Finishing on a High Note

​We finished the season strong! Beating Wild Hogs was fun and standing up in the Sin Bin 10-5 was a good way to close out the season. We played well: June had another great night, and even with Arno having a rare shit night and Greg and Jeremy out we still won easily. We seemed to have solved our doubles problems too. We play regular well and we have good teams now. Greg/Jeremy is very good. June/Jeremy and June/Ralph is very good. Enda/Ralph is very good. Arno/Johnny is very good. 2LS/Johnny is very good. The playoffs start on Sunday. Let's meet at Bless U at 6.30 and watch the end of the other Bless U games before starting our match. It looks like we play the Velvet Fingers. We should handle them but they are no pushovers. Great job iTeam on an awesome regular season. Let's keep it up in the playoffs. I'm drunk and this taxi driver is absolute shit -- he is over seventy and keeps insisting he is sevenTEEN. I want to grow up like that.


Our Team Doubles Records (with winning percentage -- yes, i know i'm a geek!):

Arno/Johnny record 5-8 62%
Arno/Micky 2-2 100%
Arno/Ralph 0-1 0%
Arno/Yo Yang 2-2 100%
Arno/2LS 0-1 0%
Jeremy/Johnny 2-2 100%
Jeremy/Micky 1-2 50%
Jeremy/Ralph 0-2 0%
Johnny/2LS 2-2 100%
Johnny/Micky 0-1 0%
Greg/Micky 2-5 40%
Greg/Enda 0-1 0%
Greg/Jeremy 1-1 100%
Ralph/Yo Yang 0-2 0%
Ralph/Enda 4-6 67%
Ralph/Micky 2-2 100%
Ralph/Johnny 1-2 50%
Yo Yang/Micky 0-1 0%

*red teams denote shit teams
**green teams denote good teams

Our Individual Doubles Records (with winning percentage):

1. Johnny 10/14 71%
2. Arno 66%
3. Jeremy 5/8 62%
4. 2LS 4/7 57%
5. Enda 4/7 57%
6. Greg 5/9 56%
7. Micky 8/16 50%
8. Ralph 9/18 50%
9. Yo Yang 2/6 33%

If I get in another geeky mood I'll do our singles winning percentages. Anyway, Johnny is our best doubles player!!

On a kind of funny side-note, Chris Larsen took a really great photo of a dejected Wild Hogs team watching us steal the victory last Wednesday. I'll try to post it if he sends it to me.

Also, next season we are changing our name to one of the following:

Bless U in the Hole
Bless U up in the Hole
Bless U Holes
Bless U Hole

^.^

Wild Hogs get tamed and caged

What a night! What a match! So good! iTeam beats Wild Hogs 8-7 in an epic match. Micky played great and changed the momentum in game twelve and we finally broke out in doubles and played like we are capable of playing! Jeremy/Greg, Micky/Ralph, Arno/Johnny are the teams that finally swept a night of doubles. Who's next? Shin-bin?

The photo cracked me up because they are usually such a boisterous team. I think we stunned them into silence and solitude, lol.

Preview: 3AP

Tonight is 3AP. The table has been re-felted. Greg, Johnny, Yo Yang, Enda and I all played there in previous seasons so the atmosphere shouldn't give us too much trouble. I like Albert and Bernie a lot. It should be a pretty fun night. I know Johnny really wants to win! That whole team plays well but Johan and Rod are there only really good players. We have Arno and Greg (are they pros?)  to counter them and still have a lot of firepower after that.

Can we win doubles?

I am still not sure what doubles pairings work the best for iTeam (name to be changed to Eight Ball in the Hole). Feel free to post any ideas in the comments below or to tell me by phone or in person. 

Best Doubles Pairings:

Johnny / Arno

Ralph / Enda

Jeremy / Micky

Bench: Yo Yang, Greg, 2LS

Alternate Teams:

Johnny / Micky

Jeremy / Enda

Ralph / Arno

Greg / Yo Yang

Back to Winning Ways

iTeam 11
Orangutans 4

Well, it appears we have learned to win again although there were a lot of missed eight balls, including two near-special games. All in all, a very good win against a team that will be quite good in a season or two.

Terrible Loss to King Shava

Seoul Pub 8
Bless U 7

The good news? We no longer need to play at Seoul Pub this season, nothing I drank there killed me, and Yo Yang and Enda have played five matches.

Preview: iTeam vs. Shava

This week it's Seoul Pub Shava which would be a pretty easy match if we were playing anywhere but at Seoul Pub. That table can do some mysterious things. I like the name of the other team quite a bit and think of King Shava as something of a role-model. See some info about him below.

King Shava

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

King Shava was the adopted father of Bahuka, as mentioned in the Mahabarata.

He had multiple wives and mistresses, and according to folktale he had 1301 children. He married his youngest wife after she was rejected by his son Bahuka. He loved his youngest queen the most because they both had similar low, gruffy voices. In some accounts they spoke with the same voice. He stood eight feet tall and had multi-colored hair.

iTeam gets Triangulated

Last week was a somewhat disappointing loss. We're kind of in a team slump. I never like losing, but if we have to lose this is the time and way to do it. We are a good team and have proven we can play with anybody. I think the Wonky Triangles were more supportive of each other, i mean they clap their heads of after every single shot -- like it is the Mosconi Cup. They have some good players and no shit players but we are the same way. Last week we kind of got down on ourselves after the second round. This week, we can set the ship right again and blaze into the sunset.