Like all great ideas from the depths of Colin‘s consciousness, this one was born of many, many, many glasses of beer and a conversation that was way too serious for the current blood alcohol saturation level. Back in October of last year a pact was entered into by Colin and Adam to embark on a great baseball quest (searching for….?) this season, and the first stage took place just over a week ago. Inexpertly titled “A Cacophony of Epiphanies,” the rules, as outlined by a fading Adam and Colin on that fateful October night, are outlined at the end of this post. And near incomprehensible.

The quest was officially started with a trip to The SkyDome on Retro Jersey night. 12 of our closest friends, a few questionable baby-blue retro jersey purchases, a two-day Rock Band marathon (with some actual guitar playing thrown in for fun)  and a mini-keg for the 6 of us left at the end of the adventure sure made this crazy idea seem kinda logical as we all had a great weekend. More pictures can be seen here, and here (the second set is Adam’s).

The Official Rules are listed after the jump, for anyone interested.

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A fun Sunday. Adam, Colin, Emily and I went to the Sky-dome (I refuse to call it the Roger’s Center) for the first time in a long time. We got to see the Jays Sweep the Red Sox (but I secretly kind of like the Red Sox) and watch Frank Thomas pull off a pretty nice Grand Slam Home-run.

We thought going to the Sunday game would be better since Friday was Colin’s Athletic Therapy Banquet and there may have been some hang-overs on Saturday. But then we proceeded to have a jam session on Saturday night which led to wine and 4 cases of beer, so Sunday was a bit rough anyway, as Emily demonstrates on the train home. More pictures here.

Okay, following my post about the TBL Draft Your Friends Challenge, here is my official scouting report, in no particular order. Oh, and please remember that I don’t actually know anything about baseball, so if I start making up positions and stuff, just let me go with it.

Adam Finley – Of course he has to be on my team. Who else will keep the locker room clean? I think Adam should be that guy in the batting order that gets stuff done. I forget if that is usually third, I think, or second? Whatever – he’s the guy you depend on because he does his job and does it well, no matter the stress. As for a field position, um… something where he can stay in the dugout, like a DH or something (do they still have those?) because he’ll be tired from floor hockey and then he can stay out of the sun and redesign his web page for the 80th time while watching 24 on his Mac.

Tia Tremblay – I think Tia should play some sort of outfield – the one that never gets hit to…. is that left, or right? Can’t remember. Not because she can’t play, she’s surprisingly agile with a glove, but because then she could sit on the grass and get some paperwork done. She’s always got paperwork, for some reason. Maybe she could do the team taxes then too. (more…)

The guys at The Bleacher Life (well, okay, Brian at The Bleacher Life, but I like the plural references) have thrown down the gauntlet and opened the door for hypothetical sports leagues the world over. Not sure if there are that many hypothetical sports leagues in the world, but there is about to be at least one more.

Here’s the TBL Draft your friends challenge, in a nutshell:

1. Write down your friends.
2. Add some random acquaintances (the more eccentric, the better)
3. Analyse each for their baseball-like qualities and assign each an appropriate position on your own team.
4. Name your team and draft your friends!

This should be fun. Brian is an o-fish-al sports writer so his picks are all very logical and sound like real scouting reports. I haven’t had the attention span to watch a game since I was 9 and have no idea what everyone really does on a baseball team so mine will be considerably less ESPN-ish, but that’s okay. I don’t think we need credentials or a press pass for this draft. I’ll be posting my scouting report shortly, but in the meantime, check out Colin’s list. I have been scouted by the Haliburton Hook Line N’ Sinkers (pretty good considering I had to go look up how many players are in a batting line-up) and here was Colin‘s official scouting report on me:

CHANTELLE FINLEY – Great with her hands, but grew up playing hockey and is used to that fast paced action and not the pace of a baseball game. An impatient hitter who has walked back to the dugout on a 2-0 count claiming she was bored that the pitcher hadn’t thrown anything in the strike zone yet. When the batting coach tried to explain the concept of a plate appearance to her she snapped. He is now just starting to chew his meals again. She may have temper issue, but like I said, she’s got good hands.

Hey, like I said to the press: that coach had it coming.