Saturday, May 15, 2004

WEEK ONE - CONSIGNED TO HISTORY

11 May - a 10 run rally in the top of the 6th isn't quite enough to topple the Sumatra Panthers on their home ground. The Panthers pushed across a run in their half of the inning to cost the Bobby Dazzlers their inaugural game, 17-16.

Though some would maintain the game was marred by poor umpiring and strange groundskeeping, others will contend that boorish behaviour on the part of the visiting team won them few friends that night. Hey, guilty as charged! Kudos to the Panthers on a game well played, and we look forward to exacting some degree of revenge later in the season. In a purely sporting manner, of course.

15 May - A fair number of the squad shook off hangovers and brutal Central London traffic to take part in Saturday morning training in Finsbury Park. Only one of us suffered a debilitating injury and all things considered, Los Dazzlers, while not quite Dazzling, exhibited far more competency and skill than we've seen in previous workouts (or in last Tuesday's game), which bodes well for Monday's contest against the Tiger Cubs.

As the day wore on, the mix of UK garage & hip hop eminating from the far corners of Finsbury Park's baseball fields became deafening, and play was halted for an reinactment of Mike Veeck's ill-fated "Disco Demolition Night"