Dear Cats and Dogs,
Cat Captain Terry is off to Montana until the game on August 28th. Meantime the Mad Dogs (9-3 first place) have their first playoff game: Mad Dogs “1” vs. Frozen Ropes “4”: Monday August 1st at 6:30 pm Thomas Jefferson Field (112th and 1st Ave).
Good luck to you Mad Dogs, you should win it all, sadly for me, without your left fielder of 20 years.
Note re equipment and August. See Beerman Smokey if Andrew or Kitty isnt at Hechsher #5. Smokey has a bag with balls and bases stashed in the box behind #4. Remember to return it.
Also join the Cats and Dogs facebook group. There will be a party in the off season so make sure you are register with an email here or in the fb group.
Hard to believe but for 19+ years the Yorkville Sports League Championship has evaded the Mad Dogs (formerly the Fetchers, the Bad Dogs and now the Mad Dogs), the splinter group of male Cats and Dogs players, who from 1992 wanted a more competitive game than the coed Sunday softball game. This year the MD’s are 3-2 with a chance of winning it all. We have been to the semi finals several times and have made the playoffs about 10 times. The only players from the original Mad Dogs playing today are Andrew and Terry. Not to be sanguine but the team has lost some of its original greats: Mean Joe Sweet, to cancer, and Fast Will Daniels, to other folks bad driving. Later Saint Roberto Rosado, to ALS and Quicksilver Luis Pellecier to complications from Hepatitus.
Despite these losses the Mad Dogs has had a farm team in the Cats and Dogs where the best players have been given a chance to shine when regulars cant make it. The current Mad Dogs team has some semi regulars at the Sunday Game: Jeremy, Tovi, and Richie (the late Roberto’s nephew). We all love our softball and all hate the rain, BUT LOVE OUR FANS. We are always the oldest team by 10-15 years and we alway pride ourselves on defensive efforts. The term “a Mad Dogs inning” is however not a compliment and usually refers to an inning where there are 2 walks, 2 errors, 2 hits and 6 runs scored against.
AS THE SEASON PROGRESSES WE HOPE SOME OF YOU WILL COME AND WATCH ! Next game is 6:30 PM Thursday at Jefferson Field #3 (112 and 1st) . TERRY
It is looking like a nice day. Let’s play ball! There will be some younger players there today let show them a good time!
It is looking like a nice day. Let’s play ball!
The cats and dogs will gather Sunday by 5pm for batting practice at hecksher field #5 (the northwest backstop) in central park (64th street). We are looking forward to seeing you Sundays at 5pm for the entire length of our permit which allows us to play into September.
Hi Everyone
It is Memorial Day weekend and turnout has been low lately so there will be no game this Sunday.
We will be back out there on 6/6/10. Hope to see you there.
Andrew and Terry
Hi Cats and Dogs
It is very wet out there and the rain is supposed to continue all day so there is no game today.
Remember if you want to get the status of the fields you can call the Central Park hotline at 212-628-1036- then punch in ext 807 right away to go directly to the status for our fields.
I also want to let everyone know that the annual New York City ALS walk is Saturday, May 15th. As most of you know we lost a close friend, Roberto Rosado, to ALS a few years ago. Roberto participated in the ALS walk in his wheelchair in the years before he died and it was something that meant a lot to him. Since his death, his sisters, Ivette and Rachel, have continued to participate in the walk. In the last few years several of us including Randy, Max, Dale, Arthur, Richie and myself have done the walk with them.
For anyone interested, below is a note Ivette forwarded about this year’s walk.
See you next Sunday
Andrew
Calling all Sunday Softball Players!
Party April 15th 6PM-8PM!
On Thursday April 15th all you Cats and Dogs softball players need to remember to do two things.
1) file for your tax extension and
2) bring a friend to PJ Clarke’s Lincoln Center 44 West 63rd Street to introduce them to the Sunday coed pickup softball game.
One free drink for each potential new recruit, Adam will demonstrate glove repair, Terry and Andrew will introduce the benefits of softball season sponsorship**. We will have Clincher balls to sign. The 2010 Season Leave-Your-Paw Print- Sponsor-a-Game will be $30 per permitted Sunday.
The opening day game is April 11th Hecksher Field #5 at 4:30pm.
**Your name on a ball allows you two “do-overs” in the game you sponsor….
Welcome to the 2010 Cats and Dogs Softball Season. We will meet at 4:30pm Hecksher Field #5 to stretch and warm up have batting practice and start the inaugural game at 5:30. Bring guests and new recruits.
Stay tuned to this channel for a time and place, date and location for the 2010 Softball season’s kickoff party where you can sponsor a game.
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