Fat Kids Tighten the Belt

Denver Post South Suburban Edition 8/12/10






Fat Kids Tighten the Belt





The Fat Kids are going to play another week of summer softball after an extra innings extra effort 18-17 win over the other Platte River Bar and Grill team. While the Fat kids maintained their playful spirit of beer league softball there was a hint of serious game time attitude on the field. And some serious playoff trash talk from the Preggo Posse (and Lee and Nikki) out of the dugout. The team was without their starting pitcher Pete the Pitcher who was tending to his wife on the eve of their daughters arrival. Congrats Peter and Natalie!! The Fatties have always welcomed new teammates and none have come up as big as Josh “The Fireballer” did last night. Enough quality pitching, a few defensive gems in the field, and some of the best clutch hitting of the season helped the Fatty Fatty Boombiladdies move on to the next round of the playoffs.

The Chode Cannode was in a world of his own last night, after having received his pregame good luck charm of being peed on from his son, went out and made game saving catch one after another. Did I mention yet that The Chode no longer has to wear the pink helmet??? Congratulations to the Swing Siv on his strikeout, hope that tiny helmet fits on your gigantic noggin! We like good beer for strikeout beer, not that crap that Canada brings. More defensive highlights from the game were UGA with a diving snare almost doubling up the runner at first and a groundball that El Sukador didn’t miss. Not usually a highlight play picking up a rolling ball but it is for him! Defensive lowlights include anytime the ball was hit to Tom “I add nothing to the conversation” Paliga.

The story of the night was comeback clutch hitting. After the Fat kids had their usual inning of blunders and giving up 3 runs they trailed 10-6. After allowing a single run in the top of the 6th inning to be down by 5 the Tubby crusaders kicked it into high gear to pull within 2 runs. With time expired and the Hippie and the twitching Hollywood Bristow on base and two outs on the board, Super Freas stepped to the plate to deliver a game tying double that glanced off the center fielders glove. “I heard my wife as one of the preggo posse members if she could get a ride home if I got an out; I wasn’t going to let her down”

Extra innings where you get one pitch to either strike out, hit it, or walk. The other guys decided to walk…a lot. To the disgruntled shouts coming from the ladies in the dugout. The Platte River Bar and Grill team scored 6 runs to be ahead 17-11. The Fat kids were down but not out. Coach Jim Jim was heard saying “it’s like when you order 50 hot wings and you gotta eat them all but get full after 40, you gotta keep going”, who eats 50 hot wings? Good grief Jimbo. The boulder Hippie delivered the game tying base clearing triple causing all hell to break loose in the dugout. Calm Kyle belted a hard ground ball into left field to seal the victory.

The Fat Kids play in the Semi Finals next Wednesday at 8pm and if they win that game they move on to the Championship game at 9.