Game 3 - Blood Bath

Alcohol is an acquired taste, eventually the stronger more potent stuff ends up tasting the best. I can remember as a kid thinking how disgusting beer tasted, only to crave a cold sudsy just about every day of the week that ends in day. Bloody Marys were at one time beyond my realm of thought. There is a time when putting horse radish on food is a stretch for some people, but to drink it may seem ludicrous. However, just like with beer, most people come around. The whole frame of thought that believes drinking shouldn’t be done before noon is thrown out the window in the Bloody Mary world. Not only does the mixture of tomato juice, Worcester shire sauce, a ton of vodka, horse radish, salt and pepper, and a hint of lime taste great, it gives the common man a perfectly good, mainstream society-acceptable reason to consume copious amounts of alcohol before the noon church bells.

There are two reasons why they call them Bloody Mary’s, first it looks a lot like blood, second, your percentage of blood to alcohol is usually ten times the legal limit after a couple of stiff Bloody Marys. Its like the blood of the beast, it makes your face get all hot and creates a feeling of numbness in your lower body. In game three, the once dominant Galaxy ball club looked numb, as the their long road to the final looked like it finally caught up with them in what was a one sided affair. B. Serino, the ace of the Barbarian staff, was back after missing the first two championship tilts while in Seattle throwing fish to take the hill. The Barbarians tried to gain a stronghold on the 2010 Championship with a game three win. Serino spends time in the Northwest as a fish thrower, one of only three men in the continental United States with the ability to underhand a swordfish twenty plus feet (in Seattle, WA his right arm is considered some what of a mythical creature due to its shear strength resulting from years of unlimited arc, slow pitch softball).

Behind their veteran knuckle ball pitcher, the Barbarians were on fire from the opening bell, never giving Galaxy even a sniff of a lead. Galaxy came out flat at the plate and it spewed on to the field of play as their solid defense lacked confidence. The Barbarians defense came up big again, and their outfield played to their potential, finally getting acclimated to the new bats and associated ball flight. With a sound defensive curtain behind him, Serino let his defense play by peppering the strike zone. Barbarians slaughtered the Galaxy in the most lopsided contest of the 2009 playoffs, 18-1.