Is anyone coming into town for this? It's Memorial Day Weekend. I'm going to be on a team (some from my regular team, some other players).

Tournament info

I have offers from a couple of teams to come play with them as my team isn't going. Haven't decided if I want to go yet.

C'mon George, both Joe and I will be there. How can you turn that down?

Yeah. Don't you want a chance to go up against the Philly Have-Nots? (That's the name someone came up with for our team, which actually comprises parts of 3 of our league's D teams.)

I'm looking forward to this, in part because when I played for a team 20 or so years ago -- back when I was still young -- our team went to a tournament in Norfolk. Long story short, it was an ugly experience and I ended up quitting after that. So this one can't possibly be worse.

Plus, they're not playing the tourney at our usual fields, and the fields they're using for the D division are much closer to my home.

So I'm finished, except for the after-party a little later. The team I was on lost 2 of 3 in the round-robin portion, then we won a game in the elimination rounds, then lost 2 and we were eliminated. Except for my leg hurting again -- I keep straining a quad and I bought this wrap to wear around my thigh and all it did was give me a rash -- and except for the fact that I mostly hit like crap it was a lot of fun.

Someone had a book of cheers which apparently came from a tourney or team from San Francisco, so eventually we were subected to cheers like "2, 4, 6, 8, hit that ball like you masturbate! Whack it, whack it, whack it whack it whack it!" and the same cheer except it was "penetrate" and "harder, harder, harder harder harder!" And then there was "Hit that ball like you hit your kids, go Britney, go Britney" -- which doesn't quite make sense because for everything nutty she's done, I don't think Britney ever hit her kids.

We were supposed to play the 3 round-robin games yesterday and then all the elimination games today. However, one of the four infields in the park complex was flooded and was unplayable. So they had to fit everything into 3 fields. Then they got a late start because the gate at the entrance to the fields was closed and locked. So we ended up playing 4 games yesterday...though my team's first game, which was slated to start at 10 am, was rescheduled for noon and then for 1 pm. I got to sleep in!

I had a fantastic time at the tournament. There were lots of attractive men at the games, especially from the New England states (CT & MA).

Joe, you forgot the H-O-L-E/B-A-L-L cheer! Those cheers were hilarious. The other teams liked them, too. I can't wait to use them during the rest of our games, including the "Oogie" cheer.