Team Awards 2006

10 of 16 players have submitted their voting forms. Players were given one rule: no voting for yourself. The number of votes tallied in each category will sometimes be less than 10, sometimes more; some players left a category or two blank, and some voted for two players in one category, which, unlike last season, was within the voting rules. Entries are listed in order of most-votes to least-votes, with the total number of votes, if more than one, in brackets.

Here are the results...


Most Competitive Player

• Robin (6)
• Kelly (2)
• Christopher
• Clayton
• Scott

Most Improved Player

• Jeffrey (3)
• Rodney (2)
• Bradley
• Robert - "that guy used to be all kinds of terrible!"
• Scott
• Tyler

Most Likely To Show Up To A Game Hungover

• Christopher (4)
• Ryan (4)
• Clayton (2) - "obviously"
• Rodney

Best Defensive Player

• Robert (4)
• Clayton (2)
• Jeffrey (2)
• Kelly
• Robin

Best Clutch Hitter

• Clayton (6)
• Robin (2)
• Jeffrey
• Scott

Best Sportsmanship

• Kelly (3)
• Robert (3)
• Rodney (2)
• Adam
• Enrique
• Jeffrey

Funniest Player

• Bradley (5) - "on a dance floor"
• Jeffrey (2)
• Robert (2) - "in writing"
• Christopher

Most Peculiar Injury
("It’s interesting enough that you created this category – we had that many injuries.")

• Josh's punching metal rod and breaking hand - exact same manner that Chris broke his hand (4)
• Sabres pitcher's arm (2)
• Aaron's popped knee
• Bradley blowing out his knee playing frisbee 3 years ago
• Lee's arm
• Scott bailing on third

Unsung Hero

• Jeffrey (6)
• Enrique (2)
• Ryan

Play Of The Year

• "Dirty [Tyler] Sanchez" "making his superman debut in left field" (7)
• Christopher's game ending catch in the semi-finals
• Clayton's sliding catch of a foul popup
• Robert - "you've had too many. Pick one."

Grittiest Player

• Kelly (3)
• Josh coming back from broken hand (2)
• Robin (2)
• Ryan (2)
• Clayton

Most Valuable Player

• Clayton (7)
• Christopher
• Robin

[editor: But where's Pooh?]


Best Quote

• Kelly: "Man, we're gonna get smoked!" (2)
• Pick any one of Brad's classic cheers (2)
• Clayton: "I sometimes do a #2 in urinals"
• Jeffrey: "Jazz Hands"
• Leaverd: "Is it okay if I leave?" (seventh inning of the semi-final game)
• "He really HF'd that one"

Sexiest Batting Stance

• Kelly's "shimmy" (3)
• Jeffrey (2)
• Leaverd (2)
• Clayton
• Scott
• "We're the sexiest team in the LMBA"

Song That Best Represents This Season

• Backstreet Boys: "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)"
• Britney Spears: "Oops!... I Did It Again"
• Garth Brooks: "Friends In Low Places"
• Metallica: "Turn The Page"
• The Ohio Players: "Love Rollercoaster"
• U2: "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
• The Wedding Song

Exclusive Ensemble

All the exclusives, all in one post. Links to them at least. In chronological order:

Enrique -- Josh -- Jeffrey -- Kelly -- Adam -- Rodney -- Robin -- Clayton -- Robert -- Bradley

There have been a handful of award submission forms returned. We're hoping to get a few more before the deadline of noon tomorrow. As we said, the results will be posted by, uhhhh.. 4pm Sunday. Okay okay, we originally said noon Sunday, but an unexpected offer of Sunday morning brunch came our way, and believe you me, we're not ones to turn down crepes. Therefore, the results will be posted either sometime Saturday night or after brunch on Sunday. Once they're posted, an email will be sent to all Indians, all Surrey Indians that is, and the other couple thousand of our readers will just have to keep checking in.. Trust us, from what we've seen so far, it'll be worth the hourly check-in.

To the several Indians who haven't emailed in your entries: email in your entries!!

September 10 2006

We were that close (we touched it).

It was definitely a beautiful day for a doubleheader. 'Tis a shame only one game was scheduled. At least it was the championship game, that kind of made it okay that we were only playing one game. In the end though, we would have liked to have played a best-of-seven, like the big boys do when it's playoff time. Even a best-of-three would have suited us fine. However many best-ofs until we are crowned champions. I think we even had it in us to do a best-of-one-hundred-and-thirty-nine. Et toi, Sabres?

The Sabres sure did bring their bats to the game. We'd become used to our pitchers being able to shut down the opposition, allowing just a few hits here and there. On this day, however, the Sabres jumped on our pitching early, driving hits to all fields. We kept pace early on, thanks in part to Jeff and Enrique's back-to-back extra base hits. We think we heard Jeff saying that it was his first career triple. Kudos Jeff; well-timed.

There was nothing really that stood out as reasons why they won or reasons why we lost. It was a well-fought game and in the end they had more runs on the scoreboard. A few more timely hits, and a few less baserunning errors, on our part and maybe, just maybe... Suppose we can play the what if game all off-season.

To the Sabres pitcher: Get well soon.

That's about it. If anyone else has anything to add, more specifics for the absent RobE perhaps, you're more than welcome to chatter. For mental health reasons, we can't get more specific about the Sabres' pitcher; we've said too much already and we're getting lightheaded again. Clay can tell you about it.

