Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good

Well, well, well, the Doolies have advanced to the quarterfinals by the skin of their teeth.  A hard fought battle against a less than good Cruel Shoes team has set up a match-up with whats looks to be our new rivals the Delta House.  Let's talk about the game a little.

The Doolies came out hot and scored 5 runs in the first and it looked as if this game was going to be a to a rout.  That turned out to not be the case as we continuously flew out to Vincenzo in left field.  They literally had one guy who could make a play and we refused to hit it to anyone else.  Some timely hitting by the Cruel Shoes and a couple big errors gave them the lead in the 7th.  The Doolies had their backs up against the wall down a run with 3 outs to play.  Johhny "Willis Reed" Berrian got us started and we never looked back with Coach Mike Espo bringing in the game winning run.

I want to go out and publicly say that Johnny Berrian was the MVP of the day for us.  If he leads off that 7th inning and makes an out its a completely different inning.  An incredibly gutsy performance from Berrian.  He also made a huge tag on a runner trying to score earlier in the game.  Berrian is a GTD for next weeks game.

I'd also like to welcome back Josh Walker to the lineup.  The guy has fought threw back problems since his scoliosis diagnosis in the 6th grade and returned to give us a huge lift in the 7th.  I can guarantee it will not be the last time he comes up big for us in the playoffs.

Alright, now on to next week.  We need to bring a much better attitude to next weeks game.  We had some guys moping around last week and a real lack of energy in the dugout.  This is our year fellas, we need to realize that and get out and enjoy this run.  We need that playoff atmosphere we had two weeks ago, not the one we had this past Sunday.  Who knows how many more of these we have left in us.

The bracket has played out nice for us.  Somehow, Delta House upset the North Ropers and we face another team we are very capable of beating.  Yeah yeah yeah I heard they brought in "ringers".  A ringer is a guy who comes in and hits a ball 400ft every time he is up.  He doesn't bloop one over first base.  These guys are the furthest thing from ringers.  They weren't some young studs smashing the ball all over the field.  They were a bunch of dads who were just happy they didn't have to sit at there daughters softballs games that day.   I watched that game and you know what, the Ropers should've thrown an extra guy in the infield, played more shallow in the outfield and applied more pressure at the plate.  It happens you lose a tough game but I am not too worried about these guys. Listen what happened to the Ropers almost happened to us.  The Cruel Shoes had a couple guys who I've never seen before, but they weren't game changers. We take what the Ropers did and we do the exact opposite and we will be alright.  

See you guys at Tisdale