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
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