Captain's Log: 71506

Captain's Log: 71506

Disregarding Poultry Days, which is fair, CLX had its first coed tournament of the season over the weekend. In an earlier log, I wrote that the Minneapolis Ultimate Disc Invitational COULD have some great competition. It didn't happen. I don't know how well Chaos was playing, but CLX was kind of there to play Flaming Moe in the finals.

Tangent...Talking 'Bout Orange Shoes Blues indeed. I had just resewn my orange cleats, which I've been using for over two years now and have had fixed a number of times. They may have finally been retired after taking extensive damage on Saturday. Stitches busted. Cleats nearly torn off and very vulnerable. Not good. I have a backup pair of Copas that I can't complain about, but it's just not the same...

Our first five games of the tournament were challenging only in the sense that sometimes we had to overcome our own lethargy between games. I can't even remember all the teams we played now, that sounds kind of elitist and I hope people don't think of CLX like that. But, I don't think there are any teams in the central region past Moe, Ice, and Briefcase that can beat us. It brings to mind a Principal Skinner quote: "Prove me wrong, children, prove me wrong."

Finals against Moe. We start off taking a 3-1 lead and the game is looking like a classic CLX-Moe final. Then, they outscore us 7-3? or 4? and take I think an 8-5 halftime lead. Dragging over from previous games are lack of mid-range cuts. We have a lot of short yardage gainers and long cuts, but nothing really happening in the middle. Second half is more of the same and and we trade a lot, maybe all downwind points to lost 15-11? I don't even know the final score. Maybe Moe got an early upwinder. Scratch that, I remember now, a big backhand huck. Unless that was first half...

Moe is looking good. Like 2004 good when they should have made nationals and surely would have performed better than Carleton or Hot Action did. I think they could have easily finished top 8 that year, even though some of my teammates did not agree. 2005 Moe was confusing. They were not scary anymore. We beat them 7 times, I think, though they did take CHCs. We played them in the game to go to nationals, the third place game at regionals, and it was like they had decided they would lose before the game began. Well, they're back and possibly better than ever. At least I think their men are. They didn't cut Joe and Lou, which was a great move. They had two, three, or four other new guys, two of whom seemed to be call-heavy, which sucks, but it was only one game, maybe it won't continue. Most all their guys are solid throwers and good cutters. I didn't get a good feel for how their women are. They had some new ones and it seems like their women aren't as much of a threat as in year's past, but that will be found out in future games. I like that the rivalry is back on, but not that we lost!

Other notes:

-We were missing some players, but not enough to say that we could have/should have won. Moe beat us. Brian and Abby could have helped with handling and Darren and BJ could have helped with D, Sheldahls cutting, but enough to win the game? I'm not sure.

-I expressed a need for handlers before. Still goes. Solarz is great and will certainly help us out for the rest of the season and in Australia. Stu play more this weekend and a lot more active than Poultry Days. But, I wish both of them would look to huck a little more. I don't know if they got the CLX-memo about risky throws being okay... We could use another guy hucker, though. Jake threw some quality hucks.

-Next tournament out in Detroit. Against really hard competition. Looking forward to it. Time for bed.