OT - Softball against an OSU fan
I thought I’d share an interesting (IMO) story about my co-ed softball game from last night.
I’ll start off by saying I live in Ohio so I take a lot of shit from OSU fans (some more obnoxious than others). Also, as usual, I’m the only person wearing Michigan garb at the game.
It’s fairly early in the game and we’re up by a few runs. One of the guys on the other team takes his second walk in a row. I’ve noticed that this guy has just stood at the plate with the bat on his shoulder. NOTE: I’m not a fan of guys “trying” to take walks in co-ed softball.
So this guy is now standing on 2nd base (guys go to 2nd on walks in our league). I’m playing shortstop and tell our pitcher that he needs to start grooving some pitches to this guy next time because he hasn’t even attempted to swing at a pitch. The guy hears me and starts spouting off obscenities toward me (I won’t get into details but think genitalia) and trashing UM.
If there was a picture to represent what a redneck looks like, it would be of this guy. I respond by saying that I’d be willing to bet he got the shit kicked out of him quite often growing up (and beyond). This just encouraged him to become more belligerent (naturally).
At this point he’s pretty much pissed off my entire team (many are OSU fans). This is where it gets good. In my next at bat I hit a home run. I start into my home run trot. When I get around 3rd base, one of my teammates (an OSU fan) starts loudly humming Hail to the Victors! It was great (and very unexpected).
We then start kicking their ass (in the softball game) and build a double digit lead. In the top of the last inning (we were visitors) - the 1 pitch rule has gone into effect due to time constraints. There are two outs. The pitcher throws back to back unhittable pitches which loads the bases (guys not only get 2nd base but the girl behind them gets 1st base when there are 2 outs).
Now for the best part. I come up to bat and hit a grand slam. The redneck OSU fan is playing first base right in front of our dugout. I start in with Hail to the Victors right as I approach 1st base. Then pretty much my whole team joins in for the remainder of the home run trot… It was truly one of those “priceless” moments.
Needless to say we thoroughly enjoyed the victory over some cold beers afterward… Unfortunately, several of my teammates informed me that that was the first and last time I can expect them to participate in Hail to the Victors. Personally, I think a few of them are closet UM fans.
What kind of jacked up coed rules do you play with? A BB is only one base, otherwise there is huge incentive to draw a walk. That being said, i'd still hack away. It's funny you mention this story because I just played in a UM alumni softball game and I hit a GS too (only it was in an open field so there was no trot involved.)
Anyway, your friends are great; I wouldn't have hummed OSU's fight song under any circumstance. Maybe I'm a crappy friend.
My hearing is so bad that I can't really pick up songs that I didn't know before my hearing went.
My hearing went before I was old enough to get TOO interested in football.
I do not, nor will I ever have to know what tOSU fight song sounds like.
Coed softball typically involves a requirement that wherever possible, guys and girls must be separated in the lineup. You usually have to bat guy-girl-guy-girl. So the reason you give two bases to a guy for a BB is so the pitcher doesn't just walk all the guys to get to the girls. That's not "jacked-up", that's normal.
Ah, I see. I'm in a co-ed league, and we set up our batting lineups like that...but i think the umpire has discretion to determine it was an intentional walk. (e.g. no strikes were thrown at all.)
Also, I'm never a fan of the intentional walk (in co-ed softball.)
Ahhhh,...softball stories... that's funny.
Had to burn out an inside-the-park job last night myself. Not bad for a 225lb'er. I can't play with girls though.
I can't play with girls though.
Legal issues are a punk, huh?
Well played, Blazefire.
Good thing there was an abnoxious OSU fan on the other team otherwise it would have been much harder to find a reason to tell us about your awesome game.
I had an incident myself last game, but with a Spartan fan. This shitbag was talking all kinds of smack and found his only way to get on was to drive the ball down all of our girl infielder's throats. I gave him the first one for free, but when he did it a second time, I knew he was doing this on purpose. Next time I got up, I drove a piss rod down the line while he played third. It was a knuckleball that almost killed him. It went between his glove and his forehead. He turned white as a ghost. When I got to first, I hollered across the diamond and told him that his Spartan "S" on his chest wasn't a Superman symbol and that he could expect more just like that if he didn't stop it , to which he said he was done playing softball period. My teammates call me the punisher, due to the fact I'm the one the sticks up for our girls and pitchers, when bitch ass guys try going back up the middle at them.
an eye for an eye in softball... if your going to shoot the middle, then every guy on my team is going to do it to your pitcher... i've pitched and it sucks when a team thinks that the only way they can get on base is hitting the ball up the middle every time... a few years ago when i was playing coed in windsor we had a girl that pitched for us... well in this one game we were playing this team full douche bags... they had this guy on there team who thought he was really good and was trying to burn our girl in RF well it never worked as she tracked everything he hit... well in his last at bat he decided to do it one more time... he tried to inside out an inside pitch and pulled it right back up the middle and missed hitting our pitcher in the head by about 2"... she fell to the ground and started crying... the batter is now standing on 1st base laughing with the 1st base coach and doesn't even say "sorry pitch" or walks over to see if shes ok... i just stared at him until he sees me and then he says "i didn't mean it", my response was "i don't care if you didn't mean you could at least say you're sorry"... then the 2 guys from the bench start talking shit to me... well these 2 guys were alternating as the pitchers through out the game... so i looked at both of them and said "listen i'm up 2nd when we come up to bat, so which ever one of you is pitching get ready because i won't miss"... so what to the little bitches do, they send a girl out to pitch in the bottom of the inning...
A piss rod knuckeball. This is getting fun.
By the way, I wouldn't know the TUOOS fight song if it lathered up it's boobs and motorboated me.
I don't even know how the OSU fight song goe. It just goes to show how well known "Hail to the Victors" is.
I don't know it either, but I bet there is something in there about Skoal chaw and truckin' on lonely roads. Possibly crapping in coolers too.
I know it said OT, but I still got excited that it might be a Michigan Softball moment over OSU. Damn Buckeyes split our last double header.