Longhorns 14th Annual Stampede Tourney
The 14th annual tourney is in the books and we took the title by beating the Red Deer Stags 6-2 in the final. In game 1 we beat Oyen 3-2, Game 2 took down Calgary's only "AAA" Ball team the Redbirds 8-3. In the semi's we faced the Cards and won 8-5. There was approx 650 beers consumed over the 3 days by 5 teams. The Redbirds don't count as they drank 12 whole beers in 3 days (The umps drank 17). We would like to thank them for there past years of entry fees as they are not going to be invited back. As usual lots of laughs but the highlight of the weekend was the rental of a PA system. Having a open Mike for drunks to do the announcing equals great times. There were many pricless lines but you will have to come down next year to see what all the excitement is about.
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Both games were pretty competitive (if you try to forget about some muffin tossing guy in the first game). Ulmer threw well again in game 1 and Fech pitched a gem in game 2. Albo came in for the all-fastballs, lights out save. Final scores were 10-3 and 4-0. Next up, a tune-up on Wednesday then our tourney this weekend.
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It was another day at the yard. Game 1, 22-3 boatrace. Game 2 12-1 boatrace. Ulmer threw two complete (5 inning) games. The rest of the day was boring. The only fun part will be inputting the stats later on. On a positive note, nobody struck out against the two-holer.
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Outlaws vs. Longhorns - Tie
We were tied in the 6th when it started to pour. Not a very exciting ball game. The play of the night was Paul catching a can of corn fly ball, then proceeding to throw it behind him allowing the tying run to score.
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Red Deer Stags Tourney - AKA Motorboat Road Show
The Tourney was a success on and off the field. We beat the Stags 3-2 in 11 innings Friday night. Lars (The World's Most Interesting Man) K'D 4 times and choose not to where the K-LID. We beat Fort Sask 10-7 Saturday which put us in the final Sunday afternoon. We lost to Fort Sask in the final. It was a classic Longhorn 2 days of drinking performance. Over 100 Motorboats, 3 trays of shooters and a Unidentified Longhorn puking on himself in the cab. If there was a drinking board our winnings from the 50/50 draw would have been second place. St. Albert is trying to have us come up to there Tourney as need to sell 3 kegs and 100 flats of beer. They think we would help them achieve that goal. Check out our facebook page for video and pictures
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Wolfpack devour Longhorns
THIS IS THE FIRST 3 GAME LOSING STREAK IN LONGHORNS HISTORY. We have forgotten how to hit. Who would have thought that the entire line up would piece together 10 hits in 14 innings. The only positive was Ulmer pitching 7, striking out 8 and losing 1-0. On another note Rex made had first shotgun at the beer bucket this year.
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Game 8 - Dukes 13 - Longhorns 9
We just played our worst game of the year. Our fielding with brutal as we made about 6 errors and our hitting was not much better. We scored 8 runs on 4 hits so what does that say. All 8 runs came in one inning and only one ball was hot hard all night. You just have to rack this one up to bad coaching as Rex did not have us ready
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Mystery Man..
Who is Jeff Vosburgh?
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The total score for the doubleheader was 27-0 and it wasn't really that close. In the first game the Ulmer / Lentz duo was dominant and in the second game, the Albo / Myhre duo was equally good. There were alot of walks and hit batters all day courtesy of the Mets brutal pitching. Myhre hit his first dinger in quite a while. Next up is the Dukes on Tuesday.
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Longhorn Tourney July.16-18 Teams Announced
Our tourney is set. Redbirds, Red Deer Stags, Oyen Eagles, Cardinals, Wolfpack and Longhorns. It is July.16-18
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Next Game Saturday
After the latest snowfall we finally play again on Saturday against the FMBA Powerhouse Mets (not) . They have the toughest guy in the league. I have no idea who he is but he wanted to fight Kuzek at Beckhams one night . Maybe one of them will steal home when they are down by 15 again.
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Game vs. Cards - Cancelled
In what might come as a surprise to many our game against the Cards is cancelled tonight. It was billed as the battle of the best FMBA website.
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Game 5 - Longhorns 9 - Guntz - 8
The second game of the double header was no where near 2 hours and 50 minutes. Joyce continued his hot start to the season by going 4-4 with 2 doubles. On the other hand Jade Alberts can not hit a beach ball. His stellar defensive plays are talked about for weeks after they are made. The best one was his diving, bare handed, throwing to first all in one motion to get the out. On another note we would like to thank Brett Entright (otherwise known as E6) for continuing at least 7 of our rallies with errors
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Game 4 - Longhorns 18 - Guntz - 12
This is the tale of 3 games in 1. First of all it took 2 hours and 50 minutes to play. Part 1 - we were up 8-0...Part 2 we were down 11-10.....Part 3 we won 18-12. Albo went deep giving him one bomb on the year. Every Longhorn had a hit except Kuzek but you could hear him out there.
