Saturday night at the Barleymoe

 Elijah Craig is joined this week by Johnny Walker, Jim Beam and Jose Cuervo

  Elijah: We don't often discuss a game. We don't often discuss hall of famers. We don't often discuss anything this interesting.  You guys catch the match-up between Vancouver and Las Vegas the other day?
 Johnny: Vegas! That is my team I love that team. All my young guys are on that team.
 Jose: Johnny, it's not about you or your young guys. It about those two antiques that took the mound.
 Johnny: We are scouts. IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE YOUNG GUYS.
 Elijah: Johnny please don't shout. I thought we covered that last week. Don't upset the waitress or she won't come to our table. She doesn't like loud. She likes quiet guys that just look at her. If you piss her off and I have to go to the bar for my drinks; I replace you with Samuel Adams. So please be respectful.
 Jose: We had two guys who are headed for the Hall of Fame. Vancouver started Yunesky De Los Santos, winner of 298 games at the start of this season. Vegas started Jose Torres who had won 319 games.
 Jose: Think about it. 300 wins used to put guys in the Hall of Fame. Back in the day when you had a four man rotation and 154 game schedule; a guy made 38 or 39 starts. Even when the season expanded to 162 games that gave starters 2 more starts a season.
 Jim: I think you are headed to that odd statistic. 300 wins is like winning every start for over seven and half years. Times change. 300 wins shouldn't be the standard anymore. Five man rotations make the standard 240 wins for the Hall of Fame.
 Jose: Jim are you making my argument for me?
 Jim: Just saying you are behind the times. Actually giving them more credit than you are.
 Johnny: I don't know old guys can you talk about the guys I know.
 Elijah: Guys nobody breaks down games like me. Shut up. Let me take you through the game. Twelve inning game, 13 base runners, 3 runs scored.
Through 5 and a half innings the only hit was a homer by Socks Gross in the second inning for the Voodoo.
 Johnny: Gross, was the fifth pick in the season 39 draft. picc818 turned down many trade offers since he drafted him. He hits a dinger every 13 at bats in the major leagues.
 Elijah: Johnny, am I giving the game story and your....
 Johnny: Just think of me as your color guy Elijah!
 Elijah: Whatever. Torres gave up a solo homer and was pulled after 5 innings. It seems like he is on a pitch count but maybe not.
 Johnny: Yea, with that homer Torres has given up a homer every 39 at bats.
 Elijah: Thank you sooo much Johnny.
 Jose: Are you making the argument that Torres is three times better than Gross?
 Johnny: How am I suppose to figure that?
 Elijah: Jose, Please don't encourage him. Really! Please! So far the game doesn't seem that unusual. Shaw started for Guerrero at shortstop for Vegas.
 Jim: Shaw kills lefties. Still the defensive difference between Guerrero and Shaw is pretty steep.
 Elijah: Managers are going to do what they think is best. I'm getting ahead of myself but there were only two defensive plays in the whole game worth mention. Neither were errors. In the fourth Cy Eaton made a great play on a lead off grounder by Max Halter. And in the eighth the Galaxy's Shawn Maronde chased down a drive in to left-center with a runner on first base.
  Johnny: Maronde one of my guys!!
  Elijah: Thank you, Johnny. Vegas' offense got it's first hit and two runners on base in the bottom of the 5th.
  Elijah: More than you or my three ex-wives could ever imagine. But about the game, with runner on first and second with one out neither the seven or eighth batter in the lineup could deliver. That set Vegas up in a bad situation. The pitcher would lead off the bottom of the sixth.
  Jose: Did it surprise you that Vegas brought in their best relief pitcher O'Donnell in the sixth inning?
  Elijah: Yea that was a gutsy call by the manager. He could have gone with anybody in the bullpen and pinch-hit to start the bottom of the sixth. However O'Donnell gave him three innings of 1 hit relief. Seems like the right call to me. Halter did have a triple after O'Donnell struck out . Unfortunately neither Rondon or Villarealcould bring him in.
  Johnny: Are you picking on my young guys.
