Might be before some of y'all's time, but that's supposed to come off like Jim Mora, Sr. (former New Orleans Saints and Indiannapolis Colts head coach) in a post-game news conference back in, I dunno, 1999 or something: Indy had just lost, and one of the reporters asked Mora about how this loss would affect their playoff chances. Mora then went on this incredulous rant as to how, after playing so poorly as they did that game, anyone would consider the NFL playoffs to be in their future.

You sometimes hear a soundbite of it on sports talk radio now and then.

But, in any case, the playoffs. Church League softball playoffs.

We went 3-7 and made the playoffs. Mainly because there are only 6 teams.

Double elimination tournament starts in about an hour, and will end the last weekend of July:

(Italicized games are elimination games.)

GAME 1: (1) Riverside Baptist Church 4, (6) First Baptist Church of New Orleans 0 F/6.

GAME 2: (3) St. Charles United Methodist Church 8, (4) New Life Tabernacle 5 F.

GAME 3: (2) Metairie Baptist Church 3, (5) First Baptist Church of Kenner 2 F/8.

GAME 4: (2) Metairie Baptist Church 4, (3) St. Charles United Methodist Church 1 F.

GAME 5: (5) First Baptist Church of Kenner 3, (6) First Baptist Church of New Orleans 2 F. FBCNO ends the season at 2-10

GAME 6: (2) Metairie Baptist Church 11, (1) Riverside Baptist Church 7 F/8.

GAME 7: (4) New Life Tabernacle 4, (5) First Baptist Church of Kenner 1 F. FBCK ends the season at 4-9

GAME 8: (4) New Life Tabernacle 9, (3) St. Charles United Methodist Church 3 F/11. St. Charles UMC ends the season at 7-6

GAME 9: (4) New Life Tabernacle (6-7) vs. (1) Riverside Baptist Church (9-3), 6:30 PM CDT, July 28, 2006

GAME 10: Winner of Game 9 vs. (2) Metairie Baptist Church (10-3), 8:00 PM CDT, July 28, 2006

GAME 11 (if necessary): Winner of Game 9 vs. (2) Metairie Baptist Church (10-3), 9:00 AM CDT, July 29, 2006

Simplest way I can describe it is to put the matchups this way:

1-6

2-5

3-4

The winner of the top match goes straight to the winner's bracket final, and the loser of the bottom match gets a bye in the first round of the loser's bracket.

In any case, we (FBC Kenner) don't play tonight, but we might have a double-header tomorrow morning. We really need to beat Metairie, even though they've beaten us twice this year. Why? Well, see where FBC-NO is 1-9?

Their one win is the same game as Riverside's one loss. If New Orleans pulls off another miracle, we're dead in the water matched up against Riverside in the loser's bracket, and I sure don't want to go "two 'n' barbecue."

Spent the last two days and will spend a chunk of next week out surveying sewer manholes in what is called "Old Metairie." The job stinks (literally, but not figuratively), but I really am not complaining. In any case, I'm not going to be able to post comments during the middle of the day if I'm out in the field.

I had gotten another zany email almost worthy of passing on here, but I had to cull too much out to justify posting it: funny or otherwise, I'm not going to post anything inappropriate here on this blog. Turakii, that's why I'm not going to post where I get this email. Sorry

-KIE

Edited at 9:45 PM CDT with results and correct records

Edited again at 12:45 PM CDT with more results

Edited a week later, 10:00 PM CDT with more results and the rest of the bracket.

Edited at 2:38 PM CDT the next afternoon, probably for the last time.