Well, pools came out for the UDel SHOWdown today. It's time to get our game together and put to rest some of the myths about these Delaware guys. They aren't unstoppable, they aren't going to be able to look over their first round game aginst us Saturday, and they sure as hell will find out that Catholic is a legit contender in the Metro East.
Day 1:
Pool A
A1: Delaware-Alum (1)
A2: Delaware (3)
A3: Salisbury (5)
A4: Penn State (7)
A5: Catholic (9)
Round 1 - UDel
Round 2 - Bye
Round 3 - UDel Alum
Round 4 - Penn State
Round 5 - Salisbury
I'm looking to come out with two solid wins on Saturday. With 2 wins we should pull the top team from the C or D pool to start our Sunday.
Hell yeah Bad Habit, this is what we've been waiting for!
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
November Festivities
I'm pretty much into the month of November. Sure, there's Thanksgiving, but I'm definitely more into November than that. I'm rocking a beard and writing a novel! National Beard Month and National Novel Writing Month at its best!
Oh yeah, and there was this sweet party at my place last Friday night. Lots of beer at 9pm, no beer at 1am... I think that means it was a good party.
Party MVP: Sonic and Phil(l)ip (I don't know if he's got one or two "l"s in his name). 7-straight beer pong victories. 3 or 4 of which were played with 10 cups...
Oh yeah, and there was this sweet party at my place last Friday night. Lots of beer at 9pm, no beer at 1am... I think that means it was a good party.
Party MVP: Sonic and Phil(l)ip (I don't know if he's got one or two "l"s in his name). 7-straight beer pong victories. 3 or 4 of which were played with 10 cups...
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Pop Quiz
The team doesn't know it yet, but today is their first rules pop quiz! Exciting I know. I keep telling everyone to read the rulebook, but I doubt people are, so I am going to test their knowledge today. They are easy questions, so I feel like everyone should get all of them correct, but if they don't their conditioning will be affected.
Also, today was the start of NaNoWriMo. I just started writing today. I have no direction at all so far, but I have written almost 1000 words. It makes sense I guess, but I need to develop a storyline soon! It almost makes it harder that it has to be fiction, but I guess we can work some swordplay into the novel...that could be fun...and maybe a dragon, or a wolverine with a laser attached to its back. All fun ideas... Oh, or maybe I could bring it back to my high school days and throw in a unicorn or two, after all, that was our mascot.
Also, today was the start of NaNoWriMo. I just started writing today. I have no direction at all so far, but I have written almost 1000 words. It makes sense I guess, but I need to develop a storyline soon! It almost makes it harder that it has to be fiction, but I guess we can work some swordplay into the novel...that could be fun...and maybe a dragon, or a wolverine with a laser attached to its back. All fun ideas... Oh, or maybe I could bring it back to my high school days and throw in a unicorn or two, after all, that was our mascot.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Step Up.
It's about to get cold out, the daylight's getting short, and it's going to be easy to just sit by why your teammates take to the field and get better.
We have to capitalize on every opportunity to prove ourselves! Who cares if things come up last minute? Who cares if our muscles are screaming for us to quit running? Who cares if it's cold oustide? Let's take the necessary steps to push ourselves physically and mentally past the level of our opponents. F___ your feelings, it's time to step it up.
UDel - Nov. 10.
We have to capitalize on every opportunity to prove ourselves! Who cares if things come up last minute? Who cares if our muscles are screaming for us to quit running? Who cares if it's cold oustide? Let's take the necessary steps to push ourselves physically and mentally past the level of our opponents. F___ your feelings, it's time to step it up.
UDel - Nov. 10.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
If I were to be a novelist, who would I be?
Dave took part in a novel-writing event, or actually a complete month, recently (it was at least a year ago) in which each participant was charged with writing a 175pg. novel (50,000 words) during the month of November. All things equal, that's 1667 words per day. I'm pretty sure I 'bs' my way through 1700 words worth of emails in a day, but could I put together that many words devoted to the same coherant thought?
Of course I would worry about a few things...
-At what point would I abandon the story and devote entire plot lines to perfecting my latest zone defense?
-How many times can I write a 7-man defensive line in the margins before I finally accept that this obsession of mine really is unhealthy?
-Do I really have time to write 1667 words a day without neglecting my work?
All things to consider. Maybe I'll try it, I think I could enjoy the challenge and maybe I'd surprise myself...
