Denver Post South Suburban Edition 6/18/10

Denver Post South Suburban Edition 6/18/10






Fat Kids Bust Out





The Fat Kids faced a familiar opponent on Wednesday evening in Team Socko. If you remember Team Socko and the Fat Kids faced off in the Spring Championship with Team Socko coming away the victor. The Fat Kids weren’t going to let that happen again, with strong defense and enough offense to get them past Socko 9-5.

Black patches were worn in honor of Alejandro Holder who took an errant throw to the jaw last week. Also absent from the game was Frankie “UGA” Newman who was welcomed his daughter into the world. There was contention as to whether missing the game due to child birth was reasonable, I’ll allow it. We aren’t sure where the Hippie was at, I thought 4/20 was a couple of months ago? Without the majority of our infield present we welcomed Tom “I have little useful information to contribute to conversations” Paliga to the field to play right center. Apparently there was a little rust to shake off as the inevitable double error play showed up in the bottom of the 3rd inning allowing Socko to score 3 runs to take the early lead. The rest of the position shake up worked to perfection with Canada holding down second base and Hollywood Bristow making ridiculous plays from shortstop. Canada had several infield assists but the most spectacular play was when Hollywood bobbled the grounder only to flip it behind his back to Canada to record the force out at second. When asking Hollywood how he felt playing short he responded with “Yo son I tell ya what, I’m just ballin out there, feelin the flow, know what I’m saying”. Well no Hollywood, we aren’t sure what you are talking about but you played well.

Disaster was narrowly avoided when an absent babysitter nearly cost the Fat Kids to be a man down in the field. And where was the team mom? “I had to say hi to my family; did you know that the Morroni Family has the greatest concentration of family members in the Denver area than anywhere else?” We did not know that but we are not surprised either. With that near catastrophe avoided the Fat Kids broke out there beaten sticks in the top of the 7th to seal the victory and get the Kids to 3-0 on the season. The big hits were provided by the Siv who dropped a bomb in the first inning and strong base hits from the rest of the squad. The next Fat Kids game is 6/23/10 at 9:00, bring your pj’s and a pillow for this nightcap.