So This Is The New Year

The scene - Hammers have just taken a 3-1 lead over the all-bluey Random Fling. Aaron turns to Derek "I think we've got this one - we PWN this game" (PWN - pronounced "owwwwn"). Derek shudders and pretends he did not hear this, but it was too late - the jinx had been cast, like a stampeding PATRONUS curse, trampling any chance we had at victory.

But let us not talk about the score (which was 10-7, for them), or the dropped passes (which were numerous, from everybody), or the wobbly forehand passes (hi), or the turnout (which was scant), or whose fault this all was (because as we've already established, it was mine) - let us talk potential. Envision it - already resigned to our pending defeat, the Hammers stand along the goal line, awaiting the RF huck, and propose an experiment, nay - a gameplan: "let's try working on our short game". What followed was a series of surgically precise 10 yard passes that nearly resulted in what would have been the most beautiful point of the evening. Hammers, we have it in us; as a great man once said "if you want it, you got it, you just got to believe". That man, was Lenny Kravitz.

EDIT - I'd like to add that the actual "most beautiful point of the game" was the long Hammer (entendre!) from Derek to Ivan to finally drive a stake into that seemingly-interminable game... a thing of beauty.

See you next week!
-AA