Weeks 12 & 13, Fall Season 2007
MERRY CHRISTMAS
& HOPEFULLY
A BETTER NEW YEAR!
By Cuppa Joe Gasparino
Excuses.
I'm not one for excuses. And neither is Cpt FURIOUS. But we've just been too damned busy lately to get these writeups up in time. Especially these last 2 weeks, with the holiday season craziness....and working through it as well. Good for Cuppa and the Cpt (being busy that is), but bad for the 'Bags, our fans and followers.
We apologize. Not only for this writeup (which falls solely on my shoulders), but for this fall season in general.
But most importantly, there is no excuse for the black hole we've fallen into, as a team. I will note though: we had a great time the past few weeks in spite of it all. I think our 'drunken-holi-daze' came early this year.
As for our play...or lack thereof...its been a slow burn over the second-half of the season. The abyss we find ourselves in comes after what I consider to be the worst loss in Dartbags history.
Week 12 we lost to division leader 'Bullistics', 15-9. We played without our Captain, FURIOUS, so we knew it would be tough. We considered 15-9 damage control.
Those guys shot great, notably Paul 'The Quiz' Quisenberry, and Dean 'The Machine' McCarthy. That guy is a cyborg, by the way. Great shot. We did all manage to have a great time as well. Sorry if I'm leaving some guys out, but Joe Taras shot well...again...and is about as good a guy as there is in this league.
This writeup (here we go with excuses, but I don't care, I'm only human) will suffer from holiday season-itis. Too bad. Sorry. Better luck for the writing staff next year. So tidbits, statistics are gone.
I actually found the sheets from one of these 2 weeks, but I'm not going to post it. I don't want to slight the other team. So lets just call it even, shall we?
One note: Cliff, the Bullistics captain, was upset about something Frank wrote last season. I went back and checked. I think it takes some interpretation and imagination to take what Frank wrote and consider them 'fighting words'. Not literally 'fighting', but...you get the point.
I just don't see it. If anyone is interested go see for youself in the archive. We like playing you guys. We like 99% of the guys in the league....our whole deal, mantra...whatever you want to call it is friendly, drinkin'est, etc. I'm busy. I can't explain anymore. Its all good. Yadda yadda.
There was no mal-intent.
On to last week's debacle:
Week 13 we lost to 'Hands of Doom', 16-8. Call this our 'nightmare before christmas' match.
We stunk. We were as lackluster and confused....as apathetic as I've ever seen us. But, again...it was good-times in spite of it. It was almost like...dare I say...we didn't care. I mean...we do care, but...we were just sort of shrugging our shoulders like..."oh well", or the familiar "wow", as the next HOD player took more games from us.
Total apathy. However, that disappeared in rounds 2 and 3. Case in point: I nearly broke my left hand punching the wall during cricket. So, yeah....you could say that we cared.
But in general, maybe we thought things would come easier for us this season. I think everything happens for a reason. Hopefully this wakes us up. We've been sleeping our way through singles the entire second-half of this season.
They were very good. Ross Cohen was en fuego most notably, in singles, sweeping Glennjamin, IYH, The Alpha Dog, which is a first, I think. As a team, we were down 11-1 after singles.
Thats not a typo. 11-1. We were down. They had 11 points....we had 1 point.
Out of a total of 12 games played in the singles 501 round....those guys won 11 singles 501 games, and we only won 1 of them.
Kudos to them. We stunk to high-holy-heaven. Combine it...blend it...chop it...slice it...dice it...roll it...chew it...screw it...
...you get 11-1 in singles. And a 16-8 final.
Silver lining: we went 7-5 after singles. Including the best cricket Frank and I, Cuppa, played all season long.
I guess the bottom line is....we're a bit lost. I hope this crazy holiday season has erased our minds of all this heinousness. I know it has for me. I haven't thrown a dart since. I think thats a good thing, Martha.
But like I said....the last month has been a blast. Christmas came early. Still recovering. Santa was good to this 'Bag. I hope he was good to the rest of us, and to all of you, who read this thing...and who will hopefully continue to stay tuned. The writeups will get back on track post holi-daze.
I really gotta run.
Our last match of the season is monday. Not this monday. That would be the eve of the new year. Darts will be put away until '08.
So, our next match is on monday, January 7th. Long lay-off...but if we don't wake up before then, we're in danger of falling into 3rd place, as we're only 5 points ahead of 'The Alleymen'.
I don't know what happens in that case. But we should make the playoffs. I think.
Thats all I got right now. I should be designing stuff.
Peace. Happy holidays...merry christmas. Adios.
