Baseball Champs - La New Bears

Champs of the Taiwan baseball league ( the CPBL ), that is. The Bears, whose hat shows a pair of shoes looking like the skull of a bull, swept the President Lions , whose hat shows the letters L,I,O,N and S looking like the word LIONS.

The Lions opened an early lead with Chen "The Tall Guy" Lien-hong and Liu "Little Pot" Fu-hao scoring runs against Bear ace, Wu "546" Shi-yo. The Bears' attack started in the 5th with Shi "Little Head" Chi-wei scoring after opening the inning with a double. This was followed up by ex-Dodger Chen Chin-fong knocking the crap out of a Pan "Du Du" Wei-luen pitch that left the park to tie the game at 3. The game remained tied until the ninth when Lions' stopper, Lin "Big Pancake" Yue-bing, was grilled, flattened...whatever, by a lot of other nicknames to give the Bears the game and title, 7-3.

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Our local braintrust has come up with a new tack on justifying our drinking to our wives - Guys Night Out. Like that is gonna be music to our gals' ears. Anyway, it has been proposed that we can cloak our thirst for frosty adult beverages under innocuous sounding activities like go-carting, bowling and pool. Again, you can see why our braintrust is in Taichung. Once a month on a Friday or Saturday is all we figure we can get away with. Start planning - your justifications and other "safe" activities - and let us know.

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Bets: Bread, if Texas Tech wins you will drink all the beers that I already owe you within 8 hours (bill me). If the Teasippers win, I will publicly sing the praise of this years' University of Texas Athletic Department's marijuana harvest. I await your acceptance or counter-offer.

D-Wayne, I will buy you your two "beer." If I'm feeling generous, I might even buy you two "whiskey" to chase them down with. You can even add two "water" to them if you need to.