Monday, September 7, 2009

This might end up being a long one.

Alright.

Vampires might actually be good. Definitely in block.

The day really started the night before. I didn't really plan on having a party, but when Thomas brings ten people with him I don't have much of a choice. I recall losing to a Freshman in flipcup and saying I would wear a suit on the sidelines the next day.

At the time, a large plate of baked ziti seemed like a good idea. I ended up sleeping on the bathroom floor.

Mitch was the good alarmclock that he is and let me sleep 30 extra minutes after I hit the snooze. Chugged two cups of coffee and I was on the road a mere ten minutes late, which I later found out to be a world record. 2x4 was only a few minutes after that and brought me a Bacon Egg and Cheese. +10 points to Creeperin.

Car ride was largely uneventful besides some Dood Computer and someone's baby not being safe.

I think we had more cars than people, but we got them all there anyway. Marist had about ten thousand people to our twenty one. Machreiner and I got working on some sub thingys, and we were on our way. Of course, in typical New Paltz fashion (is there a different spelling of "fashion"?), we treated the first game like it was a warm-up game. There were lots of dropsies, icky throwsies, and we lost 15-6, or something icky. Pretty sure Eli tried to dropkick a disc. Just found Key Lime pie in my fridge.

I got to do my first Disc Flip and call and thing. E.Herbst demanded I call different, so I did, and we lost. That's alright, a wise man never bets against E.Herbst. They chose to play D (which I'm pretty sure is almost always wrong) so I chose the endzone that had the wind at it's back, which I think is the right one.

Game two was a different story. Benjamin, revitalized (probably because of his fledgling beard), rallied the troops and got us going for the game against Bard. We came out to a quick 3-0 lead (I think don't quote me). At half it was 8-4 and we were again reminded to not get complacent. At the very utterance (LOL UTTER) of the word 2x4 was amped, but not amped enough to play the first point after half. That fool. Kelsey demands more playing time and goes on in a slot for a guy and proceeds to catch two points and several D's. I'll keep that in mind for next time.

We trade points to make it 9-5, and then Bard rattles off 3 in a row to make it 9-8. After hearing the news, GUNX steps up and takes a point to go 10-8, and Marist announces hard cap, so it's a game to 11. Bard scores one, and I put in a powerful line up. Bard scores two and I put in E.Herbst. I almost subbed out Mitch, but Mitch was the first E.Herbst, and I knew that would be a foolish move. Of course, after a large 20-yard gainer to 2x4, he dumps (I think.) it to Treebeard who proceeds to take some Instant-Jack formula and launch a missile downfield to Mitch the Scott, who despite being double-teamed by two strong defenders, burns them all and brings it down for an 11-10 win.

Let me say this, if we had lost that last game, this would be a very angry Blag. We are simply a different team when we have something to win. Hazelnut literally touched the disc every other throw and then had the assist one point when he decided to skullfuck Travis. Against Marist, we all just dropped discs and turfed them and k;jsfhkjsf. BCams summed up the scrimmages well and made sure to try to get everyone to bring that kind of intensity that we had in the 2nd game to practice. I'll say it right now -- if we play like that at practice today we'll cruise through sectionals.

Machreiner and I definitely improved our sub-calling throughout the two games. I only truly messed up on one point. I need to maintain a tighter rotation on some of our players to keep them fresher later in the day. In the first game I ran through a handful of players and after two games of that kind of rotation they were pretty beat. I'm sure I'll get some more opportunities, especially with this spaceboot on.

Practice at 3. I'm missing the Rutgers game for it.

Wasn't that long I guess.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Our team won't cruise through sectionals, we lose to one terrible team and beat narrowly another terrible team. Do not make that statement until we consistently beat a real competitive team.