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What to do, what to do?

I mean there are so many things that have happened since the last time we came to you Live from the Park

Currently listening to: Cyco-Lic-No (Bitch Azz Niggaz) - Tha Dogg Pound. 1995 baby!

Ok so in an effort to actually crank something out today that doesn't take 8 hours to read, I will just touch on some recent developments.

Last night: I missed a United home(ish) game. There. I admit it. DC United played at the SoccerPlex in Germantown and I was a no show. Shame on me. As crazy as it might sound to an untrained ear, I had bigger fish to fry - KG Vets basketball in the Vienna League.

Matchday 5 - One on One Basketball.

Our nemesis over the past two seasons. Entering last night we were 0-4, including 2 playoff losses, against these jokers.

Currently listening to: While my Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles

So most of us actually got there a little bit early to talk about some slight changes we could make both offensively and defensively. The best part about the whole getting there early part is that Thoreau Middle has this axillary gym where we can usually just dick around in for hours before tipoff. Well not this time. The irony gods were having a good time as they picked yesterday as the day to rip up the floor. Thanks guys.

One of my favorite parts about yesterday was our decision to go zone to open up the game. We have kicked around the zone idea for awhile now but upon walking into the gym and seeing Brian Miller, I knew it was bad news. I told Jesse that the score would be 9 - nothing before we had a chance to breathe if we went zone. Well after some arguing seconds before the opening tip we decided to go zone.

Guess what happened?

Uh huh. 6 - 0 courtesy of two Miller bombs. Man that sounded familiar.

THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!

Long story short we came back and beat their ass by a single point. That same single point that eluded us in the 2006 Championship game.

Pretty much everybody made big plays at one point or another. Jesse was hitting from half court with regularity. Baker had a sick tip in that he had no business making - bizarro Rasheed. Mark was blocking shots. Adam hit some timely mid range jumpers. Kaala was going to the hoop. Bret made some good passes - and didn't get ejected! Oh and me. I managed to get their entire team upset and bitching about me to the refs before the first tv timeout. (that is before the first dead ball with under 16:00 remaining to the basketball novices reading this junk).

I think that was their 3rd loss in like the last 8 seasons or so.

We were due.

We have a lot of work left to do but that was huge for our playoff chances. I kept saying all weekend that we were fine so it's nice to be right every now and then. Well maybe not right but I wasn't wrong. Is that the same?

We are seriously the only team in that league that can lose to garbage and beat the best. What does that mean? Ah hell who cares - Let's just play again next week and see what happens.

United: So we all know I missed the game. Well they were also playing a team in which they don't exactly beat with any sort of consistency when the loser goes home. I had Kary hitting me up with live updates but I was really dreading the inevitable bad news. I checked my phone and I had 21 messages that read like an AP wire update. (btw: she might have a future job calling) So by the time I got through all of them I realized that all of the stars aligned and the good guys won all across the board.

Sick.

Almost forgot. We were shaking hands before the tip-off and Miller asked me what was up with our record not being so good. I said hey what you see is what you get my man. He's a pretty nice guy but for about 80 minutes a year I really don't like him that much.

Ok well I gots to get going now brah. I'm not sure if my soccer stuff is even clean and there is a battle for promotion in the NVASA 2nd Division.

until we meet again....

latEr brah