Cloudy Days for Silver Lining; Opting for the 'Post'

In the ho-hum early game of a late-June doubleheader, the Bad News dispensed with Silver Lining by the score of 11-2. Not that it was needed, but the News may have been given an inadvertent assist from the umpire, who called the game after five innings. The ump's explanation to the whining Lining was a combination of time being out and creative math, as it appeared he had the Bad News ahead by 10 runs, thus bringing the Mercy Rule into effect.

Danny D’Amico had a strong game, going 2-for-3, with two runs scored and driving in four -- including a bases-clearing single that put the game out of reach in the late innings. Jay Bergen, Franc Crisafulli and Frank Stingone all also drove in a pair, and in a return from Accounting Conferences Unknown, Pat O’Leary pitched solid games in both contests.

In other news, I've been turning to the New York Post this past week for all my coverage of A-Rod's failing marriage, after the hated New York Daily News triumphed in the late game for a second year in a row over the Bad News -- this time, by the score of 6-2. The Bad News was knocked on its heels in the first, giving up a pair of runs, and were never able to get back in its offensive groove.

Bergen and D’Amico again had multiple hits in the second game, and Stingone continued rolling along on his customary mid-summer batting streak, going 2-for-2 with a walk, and scoring both of the Bad News’ runs.

Running his team with the charm of Robert Mugabe and the even-handedness of Kim Jong-il, small measures of justice were meted out to the Daily News’ manager/pitcher/tyrant in an attempted 4th-inning take-out at the plate by Alicia Korney, and again, via a late-game pegging in the back, courtesy of Bergen’s cannon.

On a happier note, merry-making was made late into the night at the post-game Jeremy’s sendoff for second basewoman Chrissy Korney, who has returned north in search of saner pastures following two years of molding young minds in the Bronx. Korney ended her Bad News career with an RBI single in the seventh, and made a couple of key plays along the way to keep the Bad News in the second game.



Next game (Updated!): Tuesday, June 30 at Central Park. It was a forfeit by Silver Lining, though with the aid of two Dominicans and a couple of Bad News defectors, they played one heck of a scrimmage. Next up is the single-elimination playoffs.