TWIDCBA: Rated X

Knuckler? I don't even know her!

Those of you who tune in on a regular basis might have noticed that games are usually chronicled from the highest scoring to the lowest scoring, the idea being that there's more to say about a high-scoring game than a low-scoring one, in addition to the fact that I usually run out of steam somewhere around game number 3, so I can just mail those in and nobody'll notice. This week, however, breaking the pattern is

Da Infidels 365.5 (1-9) @ Savage Sickos 353 (5-5)

Da Infidels win! Their long Nationals-city-living nightmare is over. Despite the best efforts of Nate Robertson (a member of the 43-119 Detroit Tigers in 2003), DI finally received the long-anticipated power production which the team was built upon, racking up an astonishing 22% of their season total in homers in Week 10 alone. Also helping the newly reinsurgent Infidels were 2 CG from their starting staff and the first blown slave of the year from Francisco Cordero.

Not So Fragile Flowers 395.5 (5-5) @ All the wrong Cubs 275 (6-4)

Leading the league in scoring for the second time this season, the NSFF, if the playoffs started today, would miss out on a spot by 2.5 points. So despite Bobby Aruba putting up an astonishing 50 points, those 10 and 11 point weeks earlier in the season might become another replay of last year, when the Bucketheads screwed All The Wrong Cubs out of a wild-card slot by the length of one solid save performance, or a 3-run homer. ATWC, behind the wheels of Curtis Granderson, have already hit 27 triples this year, making them, by extension of the triple being the "most exciting play in baseball," the "most exciting team in the DCBA."

Festivus Miracles 326 (5-5) @ The Consummate Bastards 391.5 (6-4)
You can't turn on a television or walk 20 feet without seeing and/or hearing Chris Berman waxing poetic about the Festivus "Do You Believe In" Miracles vs. The Consummate "Professional" Bastards. In the 23rd meeting in the storied history of the biggest rivals in the DCBA, the CoBas crept closer to catching the Miracles, improving the CoBas mark against the Miracles to 8-15, and more germane to this year, kept ahead of them in the standings. There have been only 3 pitching performances this season of over 50 points, with only two players responsible, and both were in this game. To be precise, JJ Putz was on the bench while two-time 50-point scorer CC Sabathia was leading the CoBas to victory.

The Darned Sox 327.5 (7-3) @ Slipstream Starlings 270 (6-4)
The winner would hold on to possession of first place and the loser would...also hold on to possession of first place. In a possible playoff preview, TDS was able to coax 2 CG from their starters while the Starlings were putting up a 5.18 ERA, yet it was the Starlings pitchers who went 4-1 and TDS pitchers 2-4 on the week. It was on offense that the game turned, with Mike LOWell (2-20) and JJ Hardly (3-23) among the Starlings contributing to a week-high 96 men left on base.


Naps 287.5 (4-6) @ Jackanapes 327 (5-5)
Before he was rightfully ejected from his Sunday game, Ted Lilly was on pace for a 27-strikeout, complete game, shutout performance. That effort would've given him a 53.5-point outing, and given the Naps a victory. At that point, Jeremy Accardo would've been packed up with his -1 performance for the Napes and sent to sleep with the other guys who give bad performances in ball games. Elsewhere for the Napes: Did Jermaine Dye? No, he just went 3-20. Did Bill Hall have more L's in his name or hits last week? Tie: 4 L's, and also a 4-20 week. How can you have a catcher on your team who gets outscored by Chris Iannetta? You can't - the Napes cut you Ramon Hernandez. Thanks for "playing."



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Thanks to all of you who sent in entries to participate in the "You Write The TWIDCBA" contest. Unfortunately, the number of emails received was so large that I still haven't gotten to many of them, and wouldn't be able to until later in the week. Hopefully, my assistant and I will be afforded more time to go over them next week, so if you want to try again with this week's games, that address is dcbabids@gmail.com . Thanks for your interest and good luck.