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Game 3 - Longhorns 6 - White Soxs - 1
This game was a pitching duel. Jason Ulmer threw a gem as did his counterpart. We opened up the floodgates in the 8th when they pulled there starter. Jared Albo has a 3 run triple, Arne had a off the top off the wall RBI double and Peaches smacked a triple. Big O came in and got the win. The game was pretty uneventful as was the beer bucket. Big O took some photos and they will be posted on our face book page later today
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Game 2 - Longhorns 4 - Outlaws 1
Adam Lentz, our new lefty, made his debut and he did not disappoint us. He had the hitters baffled all night and struck out 3. Joyce came in for the final 2 innings giving up the only run. He had the biggest surpirse of the night for us by learning to throw a nasty curveball over the winter. At the plate well lets just say all the averages came down a bit. Peaches and Joyce got there first knocks of the year while Brendan takes a early lead in the stike out race. Coach Rex sat himself out again as the Outlaws pitcher threw to hard for him. The platter was outstanding while the talent was not as good as Saturdays
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Game 1 - Longhorns 13 - White Soxs 1
After no practices we handed the White Soxs a 13-1 thrashing. They have a different name but the same team. Carter had a great night at the plate going 2-3, hitting a bomb and racking up 4 RBI. Jared Albo was also 3-3. As a team we had 15 hits. On the defensive side of the ball T-Roy gunned a guy out at home from center field. Brendan "I am not Chris Peters" Engdahl.......well looked like Chris Peters so the LEGEND continues. On the speed side Jade Alberts had a swinging bunt infiled hit, mark this day down as that will never happen again.
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Adam Lentz - New Longhorn
With a rash of recent retirements we have added Adam Lentz to our roster. A Lefty out of the University of Waterloo. We do not know much about him but are excited to finally have a lefty on our roster that does not serve up 2-3 bombs every outing. Hopefully our ex Div 1 lefty can give him some pointers. Our biggest hope is he will make us forget our last Ontario recruit Chris "my best friend is Peaches" Suchan. I know Adam has big shoes to fill but after all he is a Calgary boy.
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Chris Peter's Jersey - UNRETIRED
Brendan Engdahl has decided to wear #14 so we will officially bring it out of retirement. We could not contact Chris Peter's to get his approval so we asked his best friend Brett "Peaches" Suchan and he said it was ok. This marks the first time in Longhorns history a jersey has been Un-retired
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Andrew Walker Retires
Andrew Walker has retired from the Longhorns. He officially becomes the shortest tenured Longhorn of all time. We could not come to terms on a radio show so we parted ways
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Another Newby
I forgot about Brendan Engdahl. Another Saskatoon brother that took some time off to try and enter the UFC. He won the Saskatchewan Toughest Man contest 3 years in a row, so who cares how good of a ball player he is. I dare all teams to call him on.
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New Longhorns
The Longhorns have 3 new recruits to introduce. Ty Hinton is a young buck that played college ball in California. He moved back to Calgary and wants to be a Longhorn. His cousin Charlie just retired again and hopefully this does not affect him mentally. We project him as a future 3B as Kuzek is not getting any smaller..................... Jeff Vosburgh comes to us via Slo Pitch and has also come out of retirement to play REAL ball again. When we asked him to describe himself as a pitcher he said he was "EFFECTIVELY WILD". We liked that so much we signed him. It does not hurt that he throws around 85 and is 6'5" (he bought lunch to).......................... Andrew Walker is a another Saskatchewan transplant but he comes via Red Deer. We traded Mike Byers for him. He made his debut the other day and is a solid 5' tall infielder. Paul is finally bigger than someone. Andrew will be the Rance Mullinicks of the Longhorns, jack of all trades but master of none. Andrew works on the Fan 960 with Mike Richards in the morning. We are hoping the Longhorns get a weekly show on the radio...................... After a odd year of not winning the league, these guys will help us win in 2010.
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Charlie Hinton Retires.........AGAIN
I would like to announce the re retirement of Charlie Hinton. His second stint did not make the regular season. We do understand as he is newly wed
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Ted buys a House
I would have to say the story of the year has occurred before the season even starts......Teddy has bought a house in Beddington. We are looking forward to the house warming party. Teddy requests that the gifts be brought by the gram or ounce
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Paul Reid
He keeps on getting chirped. Check out the Cardinals website
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T-Roy a Dad again - Congrats!!!!!
Gavin Cole Cleland was born on March 1, 2010 at 6:40 a.m. He was 7 lbs 5 oz. and 20 inches in length.
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Practice.....were talking about PRACTICE
The Longhorns have there first practice on Friday at the Viper Dome. This marks the first time in team history they are drinking, I mean practicing, as a team before April.
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More Baby News
Congrats to Wayne and Joanne on their pregnancy. We are going to petition the league for a play ground. Now our kids can use it rather than some of the other teams
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BABY NEWS
Kuzek is having a baby boy and has decided to name him Hercules or Zeus. I think the kids name will be Danny Machocha Kuzek. Poor Jen the kid weighs 13 pounds already and she has 5 months to go. Recently retired Longhorn Luke Boulter is expecting another one. Jade and Kathy have decided to name there child (boy or girl) Nathan
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Arne Larson (23 MVP)
He just informed me by email that he has 3 goals this year for his Rec Hockey team. I for one am impressed that he has 3 in one year. I did not see him score any goals in the 3 years I played. A investigation will take place as this could be a Urban Legend
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Longhorns Christmas Wish List
Big O - Two new knees............... Rex - a stress free coaching year, since he lost his contract is up and could be fired............ Wayne - a fertile Joanne.................... Paul - more emails to the coach for playing time.................. Joyce - a boss that is not so strict................. Carter - a Flow bee.................... Luke - to come out of retirement............ Fech - he has birth control now so what else does he need............. Suchan - that we serve Peach pie at our Tourney............ Albo - to pick up skinner women so they do not roll on his arm when he is getting laid............... Kuzek - lifetime supply of Nathan's.................. Arne - smaller strike zone.................. T-Roy - more Taber corn so he can hit a bomb................... Lars - another run of commercials so the World's Most Interesting man stays in the spotlight...................... Ted - nothing his life is perfect.................... Ulmer - that Rex does not eat all the hot dogs he is storing at his place for him.................Jade - that the number for Jenny Craig becomes easier to remember...................... Mike Angelozzi aka Byers - that he actually plays more than 10 games in a season.
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