  Elijah: Just going through the game Johnny, calm down. In the top of the seventh Gross got another hit, a single. Going to the top of the eighth both team have two hits. Vancouver leads 1-0. De Los Santos still on the mound for Vegas. Earl Mullin leads off with a base on balls. De Los Santos coming up. Jim do you pinch hit or bunt?
  Jim: Who is on the bench?
  Elijah: F. P. James and Wayne Donahue are the lefty batters.
  Jose: Do you stay with the stud pitcher and bunt or do pull the Hall of Framer and pray. I always stay with the cream. Even if he can't get the bunt down, he's a career .181 hitter with 9 doubles and 3 homers.
  Elijah: Jim do you pinch hit or bunt. Nobody asked you Jose.
  Jim: I don't have to decide; that's why I drink with you in the bar Elijah.
  Elijah: So SAD. Okay Johnny what do you think.
  Johnny: You know me Elijah. Why do the simple when you can do the extreme.
  Jose: Are suggesting the hit and run with a 40 year old pitcher at the plate?
  Johnny: Hell YES! Who would have expected that.
  Jose: Certainly not Earl Mullin at first base. He is a good baserunner but really Johnny?
  Elijah: Well the bunt wasn't a good one and now De Los Santos is on first and he's still there at the end of the inning. De Los Santos records all three outs in the bottom of the eighth, including pinch hitter Dude Haren for pitcher O'Donnell.
  Elijah: It's the top of the ninth. 1-0 Vancouver.  Sammy Martin replaces O'Donnell on the hill. He hits Avisail Ozuna with a pitch, gives up a single to Cy Eaton and then  walks Socks Gross.
  Johnny: Walking Gross who has two hits already was a good move.
  Elijah: Johnny you doing color again?
  Johnny; Yea!
  Elijah: Don't
  Elijah: Bases loaded top of the ninth. Sammy Martin bearing down. Theodore Glynn lines out. Catcher Geronimo Gonzalez hit a ground ball to first to Benny Rondon who throws to home for the second out. Virgil Hernandez pitch hits for Earl Mullin and grounds out.
  Elijah: Bottom of the ninth.  1-0 game. Voodoo trying to nail it down. Javier Flores in the game to nail it down of Hall of Fame De Los Santos. Flores converted 36 of 37 saves last season. Should be game over. Not to be tonight. Max Halter leads off the bottom of the ninth with a lead off homer.
  Jim: It's a shame Jack isn't here, tonight. He would like that his defensive ace hit a game tying homer.
  Elijah: Jack's not here. Still Halter hits a homer every ten games in his major league career, And this  may have been the biggest.
  Jose: How many defensive centerfieldershit a home run every ten games?
  Johnny: Not many, thank god  isn't here Jack would never shut up.
  Elijah: Johnny, why don't you shut up and we finish this game re-cap.
  Johnny: If I bought you a drink would you treat me better?
  Elijah: One drink only turns on my hearing aid. why don't we try to finish the game re-cap.
  After Halter's home run, the Galaxy get two more hits but fail to score the winning run.
  The tenth inning is a bust for both teams. Each team uses a pinch hitter unsuccessfully.
  The eleventh inning doesn't even produce a baserunner for either team.
  In the Twelfth T Glynn leads off with a double for the Voodoo. Geronimo Gonzalez is don't a good          bunter. Gynn has some speed. Jim do you bunt or steal?
   Jim: I don't steal on Bravo. Career he throws out of 40% of the guys trying to take second base on him.
  Elijah: It's the twelfth inning, how many guys do have hitting over .400?
  Jose: That isn't a discussion we can have here.
  Johnny: You made it abundantly clear i'm suppose to be quiet, How did the game end?
  Elijah: Glynn dies on second base and Durbin hits a walk off homer in the 12th.
  Johnny: OH YEA, THAT IS MY MAN, DURBIN !!!!
  Elijah: Johnny, please, we discussed this , the waitress hates when you scream and I hate to have to go to bar to get my drink, Can you be be discreet?
  Johnny: OH YEA, THAT IS MY MAN, DUBIN