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After 6 years and 13 games I am happy to say that The Incredibles finally won their first game this past Saturday. Maybe it was the Friday night practice or maybe it was all the Coors Light but either way we did it! FINALLY! One Saturday in May each year, Yonkers finest come together to play in the Rich Kenney Co-Ed softball tournament on Lake Avenue. The tournament is more commonly known as the Tony G. tournament and is an excuse to see people you haven’t in years as well as an excuse to start drinking at 7a.m. The tournament is by far one of my favorite days out of the entire year and I start looking forward to it the day after it’s over.

We switched up our line up this year and it really worked to our benefit. Each team plays two games and depending on how you do in those games determines whether or not you move on. We lost our first game to Martha’s Vineyard 6-2 then went on to win against the Lakers 9-6. First of all, when the brackets went up in Nugents two weeks before that and we found out who we were playing we thought we had no shot. Second of all, 9 is the most runs we have ever scored in a game and more than all the runs we have scored COMBINED. Needless to say we were pretty proud of ourselves. There was most definitely a World Series celebration in the field afterwards, complete with gloves and hats in the air and jumping on top of each other. We went on to play We Just Stink at 1:30 and the break in between the games killed us. The drinking continued and so they mercied us. It didn’t matter though, we got what we came for. Danielle got the game ball for NOT playing this year.

The celebrations continued throughout the day, first at the Laker club then, of course, down to Nugents. In tournament history I have never seen the place so packed. It was fabulous. After 16 straight hours of drinking and an effort to go out on McLean, it was time for me to pack it in. I had half a beer in Danny Macs, got in a cab and went home. But not before I made the cab driver go through the McDonald’s drive through. That was necessary.

It seems like in the past year I can’t go out without being hungover the next day. But for some reason on Sunday I actually felt pretty great. I headed to the Yankee game with Jeanne and it was a nice way to round out the weekend. I came home to find my kitchen invaded with wedding “stuff”. My mom was making sauce for the week of so we don’t forget to eat, there was toile and ribbon everywhere and as soon as I walked in I was given a job. Tomorrow will be single digits until the wedding day and I still cannot believe how fast this last year and a half has gone. I’m so excited but I know it will all be over before we know it.