Sweep!

At BMO

Obviously the big news is that Release the Hounds won the Monday Competitive Championship on Friday with a convincing 7-point victory over the Disciples of Love. Thus completed the most dominating title run since whenever the last Women's hockey tournament that Canada played in. Taking away the 6-0 default win, we won our games by an average of 19 points. But I think more impressive was limited our opponents to an average of 12 points per game.

As someone noted, it's like we were the Patriots, except that we actually won all of our games.

At the SkyDome Rogers Centre

Friday night was a busy night, as Christian and I attended the Blue Jays home opener against the Red Sox. Shaun Marcum was on fire as he struck out 8 over 7 innings. Unfortunately, we had to leave after the seventh inning, but at least we were able to see the Jays, rocking their kick-ass powder blue uniforms take the lead (which they would not relinquish). Of course, after we left there was a fight in the stands a few sections away from our seats, plus a couple of quasi-streakers before the final out. Also, I didn't get drunk.

You're welcome.

The Blue Jays had strong pitching all weekend, and Frank Thomas drove in 8 runs as they swept the Red Sox. It's still early, but it's nice to see such a strong showing right out of the gate.

For better Blue Jays analysis, there are quite a few sites out there, and I have found these two to be excellent ones:

1) The Mockingbird - This is written by a friend of mine, although I think it is just his excuse for constantly using pitch f/x. It's a site that analyzes things like batting slumps and success, pitcher's great or Towers-esque starts, and bad umpiring. All while mixing in a healthy dose of sarcasm.

2) Drunk Jays Fans - This could be the most appropriately named site since Hot Chicks with Douchebags. Considering they usually are drunk when they post, they know their shit, and are fucking hilarious. I have to swear when describing it because...well, just check it out.

TUC BBS threads that I did not write

I found this one to be amusing. All I can say is this: aren't we all, Leroy...aren't we all...

Hounds > Love

Monday's game left me with an weird feeling. While it's always nice to win, we didn't seem to play very well. What to make of it all?

Well, we did manage to shut them out for awhile (10-0!), which is quite the accomplishment against this squad. It's not like we were playing those chokers on Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner... Plus, holding the Disciples to only 13 points is a good effort. So cheers to the defense.

Jeers though must go to the offense, which only managed to score 19 times. What is this, regular point?

Something that I noticed was that the stack was set much too far away. This took away any solid deep threats, while giving their D a chance to catch up to us on our in cuts. How many deep throws did we have? With our speed, we should be trying to set that up more. Even if it isn't there, a deep strike sets up solid continuation passes and easy yardage.

We also went through stretches where everyone was trying to do everything, followed by everyone doing nothing. Perhaps the zone threw us off a bit, although I don't know why it should have. It was a passive zone with a two-man cup. Indoors! We should cut through that like Michael Myers cuts through promiscuous teenagers.

So, let's remember to maintain our stack offense, and play our game. And crush the other team.

Anyone else have any thoughts on the game?

Something you might find interesting

At least I did when I saw this thread on the TUC BBS. I don't know who this Richard K guy is, but I like the cut of his jib.

Christian's poetic question

"What's with the random poll on the side? Are we going for dim sum?
If so, I want to come."

Uh, we're playing Sasquatch and the Dumpling Gang on Monday.  I'm not very creative.

But, if you wanted, we could go for Dim Sum.
And you could eat it, and it would be yum-yum.
Perhaps wash it down with Coke and rum.
But stinky breath; don't forget to bring gum.
Tittie boobie bum bum

This calls for a Bud Light parody

The poll results came to fruition, as we beat the Apostles of Love (since not all of the Disciples were there) 26-16.  Even though it wasn't their full squad, we beat a team using players from Touring teams such as Zen, Too Bad and Big Hammers.  Great job, since apparently having Touring players is the most important way to identify yourself as being good.

Even after a slow start, once we got our offense going the game was ours.  On defense we took advantage of some sloppy play (too many subs for DoL) to keep them at a very low total.

In other Family Day news; while Lyanne was in Montreal forgetting about us, Christian was busy playing with his camera and YouTube.  Below are two clips: one is awesomely funny, while the other has Will Ferrell in it.

Now what are we gonna do?

Setting: The Ontario Liberals have just convincingly won the 2007 Election.  Now they have to figure out which one campaign promise they will actually keep.

Deputy Premier George Smitherman:  How about that new February holiday promise we made?  Who's going to complain about another day off?

Premier Dalton McGuinty:  Perfect!  Okay people, we need to cook up a new holiday for the winter.  Something to distract the people from realizing I don't work from mid-December to mid-March.

Minister of Finance Dwight Duncan:  Oh, I know.  Spendover.  Like Passover, less talk, more presents.  It'll help the economy.

McGuinty:  No, no, no!  Tory proved that the religious angle won't work.  No, it's gotta be warm and fuzzy.  Something like, um, "Family Day" but not so lame.

[fast forward 4 months]

Terri McGuinty:  Happy Family Day everyone!

And that's how come we're playing Disciples of Love on a holiday Monday.  This should be our toughest opponent of the season...until we play them again (my guess: 4 weeks).

Do the Monday Countdown

It's been a couple of months, but Release the Hounds made their way back onto the pitch last night, taking on the Disciples of Love to open the "Fall" TUC League. After some initial suckiness by both sides, The Hounds were able to forge ahead and take the first game of the season, 32-27 (give or take 5 points). Lyanne will work to keep that perfect record as Field Captain next week.

I thought our offense was solid, but also a little sporadic. I heard something about using horizontal, but it seemed that we didn't really have much structure. But it's the first game, and I'm sure we'll shore that up.

Even though the HHH wasn't there (cough Wongs cough!), I have been informed that the winner was Joel, thanks to his great hustle on offense, and domination on defense. I'm sure it has nothing to do with guilting him for the fact he's missing the next two weeks.

Some things to note:

1) BMO is a nice field...if you're into things like soft turf and lots of space.
2) The fast pace of speedpoint suits our style.
3) Subs rule! Big Dan, Tyler, Sarah...glad we had them there.
4) 11pm games...BOO!
5) That scoreboard was too confusing to operate...our trouble with it means one thing: we need Cindy back!

When I saw that we were playing the Disciples of Love, I was trying to find some inspiration for the post. All I could find on them was their old site, which is pretty much a BBS that has been spammed worse than my old Hotmail account.

For me, there is another group that I consider to be the true Disciples of Love: