Somewhere in the visitors' dugout of Jane Goodall's Nightmare this weekend, the Weed Sox were still looking for their first run of Season 2. They did not find it. Ylander's club has now played two games and put a clean, unblemished zero on the scoreboard both times — a season run total that reads like a typo but is, I regret to report from above the lights, entirely accurate. Whatever is loosening the Weed Sox before first pitch, it is not loosening their bats. Granbel obliged with a 4-0 win, and Jane Goodall's Nightmare walked off at 2-0 for the young season. That leaves us with two perfect records at the top of the board, and the other one belongs to a very familiar face. Birdo's Magik Mushrooms — the artist formerly known around this press box as the defending champion's outfit, Zeph having gone 15-0 to take Season 1 — spent the week reminding everyone why. Twelve runs on Luigi's Had Enough, one run allowed, and a 12-1 final that stopped being a contest somewhere in the middle innings. Through two games Zeph's crew has scored 22 and surrendered exactly one. That is not a hot start; that is a statement read into the record. On the other side of that beating sat Chatter's Luigi's Had Enough, and the numbers are not kind. Two games, five runs scored, twenty-seven allowed. When your run differential is minus-22 before the calendar clears its throat, the schedule starts to feel like a series of appointments you would rather cancel. There is talent on that roster; there is also, at the moment, a scoreboard that keeps siding with the opponent. The one game that actually breathed this week came out of Da Plumber Syndicate's yard, where Gareth and Love traded haymakers until the lights nearly gave out. Boo's Dinger Brigade — a team that has earned its name, having already banked 23 runs on the season — put eight on the board and lost anyway, 10-8. Gareth's Syndicate needed every one of those ten, and they got the club off the schneid and up to 1-1. Love's Brigade drops to the same mark, which tells you how little separates the muddled middle of this standings sheet: two teams tied in the loss column, one of them outscoring nearly everybody, the other outslugging the room on the very night it lost. That is the shape of Week 2, then. At the top, order and dominance: Zeph's Mushrooms at plus-21, Granbel's Nightmare stingy enough to allow three runs across two starts. In the middle, a genuine street fight between the Syndicate and the Brigade that could have gone either way and happened to go Gareth's. At the bottom, two clubs — Chatter's and Ylander's — staring at zeroes and near-zeroes and wondering when the offense clocks in. A few things worth filing away as we head toward Week 3, with 24 games still unplayed and nothing remotely settled: Boo's Dinger Brigade are scoring like a first-place team and sitting fourth, which usually corrects itself in one direction or another. Jane Goodall's Nightmare have not been scored on more than three times all year and haven't needed to hit much to win. And the Weed Sox have a very specific, very achievable goal in front of them — cross home plate. Just once. We are all pulling for it up here, if only so I have a different sentence to write. Two perfect records enter the coming weeks. History says only one of them can keep it forever, and history, in this league, is short and written entirely in Zeph's handwriting. Blooper's Final Ink.