After beating them, we ran our record to 3-0. After that, we lost 4 of our final 6 matches to finish with a mediocre 5-4 record, easily our worst mark since our first season of Spring '06.
In game 1, we got swamped 7-1. In Game 2, after falling behind 5-1, we came back to tie it at 5 before succumbing to an ignoble 7-5 defeat. I have nothing against our fine opponents but I definitely got the sense from some of them that they completely thought that we had no chance against them. Unfortunately, we didn't show them otherwise. So it goes ...
But at least a former Rodster showed up with his baby son Henry. In fact, it was a double Henry day as Dave also brought baby Rod veteran, Henry, who witnessed his fourth or so If You Want My Bocce match.
Ugly scoreboard to the right, cute baby to the left.
Mitch and I took off immediately after the ugliness to go see a movie. We came back in time to watch the number one seed and vaunted rivals Coffee Flats Terrors blow a 5-0 3rd game lead to Watch Your Balls. The Terrors might have been the last best chance to take out Boccelism.The scene during the Watch Your Balls vs. Boccelism match. Unfortunately the "Stop Boccelism" shirts didn't do much. Thanks again to Cobra Kai for the shirt.
Boccelism destroyed Po-Town in the finals. Oh well, at least it wasn't Boccelism vs. ODB yet once again. Watch the movie of the last shot of the season - a movie that I like to call Fuck Boccelism.Ezra Terror (not to be confused with Ezra Lism) excitedly points out that the Coffee Flats Terrors trophy is still bigger than any of the FOUR Boccelism trophies. Oh Ezra.
And what can only be described as the perfect description of the disorganized and half assed way that the whole league is run (is it too much to ask for the 20 bucks we were forced to spend to actually have chalk provided so we don't have to go out and buy some? Or how about new balls that aren't chipped?), Cobra Kai won the award for Best Blog of the Spring '07 season. Nevermind that their last post is from November 2006. Did Floyd even bother to check the blog? I suppose it makes perfect sense since Floyd doesn't exactly update its website all that much. I swear it will read "Coming Soon" in the photos section on their site forever. Kaci had the best heckle of the proceedings when she cried out, "Ross doesn't even remember the password to his blog!"To be honest I think it is pretty funny that Cobra Kai won this award. It really cracks me up. Still, I wouldn't have minded having the award proudly displayed next to my Coffee Flats Terrors championship trophy. For the record, this blog has documented every SINGLE match we have played over the course of four seasons.
Ross shows off the goods.
Summer season is just around the corner. Stay tuned to this space over the next week, I have two more posts in me as I try to catch up on old business.
9 comments:
If Ross Kai truly had BALLS OF INTEGRITY he would have pulled a Ving Rhames and given the trophy to its rightful winners (that would be this blog).
Out of curiosity, what happens to teams that don't pay their $20 dues - as I'm sure many didn't, since enough money wasn't collected to update the Floyd website on a regular basis - aside from the satisfaction that they weren't suckers like us?
I agree, some of those Po-towners clearly had a sense of entitlement. They had no idea who they were dealing with. Granted, that was our fault for playing super shitty. But some of us do have trophies on our shelves, unlike them. And others from our team have a lot more playoff experience. But the Po-towns are a class act overall and kindly invited those of us who remained to do shots with them after all the ugliness (yet another Boccelism victory) was over.
I think we should start spelling it Botulism actually, because those guys have become like a horrific disease that is not easily vanquished, but that people really want to see just go away. Who will take those fuckers down? I like them as people but they must die as a team. I want to go down to goddman Bensonhurst and recruit some of those 80-year-old Italian dudes from Dreier-Offerman Park to be a team, because they would kick the living shit out of Boccelism and swear at them in Italian as they're doing so. It would be a beautiful sight.
The Cobra Kai blog win was the silliest thing ever. It was like Boccelism winning "Team With the Most Female Representation" or the Coffee Flats Terrors winning "Team That's as Good as They Constantly Brag They Are."
Hot Legs, you are great at the bocce posts. I am taking the summer off and who knows what the future holds for our team, but I am happy we ended up with a winning record yet again. Not as good as we might have hoped, but better than many other teams. We have done Rod proud.
I can't believe you censored your own coment!
I woke up this morning and thought better of posting a rambling, drunken rant. Brevity should be my new motto.
Dear disciples of Rod,
Despite your eloquent hatred of Boccelism, we would be quite the shortsighted intestinal strain if we did not acknowledge that the ONLY bocce blog worth logging onto is IFWMB...period, end of discussion.
Only The Karate Kid movies are more outdated then Cobra Kai's blog.
As for the Fuck Boccelism movement, you know what...’Fuckity Fuck Fuck’ right back atcha'! Like all of the classic plagues throughout time, we will be here, for the long haul, causing pain...no need for anger, it is just what we do.
--Gary Carter Boccelism
GCB:
Thanks for the endorsement. But know this: you guys will be taken down one of these seasons! It is your destiny.
jim,
at least we were good in the regular season.
IYWMB just wasn't good. period.
ez
so true, marv levy, so true.
i'm sad. all the way from baltimore, i'm sad. and maybe it's my public health leanings/learnings, but botulism must be stopped.
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