Well that was TOTALLY a travel but whatever...

Tonight the discs were certainly array but soft hands and quick feet led BoH to a kick ass victory over the most passive aggressive team we have played to date. Do people not understand that we aren't to be messed with? That knees to the shins and knees to the balls could not keep us down so half ass pansy calls certainly were not going to knock us off our game. Even with the praying mantiss all up in the boys' bizness.

Big ups to Becky Davison who surely gets Player of the Game for making great catches but most importantly for playing THE ENTIRE GAME. And folks that is impressive stuff because dem ladies could run. Even Booby McBooberson who you think would have gravity issues (I can say shit like that cuz I am a chick). But really, high-fives all around because we were only a team of 8 with a tag in performance late in the second half by Jacqueline (ps. I owe you huge Jacq cuz had you not subbed in I may have actually thrown up).

With victory ours, a smaller than normal crew braved the mean streets of downtown Dartmouth where Tim drank wine in a muscle shirt and the ladies chowed down on victory burgers and fries. All in all everyone assumed we were locals. Although it did get a bit tense when AA announced to the crowd that would not be in attendance at the upcoming Concert on the Hill because the last time he saw Metallica play "it really hurt (his) chest."

Keep up the good work kids. I love me a winning team.

Zing!

In my mind, the obvious TSN headline for last night's stunning, come-from-behind (tee-hee) Hammers' victory is "Hammers 2 Legit 2 Quit". Yes, it is as if MC Hammer's entire career was a Nostradamus-like prophecy foreseeing our greatest victories - such as last night.

Playing on a field so Soft And Wet that it threatened many an ankle and kneecap, the Hammers faced an early deficit after a soggy start. But soon after, the Hammers collective confidence was popping like so much KFC Popcorn Chicken, raining points on a dejected Random Fling - whose lack of female subs likely put them at a disadvantage as the game wore on. No matter, no mercy - This Is The Way We Roll. I suppose that's not entirely true, after all, the repeated fouling of Dan and his subsequent composure demonstrated plenty of mercy. Calm on the outside, likely raging on the inside, Dan's internal monologue could be heard screaming, you guessed it, Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em (boo).

Last night also saw the return of Aimee - Have You Seen Her? Player of the game, she cut, caught and counted like she had never left. Consider also the strong D from Michelle and some solid play from new Hammer Jason (and all y'all in general) - how could we lose?

Good work team!

PS: I am pretty disappointed I could not find a creative way to work a reference to Pumps And A Bump into the above. Sigh.

Bag Of Hammers: A Convoluted History

Okay, this is gonna look bad. I have two kids, a full time job, an ant-infested house and a cat that would rather piss on the dining room floor than use a litter that hasn't been cleaned in 12 hours... what I'm trying to say is that I shouldn't have time to plot the lineage of the Bag Of Hammers, in Excel, back to 2006 using old email lists. But that is what I did. Because I care. And also because I'm lame.

Behold (click to enlarge):

So, yeah. Let me know if anything looks off (i.e. if you were not recruited by whom I thought you were). FYI, "XXX" is the name of the Ultimate team circa-2000ish that eventually spawned the Hammers you now know and love (assumption) - think of XXX as the caterpillar to our butterfly, the Thrashers to our Jets, the "Mork & Mindy" to our "Happy Days".

(/Lame)

PS: there are some great names in there... Van Zutphen. Sawatzky. Knopp. Gallop. MacDonald. etc.

One game down, one game won

Not a hefty challenge last night but nice to start with a win. Let's string together a couple more so we get elevated to the top tier before getting slammed back to reality against the teams stacked with traveling players.

Great to see everyone again and it did my heart good to see such a turnout for drinks afterward. The social aspect of the team once again trumps the on-the-field stuff for me.

That said, the decimation of Key Lime Pi underlined a key point - the new Hammers will be huge in our 2011 success. Having Marcie for the full year is awesome and Maria and Jason immediately proved to be valuable additions for both moving the disc and socializing post-game. Awesome stuff.

Mike's Hard Lemonade Player of the Game goes to Michelle, who provided the girls with a sub when she raced to the field from her meeting, ran hard and (perhaps most importantly) attended Sunday's dreadful captains' meeting. We're eternally in your debt.

Next game - Thursday June 9 at 9:30pm at Wanderer's Ground under the lights!
Peace.