Red Sox Fantasy Camp Fri Feb 5

Let the playoffs begin! It's single elimination so we have to win both games to make it to the world series. We are 4-2 and we are tied for second, but we are the fourth seed, so we play the 5th seed, which is team 1 and we are home on field 5 - again! janet was anticipating both her and my team winning, then we'd play each other for the semi-finals. Milt Cuyler and Lee Stange 'Milt's Maulers': Rocco Cammarata, Dirk Coffman, Lisa Courcy, Fred Maloy, CJ Patti, Greg Picucci, Bill and Jordan Sullivan (father /son), Kyle Sullivan, John Torniero, and Joel Weinstein. We already beat them 8-3 and if they were smart they should've started Fred Maloy cause we only managed 1 run off of him. But they pitched John 'Super Mario' Torniero. Lane started for us and pitched 5 strong innings.The lineup can only be changed at the start of the playoffs so Campbell made some changes. Now it's Basile, Venditti, Rickard, Perrins, Dan WIllis, Scott Willis, Cooksey, Kawadler, Owens, Whitney, Dunn, and Fletcher. Jack decided he didn't want to play anymore. His side was hurting. It's too bad because he really was doing well. I made 2 catches in LC. We were up by a lot so to save Lane for another game, Scott Willis went in, then I pitched the final inning. I walked one and struck out 1. I went 1-2 with a sac and a BB, rbi 1 run scored. We also got the team picture taken. Jeff took a lot of video for this game. He's trying out getting little clips of people batting. Could be something that he can do for future events. I think people would be interested in seeing themselves bat. Scott Willis got game MVP going 2-4, 1 run scored.

At lunch Jim palmer showed up. He'll be here the rest of the week. So this is how the games went the first seed which was team 6, steve lyons team, beat the 8th seed, team 8 the orioles. The 2nd seed team 5 Miller and Petrocelli's team beat seed 7 team 4 Gale and Daubach's team. The 3rd seed, team 2 crawford and Burgmeier lost to seed 6, team 7 Corsi and Azcue's team (whom we never played). That was Janet's team. So much for us playing them again (which is good because we lost to them already). And my team seed 4, team 3 beat seed 5 team 1 stange and cuyler. So now the pairings for the winners are team 6 vs team 7 (visitors) and team 5 vs team 3 (visitors).

We are the visitors on field 3 team 5 Rick Miller, Rico Petrocelli and Bob Bernstein 'Miller's millrats': Mike Andrade, Stephen Hardy, Sam Laquale, Kevin marden, Ed Munoz, Bob Murch, Chuck Ott, Bridget Perry, Bob Pinault, Curt Pollitt, Dean Riley, and Rob Watkins. Mike Andrade is pitching, he won Cy Young one year - he pitched every game in the playoffs and now there's an Andrade rule. Tony started for us. We score 2 runs in the first and shut them down, They scored 1 run. then we scored 4 runs in the 4th and 1 in the 5th to go ahead 7-1. I made a diving catch on Curt Pollitt's shot up the middle. Then they score 6 runs in the bottom of the 6th to tie it up. We went scoreless in the top of the 7th. We have to hold them. There are 2 outs runners on 1st and 2nd and Kevin Marden is up, a lefty. I shift over to straightaway center and he proceeds to hit a fly ball to where I'd normally be if a righty was up. I run over and make the grab. End of inning. Everyone was high-fiving me. A lot of campers were watching the game as we were the only ones playing now. Top of the 8th we go ahead by 4 runs. Bottom of the 8th we get the 1st out right away thanks to a nice catch by Marty. Then there was a hit. Then someone hit it to me and it handcuffed me. I tried to flip my glove over and it was too late, it went off my glove. I was so bummed. It's amazing how you can have such a high, then go to such a low. So men on 1st and 2nd, 1 out. Next batter hits a line shot to SS and Dan catches it and doubles off the man at 2nd (Bobby Pinault- who earlier tried to trick us at 1b, catching a liner, then dropping it on purpose, with a big smirk on his face- then tried to get a double play out of it - it didn't work). End of game. What a game! Mike Cooksey got game MVP going 4-4 with 1 run scored! I went 2-4 with a BB, rbi, 2runs scored. So we are going to the world series and we will be facing Steve Lyons team. They beat us 4-2 on Wed. Dale Clarke pitched. I wonder if they will pitch him again??

Tonight at dinner there is the announcing of Game MVPs and more Kangaroo Court. They announce Jim Palmer and he gives a nice talk. They also announce the Hall of Famers and Introduce the newly inducted HOF'ers - Jeff Ladue, Gary Perkins and Al Venditti. They were going to do it the first night, but Jeff LaDue was stranded because of a snowstorm and wasn't able to make it. It worked out good for me because now Jeff was there to get pictures.After the game MVP's there was talk about where Boz got his shirt and he said Lou got it for him. Well Corsi gets up there later and he says he got his underwear from Jim Palmer, and dropped his shorts! I don't think Jim was too amused! Then they announce Joe Castiglione and he gives a nice speech and recites the poem about baseball, a yearly tradition. Unfortunately, Joe won't be there to announce the game tomorrow, but Larry will do it and he does a nice job. There is Kareoke tonight but I opt to go to bed early to get a good nights rest. Tomorrow we don't play until 1:30, but I want to get there for the pro-rookie game and watch that at noon. There is also consolation game(s) at 9:30 for those who want to play some more.