The Songs We Chose
Theme: Locations
Charles: Garden Grove - Sublime
Byrd: Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Lauren: One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head
Aaron: In The Club - 50 Cent
Tracy: Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Noel: At The Station - Joe Walsh
Amanda: Bombs Over Baghdad - Outkast
Ian: Suffragette City - David Bowie
Brian: All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Amy: Walking in L.A. - Missing Persons
Guillermo: Stockholm Syndrome - Muse
Matthew: Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads
Koryn: Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet

Other Songs You May Have Heard
Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego - Rockapella
Do You Know The Way To San Jose - Burt Bacharach
Paradise City - Guns N' Roses
Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Xanadu - Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra
Miami Vice - TV Theme Song
We Built This City - Starship
Love Shack - B-52's
Top of the World - Van Halen
We Are The World - Michael Jackson and a lof of other people
Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles
Take A Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

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Post Game Blogs
Brought to you by the Band-Aids Management Team

Patiots Missing Key Winning Elements:
Tom Brady Says "Not Again"
By Lauren Henschen, Manager

I'm going to keep this short. Mostly because I have nothing to say that we haven't shown for ourselves on the field this season. We're 8 and 0 now. That's nearly more wins in one season than the Band-Aids accumulated over the past year's seasons combined. We've got a good group on this team. A really good group. And the more we play together, the better we shall become.

Some of my favorite plays of the game were:
• When field manager Bob turned on the sprinklers pre-game to get the field in better condition for his favorite team. Ask him, we totally are.
• The fact that once again we pushed our luck with the 2 homeruns per inning rule. It's nice to have to yell, "okay guys, no more homers this inning, alright?"
• The stellar force out at first / tag out at third combo play. Had those throws not been totally accurate, they would have scored one if not two runs. Luckily, our players were spot ON.
• Amy's hustle to first base and turn to second, turning a single into a double, and bringing herself that much closer to home plate.
• Also Amy's RBI for Noel...who stayed on third base the previous at-bat simply to enable her to bring him home. Sometimes I really do wish we kept stats. :)
• Guillermo's relay-throw in from the outfield, which enabled us to get a force-out at home. Outs at home are my favorite because they exemplify my double-good theory. It's good because we got the out. It's double good because we also stopped them from scoring a run. (NOTE: Double bad is when you spill an entire pitcher of Tang in your fridge. Not only do you have to clean basically every item in your fridge, but you also have to make a new pitcher of Tang. Another example of double good is when you get a Monday off. Because not only is it a 3-day weekend, but you also have a 4 day work-week right after it!)

We ended up taking it pretty easy this week once we saw victory written in the stars. But next week we're going to need all the focus, attention and stamina we can muster. No one knows yet who we will be playing against in our 6 o' clock game. But it could potentially be the Slammers, an unknown commodity who placed 1st on another field. Let's keep our heads up, our gloves down and fill those bleachers. We're going to win this thing!

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Band-Aids Expatriate Patriots From Playoffs
By Charles Pheanis, Assistant Manager

The Band-Aids' first ball game of the 2008 spring season was a great start. Everyone played a solid game on the field and at the plate, which is exactly what we are going to need to win our next game. Matthew, Lauren, and I started the evening with a little batting practice, which always helps with confidence at the plate. As we walked to the field with Lauren's new futuristic aggressive looking boom box, some of the Patriot's players asked if we were ready for them, and were openly enthusiastic about playing "the team with the tunes." It takes courage to face your executioner with a grin.

The Patriots embodied their title. They truly showed their love and support of the softball nation. They may have been a little older, and a little slower, but they were sliding in hot to third. Good game Patriots. Best of luck in your future seasons...may they never end.

Speaking of sliding into third, my play of the game goes to Byrd and Brian who had a big league double play. As Byrd fielded the grounder he recognized that the Patriot's speedy short stop might out-run the play at second, so he went for the easy out at first with a throw to Brian. But Brian and Byrd were on their game and immediately realized that the runner was planing on going to third since Byrd was tied up with making the throw to first. His plans were foiled as Byrd somehow beat the runner to third, caught a hot pass from Brian and made the tag as the runner slid into third. Well played gentlemen.

There were many other performances worthy of recognition, but T-rex on the mound deserves a ton of credit. I can recall only two balls pitched, and not a single walk. Great game Amanda. As long as you make them swing, our ever improving defense is there to make the outs.

I'm not sure why the game was called almost 15 minutes prior to the end of the hour. I was under the impression that the run rule was not in effect for the playoffs. In the end it was probably a blessing, because we need to stay healthy, and there's no need for anyone to risk injury. Not to pick on Natalie, but we don't need anymore players in the stands. We will all be thinking happy thoughts for Natalie this week as she gets her knee repaired. Godspeed.

When we received our season champion shirts, everything became too real and it started to sink in. Eight consecutive victories of big hits and tenacious d. All were eager to celebrate the win. The caravan to Casey Moore's was long and included several bicyclists. It was a good turn out, just like our fan section. There was an excitement in the air, and you could feel it at Casey's as we brainstormed songs for next week's song themes. The anxiousness and anticipation was thick, and we carried on despite the late hour. The team table was a warm bright light in a sea of cold drinks.

Bring on the noise Band-Aids. Let's make magic next Sunday. Let's give crowd what it wants. More music. Two games worth. Two victory songs.

Gimme 2 Tylenol, I Have Playoff Fever
By Amanda Telloni, Assistant Manager