Sunday October 6

67 degrees completely overcast with slight drizzle: perfect weather for soccer!  We started a little late with 11 v 11.  No Bobby or Frank, Mark S is still in Africa.  Tomas brought a friend, Giuseppe and a kid, Michael.  Dave brought a friend, Mike and a stranger, Doug, showed up and asked to play.  So with Giuseppi in the white net and Doug in the blue, we got going;

Jordan for white, 1-0
Mario for white, 2-0
Jeff for blue, 2-1
Jay for blue, 2-2
Rosner, who's been on fire lately, for white, 3-2
Dave to Jay to Jeff, 3-3
Jeff, 3-4
Guest Mike for blue with a beauty shot from outside, 3-5
Corner by George put in by Guest Mike, 3-6
Rocco to Jay, 3-7
Jay corner to George, 3-8
Jordan to Eric for white, 4-8
Eric to Rosner, 5-8
George heads the ball to Jeff, 5-9
Jeff, 5-10
Dave finally connects, 5-11
Jordan all alone, 6-11
Miller bounces one off the keeper to Mario, 7-11
Mario to Mike the kid, 8-11

Mario says he'll be away for the next couple of games.  Whatever.  Rocc says new shirts should be here by next Sunday. Shirt Day always attracts a big crowd, so let's show up early and start on time.

Sunday September 29

Not sure what happened last week.  Today is 45 and mostly sunny, perfect!  Domenic is back, first time since an injury on Memorial Day.  We started with 10 white vs 9 blue full court, Steve in the blue net, Bobby and others in the the white.

Jay to Keeble for white at 8:23, 1-0
Teddy for blue, 1-1
Ceebow for white, but I think he was offsides, 2-1
Jeff comes right back for blue, 2-2
Rosner booms one in for white at 8:47, 3-2
Jeff again at 8:57, 3-3
Ros again at 9:00, 4-3
Mario corner kick tapped in by Miller!, 5-3
Ros to Mario, brilliant save by Steve, rebound tapped in by Yo, 6-3
Ros to Yo, 7-3
Miller comes over to the blue side making it 10 v 9
Jeff at 9:15, 7-4
George to Marlen, 7-5
Yo to Keebs, 8-5
Dom to Jeff, 8-6
Dom & Teddy left, we continued 8 v 9, still full court
Ros with another boomer, 9-6
Mario puts upa floater over Steves head, 10-6
Marlen, 10-7
4 on 0 fast break by white, Mario scores!, 11-7
Yo, 12-7

We're all pretty tired and quit before 10.

A couple of weeks ago Keith pulled a Mario on Mario himself, passing the ball between the great one's  legs.  I was able to capture this real time image of the historic event:

See you next week.

Sunday September 15

44 and sunny at game time, it's still only 61 as I write this, simply sublime soccer weather.  We started 9 v 10 with Doug in the blue net, Steve arrived and took over the white net to make it 11 v 9, so Danny came over to the blue side.  Dimos showed up today, first time since April.  We're underway about 8:15:

Marlen for blue after a corner kick by Jeff and several valiant saves by Steve, at 8:34, 1-0

Imad showed up and joined the whities;

Rosner to Ceebow at 8:42 for white, 1-1

Marlen with a nice cross to Jeff, 2-1

Shamoo leaves the game with a bum fin, evening up the sides at 10 v 10

Mario at 9:12, 2-2

Jeff at 9:30, 3-2

Rich leaves the game so blues are down a guy

Rosner bangs one through the hands of Doug at 9:34, 3-3

Rosner leaves the game

Mario at 9:38, 3-4

So with 9v9 we institute the white line rule which is kind of a bitch;

Jeff at 9:41, 4-4

Jeff at 9:51, 5-4

Imad with a beauty cross to head of Ceebow at 9:54, 5-5

We played on for a while with lots of offsides plays by the whities and quit about 9:10.

Once again I will urge players to respect one another's health and welfare.  There are certain players amongst us who are bangers and its hard for me, a former but now older, kinder and gentler banger, to criticize anyone's game, but we all have to work tomorrow.  Except me. I'm off to OCMD for a week, then to DC to visit Willy the Kid.  If anyone cares to make a record of next weeek's match, go ahead and post it here, or e mail it to me and I will post it throught the miracle that is the internet (thanks Shamoo)  For the record, Ceebones has the balls.

Sunday September 8

Beautiful morning, warmer than it's been.  We started 10 v 10 and got up to 25 guys, George, Marlen, and George are back, and Shamoo is back from France.  No Jelly, Dave or Ben.

Steve showed up to man the net for white, field players did ten minute stints in the blue net.

Tomas for blue, 1-0
Rocco to Chompan for a miss, Jeff taps it in for blue, 2-0
Chompan gets one, 3-0
Vince digs out from the baseline and makes a tough turnaround pass to Jon Billow for white, 3-1
Jeff for blue, 4-1
Lazer Dave to Vince, 4-2
Marlen to Rocco, 5-2
Mark Schwartz left the game due to a pulled muscle ay 9:10
Mario, 5-3
Keebus left the game without having scored, also due to injury at 9:24
Rocco, 6-3
George to Rocco, 7-3
Mark Miller to Jeff, 8-3
George, 9-3
Late water break and we attempted to continue 9 v 9, but no real enthusiasm, Rocc scored and we quit.

