WUGC 2008 - Day 2
So, one game today at 5PM. Talk about a long day of doing nothing. I didn't know what to do with myself. I've never been the guy to sleep all day. And unfortunately I woke up at 7AM. The call from a work person at 7:15 AM didn't help with my concentration on sleeping...
I woke up at 7, caught up on the internet on someone else's laptop since my laptop screen is fried. Breakfast at the meal place followed by a walk to Thunderbird Stadium to watch Japan-Great Britain which was a tight game at the time. Lots of turnovers by both teams and then Japan pulled it out. Then another long walk to find lunch at the burrito place from yesterday. BTW, this is all with Jim, contributing to the legend... Back to the fields, catch some frisbee, and Dan F. from Canada showed us a picture from his perv cam of a woman with a long lollipop in her mouth. Fortunately the picture was out of focus so it was able to be submitted for a best day picture.
Another trip to the stadium to watch Japan play New Zealand, and actually lose. Doesn't bode well for our game tomorrow as we are totally going to look past that game... :) Especially after a 4 hour bye (even longer based on probably crushing the French team in the morning well before the 2 hours window). DoG doesn't do well after a long bye, which we have proved numerous times.
Finally, time to get to the field at around 4PM for our 5PM showcase game. Warmed up for awhile, looked at the stands, notice no one was there, realized that I couldn't drink yet, then the game started. The game didn't start out well for the O, and not because we started on O. We are worst off when the D gets a bunch of turns early but doesn't score. It makes the O think that they have to do all the dirty work, so we put a bunch of pressure on ourselves. Regardless, the O sucked and we went down at half 9-5. This included 2 hammer turnovers by yours truly, although both receivers felt they needed to catch them at the maximum point of the arc rather than just catching them (I try not to throw hammers so that the defender has a play). In both cases, the defenders didn't have any real play on the disc, but both receivers played it that way and dropped them. They are both my turnovers, but still frustrating.
Fortunately the D pulled this game out as they went on a number of runs. We ultimately won the game 16-14. We pulled at 15-14 and they stuffed and scored. I was more than ecstatic to not have to go back onto the field for double game point at 15-15.
I'm really tired right now since it is 12:30 (or 3:30 eastern time), so hopefully I will be able to add to this tomorrow.
Amusing anecdotes
* Jim made a joke about Andrew Lugsdin playing the Danny Clark role for the day when he saw him against the Dominican Republic.
* Drinking into the wee hours with the Canadian team that we had just beaten. Apparently it was BC day in this part of Canada and no liquor stores were open.
* Match challenging me to a shotgun right after the victory and me explaining to him that after a dehydrating event the esophagus shrinks and you have to drink/chug a lot of fluids to expand it again. At this point, I haven't taken his challenge.
* Watching numerous Family Guy episodes in our room that are stored on Paul Greff's laptop.
* Mootching beer and fun off the Shazam team that is right across the hall from us.
* Schmooing with Dan Fassina and abusing him about choosing to play with the Canadians.
I woke up at 7, caught up on the internet on someone else's laptop since my laptop screen is fried. Breakfast at the meal place followed by a walk to Thunderbird Stadium to watch Japan-Great Britain which was a tight game at the time. Lots of turnovers by both teams and then Japan pulled it out. Then another long walk to find lunch at the burrito place from yesterday. BTW, this is all with Jim, contributing to the legend... Back to the fields, catch some frisbee, and Dan F. from Canada showed us a picture from his perv cam of a woman with a long lollipop in her mouth. Fortunately the picture was out of focus so it was able to be submitted for a best day picture.
Another trip to the stadium to watch Japan play New Zealand, and actually lose. Doesn't bode well for our game tomorrow as we are totally going to look past that game... :) Especially after a 4 hour bye (even longer based on probably crushing the French team in the morning well before the 2 hours window). DoG doesn't do well after a long bye, which we have proved numerous times.
Finally, time to get to the field at around 4PM for our 5PM showcase game. Warmed up for awhile, looked at the stands, notice no one was there, realized that I couldn't drink yet, then the game started. The game didn't start out well for the O, and not because we started on O. We are worst off when the D gets a bunch of turns early but doesn't score. It makes the O think that they have to do all the dirty work, so we put a bunch of pressure on ourselves. Regardless, the O sucked and we went down at half 9-5. This included 2 hammer turnovers by yours truly, although both receivers felt they needed to catch them at the maximum point of the arc rather than just catching them (I try not to throw hammers so that the defender has a play). In both cases, the defenders didn't have any real play on the disc, but both receivers played it that way and dropped them. They are both my turnovers, but still frustrating.
Fortunately the D pulled this game out as they went on a number of runs. We ultimately won the game 16-14. We pulled at 15-14 and they stuffed and scored. I was more than ecstatic to not have to go back onto the field for double game point at 15-15.
I'm really tired right now since it is 12:30 (or 3:30 eastern time), so hopefully I will be able to add to this tomorrow.
Amusing anecdotes
* Jim made a joke about Andrew Lugsdin playing the Danny Clark role for the day when he saw him against the Dominican Republic.
* Drinking into the wee hours with the Canadian team that we had just beaten. Apparently it was BC day in this part of Canada and no liquor stores were open.
* Match challenging me to a shotgun right after the victory and me explaining to him that after a dehydrating event the esophagus shrinks and you have to drink/chug a lot of fluids to expand it again. At this point, I haven't taken his challenge.
* Watching numerous Family Guy episodes in our room that are stored on Paul Greff's laptop.
* Mootching beer and fun off the Shazam team that is right across the hall from us.
* Schmooing with Dan Fassina and abusing him about choosing to play with the Canadians.
posted by Alex de Frondeville at 3:04 AM
2 Comments:
by the danny clark roll you mean sitting on the sideline with a hamstring strain? or something about how he actually plays?
anyway, sounds good so far, but what's with all the turnovers? maybe you need some better receivers, that must be it.
good luck.
bailey
Oof. Just reread my entry and had to make some edits. Boy was I 'tired' when I wrote this one.
The Danny Clark comment was referring to sitting on the sideline with a different color jersey, ie., injured, although I don't think Lugsdin was injured.
It was definitely a flukey wind on that field, not that it is a good excuse. The O needs a lot of work though. Good thing we have a few more days to do so.
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