The good lord knows that birds fly south for the winter!!  This year our birds flew south and took home some hardware with them!  After a slow start to the 15th Annual Pangea Cup, the Turkeys are your 2008 champions!

The tournament started auspiciously as the Birds lost a low scoring affair to Meralco in the first game.  In the next game they were tested by their upstart brethren the Razorbacks.  In what was a highly emotional game the Turks were able to eek out a one run victory in a game they very well could have lost.  Chad Boyd single handedly carried the Turks on his back coming up with huge plays with both his bat and glove.  They ended Friday 1-1.

Saturday was a whole new day as the Turks romped in their first first game over the Tokyo Premier Ghost Rider's.  Purple Wayne and Hasbun had huge games defensively and Saturday reinforcement Cave Mann went 4-4.  In the next game the Turks needed to beat the Gorillas to ensure they would make it to the winner's bracket.  They jumped out early on the bat of Joe Duke and turned the game over to Loo who shut the Gorillas down the rest of the way.  The stage was set for Saturday as both the Turks and Gas House were in the semi's.  The boys were dreaming of an all Hong Kong final!

The Turks drew the early game where they met up with a red hot Guzzlero's team.  They jumped out to an early 8-0 lead but quickly gave the 8 runs right back.  Tied 8-8 in the 5th the Turkeys put their webbed feet down and stomped on the meatheads from Korea!!  Dirty Ford hit a key three run bomb and again Chad Boyd continued his his hit brigade.  Mac and Loo were also huge and suddenly the Turkeys were in full flight!  Unfortunately the Gas House didn't keep up their end of the All-HK final and now the Turks would have to pick their brothers up by knocking off the team that eliminated them in the semi's- Meralco and their 75 year old moon ball pitcher!

I'd love to build a little drama and tell you how the Turks pulled out a nail biter to win the championship but unfortunately that didn't happen.  Rather the Turks came out and absolutely dominated those bastards from Manila in an 11-1 rout!!  Four double plays were turned by Hasbun, Dirty and Mac and Loo only faced 22 batters as he completely shut down the Meralco line up!  Chad Boyd continued his ownership of the Pangea Cup and Mac went 4-4.  And that was it, Hong Kong was bringing home the hardware!!!

Loo took home Pitcher of the Tourney and Mac was MVP.  It needs to be pointed out that both Mac and Chad had ENORMOUS tourneys and it was almost impossible to pick out the MVP.  In a gesture to what a teammate he is Chad agreed that the award should go to Mac.

Congratulations Dirty Birds, you are the 2008 Pagaea Cup CHAMPIONS!!