Blues Playoff Baseball

The NV Blues finished first in their division, and nabbed the number 2 seed in the congested 23 team playoff for the DCMSBL cup (just made that up).

We play the Blue Jays who pounded the Alexandria Yanks by a wide margin in the #15 vs #18 seed matchup. For those of you interested, the game will not be televised (marketing rights, its complicated), but you are welcomed to join us at Langley High School for a 3 pm Saturday ball game. Blues should advance as they are the stronger, more experienced team, but a dagger of a ruling could shake up their chances. If you remember an earlier posting marked a day that a bat throwing incident took place. Ambulances were called, games were suspended, etc etc. Apparently the umpires or opposing coach reported the incident to the league and the commisioner of the DCMSBL wasn't to happy about it.

This email was to our Coach from the league Commisioner.

1)Yes I am schocked that this league actually has a commisioner (nice life)
2) The player is our starting LF and lead-off hitter.

The email read....

As of now, the League Committee has determined that Brian Simmons is suspended for the remainder of the season, meaning that he is ineligible for the playoffs. The deliberate act of throwing a bat out of frustration, anger, whatever will not be ignored by the league regardless of measures taken by the team.
Jerry Klemm, D.C.
Commissioner
DCMSBL

As you know Bud Selig is 75 years old so I heard Jerry Klemm is on the list of potential candidates to replace Selig when he leaves office. With rulings like this Klemm is well on his way to taking on baseballs important issues like Steroid use.