The Golden Gate city,   Sent their Angels to play,    But six of their starters,      En route lost their way
	With Crabs advertisers   Still batting the cage     The Angel's gear shortage            Sent Shorty to rage
	"No catcher's mitt and no balls?"   Shorty cried     " Put our best on the field       I want these guys fried"
	With some borrowed gear   The Angels did try    While Ahrens hit five      And made batters cry
	Their swapping of jerseys   Made Angels look shifty     While fans in the stands       Numbered five hundred fifty
	With new lighting on poles   To remove the night    The first three innings     Were actually tight
	Then Andrews and Pill   Extended the lead     While Evans' relief       Was amazing indeed
	Five innings he pitched    And six he did "K"     While Crabs batters added       Three runs on the way
	The Angels sent four   Of their own to the mound     But the Humboldt bats       Continued to pound
	In the ninth it was over      Now Crabs could unwind         Shorty's wish had been granted            He kicked their behind

Thursday night was just as good a night as any for a doubleheader, only the San Francisco Angels didn't require much of the Humboldt Crabs. San Fran was coming back after a two-year ban from Arcata. Two years after the events that got them sent home from the Mad River Quality Inn rooms, details remain sketchy, but it probably entailed alcohol, surely plenty of a-hootin' and a-hollerin' and maybe a pee-pee distance contest. They're no angels.

Lauren Wade keeps coming back to sing the National Anthem and did her eighth stint - maintaining grace through a crackling PA. "Oh, I really bleeped that up!" she announced to her support team of Beth Dalziel and Brooke Shaner. "No, you were great," they said as they all skipped out of the Arcata Ball Park.

Game one, the Crabs took early advantage of Angel errors and a Brandon Marcelli double to the wall, 1-0. Brian Blauser was looking to bust through a bad batting streak facing two outs, then full count. Foul right, foul tip, foul back, foul left and foul right, Blauser couldn't find the field before striking out.

But Blauser fired back in at the bottom of the third with a streak-breaking single that reeled in Nick Giacone. San Francisco kept Humboldt at-bay in the top of the sixth with heavy hitting, 3-2. Crabs tosser Gil Infante was losing steam.

And Blauser got lucky when an easy catch to right in the sixth turned an error into a double. Jon Fender brought him home, 4-2.

Last inning, Infante was replaced with Angels brimming at the bases. First baseman Adam Carr, his blue cap khaki from infield dirt, was sent to the mound for a game save. Matching strikeouts, what a close, 4-2.
 

They showed up without so much as a catcher's mitt. So by game three in their series against the Humboldt Crabs, the gig was up for the San Francisco Angels.

Still, Humboldt toyed with the victim, waiting until the bottom of the fifth inning to drop the hammer.

By then, the mist had settled over the Arcata Ball Park, making the aluminum bleachers dewy. Angel Pitcher Coughlin started coughing up runs to everybody - forcing Humboldt back through their lineup.

And then it was a real mess for the visitors in the bottom of the sixth with dramatics like Crab Bobby Andrews stealing third, and then home, 5-0! Another free-for-all, Crab Pitch Brett Beetham hit the showers with a shutout, 8-0.