Week 6: ONE outta Two

The forecast leading up to Saturday was stormy weather. Regardless of the weather, hung over this game was a cloud – would it be a dark or would it be a fluffy, white one?

There was a playoff scene happening at Lake Fairfax as players/teams streamed onto the green open space & just wandered. Why is it that the field you're playing on is always the farthest from where you parked @ Lake Fairfax? From the first pull, Sludge's zoney ways that we know & adore returned. SoliD really Stepped It Up. It was an impressive shutDown of any up field throws, courtesy of the cup.

With a controlled pace to the game, Sludge excelled with turnover creations, then transitioning into catch-&-pass O. Sludge nicely spread the CSinners from sideline-to-sideline with rotating short cuts for gain and always moving the disc forward.

However, it was quiet; maybe too quiet. Remember when you used Online Bill Pay for the first time? Ya know, everything appears to work real easy; maybe too easily? So, all transactions are deliberate, and checked (& announced after every single score). True, you might make an oopsie, you just don't want it an extra zero faux pas.

Well, there was no stopping it...the eff epp-bomb detonated & was heard loud and clear by everyone of all ages on the sidelines. The game continued on with an R-rating due to inflammatory language. Finally, the ordeal was punctuated by Gayle's game-ending catch. Game Over, 15-8.

Lessons Learned from this Game:
1-Don't get stall counted when you're on your own goal line.
2-Don't get stall counted at the start of the 2nd half.
3-Don't combine 1 & 2.

After the more important game was done [& won], Sludge moved to the next field to play Cold Fusion. CF's MO: zone-based D, quick-to-the-disc O. BTW, their oldest player JUST turned twenty-seven (27)...born in 1980!


First half: ???...Hmmm, totally blanking on the details. Oh, did you know David brought doughnuts on Saturday?

Sludge's O labored right away and the struggles at the goal line were indicative of the game. In the second half, Sludge finally found some holes & scored 5 total points. All I'm saying is the Iraqi Border Patrol could learn something from CF's goal line stance.

One-out-of-2 ain't bad especially when the 1 is the more desirable outcome.

Thank you to all Sludge fans for their support!!

Where in the World?

Continuing "Where in the World" paying homage to the worldly mobility of Sludge.

Today's Feature: Bucci.

Q: Where in the World is Bucci?

A: Bucci is in Florence & Venice, Italy.

Postcard from Bahamas: DnG

Now that the 2nd biggest news from the Bahamas has been DannielynNA'd, the way more interesting top news from February 2007 can finally be published about DNG.

February 1 , 2007: David & Gayle were Just Mustard (what does the right foot sandal read??) Married with a wedding ceremony on the beach.

The hardware proves the successful event.


Congratulations!

Week 5: Unexpectations

Let’s just say everyone was early to Sludge’s 2nd game of the day.

With a slow arrival to kid-friendly (not Clevelander-friendly, apparently) Montgomery Hills, the field was covered with a light snow. CHOMP appeared warmed up; whereas every individual Sludge arrival remarked the inconvenient truth that on April 7th, it was hat-&-glove (not short shorts) weather.

CHOMP bit off the first points until Sludge’s Zone D-frosted them. Sludge cooked up a 8-7 lead at half.

On a day calendared as “No Housework Day,” there was certainly lotsa hammering going on.

The other lotsa that was happening…CHOMP 2nd half binge of points. The game was both time- & point-capped; so if you blinked, the game was suddenly over at 11 points.


One final note of sportsmanship in this particular game. In JellyBelly’s potpourri of flavors, they offer one called “Buttered Popcorn.” IMO, it’s so wrong to offer such a nonconforming (OK, disgusting) flavor. Though, BP might leave a bad taste in your mouth; remember it’s only one flavor, and the rest of the bunch is usually sugary sweet.


Sludge’s 2nd winter league game of the spring season started immediately after the first game. Simultaneously, a flurry began to fall. The weather, like the flow of the game, was back & forth with Sludge predominantly up 1 point throughout the flurries-to-overcast game.

Absintheminded defended Sludge well by keeping the O on the sidelines which narrowed our playing field. Sludge’s usual weatherless play was indeed affected by the EASTER-ly wind creating lotsa turnovers.

Again Sludge was ahead 8-7. As quick as cherry blossoms lose their blossoms, Sludge was Passover-ed on the scoreboard, all the way to 15.

Much like the cold weather, Sludge losing 2 games in 1 day was unexpected. What to do, huh? Fuggetaboutit.

Where in the World?

Stemming from a recommendation, here's a new installment called "Where in the World." This pays homage to the worldly mobility of Sludge.

Today's Feature: Joe.

Q: Where in the World is Joe?

A: Joe was in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

From Frisbees to Flatulence

ACHTUNG! Any bad swill or ill-advised hammers may be regulated in the FFFuture as an ‘air pollution agent.’ Read on...

Russ drew Sludge's attention to the Supreme Court's landmark decision yesterday on EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Russ contributed the following: Justice Scalia dissented, naturally, and he makes an important observation of interest to the ultimate community in footnote 2, which I quote in full:

"Not only is EPA's interpretation reasonable, it is far more plausible than the Court's alternative. As the Court correctly points out, 'all airborne compounds of whatever stripe,' ante, at 26, would qualify as 'physical, chemical, . . . substance[s] or matter which [are] emitted into or otherwise ente[r] the ambient air,' 42 U. S. C. §7602(g). It follows that everything airborne, from Frisbees to flatulence, qualifies as an 'air pollutant.' This reading of the statute defies common sense."