Archive for May, 2005
Well, I turned 21 tonight.
With two classes tomorrow morning I limited myself to 6 shots. I had: prarite fire, dirty girl scout, jagg bomber, mexican hunter, goldschlagger, and a scooby snack. After the Mexican Hunter and Goldschlagger I started feeling ill so I took Jon up on his offer to take my “duck Fart” for me. thank you Jon. That would’ve put me over the edge.
As far as being over 21 feels. I felt like I was being sneaky all night, like I wasnt’ actually 21. Its certainly a different feeling.
I’m sure I’ll get used to it.
Anyways, at 2:20 thats my story and I’m sticking to it.
May 9th, 2005
The game ended very fittingly: When it rained…it poured.
The game started with them scoring four quick goals and our mission was to get Rick his first goal of the year. Rick was a very dedicated defender all season long, being one of the few players on the team capable of keeping up with the other team for all 30 minutes. (I was more of a, guard the guy with the frisbee and stick with him, so when a turnover would occur because of defense down the court, I’d end up being open)
My biggest mistakes of the game tended to be misjudging defense and the wind. Everyone had their share of mistakes but we battled on scoring goals where we could and allowing some poor ones. I think they scored twice off deflections. They’d midjudge the wind and another one of their players would catch it. They got a lot of breaks.
With little surprise if you looked to the sky at all during the game, it started to rain. Then came the thunder and lightening. Then the rain started POURING.
It was fun playing like that, but I don’t think anyone scored once it started pouring. The wind must’ve been 35 mph and water was coming down in sheets.
The final score was 7-11, which I guess we were proud of. This was not the worst team we had played all year in my opinion. Blommee and Rawwrrr’s teams I thought were about equal with this team, so it surprised me that they averaged so few points and allowed so many.
It was a good season and a good final game. I personally hope this wasn’t my last ultimate frisbee game. I hope to get some games going all summer.
May 5th, 2005
Wow. Heartbreaking.
We battled super hard that first game, too. We were down like 7-2 and came back to tie it up 7-7. Went into overtime, we were all just dead tired and gave up a cheap goal to end it.
Game two, I had blisters and I’m sure half my team did, too. I didn’t sit, I scored a few goals, but I know I couldn’t keep up with the more fresh team, though I tried.
We got scored on and lost, something to something, maybe 5-12? I’m not sure.
It was a situation where we had to win at least one game to make the playoffs. Instead we are designated as one of the two worst teams in the league. As much as I disagree with that, I think talent wise and physically we may sincerely be at the bottom, but I think we played harder than the other teams in a majority of the games. All of us had never really played before, and I really couldn’t be happier with the support the team gave me all year. I went in it really wanting it to go off without a hitch and just hoping for someone willing to play. Then once we played we started wanting it more, practicing, working on things, tweaking our games.
So, thank you team. I guess lets go and get that last one, sounds like we’ll be very short handed since we’re playing Thursday at 5:30. Joe, gone. Batman, gone. So we’ll see.
…maybe we just shouldn’t show up.
May 1st, 2005