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Team Old Gold—the squad formerly known as Team Portland Mercury—took home the Sunday Softball championship this past weekend by defeating lovable dive bar The Matador 17-4, and then toppled artspace Disjecta 13-11 in the final game. More importantly, the trophy no longer belongs to last year’s winner, who were the envy of the senior citizen home when they filled it with Werther’s Original and used it as a candy dish.

Ezra Ace Caraeff is the former Music Editor for the Mercury, and spent nearly a third of his life working at the paper. More importantly, he is the owner of Olive, the Mercury’s unofficial office dog....

13 replies on “And the Winner of the Sunday Softball Championship is…”

  1. Now you have to play the winner of the Little League World Series for hardball supremacy. Oh wait, they play with an actual baseball. Never mind.

  2. @Rusty! The Old Gold is a bar that I am opening (Christ, what a conflict of interest this is) in October. The idea was to be open during the season, but we failed miserably at that.

    @Blabby I am on the team. Also, this season the Mercury’s Marissa Sullivan and Tonya Ray both played as well. In previous seasons we’ve had plenty of Mercury staffers on the team, from Phil Busse to Steve Humphrey (who played about 4-5 seasons before hanging up his spikes this year).

  3. Are you opening in my neighborhood? What food is going to be on the menu? Are you going to have TVs, so I may politely ignore the world?

  4. Graham actually it is not far from there, but it is in N, not NE. Also, it will have eight mechanical bulls, and drinks with names like “Lucky Lady” and “MILFbomb.” (some of this info might be inaccurate)

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