It's all over...

4:22 PM -- Hell Week is officially over!

Here we go again...

Time, once again, to attempt to Junior Seau ourselves. Thanks for reading.

Thank you!

Hell Week, 3.0

Today: Parent-teacher conferences, 12-3 PM. Flag football makeup game, 5:45 PM.

Tomorrow: Third flag football game in three nights. (Kind of our West Coast Road Trip.)

Hell Week, 2.0

Yesterday: Parent-teacher conferences from 5:45-8.

Today: Parent-teacher conferences from 12:00-3 and 5:45-8 (thus causing us to miss a frigging flag football game).

4:45 AM -- First "snowfall" of the season!!!

Best we can do...

Come here -- so we can PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE!

The Fire led 2-1 with four minutes to play this afternoon. Presto! The other team scored twice to win the game. The ref completely gave the game away, ruining The Playmaker's outstanding game in goal in the first half. He faced 11 shots and stopped 10 of them. Two shots had such velocity that they knocked him over as he made the saves, earning a loud round of applause from parents of both teams. Out of net in the second half, he came thisclose to putting in a tying rebound with less than 30 seconds left.

Ugh.

Classic...

Wendi Nix -- yes or no?!?

As Turkey Day approaches, so does our Man Summit with SJH24 (and others?!?) on Thanksgiving Saturday. (It's always comical when we tell our two basketball teams the week before that we will not be having Thanksgiving Saturday practice. Why? Are you going away for Thanksgiving?!? Ah, no. We are just, quote-unquote B-U-S-Y!)

Anywho ... last year's summit included an in-depth discussion on one Wendi Nix. If memory serves us correctly (seldom does these days, plus, at last year's summit, in the words of Johnny Damon, "Perhaps, drinking was involved...") last year we said Nea, while SJH24 said, Yea.

Perhaps we will re-evaluate after seeing this pic.

Three & out ...

1. Kevin Garnett is a total douche bag! Nothing else to say.

2. Your Flag Football Bucs won last night, 20-zip! Our defense dominated, making four interceptions and not allowing a single first down. The Playmaker had 4 catches for 70 yards. His best play was a wheel route that he caught five yards down-field and then proceeded to run another 25 yards before getting tackled on the one yard line. Sensing he was about to be tackled, he held out the ball, trying to break the plane of the goal line. Not quite, but still a classic move. The Bucs improved to 9-0.

3. Smell ya later, Nancy Pelosi! Bye-bye, LOSER!

Bring back Larry Bowa (to coach 1st base) ...

Our kid is better than yours...

We got the results of the state testing that took place last spring.

The Playmaker's Sister scored ADVANCED (the highest possible category) in both Math and English.

Overall, she scored in the 82 percentile. For the confused, that means she did better than 82 percent of the kids in the state who took the tests.

Woo! Woo!

Boo!

Happy Birthday to The Playmaker, who turns 9 today!

Ahhh, the good old days...

Stop screwing Our Son...

The Bucs won last night, 13-0, to improve to 8-0 on the season. (The defense gave up one first down the entire game.) The other team had severe play calling issues in the huddle (or they were trying to keep our offense off the field). As such, we only had 5 possessions the whole game. (Normally we are in the 6-8 range.) The Playmaker had one series at QB and was 1-2 passing. He completed a 10 yard down and out pass his friend Ben. He also had a touchdown catch called back on an A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E BULLSHEEET call by the ref. Playing QB, he took the shotgun snap and handed the ball off to the running back, who sprinted to the right sideline while The Playmaker sprinted to the left sideline. Then the RB stopped and threw the ball back all the way across the field to The Playmaker, who bolted down the sideline 30-plus-yards into the end zone. HOWEVER, the ref ruled the RB was "tackled" before he threw the ball. While our two assistants screamed bloody murder, The Head Ball Coach did the 30 second-arms-folded-Silent-Stare at the ref. Then we then decided to engage said ref in a conversation.

HBC: "What was the call?"

Ref: "Your running back was down before he threw the ball."

HBC: "Really?!? 'Cause that's not how it looked from here."

Ref: "I saw it all the way, coach."

HBC: "How's that possible when you were standing right next to us?"

Ref: "The player was down."

HBC: "Interesting. Whatever happened to, if the call is not clear cut, you reward the kid for making a good play and scoring? Isn't that what you do when dealing with 8-year olds?"

Ref: "Coach, the player was down."

(At that point, we lost it...)

HBC: "That's effing bullsheeet and you know it!"

After that we both walked away. But not before the ref gave us a 5 yard "unsportsmanlike behavior" penalty.

First time ever for that one. Classic.

Frigging A-hole...

Great job, Clifford...

Three and out...

1. Cliff Lee is a total douche bag! He openly admitted to cheering against the Phillies in this year's playoffs. Why?!? Because they traded him. Memo to Clifford: The Phillies traded you because three years of Roy Halladay was far superior to one year of you. And we will openly laugh when you sign with the Yankees even after they spit loogies on your wife.

