Sunday, November 30, 2008

First post

1) I'm overtired.

2) It's almost 6am.

3) I haven't played ultimate for about ten minutes and it's getting to me.

d) Ben's too optimistic in his blag and needs someone to show him up.

5) So Tired.

6) Or at least make him strive to be the best blagger on the team!

7) Fuck lists.

I cannot believe I am doing this. I have to be drunk.

I'm also putting it in writing that the ultimate training program starts Monday. For reals.  A minor delay of one week will not stop me from looking like Arnold himself come springtime. 

Plus the more jacked I get the better those corn rows will look

Boy do I enjoy line breaks. 

Also, Smash Mouth is overpowered. Most likely going to be nerfed next patch.

I miss my real keyboard. The shift key and the delete key are much too normal sized on this.

I've gotta cut it out with these line breaks.

Most of my ultimate related insight, which is pretty valuable considering my tournament record of 2-25-2 ( That's a win percentage of about 7% for those of you who are playing along at home) will be coming with the spring semester, because we're done for the semester unless we decide we want to lose another game to Marist before going home for Christmas.  I'll probably post something about people not showing up to conditioning either before we leave for the semester or after, depending on when the captains decide its a good idea to stop sucking.  All I know is that the people who put the time in will look and play like true division 3 athletes.  At this rate, if we make it to sectionals on time it'll be an upset. 

I also heard that smoking weed decreases your sperm count, which conflicts with my dream of living off of the money I get from sperm bank donations. Time to find another way to destroy my body!

I'm pretty pumped for jerseys if we ever get there. Apparently getting a design for one nailed down takes over 3 months. That's a lot of man-hours considering we have 4 captains that meet roughly every ten seconds. I think we've finally settled on orange being a color on the jerseys someplace, although that still might be up in the air. I'm still pushing for Darold to be the logo but I don't think I can force that kind of legislation through. Maybe next year if we run a better campaign. 

For the amount this team practices, its immensely frustrating to see how little we get out of it.  Stacks, a zone D that doesn't rely on the other team dropping it, a zone O that gets something close to resembling wing play, and even a consistent warm-up regimen are things I don't think even Santa can give to this team. 

I'm trying to push through legislation to make us not suck next semester,but you won't see me make a bet on it going down. If you ever watch us play a legit game, you'll see that all of us, including captains and veterans, contract a case of the drops every time we play. We all have to make the incredibly difficult decision of throwing a 30 yard OI flick into the wind or just turfing it to save time.  Going to the disc is just too much running, yet half of us like to make deep cuts at the same time with the disc on the end-line into the wind. We never sub during a game, which is fine because we're not tired ever. But practice rolls around and you're begging for a sub after two points. 


I just searched for fifteen minutes to see if I could find the Beau play in Sportscenter form. No luck. I'm convinced it's a myth.

Bottom line, we're talking about practice. Not a game, but practice. 
If we run this team like this is a team, I would put money on us making it to Regionals.  Sure, we can talk about being committed to making this team good, but when leadership players on the team don't go to practice because they just don't feel like it, that person on the fence about actually trying in practice for once won't. When leadership players don't finish out a drill or take warm-ups seriously, new players won't either. When leadership players play injured, new players will too. 

I've had enough of people on this team spending time trying to learn how to throw a behind-the-back-future-thumb-scoober. Learning how to stack would be a nice alternative. 


Boy am I annoying.