X’s take the championship!

The Atlanta Advertising League normally starts in April, and ends toward the end of August, but this year our fields (Southside in Jonesboro) were totally re-done, and then delayed due to the drought (sod doesn’t like to take if it’s not wet).  So we didn’t get rolling until Labor Day.

 We finished up our regular season last Monday, and the tournament began Oct. 30.  The X’s ended the season undefeated, netting us the 1st seed, and a bye on Tuesday.  We opened up on Thursday with Fletcher Martin and a win.  We came back on Monday night against a tough team – Mad Jacks – but kept our bats hot and steamed onto another win.  The win let us miss the frigid temps on Tuesday, and we met up with the Vagabonds on Wednesday.

It was still cold Wednesday night, and we stressed as a team we wanted to win the 7:30p game so we didn’t have to turn around and play again at 8:45p.  It was close at the start, but we pulled away and won the Winner’s bracket.  The Vagabonds had to turn around and play BBDO – a tough team all year – and it was too much.  The Championship game would be X’s vs BBDO on Thursday.

Thursday was another cold night (thankfully, we didn’t have any wind throughout, or we would have been miserable – instead just really cold), and with the time change completely dark by game time.  Having one out of four fields lit was kind of eerie.

We were all so happy to have BBDO with us in the final game.  They are such a great group of people – and we all had a great time.  We pulled ahead in the 6th and 7th, but BBDO made a run for it in the bottom of the 7th.  They came up just 2 runs shy — final score 16-14.  We all gathered at home for a double-team picture (or 5) and we all tipped a glass of beer and shared Rusty’s home made beef jerky.

The party is next Thursday and we’ll have another round of beers to another great season!