsportsclub@gmail.com

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Contests

Every team will be offered a space every edition of the Newsletter to submit something funny... write about their game... whatever...and since we’re doing a newsletter every Tuesday of every week, you have plenty of time to come up with something! If your team doesn’t submit anything, and isn’t in the newsletter, talk to your captain!

Ideas for Team Submissions When I say, submit something for your team, here are some ideas: • Play by plays of the game • Document the debauchery at the bar - i.e. describing someone’s amazing acting skills hobbling across the bar with a “sprained ankle” just to Ice a teammate. ] • Draw pictures!!!!! • Favorite quotes, poems, song lyrics, movie scripts, YouTube video, or motivational speeches! • Email chains from the morning after . • Funny pictures of you, your team, or something random on the internet • Give your team member awards - drunkest, loudest, person with the least shame, best off the face catch, etc.! • Anything. Really. Someone on your team is creative.

Submissions are due EVERY Tuesday by 7 p.m.

Backyard Sports Club’s email is

backyardsportsclub@gmail.com. I look forward to working with all of you!

** If you need extra time, email me and just let me know.

DISCLAIMER: if you have problems with keeping your language in check, not bashing refs, being overly nasty to other teams, and other no-no’s, the Editor does have the right to not include your write up in the newsletter if the content is deemed inappropriate or out of line. We will try to screen write ups as they are received, will try to let teams know so that they have time to resubmit, but there is no guarantee. The easiest thing to do is to keep it clean, be nice, and remember this is all in good fun.

Announcements

Please send any requests for “Announcements” to backyardsportsclub@gmail.com

REMINDER: There is NO smoking at the fields! And please be

discreet if you are drinking alcoholic beverages. Coolers and Solo cups are your friends!!! We do not want to lose these fields, so PLEASE respect the rules! Thanks

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Please submit all scores and write ups about your teams to backyardsportsclub@gmail.com

Wiffskey Militia 5 4 1 0 Take a Wiff of This 5 4 1 0 Da Bombers 5 3 2 0 Sons of Pitches 5 1 3 1 Down Wiff It 5 1 3 1 Holey Balls in your MOUTH 5 1 4 0

6:30 Games • Wiffskey Militia vs. Holey Balls in your MOUTH Field 1 • Sons of Pitches vs. Da Bombers Field 2 • Take a Wiff of This vs. Down Wiff It Field 3 7:30 Games • Wiffskey Militia vs. Take a Wiff of This Field 1 • Sons of Pitches vs. Holey Balls in your MOUTH Field 2 • Down Wiff It vs. Da Bombers Field 3

Blue Diamond Week 3 Score Board

Standings

Week 4 Schedule- Thursday, May 10th

Teams Score Take a Wiff of This vs. Holey Balls in your MOUTH 6 - 3 Wiffskey Militia vs. Sons of Pitches 15 - 3 Take a Wiff of This vs Da Bombers 4 - 6 Wiffskey Militia vs. Down Wiff It 16 - 4

Team Name GP W L T

Captains and players, please remember to read the rulebook which is posted on our website, www.backyardsportsclub.com. We made a few revisions. Please note, that there are NO SUBS allowed. You can play with 3 girls, but you have to take an out for the 4th girl in the lineup. If you have any questions, please direct them to either James, Jon or Charm.

Take a Wiff of This

Holey Balls in Your Mouth

Little did we know that missing three of our star players (Charm, Robbie, & Jon) would make for an intense and interesting night of games. Our first game was against Holey Balls in your MOUTH and it was a fun one. This is my first season so while I’ve heard rumors of a character known by Angry Ronnie, I didn’t believe them until I saw Ronnie turn green, rip his shirt off and appear to be The Hulk while asking for an ID and the roster!!! The game went on though and Holey Balls had some good hits, but thanks to plays like a couple of double plays by Baham, we snagged the win. Great teamwork on defense, which has been our key to success… keep it up guys!

- Jonell Toth

So I figured without Robbie and a couple of Reyeses, that we would pull a win. That wasn't necessarily the case. Even with a short team and taking an out for a missing girl, they were able to still pull a win. Every time I thought Holey Balls would be gain some ground, Take a Wiff was able to shut down our offense by having a couple of double plays. Holey Balls is coming together as a team week by week. Its already halfway through the season, so we'll have our second chances on every team. Great game by all.

- James Salgado

Wiffskey Militia

WIFFSKEY MILITIA

Sons of Pitches

I don’t remember a lot about last week but I know the score was not reflective of the effort put in by the Sons of Pitches. Wiffskey beat us 15-3 I think but we celebrated late into the evening with parking lot tail gating, flip cup and chandelier at the bar. As always, it was good to get out there and swing the old chop sticks around but we were a little short-handed (as usual) and did the best we could. Good game by Wiffskey stringing together hits on a day where the wind didn’t provide a lot in either teams favor

- Will Buker

Boo Ryan Roebuck!

Tighten up, Buddy!

