Late breaking sports flash -- in the premier national sporting event of the weekend, the Ponce Championship game in Fort Myers, the good guys - Team 3-C-Cliburn - lost to Team 2-B-Knapp by a score of 7 to 0. Not much in the way of highlights for Team Cliburn. We had some decent pitching and steady defense -- but we just did not handle the pitching of Chris Clark and Joe Leginus, the two best pitchers we faced in camp this week. They held us to one or two hits in the first five innings until we posted a mild rally in the final inning to no avail. I was 0 for 2 at bat. They finished with the Gold Medal and a record of 8 and 1; we had a final record of 6 and 3 and settled for the Silver Medal (the medals are worth at least $5 or $6.) A slight consolation particularly, as Elizabeth points out, "there's no medals in baseball" -- trophies or rings yes, medals, not so much.
Bill and I are on our way to Tampa to have dinner with Ben, Cristina and family and we fly back north on Saturday. I will do a final posting with some thoughts on the week later on Saturday after I get back to DC.
A great week but we fell a little short. Still, I believe the nearly undefeated team that was seeking revenge winning by a touchdown and extra point, bodes well for the Patriots in their game against the Giants in the second major sporting event this weekend -- Patriots by 7! Go Pats!
Jay as always thank you for the kind words.
ReplyDeleteI plan on working on Bob to create a player committee in order to improve the camp. The first order of business will be a method of balancing the talent which seems to be all the scuttlebutt. Second we need to address those sandwiches and the "awards dessert". I'm sorry I didn't get to play on the same team this year but I was told you played great all week. Not surprised!