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2004 Kangaroo Court Fines $$$
[Fines to be paid within the next 25 years]
Coach A: $25 For not getting on Coach Benges shoulders before trying to argue with the home plate umpire during the Mahopac Game
Coach Gurney: $100 For taking the team to Ralphs Barbecue because the sign on the highway looked good and then three hours later falling for TKs prank phone call.
Coach Benge: $40 For not getting his biker buddies at Ralphs Barbecue to get the team a Harley Davidson discount.
Coach Benge: $3 For letting Coach Gurney destroy the bus driver for being 20 minutes late to take the team to Saunders HS
Coach Meyers: $45 For needing Cardone to tell him not to blatantly stare at _________ and then throwing 295 pitches of batting practice without complaining
Coach Spence: $12 For not asking to use a batting glove while hitting fungos
and hitting until no skin was left on his hand (while still smiling)
Coach Spence: $25 For trying to move the tarp by himself
John Livanos: $1,650 For leaving his $150 glove on the field 11 times this season.
John Livanos: $500 For trying to keep his piano skills a secret (and almost getting hit with the ball 25 times during infield/outfield)
Claude Balliet: $2,700 For not recording solo album or duet with Livanos in South Carolina to pay for a scoreboard at Davis Field (and new drainage system)
Brian Cardone: $400 For cutting off and yelling at one of Coach Gurneys colleagues while driving his teammates to practice and letting them wear NRHS Baseball caps as they screamed obscenities at the man.
Tommy Koehler: $150 For still not knowing how to slide without causing a deep flesh wound after playing baseball for his entire life
Tommy Koehler: $50,000 For not sending the pre-season Journal News photo shoot to GQ Magazine to raise money for an electric powered, automatic tarp roller.
Paul Bruzzese: $347 For arguing 347 times about points/calls during hitting games this season.
Brian Bock: $1 For pinch-running for back-to-back batters without needing to leave first base (Stepinac game).
Louis Bongo: $25 For not quitting his job when Coach Gurney told him to in April.
Eric Fama: $750 For graduating as a seventeen year-old with one year of eligibility still left and having the worst cell phone greeting message in team history.
Adam Matos: $15,000 For not meeting with the engineers who designed Davis Field and showing them a complex physics model that an outfield sloping toward the infield is bad for infield drainage (but great for pepper games along the centerfield fence after a heavy rain)
Steve DeRaffele: $200 - For missing the game that clinched the 2004 league Championship at Yorktown HS to be with his girlfirend
Andrew Erlick: $2,700 For not encouraging Claude to record album to pay for scoreboard so he can know what the count is
Dale Harvey: $35 For singing and making bizarre noises on the film of batting practice in South Carolina (that we all had to listen to during video sessions)
Dale Harvey: $10 For having the courage to ask a stranger for her phone number before the White Plains game, but not having the courage to ask the umpire to sign the scorebook
Michael Sternheim: $220 For having a different throwing angle/arm slot in each of the teams 22 games
Andrew Siegel: $50 For telling his social studies teacher that he was on the JV team (not Varsity ?) when he was really on the Varsity team so he could get out of class early for a JV away game
Jason Matos: $15,000 For not making a simple three minute sketch to show Davis Field engineers that an outfield sloping downhill will have poor infield drainage
Matt LaPadula: $375 For being seen in boxer shorts while changing into his uniform in the Davis parking lot by an old woman who wrote a letter to Dr. Magnotta
Matt Maltese: $2.50 For not buying or asking Coach Gurney for a new pair of purple socks (and wearing his lavender socks in public during a game)
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