You know I'm just doing this to procrastinate anyway, why not take it to the limit?
Of course I would worry about a few things...
-At what point would I abandon the story and devote entire plot lines to perfecting my latest zone defense?
-How many times can I write a 7-man defensive line in the margins before I finally accept that this obsession of mine really is unhealthy?
-Do I really have time to write 1667 words a day without neglecting my work?
All things to consider. Maybe I'll try it, I think I could enjoy the challenge and maybe I'd surprise myself...
You know I'm just doing this to procrastinate anyway, why not take it to the limit?
Daydreaming...
I wish I was somewhere else right now. Sarasota, FL to be exact.
Club Natty's just began about an hour ago and I'm very surprised to find that the Score Reporter is updating scores as the games go on. (http://www.upa.org/scores/tourn.cgi?div=124&id=3907) I've always had problems choosing a team that I really want to support, and this year it's pretty much the same. Thanks to UVTV I've seen most of these guys play, and I'd have to put my support behind Ring, Bravo, Rhino, and Truck Stop in their respective pools today. Ring and Truck are fellow MA'ers, I've been watching Colorado Ultimate all year on various iVideo websites, and Rhino has just recently swayed me with this video: http://www.chsultimate.com/video/RhinoNWRegionals07.mp4.
I can't wait to catch some footage of this weekend once Rob at UltiVillage uploads everything.
Here's to Callahan's, 90-yd hucks, layout d's, handblocks, and high-release flicks!
Club Natty's just began about an hour ago and I'm very surprised to find that the Score Reporter is updating scores as the games go on. (http://www.upa.org/scores/tourn.cgi?div=124&id=3907) I've always had problems choosing a team that I really want to support, and this year it's pretty much the same. Thanks to UVTV I've seen most of these guys play, and I'd have to put my support behind Ring, Bravo, Rhino, and Truck Stop in their respective pools today. Ring and Truck are fellow MA'ers, I've been watching Colorado Ultimate all year on various iVideo websites, and Rhino has just recently swayed me with this video: http://www.chsultimate.com/video/RhinoNWRegionals07.mp4.
I can't wait to catch some footage of this weekend once Rob at UltiVillage uploads everything.
Here's to Callahan's, 90-yd hucks, layout d's, handblocks, and high-release flicks!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
"Keep the Euphoria alive!" or "Does DOMS hate me as much as I like winning?"
We had been lucky Saturday night to find a free alternative to the freshman dorm room we were seemingly doomed to sleep in. As any gracious house guest knows, the only way to pay back our kind host was to spruce up his home with the smell of our dirty laundry and send freshmen to clog his plumbing as the veterans seek sustenance from an unattended pantry… Since we were VERY gracious guests, we were sure to abide on all counts. I’ll be sure to send “Soap” a disc for his troubles…
We kept the drinking light Saturday night, so the only hungover member of our party was Ship’s comedy man, Collins. He decided it best to stay with us at Soap’s house since he “didn’t want to be lonely while he drank,” and managed to keep us entertained most of the night.
Our arrival to the fields was met with our first 1 seed in my short history with Catholic and we were poised to take on PSU-Behrend in the first round. A crosswind remained from yesterday leaving us a little sour about the missed Friday Night Lights section of the tournament (we watched Georgetown’s women, Huckin’ Foyas, play under the lights Saturday with little to no wind leaving us with the impression that the cancelled Friday night games would’ve been more of the same.)… But hey, we played some tight zone Saturday and we looked to do it again this morning with a slightly depleted squad. After having 18 on Saturday, we were left with 11 and a 12th on his way up from D.C.
PSU-Behrend – This team played savage most of the tournament, but it was an easy savage as they didn’t manage to put up too many points, leaving them with a plethora of short games. As was the norm at Skylander, we decided to give Behrend a 4-1 lead before rubbing the sleep from our eyes and putting the disc in the endzone a few times. We settled in and took half 7-5 before going on an extended run to start the second. Bridget and Lemon made it look easy and scored 7 of our 12 points this game as Stills managed only a few to put his weekend total that much closer to 20. Sean Quinn even got on the board with an assist this game before tweaking his ankle on defense. I felt like we used this game as more of a warm-up for what we considered to be our biggest challenge of the weekend against UMBC…
12-6 Habit
UMBC – Dan arrived just in time to supplement our roster for this game(and to give Frodo a ride home). We were very surprised at the start of this game. Well, surprised that Booya could only muster 1 point to our first 10… Dan and Sonic were solid this game and relatively chilly with the disc (other than a few interesting choices by Dan), and John kept up his consistent play with a few assists as well as breaking his streak of consecutive games without a drop at 5 games. I guess he was taking notes from Metz as he watched from the sideline in the Behrend game. Highlights were when Bridge brought the pain on defense and decked one of Booya’s women while getting a nice ‘d’ on an in-cut, our handlers walking down the field against their man defense while I watched from the sidelines, and Ranjo managing to hideout on the field all game so I couldn’t sub him out. Good game, good spirit, even better result.