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Da bombers

Take a Wiff of This

We felt good after winning our first game, but I began to feel a little nervous seeing that Da Bombers had about twice as many people as we did that night. We won the first game with only 7 people and an added out, so hopefully we could do the same the second game. Unfortunately, our effort and hard work did not pay off. This was our most intense game yet of the season thanks to a couple of bad calls for both teams. Lesson of the day kids, do not get overly excited, jump up and down, and act like a buffoon just because you caught a little white plastic fly ball. Even though we couldn’t pull off the win this time, Ronnie, Baham, and Daniel thrived on the bases, Rachel was always ready for the ball as catcher, Matt had some wild catches, and Jessica had a killer hit once she put her ass into it. We are looking forward to a rematch against Da Bombers later in the season to prove we really do have an unbeatable team!

- Jonell Toth

This was a pretty tight game for the most part. We didn’t have the best offensive game but played better defense. Special shout out to Kp for stretching her arm an extra 3 feet to block a homerun and also Dante for what he was wearing. Both teams played tough and hats off to Take a Whiff for playing us tight despite being shorthanded. We look forward to playing you guys again.

- Gordon Boothe

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Down Wiff It

Wiffskey Militia

This was one of those nights when one team was just having a good night and it wasn't us. I gotta give props to the guys and gals in Wiffskey Militia for playing a good game. I think we can all agree if it wasn't for Doug "I will catch every sing ball that flies near left field" Werner, the score would not have been as close. Great job to my team for not giving up and making a run for the win on the 6th inning. I will say though, from my point of view, we deff won the dance-off as Amy never stopped her 80s dance! Can't wait for the rematch in a couple of weeks!

- Antonio Pazos

Boo Ryan Roebuck!

Tighten up, Buddy!

WIFFSKEY MILITIA

Social Calendar of Events

Charities & Sponsor Bar

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Wiffle Ball

Well, since no one wants to read the official Backyard Sports Club Wiffle Ball rules, here is a simple Wiffle Ball for Dummies to help you out as the season starts out!

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When running to first base, remember to run across the outside base. The reason for this is so the first baseman doesn’t crush you trying to tag you out. However, if you’re running to 2nd, you can touch 1st base and book it to 2nd.

Wiffle Ball

Well, since no one wants to read the official Backyard Sports Club Wiffle Ball rules, here is a simple Wiffle Ball for Dummies to help you out as the season starts out!

NO SLIDING! NO CLEATS! Unless the ground is wet!

NO GLASS BOTTLES! NO SMOKING!

Wiffle Ball

MOST IMPORTANTLY….DO NOT, DO NOT THROW YOUR TRASH

BAGS WITH EMPTY CANS OR BOXES OF “ADULT BEVERAGES” INTO THE TRASH RECEPTICALS THEY HAVE AT THE FIELDS.

These DO NOT Go Into the Trash Cans at the Fields:

The Field Manager has already warned us about this, and if he has to tell us one more time, he

will take away our drinking privileges at the fields…or worse, he can end up kicking us off these fields all together! So PLEASE take your trash bag full of cans, cups,

and boxes with you!!!

The Dos and DONTs

• DO NOT bring alcoholic beverages to the field….or at least be discreet about it! • DO clean up after yourselves! Unfortunately, maid service was cut out of Backyard

Sports Club’s budget due to the economy. • DO be friendly to the Refs: Please do not yell at them…just remember, you’re the one

that will look like a jerk if you yell at them. • DO NOT be “that guy.” We do not own Uno Chicago Grill or the premises around it; so

when you do something stupid, you’re not excluded from any laws just because you are wearing a Backyard Sports Club t-shirt.

• DO NOT leave a fellow wiffleballer behind; we take care of our own. Don’t let your

teammate drink like a champ and drive home. Find the closest decent looking guy/gal, introduce them, and have them go home together.

• DO NOT be bitter. It’s super important that if you end up having a “sleep over” with a

fellow wiffleballer, be cool with them for weeks to follow. We’re a small community, you’re gonna end up seeing them all season! When they drop you off at your car, hug it out, smile…and say “hi” the following week.

• DO NOT try to guess that persons name! • DO go to our sponsor Bar, Uno Chicago Grill. It’s what the cool kids are doing. • DO NOT fight! This is a fun league, HAVE FUN! If you fight, fun’s over for you, you’ll be

kicked out. • DO always wear your Backyard Sports Club shirt. I know laundry once a week may be

too much, so it’s cool if you go a couple weeks without washing….unless you’ve got bad B.O. like Robbie Wright!

• DO NOT smoke at the fields!

**DISCLAIMER** Nothing in the Backyard Sports Club Newsletter is to be taken seriously, except for the schedules and scores! Please send scores, recaps, pictures, questions, funny quotes, and/or any information that you would like to be added into the week’s newsletter to backyardsportsclub@gmail.com

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Norfolk, Virginia Backyard Sports Club, Blue Diamond Divisions