One more thing: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
& HOPEFULLY
A BETTER NEW YEAR!
By Cuppa Joe Gasparino
Excuses.
I'm not one for excuses. And neither is Cpt FURIOUS. But we've just been too damned busy lately to get these writeups up in time. Especially these last 2 weeks, with the holiday season craziness....and working through it as well. Good for Cuppa and the Cpt (being busy that is), but bad for the 'Bags, our fans and followers.
We apologize. Not only for this writeup (which falls solely on my shoulders), but for this fall season in general.
But most importantly, there is no excuse for the black hole we've fallen into, as a team. I will note though: we had a great time the past few weeks in spite of it all. I think our 'drunken-holi-daze' came early this year.
As for our play...or lack thereof...its been a slow burn over the second-half of the season. The abyss we find ourselves in comes after what I consider to be the worst loss in Dartbags history.
Week 12 we lost to division leader 'Bullistics', 15-9. We played without our Captain, FURIOUS, so we knew it would be tough. We considered 15-9 damage control.
Those guys shot great, notably Paul 'The Quiz' Quisenberry, and Dean 'The Machine' McCarthy. That guy is a cyborg, by the way. Great shot. We did all manage to have a great time as well. Sorry if I'm leaving some guys out, but Joe Taras shot well...again...and is about as good a guy as there is in this league.
This writeup (here we go with excuses, but I don't care, I'm only human) will suffer from holiday season-itis. Too bad. Sorry. Better luck for the writing staff next year. So tidbits, statistics are gone.
I actually found the sheets from one of these 2 weeks, but I'm not going to post it. I don't want to slight the other team. So lets just call it even, shall we?
One note: Cliff, the Bullistics captain, was upset about something Frank wrote last season. I went back and checked. I think it takes some interpretation and imagination to take what Frank wrote and consider them 'fighting words'. Not literally 'fighting', but...you get the point.
I just don't see it. If anyone is interested go see for youself in the archive. We like playing you guys. We like 99% of the guys in the league....our whole deal, mantra...whatever you want to call it is friendly, drinkin'est, etc. I'm busy. I can't explain anymore. Its all good. Yadda yadda.
There was no mal-intent.
On to last week's debacle:
Week 13 we lost to 'Hands of Doom', 16-8. Call this our 'nightmare before christmas' match.
We stunk. We were as lackluster and confused....as apathetic as I've ever seen us. But, again...it was good-times in spite of it. It was almost like...dare I say...we didn't care. I mean...we do care, but...we were just sort of shrugging our shoulders like..."oh well", or the familiar "wow", as the next HOD player took more games from us.
Total apathy. However, that disappeared in rounds 2 and 3. Case in point: I nearly broke my left hand punching the wall during cricket. So, yeah....you could say that we cared.
But in general, maybe we thought things would come easier for us this season. I think everything happens for a reason. Hopefully this wakes us up. We've been sleeping our way through singles the entire second-half of this season.
They were very good. Ross Cohen was en fuego most notably, in singles, sweeping Glennjamin, IYH, The Alpha Dog, which is a first, I think. As a team, we were down 11-1 after singles.
Thats not a typo. 11-1. We were down. They had 11 points....we had 1 point.
Out of a total of 12 games played in the singles 501 round....those guys won 11 singles 501 games, and we only won 1 of them.
Kudos to them. We stunk to high-holy-heaven. Combine it...blend it...chop it...slice it...dice it...roll it...chew it...screw it...
...you get 11-1 in singles. And a 16-8 final.
Silver lining: we went 7-5 after singles. Including the best cricket Frank and I, Cuppa, played all season long.
I guess the bottom line is....we're a bit lost. I hope this crazy holiday season has erased our minds of all this heinousness. I know it has for me. I haven't thrown a dart since. I think thats a good thing, Martha.
But like I said....the last month has been a blast. Christmas came early. Still recovering. Santa was good to this 'Bag. I hope he was good to the rest of us, and to all of you, who read this thing...and who will hopefully continue to stay tuned. The writeups will get back on track post holi-daze.
I really gotta run.
Our last match of the season is monday. Not this monday. That would be the eve of the new year. Darts will be put away until '08.
So, our next match is on monday, January 7th. Long lay-off...but if we don't wake up before then, we're in danger of falling into 3rd place, as we're only 5 points ahead of 'The Alleymen'.
I don't know what happens in that case. But we should make the playoffs. I think.
Thats all I got right now. I should be designing stuff.
Peace. Happy holidays...merry christmas. Adios.
One more thing: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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