Hot/Not

The Kansas boys are fond of posting these sort of things on RSD. Here is a take of my "Open Club Men's Nationals!" experience in hot vs. not form.

Hot: Beachhouse large enough to house the entire team
Not: Waking up early to clean beachhouse large enough to house the entire team

Hot: Winning spirit award with The Van Buren Boys (take that RSD!)
Not: Going 0-7.
Really Not: Thinking that spiking the wooden spirit disc would be funny, cocking my wrist back to spike the disc, and clocking Rob Mooers in the face. The blood cleaned off.

Hot: Giving Machine a scare.
Not: Getting my quad pounded by Wooten. Imagine a 6'6''/200lb muscle roller. It happened on Friday, it's now Tuesday and my quad still oscillates between pain/soreness.

Hot: Winning some in-and-out box in the ocean.
Not: Giving Jake a black eye playing in-and-out box in the ocean.

Hot: Undefeated boat racing at the Beer Garden.
Not: Puking in your friend's car on the ride home. You know who you were.

Hot: Sleeping out on the deck in the cool Florida evenings.
Not: Being covered in bug bites from sleeping out on the deck.

Hot: Talking about future ultimate plans less than 4 hours after the end of the season.
Not: Finding out that a lot of players already have plans for next year.

Hot: Partying with your teammates every night.
Not: Going to a hot, overcrowded bar with lots of people apparently looking for fights.

This nationals experience was the most fun I've had. With CLX, we had fun, but with The Van Buren Boys, we tore the house down every night, really, Lou and I wrastled a little and tore a seam in the drywall. Matt walked through the closed screendoor. Some dishes were broken. Wimer set off some smoke alarms. Friday night was a little wild, featuring some swimming. Most people went down in streeclothes that turned into impromptu swimming clothes as people were dragged down to the water.

I had some great conversations over the weekend with X, Swartie, Icepick, Amy, Jimmy, Mr. Regionals, and Stu. Got to hang out with Beckified Nation and Doegefied Nation, Wimer, Ross, and others. That Ross, not much of a wrestler. All in all, it was great hanging out with everybody. Oh yeah, include a Barrett/Kevin cards victory over Joe/Lou. Lou, that guy can take some crap, which is good, because I dish some crap. Thanks Lou, it was a lot fun this year.

I don't have too much to comment on about the tournament itself. We went 0-7, probably could have won 2 or 3 games, but didn't pull them out. The Machine game was certainly winnable, we lost 15-12, but had some wide-open drops that kept us from winning, among other things, I suppose. The Ring game was 15-12, too, but I'm not so sure that one was winnable. We were in it the whole time, but it would have taken more than just cleaning up a few bad mistakes. The GOAT game was an offensive showdown, until they scored 5 in a row to end the game against us. Our defense rarely got the disc and when we did, we rarely scored, which was frustrating as a defensive player. We didn't even get our first break until the second half of the Ring game. I think we were down at half 8-5 against Ring, Doublewide, Rhino, Machine, and Pike. 8-6 against GOAT. It wasn't until we played Rhino on Saturday that we had our first lead.

Well, that's about it. It was really fun to get back to Sarasota after not going last year and playing with this group of guys all year. We may not have ruled the school, but we gave it our best shot.