5/29/2008

team,

as we defend our back to back to back (yes that is 3 times) title in the city of tonawanda we have to give thanks to all those players that helped us get where we are today. and although we can look only towards the future we can not help but to look back at those individuals that helped us get were we are at today:

kevin palumbo / p-bo – as one of the founding fathers of the cock nation and the creator of the “yak hat”, p-bo’s passion for the game of softball was about at intense as his goal to get 18 on every golf course in western new york. he received orders to fort hood, texas and will be deploying to an undisclosed location during the july/august time frame.
* cock moment – going yard on the next pitch after the pitcher rolled him the ball at jimmy b’s.

chris carella / cups – brought to the team by his big sister. cups was the pretty boy on the team and always made the ladies scream with passion when he would flinch during routine ground balls. cups was part of the 1 – 2 punch the cocks have always been known for (tex being the other half….plus the taller of the two)
* cock moment – almost going yard at the pepsi center. although i will give him credit…it did hit the yellow guard at the top!

nick massaro / sampras – was brought to the team by cups and definitely set the par for all future cock rookies. nicknamed “sampras” due to his amazing resemblance to the tennis superstar pete sampras!! he even had tennis groupies show up at the diamond and ask for his signature! locking down the hot corner and always came with his gorilla stick he definitely was an asset to the cock nation.
* cock moment – going yard twice on a key play off game to bring the cocks to another championship.

what we have done in the past doesn’t matter, what matters is what we do from this point on. our performance was sub-standard this past week and i expect to double our run total against maier (porters pub #456,562,890) this week. i always give credit where credit is due and i will give maier respect for staying in the league. they could’ve easily quit like 40% of the teams and moved to another night where the competition is not that great, but they decided to take another shot at the champions. we admire their courage and will see you friday.

i would like to welcome two new rookies to the team matt & wayne. we will see if they have what it takes to remain a cock!!