No Pancakes - Eating Crow

There is always a delicate balance between frustration and fun when playing rec sports; I've always been of the opinion that win or lose, at the end of the day the most important thing was the exercise and the fresh air and the promise of a weekday beer buzz. Like Hal Johnson says, "stay fit, and have fun". That said, screw you Hal, goddammit did I want to win last night. And I tried really hard, to the point of nearly breaking my back on the ground and needlessly punishing my leg muscles such that they (and I) were virtually useless for most of our second game. I also injured Mark. And I accept full responsibility for any demerits to our spirit score from my swearing and spitting and blowing snot rockets, plus any other general embarrassing behavior stemming from my excessive expenditure of effort (alliteration!) for a co-ed recreational Frisbee game. Oh, and I punched a baby in the face and ate a kitten.

But to revisit my first sentence - this morning I wasn't bitter about the losses, or upset about my missed defensive cues, or kicking myself over all my wonky throws and dropped passes, rather I was chuckling over Derek's Rocky II impressions... and Michelle and Ivan's Lost quotes... and my planting the Frisbee under Ivan's chin as he blew past me at mach 5 (and his subsequent glowering)... and Adam's default resting position pre-huck (i.e.) crawling around on all fours. So yeah, we win some, we lose some, we are still obviously the third best team in the third tier of HURL.

Not to take away from Tim's pending post-game, but my Freeman's Overpriced Stella Draught Players of the Night were Becky, who saved many an errant pass, and Aimee, who never seems to drop anything, and Ryan, for being our heroic scorekeeper. Also noteworthy, Cruddick's now-standard 100-yard dashes and Tim's laying out on D. All positives. Playoffs should be fun, all.

Note that the above was typed to a soundtrack of Cat Stevens, so I apologize for any hippy whimsy contained herein.

EDIT: Also, unrelated - http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&ChannelID=144084911 (Things start getting good around the 1:00-mark)