The Batting Order (sex comedy)
The Batting Order
Four guys crack the code to DateMatch.com and come up with a surefire scheme to maximize their “scoring” in the online dating world…
…until one of them falls in love, true love and threatens to spoil the perfect game.
It all started when John’s friend found a statistical blip while on a consulting gig at DateMatch.com, namely, that a girl is eleven times more likely to “give it up” to the fourth guy she goes out with. After some light-hearted banter about how the clean-up guy always scores, it was like, “Holy shit! The clean-up guy always scores!”
They started asking girls how many DateMatch.com dates they’d been on, hoping the answer was “three.” That was pretty hit or miss. Soon they realized if they cooperated instead of competing for dates, then when a new girl showed up on the site, three of the guys could take her on the set-up dates and the fourth guy could score. They improved on that by massaging the third date so that it set up the fourth – the “on deck” date (date #2) to set up the third – the “lead-off” date to set up the second.
The movie’s opening scene introduces “the batting order,” a well-oiled sequence of three dates that grooms the target woman to be not just willing, but downright eager when she arrives for date number four.
Then John meets someone special – meets her outside the batting order system. He volunteers for a breast cancer walk (in memory of his aunt) where he immediately hits it off with Therese, the event coordinator. She’s busy and it’s hectic and as the day winds down John loses touch with her.
It’s Sunday, “draft day,” when the guys make their picks for this week’s batting order. John balks – “I don’t know, I met this girl.” Tony answers, “You met a girl, now you’re going to meet four more. What’s the big deal?” John knuckles, makes his half-hearted pick and the batting order rolls on.
Imagine John’s dismay when Therese shows up as his Monday night lead-off date. That means she’ll be Tony’s Friday night clean-up date. Act I curtain.
The second act is how John tries to stop the juggernaut – get Therese out of the lineup or else make the batting order fail. Instead, Therese learns of the batting order’s existence and she doesn’t like it. Act III is John’s attempts to redeem himself and win back Therese’s heart.
Four guys crack the code to DateMatch.com and come up with a surefire scheme to maximize their “scoring” in the online dating world…
…until one of them falls in love, true love and threatens to spoil the perfect game.
It all started when John’s friend found a statistical blip while on a consulting gig at DateMatch.com, namely, that a girl is eleven times more likely to “give it up” to the fourth guy she goes out with. After some light-hearted banter about how the clean-up guy always scores, it was like, “Holy shit! The clean-up guy always scores!”
They started asking girls how many DateMatch.com dates they’d been on, hoping the answer was “three.” That was pretty hit or miss. Soon they realized if they cooperated instead of competing for dates, then when a new girl showed up on the site, three of the guys could take her on the set-up dates and the fourth guy could score. They improved on that by massaging the third date so that it set up the fourth – the “on deck” date (date #2) to set up the third – the “lead-off” date to set up the second.
The movie’s opening scene introduces “the batting order,” a well-oiled sequence of three dates that grooms the target woman to be not just willing, but downright eager when she arrives for date number four.
Then John meets someone special – meets her outside the batting order system. He volunteers for a breast cancer walk (in memory of his aunt) where he immediately hits it off with Therese, the event coordinator. She’s busy and it’s hectic and as the day winds down John loses touch with her.
It’s Sunday, “draft day,” when the guys make their picks for this week’s batting order. John balks – “I don’t know, I met this girl.” Tony answers, “You met a girl, now you’re going to meet four more. What’s the big deal?” John knuckles, makes his half-hearted pick and the batting order rolls on.
Imagine John’s dismay when Therese shows up as his Monday night lead-off date. That means she’ll be Tony’s Friday night clean-up date. Act I curtain.
The second act is how John tries to stop the juggernaut – get Therese out of the lineup or else make the batting order fail. Instead, Therese learns of the batting order’s existence and she doesn’t like it. Act III is John’s attempts to redeem himself and win back Therese’s heart.