Ghost Man On Third - ME Superhero / Lighthouse

We are down to our final 4 in the Superhero Playoffs this week. We had some upsets last week and we almost had a major upset (NDW 3-2 on a walk off). Regardless, we are down to our best 4. Will there be any upsets this week? Who's JSparks gonna toss from the NDW/CHITE game? Will Mashaker even remember one Thursday this season? Let's find out. As before, these are all in good fun. If you take any of this seriously, please retire from kickball. No Dead Weight vs. Catch Her in the Eye NDW had a pretty good scare last week with Running on Empties, just squeaking by 3-2. This could very well be RoE playing if Grady Little didn't leave JSparks in one inning too long. These guys play defense and get referees to quit better than anyone. With a steady dose of speed and aggressiveness on the base paths also. CHITE sports a solid defense and very good trash talking which could work against them with NDW. Catcher Tim should keep this game competitive and we know they will have their A ...

DISCLAIMER - This is meant to be a joke, if you take it seriously, please retire from kickball. Thanks. Play in games: Running on Empties vs. Balled and the Beautiful The RoE defense this season has been a shade above abysmal this season so they've got to be due to have a game with less than 12 errors. Captain JSparks has been lights out this season sporting a minuscule 27.94 ERA this season (Cy Young anyone?) and has mastered the 12oz curl so B&B better be ready for the heat. The last time these two played it was 4-1 RoE but it should be closer this time. B&B's downfall will be the 654 jello shots they consume pre game. Final score 5-3 RoE. The Natural Light Man (or Woman) of the Match : Russ Broad. For his game changing trash talk. Bruce Spring Teaing vs. Swamp Donkeys Swamp Donkeys boast the only defeated season in Superhero (0-8). Spring Teaing boasts the more denim in one area than a prom in Canada. That trend will continue as BST is born to run all ove...

NDW 8 - Catch Her in The Eye 4 After a week if heavy one sided public trash talk, NDW showed up with exactly 9 players for our Thursday night clash. In a very un-NDW like way, we chose to be home given the fact our defensive alignment looked less than great. After working ourselves into quite the jam in the first, NDW managed to get out of it only giving up 1 run. Time for the beatdown! Not quite. NDW's guys managed 3 hits, 1 double play and a pop out to end the inning. 1-0 Catch Her in The Eye. Crap, maybe the trash talk wasn't such a good idea? No worries though because the NDW girls took over and aided by a few (okay, a shitload) of fielding errors by Catch Her, NDW blew the game wide open to the tune of 8-1 over the next 2 innings. Trash talk was totally a good idea! In the top of the 4th, Catch Her got the top of their lineup up again and stepped on the gas thanks to Ryan Houghton inexplicably trying to peg a girl going home, he missed and threw it down the hill, 2 run...

Week 5 predictions are here, unfortunately, Ryan Faley (NASCAR Superfan and white trash aficionado) is not this week. Since I'm a man of the people and someone asked for actual team names a few weeks ago, I put them in. So feel free to throw that team name index away. Not that I'm keeping track, but let the record show I went 8-0 last week in games that didn't end in a shameful, sister kissing tie. I blame Steve Ginn for showing up and helping Exotic Pet Owners save face after their Captain (Faley) abandoned them like a teenage mother to take an 8 week vacation. Steve's not there, I go 9-0, no doubt.   Lighthouse: Roll Another Bunt vs East Bound and Down: There are few things I'll never grow tired of, the combo of Kenny Fing Powers and Kickball is one of them. It works on so many levels. Also worth noting the neon green team put 17 runs on the board last week. Roll Another Bunt dropped a 1 run decision. I still can't past their ironic name...

NDW 6 - Portland Rum Riot 2 Why do we even play these games? Can't we just agree to pay the $68 to register and then WAKA will just send NDW a Founder's Cup bid? It'd certainly save some of us a lot of weekly travel costs. We'd also save a bunch of cash booking flights to Vegas early rather than waiting until July to win our inevitable championship.    Anywho, NDW showed up to the swamp to play a game that most us acknowledged would be tough. Unlike previous years when Loaded was anywhere from slightly to really over rated (Sorry, I'm not sorry), Rum Riot made some key pick ups and put together a really good team. They are, without a doubt, a top team this year. All due respect to the Shakers, Rum Riot is #2, you guys are 3 and the rest is kind of a wash to me (more on this later).   NDW opened the scoring with 2 runs in the first in classic NDW fashion, get the lead guys on, get Kerry to crush the ball, trot in from 3rd. 2-0....