In the Cards '12 #2: Daniel Egan
Commandos
Daniel Egan opened his rookie Wiffleball season with a running start. Literally. He ran to Lafayette Park for the series on Opening Night. As Egan pointed out where he had run from, back toward an Ipad ad in the direction of downtown Detroit skyline, he had the Squirrels nervous; none of them had run that far in the last ten years combined. Then, in his first pitching appearance, Daniel had the rodents on the ropes: down 2-0 entering the fifth inning. What happened over the next five minutes is not important to this article. What is, however, is that Daniel has taken that Opening Night sprint and turned it into a marathon for the Commandos.
A rookie to Wiffleball, Egan is the only player to have played all fourteen games for the Commandos so far this season; including trips to Romulus, Frenchtown, Taylor, and Woodhaven. He has also taken on the ever-important, yet often thankless, role of number-two pitcher; taking the mound in five games for his team. Daniel has thrown 36 K in his 21.1 IP, for a 1.69 KPI (strike-outs per inning), quite impressive for being new to Wiffleball pitching. At the plate he may still be learning the pitchers, but Egan clearly has power in his swing. Three of his eight hits are home runs, which currently has him tied for third in the league.
Egan's game is not all on the field, nor his prep all in running to the field, though. When Daniel learned of the possibility of a new species of seal, the mattseal, he instantly put together an expedition team, chartered a seaplane, and headed to the Galapagos Islands to find a weakness in the creature that may be exploitable in a team named after them. Where he found the time for this expedition is unknown even by his captain, the Real A.G, who only wanted to comment, "how f*cking cool is that? Danny got a seaplane! I hope he lands it on the river for our next games at Lafayette!"
The findings of the Egan team on the Galapagos are also questionable. "Five days and the only seals we saw were regular Galapagos fur seals," Daniel confessed, "which were still really cool, but I didn't learn anything about Wiffleball at all... Except while on the plane. Man, when that thing goes into a dive you can throw an amazing riser!" Rumors of a few Pokemon also appear in various reports. Also, apparently a run-in with the Nain Rouge, who was vacationing from Detroit, led to a long conversation about their home city. Unfortunately, all of these encounters were photographed with a "water-proof" camera bought in a tourist shop in Ecuador that did not live up to its billing when Daniel later charged into the water to swim with Galapagos penguins.
Photographs, real mattseals or not, the trip does seem to be bringing a boost in Egan's offensive stats. In two games since returning he has hit .400, scored two runs, hit a home run, and has five RBI. Perhaps Daniel may have found the secret to Wiffle success: prepare in ways totally unrelated to Wiffle! The next Commandos series may provide some easier means to practice his method, too: Punchouts? Play some Mike Tyson's Punchout all week long! King Friday? Queue up the Mr. Rogers marathon! Belgian Wiffles? That will be a delicious week, and also lucky that Danny's up for getting out and running off those waffles!
A rookie to Wiffleball, Egan is the only player to have played all fourteen games for the Commandos so far this season; including trips to Romulus, Frenchtown, Taylor, and Woodhaven. He has also taken on the ever-important, yet often thankless, role of number-two pitcher; taking the mound in five games for his team. Daniel has thrown 36 K in his 21.1 IP, for a 1.69 KPI (strike-outs per inning), quite impressive for being new to Wiffleball pitching. At the plate he may still be learning the pitchers, but Egan clearly has power in his swing. Three of his eight hits are home runs, which currently has him tied for third in the league.
Egan's game is not all on the field, nor his prep all in running to the field, though. When Daniel learned of the possibility of a new species of seal, the mattseal, he instantly put together an expedition team, chartered a seaplane, and headed to the Galapagos Islands to find a weakness in the creature that may be exploitable in a team named after them. Where he found the time for this expedition is unknown even by his captain, the Real A.G, who only wanted to comment, "how f*cking cool is that? Danny got a seaplane! I hope he lands it on the river for our next games at Lafayette!"
The findings of the Egan team on the Galapagos are also questionable. "Five days and the only seals we saw were regular Galapagos fur seals," Daniel confessed, "which were still really cool, but I didn't learn anything about Wiffleball at all... Except while on the plane. Man, when that thing goes into a dive you can throw an amazing riser!" Rumors of a few Pokemon also appear in various reports. Also, apparently a run-in with the Nain Rouge, who was vacationing from Detroit, led to a long conversation about their home city. Unfortunately, all of these encounters were photographed with a "water-proof" camera bought in a tourist shop in Ecuador that did not live up to its billing when Daniel later charged into the water to swim with Galapagos penguins.
Photographs, real mattseals or not, the trip does seem to be bringing a boost in Egan's offensive stats. In two games since returning he has hit .400, scored two runs, hit a home run, and has five RBI. Perhaps Daniel may have found the secret to Wiffle success: prepare in ways totally unrelated to Wiffle! The next Commandos series may provide some easier means to practice his method, too: Punchouts? Play some Mike Tyson's Punchout all week long! King Friday? Queue up the Mr. Rogers marathon! Belgian Wiffles? That will be a delicious week, and also lucky that Danny's up for getting out and running off those waffles!
| Player | GP | IP | W | L | R | K | H | BB | ERA | WHIP |
| Daniel Egan | 5 | 21.1 | 0 | 4 | 25 | 36 | 32 | 23 | 5.86 | 2.58 |
| AB | H | BB | R | 2B | HR | RBI | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
| 55 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 | .145 | .217 | .327 |
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