Yep we pumped them up....

The Crackmonkeys racked up another win this past weekend.

The guys and gals of Gold's Gym put up a solid effort, but this time our training and
conditioning paid off. Their immaculate pectorals and washboard abs were not enough
to withstand the withering onslaught of our monkey and Capt. Morgan powered bats.

All in all a fine defensive outing on our part. Lots of people made excellent plays.

Highlights for me included:

• Alex pitched a gem of a game. He was gobbling up balls......err...He did a damn fine job of fielding!
• Big D was doing yeoman's work, digging our lousy short-stops errant throws out of the dirt.
  
• Micki was making sure that 3 rd base was appropriately named the "hot corner".
• Lisa did a fine job of filling our Michelle hole (has anyone else noticed how this season we went from like, a billion Michelle's, to like one?).
• Beef was bringing much sound and fury to the plate.
• Tony made a catch that almost gave Cation a heart attack.
• Lil' D brought the funk back to left field.
• Liz got the game winning hit and Tony provided the leg to put Gold's out of their misery.
• Cation yelled at me for something at some point in the game.

Also a couple of special shout outs. First to Stacey on celebrating her 29th birthday*, and thanks for the lovely gift I received. I will wear them with pride and possibly a cape. Secondly to Mr. Gold's Gym left fielder; lay off of the "supplements", you were looking a little restive out there my good man.

Thanks to our subs for rocking it again.

On to next week and another victory!

-Cheers

Michelle Ryan is an odd bird.

Swan dive into the best hungover game of your life...

So with Captain Cation’s blog stamp of approval and with a name listed under contributors, I feel special and ready to post…

It started off as a simple enough weekend away, with a beer boot shared amongst friends and polka lessons for all… but with 250 miles under our belt and one bar crawling dream to tackle, 20 (-ish) Crackmoneys new, old & honorary set off to hit up 20 bars Monkey style. Somewhere around bar 17, a second generation Monkey announcement and this picture (added soon, having some problems uploading), things get a little hazy…but I do believe it is safe to say that the Crackmonkey imprint as been left on the greater downtown Madison area and its people. Also, before I get to the game re-cap task at hand, let me say a big congratulations again to the Webb-Voss family that will be growing by ten fingers and ten toes soon enough!!

It was another great showing by the Crackmonkeys on the field on Sunday, especially seeing as a lot of us felt like flung poo. I believe I speak for everyone when I say that Lil D set the winning tone with that amazing, twisted, damn near the warning track, thievery of a catch out in right center in the 1st inning. Even the “ref” was impressed with that one.


Other highlights include (in no particular order):

• Micki’s awesome double, followed by a great lead off, followed by an “oh sh*t” moment, followed by a slide back into second, followed by a bloody knee. This of course, didn’t stop her!
• I am pretty sure there are some homerun claps to pass out as well. Scot made sure to leave the Crackmonkeys wanting more and Alex showed his gene pool is slugger worthy. ****HOMERUN CLAPS****
• And an all around great showing at the plate from everyone.

Now please don’t quote me on the highlights or lack there of. By the way, so SORRY to anyone I might have missed, you can hit me later. This brings me to my next point…

Something that won’t be found on the Sportcenter’s Top 10, but still worth mentioning, for pointing and laughing purposes, would be my clock to the head… inflicted by a bat I was holding myself. But hey, seeing as I actually got a good hit for once after that, feel free to clobber me before all batting in the future. And it might have been the hit to the head, but I am fairly certain that Derek came back from their weekend wedding anniversary trip with a new Indiana accent… I had no idea the Taco Bell dog was from Indy. I kid, I kid! Overall, it was a GREAT game, played by a bunch of really great people! I’m honored to be a crackmonkey! As for this coming Sunday, make sure to run out to GNC this week and get whatever that angry man is yelling about in their radio commercials that makes you gain 10 pounds of muscle mass in 10 days, because we are playing Gold’s Gym at 6:15 kids! GOOOOO MONKEYS!

Now raise your frosty glasses and cheers to Scot and Michelle on what is sure to be a great, new and exciting adventure for them off to the East Coast! As bittersweet as it may be, let’s send them off right tonight! Shots anyone?? ; )

Under the wire...

So, I hope no one is feeling like this after last night. Yes, I'm just NOW updating the blog. Mike threatened me with harsh punishment if I did not get it in before the game. It's 7pm, we play in one hour...just in time.

Yeah, I don't remember the game last week. After 22 bars last night I think I've destroyed any living brain cells. I do know that we won the game, I got the spirit award, I struck out swinging....the rest fades away in my pickled head. Oh wait....Mike STOLE my dining out decision. I do remember that.

Last night was a blast.....this game should be fun. See you all in 30 min!

Jamie