Monday, April 5, 2010

The XVCLVII(ish) Beer Olympiad (Posted late because nobody likes to upload pictures)



The Ligers and Thee Beer Nuts faced off in another Beer Olympics for the ages Thursday night on field D. Eager to play this game both teams managed to have enough people show up on time for the early 6:30 pm start.

Pregame: The Ligers, minus the services of ace chugger David G., didn't put up much of a fight in the team chug-off. James and Charlie finished us off before Bull and I even had a chance to chug. This did not bode well for the Liger's hopes in the Olympic events to come.

1st Inning: The Ligers, the away team for the first time this season, stepped up to the plate in the top of the first inning. The bases were quickly loaded with some excellent kicking from the top of the Liger's lineup. Two sacrifice flies later, the Ligers took the early lead 2-0. The Liger defense made quick work of the top of TBN's order, even with Cathy "Red Card" Leone sliding into first going for the "Nate special".
The second Olympic event of the evening was the "Pitchers and Straws" race. TBN, despite their name, are not so good with the beer pouring,sporting quite a bit of head on their pitcher. So while their pitcher looked something like this, the Ligers actually attempted to drink 4 full beers. TBN won this event amid some controversy and forced the Ligers to kick the next inning barefoot.

Neither team did much on the field for the next couple of innings. TBN won the third Olympics event, the bat spin relay, giving them a 3-0 lead in the Olympics and 4 outs in the bottom of the third inning. The Ligers mounted a comeback, however, using the Lady Liger's cheer-leading experience to secure a win in the human pyramid relay race. The Ligers won the right to have a team mate pitch, and thankfully, Chandler managed not to strike anyone on his team out. For you historians out there, Rollo managed this feat during his tenure with the Ligers, thanks for taking him off our hands Bullies. The Ligers strung together some hits in the top of the 4th inning, adding two more runs, bringing the score to 4-0.

The final Olympic event is also the newest one, the flip-cup relay. The Ligers, hoping to make the Olympics tally respectable, and remain undefeated in this event, came out of the gates flipping. By the time it came down to the anchor legs, the outcome was inevitable thanks to Chandler's ability to one flip, even with the whole Beer Nuts team screaming in his ear. This win brought the Olympics score to 3-2 and the Ligers earned an extra defender for the final inning.
The Beer Nuts strung together some hits and scored two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning, but the comeback was not to be. After throwing out Brooke at first on a bunt, Nate decided to try for home. This, it turns out, was not a smart idea. Nate had already been thrown out trying to make it to first earlier in the game, and this time was no different as my throw took a Liger bounce and caught Nate on the leg, securing the Liger victory, 4-2.
Oh, James and I dominated the egg toss, again, by the way.

6 comments:

Rollo said...

A. I didn't strike them out, they just couldn't kick the perfect, nice, pitches further than the pitcher!

B. Bragging about the egg toss is like the toejammers bragging about the flipcup tourney...neither count if I'm not involved.

Well, the toejammers braggin is worse since the whole defending championship team wasn't there. :oP

SarahB said...

My 1 flip in the relay was awesome btw...you arent that cool Chandler...
Thx Brooke for making us lose...Hhhhhh
(Hows that for a douchey comment) lol 143 :P

YellowBird said...

Thanks for bringing us into the discussion, Rollo. Our apologies for your "empty doughnut box-like" absence.

Nice recap, Chris.

Chandler said...

Whatever Bukkake... all I do is win (flip-cup) Championships. When you saw me as the anchor you KNEW you had no chance.

Rollo said...

haha yellow :o) Anytime amigo.

Brooke said...

omg i have never been so terrible at flip cup! Todd sucked too, thank god.

ALSO we won pitchers and straws fair and square, even sucked up all the foam!

yea yea, that what she said.

u know i invented beer Olympics right?!?! (lol i like to talk about that like Chris likes to brag about the egg toss)