15-5 Habit
TCNJ – We get to take another shot at our pool play rivals. This time without 3 of our defensive stoppers and only 11 Habit players ready to play. Sean Quinn’s sprained ankle seemed to be the difference as TCNJ hit us hard with their deep attack. With a high number of larger players, they managed to come down with most 50/50 discs (that weren’t thrown my way…) and pulled ahead after we traded our way to a 3-3 tie. We just didn’t have the legs to keep up with this team as many of our guys had been playing close to savage for the day.
15-8 TCNJ
Overall a very successful tournament. 2nd Place!!! Solid play by Sonic, Stills, and John all weekend… Solid play by Arin and Kyle on Saturday. No more MVP, MIP, MCP, MWB (Most Witty Banter), due to excessive speculation… Metz’d probably win them all anyway.
We kept the drinking light Saturday night, so the only hungover member of our party was Ship’s comedy man, Collins. He decided it best to stay with us at Soap’s house since he “didn’t want to be lonely while he drank,” and managed to keep us entertained most of the night.
Our arrival to the fields was met with our first 1 seed in my short history with Catholic and we were poised to take on PSU-Behrend in the first round. A crosswind remained from yesterday leaving us a little sour about the missed Friday Night Lights section of the tournament (we watched Georgetown’s women, Huckin’ Foyas, play under the lights Saturday with little to no wind leaving us with the impression that the cancelled Friday night games would’ve been more of the same.)… But hey, we played some tight zone Saturday and we looked to do it again this morning with a slightly depleted squad. After having 18 on Saturday, we were left with 11 and a 12th on his way up from D.C.
PSU-Behrend – This team played savage most of the tournament, but it was an easy savage as they didn’t manage to put up too many points, leaving them with a plethora of short games. As was the norm at Skylander, we decided to give Behrend a 4-1 lead before rubbing the sleep from our eyes and putting the disc in the endzone a few times. We settled in and took half 7-5 before going on an extended run to start the second. Bridget and Lemon made it look easy and scored 7 of our 12 points this game as Stills managed only a few to put his weekend total that much closer to 20. Sean Quinn even got on the board with an assist this game before tweaking his ankle on defense. I felt like we used this game as more of a warm-up for what we considered to be our biggest challenge of the weekend against UMBC…
12-6 Habit
UMBC – Dan arrived just in time to supplement our roster for this game(and to give Frodo a ride home). We were very surprised at the start of this game. Well, surprised that Booya could only muster 1 point to our first 10… Dan and Sonic were solid this game and relatively chilly with the disc (other than a few interesting choices by Dan), and John kept up his consistent play with a few assists as well as breaking his streak of consecutive games without a drop at 5 games. I guess he was taking notes from Metz as he watched from the sideline in the Behrend game. Highlights were when Bridge brought the pain on defense and decked one of Booya’s women while getting a nice ‘d’ on an in-cut, our handlers walking down the field against their man defense while I watched from the sidelines, and Ranjo managing to hideout on the field all game so I couldn’t sub him out. Good game, good spirit, even better result.
15-5 Habit
TCNJ – We get to take another shot at our pool play rivals. This time without 3 of our defensive stoppers and only 11 Habit players ready to play. Sean Quinn’s sprained ankle seemed to be the difference as TCNJ hit us hard with their deep attack. With a high number of larger players, they managed to come down with most 50/50 discs (that weren’t thrown my way…) and pulled ahead after we traded our way to a 3-3 tie. We just didn’t have the legs to keep up with this team as many of our guys had been playing close to savage for the day.
15-8 TCNJ
Overall a very successful tournament. 2nd Place!!! Solid play by Sonic, Stills, and John all weekend… Solid play by Arin and Kyle on Saturday. No more MVP, MIP, MCP, MWB (Most Witty Banter), due to excessive speculation… Metz’d probably win them all anyway.
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