Keith asked me to mention the "We all have to work tomorrow" rule, and I have brought it up in the past.  We have banned slide tackles and we might have to consider some restrictions on contested headers.  It's certainly part of the game but one with great risk of real injury.  Discuss.

A word about Shamoo.  He's just back from a week's drinking safari in Europe.  I can just barely get out to AB&G for a few pints with the boys on my birthday.  A week in France with the sole purpose of drinking from morning into the late night, day after day. Damn.  Just damn.  Scott wins.  He's tall and handsome, athletic, drives a Mercedes, discovered the internet, quite a guy.  And all these photos of beautiful women's bottoms?  Yes, I took the photos, but all the women were provided by Scott.  When I grow up, I want to be Scott.

Sunday Sept 1, Labor Day Weekend

Overcast and muggy today.  We're joined by Brandon Dossantos and Justin Mihalnec, Tomas is back from Italy, no Marks, no Kieth, no Mu.  We started about 10 v 10, nobody in the white ent and Dave Das in for blue;
Tomas on an empty net for blue, 1-0
(Frank jumps in net)
Cee for blue, 2-0
Jay with a short corner kick to Rosner to Tomas, 3-0

Then Doug and Steve showed up, Doug went white, Steve blue, and we agreed to reset;

Justin to Keeble for a tap-in at 8:40, for white, 1-0
Blonde Dave showed up bringing the sides up to 13 each,
C for blue, but denied due to an alleged foul on Dave,
Teddy for white at 9:00, 2-0
Jeff left the blues so Dave came over for balance;
Brandon gets one for white at 9:27, 3-0
Imad for blue, 3-1
(thunder and light rain, lightning alarms in the distance);
Dave to Jay? (pad is wet and smearing) --no Dave to Jamal for an own goal, 3-2
Jay to Imad to Cee, 3-3
Mario, 4-3 and its raining too hard to continue.

Game tomorrow?

Sunday August 25

The delightful weather trend continues.  This morning it's 56 at my house and the field is covered with dew.  I figured we'd have more than enough players, but we started at quarter after eight 10 v 10, Doug in the white net, me in for blue.  Steve showed up to take over and make it 10 v 11.

Dan to Keeble (back from England) tap in at 8:42 for white, 1-0
Jeff comes right back for blue, at 8:43, 1-1
Jay for blue at 8:46, 1-2
Jay free kick to Chompan during a dispute over a possible foul at 9:10, 1-3
followed by a water break.  Shamoo is out with a pulled calf and Teddy has a piggy boo-boo so they both left the game.  M Schwartz came over to the blue side to even up the sides and we shortened the field.
Imad for white at 9:17, 2-3
Imad to Dan at 9:22, 3-3
Vince finally puts one in for blue after hitting the post several times, at 9:23, 3-4
Danny to head of Keeble, 4-4
Vince apparently has his shot calibrated, at 9:32, 4-5
Vince, 4-6
Imad banks one of the feet of Keeble at 9:40, 5-6
Imad corner kick to Keeble, 6-6
Blond Dave for blue, 6-7
After a scrum in front of the blue net, the ball pops out and Miller pops it back over the heads of all, from the 23 yard line, 7-7

Jerry said he got about 20 to show up Thursday night.  Everybody should have their money in to Rocco by now, he will be ordering new shirts shortly.  I came across a different concept in soccer attire: painted on uniforms.  We might consider this an option, but it probably wouldn't work in the colder months.

Sunday August 18

After a week of mid September weather, its cool and overcast this morning, perfect!  Lots of us felt the same way, we got up to 14 blue vs. 13 white.  Steve in net for white, ten minute stints in the net for blue.  Jamal is back, also Eddie, Bob Hurt, Imad, Joakim.  Laser Dave and Mike the Wizard are both on the white team, seems grim, but...

Imad for blue at 8:33, 1-0
Jeff with a nice cross to head of Eric for blue at 8:35, 2-0
Imad at 8:38, 3-0
Ted from the top of the key with a screamer for white at 8:44, 3-1
Jay for white after a corner kick at 8:53, 3-2
Blond Dave to Rocco at 9:09, 4-2
Ben to Jeff at 9:16, 5-2
Imad at 9:24, 6-2
Eddie left the game so Eric went to the white team to even up the sides
Jay, 6-3
Bob Hurt to Jeff to Rocco, 7-3
Blond Dave to Vince with a beauty, 8-3
Corner kick by Dave to Bob to Vince finally put in by Chompan, 9-3
Jay, 9-4
Jeff, 10-4
Mario at 9:55 due to keepers indifference, 10-5
Imad with a long cross to Vince, at 9:55, 11-5
Jeff to Vince, 12-5

So another really fun day of soccer.  Jerry has secured a field for the next ten Thursday nights and he could use a couple of more players.