The second annual Marvel vs. DC softball game came to a hard-fought conclusion Thursday as, for the second year in a row, Marvel triumphed over DC in the San Diego softball contest. The prize was the treasured Stan Lee Cup (not to be confused with that two-bit imitator, the Stanley Cup.)
Your humble host pitched the first three innings, allowing one run. I ran into trouble in the fourth, as I got rattled between a couple of walks and some poor fielding by my teammates that caused our 8-1 lead to be trimmed to 8-5. Paul Jenkins came in to pitch and, after allowing DC to take the lead 9-8, got us out of the inning. An Humberto Ramos grand slam followed by a solo shot by Johnny Romita, Jr., put Marvel back on top and we never looked back. Paul volunteered to come back out so I could return to the mound, but he was pitching well and I didn't want to mess with a good thing, so instead I subbed in as catcher when the player who had been catching asked to be taken out on account of being drunk. All proceeds when to the Hero Initiative.
Several of our players were celebrating with the Stan Lee Cup at the Hyatt bar after midnight. Losing DC player Dan Didio saw the guys and endeavored to snare the cup away from them, perhaps in hope that--since they were drinking--they wouldn't notice. Unfortunately what Dan was unaware of was that they were, in fact, drinking beer out of the Stan Lee Cup. Consequently, Dan's abortive attempt to yank the Cup away from its bearer's grasp resulted in beer spilling out of the cup and down Dan's crotch. To his credit, Dan was a good sport about it and then drank the remainder of the beer from the cup. And yes, that little incident was captured on video, although not by me, since I was securely asleep in my room by that point.
PAD
Posted by Peter David at July 28, 2007 09:03 AM | TrackBack | Other blogs commentingI firmly expect a link to the video to show up in Rich Johnson's column Monday...
With a score of 16-9, there's just GOT to be some sort of "perfect squares" joke in here somewhere. :-)
TWL
Yep. Apparently it's a nice win.
It's also Marvel's first (or is it the second?)against DC this year out of, IIRC, about 8 or 9 games.
But why bother mentioning that fact....?
Sorry for the multiple postings. While I am glad that Marvel won the game I didn't mean to express it that many times, hehehe.
so instead I subbed in as catcher when the player who had been catching asked to be taken out on account of being drunk.
That's the kind of sportsmanship too sadly lacking among our professional athletic class.
Bah, of course "Marvel" wins the "Stan Lee" cup.
Now if it were the "Julius Schwartz" cup, things might have played out differently.
Anyway, congrats to PAD and the gang at Marvel.
Hahaha! Great story, and thanks for sharing. It's tales like these that remind everyone that at the end of the day everyone is working in the comics industry, and sometimes you just have to celebrate that! Glad to hear everyone had so much fun, and long may it last!
I was at one of the Marvel panels (Mondo Marvel, iirc), and the text message came in that Marvel won the game. A round of applause was given at the news. :)
Very cool that Marvel and DC does this... I can't picture Coke and Pepsi, GM and Ford, etc., getting together to have a good time. I don't know the ins and outs of the comic industry so maybe it's pretty common knowledge, but it seems like you all know what's most important.