The team awards submission forms have been emailed out; results will be posted here by Sunday noon at the latest. In the meantime, check out the videos found on the left sidebar. We got our hands on some good footage taken during Sunday's game.

Bradley: A CC Exclusive

Clubhouse Chatter: What is your favorite post-game hangout?

Bradley Cumiskey: The closest watering hole with the team

CC: It's 11am Saturday. What are you likely to be doing?

BC: Cleaning the waffle iron in my skivvies

CC: Fill in the blank: I wouldn't sell ___________ for a billion dollars.

BC: my wife.

CC: You've been called up to The Show; what is the first thing you do?

BC: my wife.

CC: What stopped you from winning the grade five spelling bee?

BC: Cynthia f*#king Voo

CC: As a baseball player what is your baseball goal this baseball season?

BC: Come up with the best pre-game cheer.

CC: If you were a WWE wrestler, what would your wrestling name be?

BC: The Red Menace

CC: What person do you most admire and why?

BC:

CC: What is your favorite sports movie?

BC: Raging Bull

CC: What is your favorite non-sports movie?

BC: Casablanca

CC: Describe an average Sunday in your life 20 years from now.

BC: Chillaxing

CC: What is your deepest darkest secret?

BC:

CC: Compose a haiku of your baseball career thus far.

BC: snake bit with the bat
with resolve the hits will come
if not, I just bunt

CC: Let's say that Barry Bonds hits #756 and you end up with the ball. What do you do with it?

BC: I would throw it back, and use the publicity to make more money than I ever could selling the ball. I would release a book titled "Why I threw it back," and try and be really charming and marketable on the morning talk show circuit. I'll further make a name for myself by making fun of Matt Lauer while on the Today Show.

CC: Do you prefer scary movies or comedies?

BC: Comedies.

CC: You can invite four dinner guests, dead or alive. Who are they?

BC: Al Einstein, Willy Shakespeare, Izzy Newton, & Leo DaVinci.

CC: What country that you've never been to would you most like to go to and why?

BC: The Phillipines. I've heard so much, I would love to go.

CC: Tell us a good joke. Keep it clean.

BC: George Bush after a bath.

Clayton Edger

There are no *s around Clay's name because it's not a video. We're here to tell you about Macula's big gig this weekend. Actually, who better to tell you than Clay himself. Here's the mic Clay...

Hey guys. Saturday, September 2nd at the Lamplighter on Abbott St. in Gastown is going to be the venue for our first show with our new singer. You will not be able to tell by our performance that it's our first. We've been practicing like 4 times a week for the past 3 months. We're definitely planning on making a career out of this.

Three of the four other bands playing that night are also really kickass... the promoter has told us that there are going to be labels there to check out the band that's on second. Obviously these guys would want to check out who's headlining (us) and it could be a REALLY big night for us if we get good crowd support. It's unheard of for a band to get signed at their first show but you can always hope right? Anyways, thanks in advance to anyone deciding to come out and support.

Cheers,
Clay

August 27 2006

Now that was a game.

In between our epic pre-game cheer (a compilation of previous cheers, a "best-of", if you will, with a shout-out to newlywed Kelly - congrats!) and the final out, there was much drama, much excitement, much heartache, and, finally, much celebration. Okay okay, so much of the "much celebration" happened immediately after the final out.. there was still a bit of much celebration after Rod laid down a pressure bunt in the eighth. We'll get to that later. First...

The other semi-final had just concluded, so we knew the finals would be the Sabres vs winner of Biscuits/Indians(us!). The game started well for us. Lee started on the mound, and he was on. And we mean on. Two thumbs up on; Chris can vouch for that. Bottom of the first we got on the scoreboard quicksmart. Two walks to start it off, and then Redge smoking a triple to right-centre.

From there, we kinda coasted, and some details escape us. We do know that Lee had 9 Ks through 4 innings. That's right, 9 of the 12 outs had come via the strikeout. Can't remember how he did in the fifth inning. Perhaps a nice little pixie will come along and enlighten us. Despite Lee's dominance, we couldn't take a strangle hold on the game. We had a 3-1 lead extended to 6-1, and promptly blew that, due to some sketchy fielding and timely Biscuit hitting. They scored one run in the seventh, and then four in the eighth. The Biscuits' bench became more animated with each run scored, and as the tying run came across there were loud cries of "it's a whole new ballgame!" Simmer down lads, simmer down...

Bottom of the eighth was small-ball time. Leadoff man Ryan got on, and stole second. We think the catcher overthrew second and that's how Ryan got to third, but we may be confusing that with another play. At any rate, Ryan was on third, Rod was at the plate, and the squeeze was the plan. The pitch was low, the bat pulled back, and Ryan scampered back to third. The infielders came in for the next pitch, squeeze was called again, and Rod laid down a beauty. The pitcher came home with it but it wasn't even close. We tacked on two more after that, for insurance's sake, and for vanity's sake. The game was in the bag. Or was it?

Top of the ninth the Biscuits loaded the bases. The sacks were juiced. Two outs. A triple would tie the game. A double may tie the game. A single probably wouldn't tie the game. Heeeeeeerrrre's the pitch. It's a liner right at Chris. He snowcones it. This game is ovah.

See alls y'all at the finals. Date and time and place is TBA. Hmmm, after typing that last sentence we checked the Sabres' website. According to them the date of the final is September 10. Time and place is still TBA.

* Kelly Grace *

We tried to embed this video but not only did it not work, it also made Brad's video not work. Therefore...

Click here for Groovin' Kelly at Google Video