Things to Note While Being Cursed by Christos' Monkey Paw:

-After many successful defenses, the long, murderous reign of Christos The Greek was decidedly ended at the hands of Pepe The Magnanimous by a score of 13 to 8.

-Beat The Greek's Faustian bargain, however, has claimed many victims since The Greek's downfall:
1) Pepe's car was broken into and his wallet/phone were stolen. It took almost 2 hours for "police" to "respond."
2) Wilson suffered a fall, injuring his ribs, ego and dignity and subsequently missed his graduation ceremony.
3) Roger suffered an injury to his knee on a home plate collision.
4) Larry got engaged.

-While the game began as a rout, The Greek Ruins clawed back from a nine-run hole to close within 2 runs until Larry (Larry?) came in and pitched 3 scoreless (Larry!) innings for the save. If we hadn't seen it with our own eyes...

- Jason went 5-for-5 for The Greek Ruins (note: he's good); the rest of his team combined to go 4-for-32 (!) with 16 strikeouts.

-Mike, Brian and Larry combined to strikeout 17 batters while walking 13 and hitting two (well, Reese twice). This is possibly the highest strikeout total all year. See for yourself at http://peckparkleague.blogspot.com

-Beat The Greek only stranded 6 runners all game. The Greek Ruins stranded an adequate-sized village on base, nineteen (19!) runners in all, at least one in every inning, including the bases loaded in the 1st, 3rd and 9th.

-Mike's PHENOMENAL top of the 2nd inning; 11 pitches--strike, strike, strikeout, strike, strike, ground out, single, ball, strike, strike, strikeout.

-That ground out was recorded on a nifty scoop by Mark. Or Crary. Regardless, that was the only out recorded by Beat The Greek's first baseman all day.

-Roger led off the bottom of the first hitting left-handed, wearing his hat backwards and took a ball. Wilson followed by wearing HIS hat backwards and hitting in a Griffey stance, reaching on a single. The Brothers Griffey combined to go 2-for-5 with 3 runs, 4 walks and 4 rbi.

-"Christos is such a...fucking...assface" -Mike, on what kind of assface Christos is.

-"I don't care about winning, I don't even care about the ESC! I just care about my fucking stats, son!" -Mike, on what he cares about.

-"Pe-pe! Pe-pe! Pe-pe!" -Beat The Greek, on what their captain's name was.

-Asian pitchers combined for a line of 4 ip, 0 r, 3, h, 5 k and 4 bb.

-Scott was held hitless for the first time ever according to the Mangan Sports Bureau. My theory is that his baseball powers have been sapped by his girlfriend. Pre-gf comp: Albert Pujols. W/ GF comp: Ted Williams (post-freezing).

-Everyone on The Greek Ruins struck out, save for Jimmy, Sergio and Jason. Everyone on TGR walked save for Scott and Jason.

-Reese made an excellent 5-star catch of a line drive by Adam Adamsonsonsonson in the 5th inning, robbing him of a perfect 4-for-4 day. He didn't catch it barehanded so, you know, whatever.

-After the game, Christos immediately tried to blame his loss on his lieutenant captain, Alvin. C'mon son, GTFOHWTBS.

-There were many Baseball Tonight-quality "That's Nasty" pitches in this game. Jimmy threw a couple nasty curves in his 2 inning stint. Mike threw several sliders/eephus pitches in his excellent 2nd and 3rd innings (the latter in which, he struck out the side--Reese, Scott, John B).

-Christos had an OUTSTANDING stretch beginning in the 4th, facing 10 batters and retiring 9 before allowing 3 runs in the 7th.

-Brian, Beat The Greek's scheduled starting pitcher, was ailing from a vicious hangover and Captain Pepe brilliantly worked around this obstacle by having the ever-capable, team-first Mike start in an emergency role.

-This was a relatively well-fielded game as each team only made 4 errors. Beat The Greek did not commit one after the 4th inning.

-Mark scorched a ball into the right-centerfield gap in the 4th inning. The multiple amputee was thrown out by Sergio after trying to stretch the hit into a double.

-We lost approximately 9 baseballs in the foul territory off the 3rd base line.

-We may have to peruse the archives but, this season may hold the record for most saves.

-There were no double plays recorded in this game.

-Alvin struck out three times after having struck out only once all year. He did, however, snag a screaming line drive from Mike in the 6th.

-"That motherfucker!" -Mike, after said catch.