2. The Heat suck on offense! Granted, we could only stomach the first quarter of their game last night. And granted D-Wade missed all of training camp. But their offense looked exactly like that of the ... wait for it ... Cleveland Cavaliers!!! Watch LeBron pound the rock into the ground and then launch a 19 footer that dents the rim. Awesome that after just one game the Pat Riley Watch has already begun.

3. The Bucs eked one out last night! We started off like gang-bangers. First two times on defense, we made picks. First two times on offense, we scored. And then to quote Old Friend Jim Mora: We sucked! We won, 12-6, making a goal line stand at the end of the game that ended with the ball inside the one yard line. The Playmaker had 4 catches for about 35 yards. The Bucs are now 7-0.

Gotta love the NY tabloids...

By the way, Eli's big night (along with Hakeem Nicks') got us a fantasy victory in our Play for Pride league.

We suck...

The Playmaker's Sister lost her field hockey game on Saturday, 3-0.

The Playmaker lost his soccer game on Saturday, 2-1.

The Phillies lost their series to the white trash Giants Saturday because Ryan Howard is, well, Ryan Howard.

The Oklahoma Sooners lost their top ranking Saturday.

The Eagles lost to the Titans on Sunday.

Oh, and we sat Darren McFadden, which means we are undoubtedly going to lose in our Play for Pay fantasy league. (That's what happens when the guy you sit gets 43 points.)

We even lost out on trying to Junior Seau ourselves. Before we could do so, we fell asleep (pissed off and with a throbbing head) on the couch at the un-godly hour of 2:30 AM Saturday night/Sunday morning.

Two days later, we are still pissed. And we still have a throbbing head.

Phillies 2 Giants 3

The Phillies suck. At least the offense does. We have a throbbing headache and we are now going to Junior Seau ourselves.

Thanks for reading the last few years.

Goodbye.

Hello, cliff.

Zzz...

Field hockey and soccer today. OU and Phillies tonight. Tired. Really tired. Do not disturb.

Phillies are GREAT, so are the Bucs...

It sure as hell wasn't pretty, but Our Phillies got back off the mat last night and successfully moved the series back to Philadelphia. They now have Roy Oswalt going in game 6. He's the guy who is 10-0 pitching in The Bank.

Not only did the Phillies win last night, Your Flag Football Bucs also won, 18-6. They are now a nifty 6-0 on the season. The Playmaker did a little bit of everything in the win. He had 4 catches (for about 70 yards), 1 touchdown catch and 1 interception on defense. His highlight moment came when he took a crossing pattern catch and jetted down the sideline while being doggedly pursued by a defender. Sensing he was about to be tackled on the two yard line, he held the ball out and dove into the end zone, hitting the pylon a la the guys on television. It promptly set off an eruption of parents and teammates in the end zone. Alas, the ref ruled he stepped out of bounds on the 3 yard line. Upon hearing this, The Head Ball Coach perhaps dropped the eff-bomb. (No big deal, however, as a different Buc scored on the very next play.)

Happy Friday and stay safe.

Phillies SUCK, Bucs do not...

We are pissed as sheeet about Our Phillies. They are offensively inept, and been so for two seasons now. Thank goodness Uncle Charlie heeded our texts and tweets and got Raul Ibanez the hell out of the lineup. The Other Stiff, Jimmy Rollins, stayed in the lineup and paid HUGE dividends. For the Giants. In the second inning he got picked off first. In the fourth, he struck out to end a four run inning. Then there was the 8th inning. Howard and Werth had just clubbed back to back doubles to tie the game at 5 with NO OUTS. Up to the plate stepped Rollins. Man on second, NO OUTS. Bunt the speedy Werth over to third? Nope. Advance the runner with a ball hit to the left side? Of course not. Those two things are what fundamentally sound teams (and players) do. Instead, A-Hole-J-Roll popped out. He frigging POPPED OUT.

Ugh. The series is over. Doc will take the mound and pitch very well tonight. No doubt about that. Unfortunately, Druggie Lincecum will pitch the Phillies into a drug induced hitting comma. Giants will win, 3-1.

ONTO to happier news...

Your Flag Football Bucs won this past Tuesday, 26-6. The Playmaker had 1 catch (for 12 yards), 1 tackle behind the line of scrimmage (on a run), 1 quarterback sack and 1 touchdown pass. (Oops, he also threw an interception.) The Bucs are now 5-0.

Just saying...

1. Raul Ibanez sucks! He sucks so much it is incomprehensible.

2. Jimmy Rollins is a PATHETIC hitter! The only thing worse than his hitting is the fact he never takes responsibility for his ineptness. It's always, "The pitcher made good pitches."

3. The chances of Buster Blanton getting the Phillies a win tonight are about 2 percent! No lie.

It's about how much Bironas you have...

You already know we lost (first time all season) in our Play for Pay league this week. In our other fantasy football league, we entered last night's Monday Night Football game between Jacksonville and Tennessee trailing by 10 points.

And then Rob Bironas nailed three field goals and three extra points.

We won, 110-108.

Nice.

Putting things in perspective...

The Fire lost (3-2) yet again, to bring their record to 1-5. Roy Halladay failed to pitch the Phillies to victory in game one of the NLCS. The white trash woman behind us at the Patriots - Ravens game couldn't complete a sentence without using the eff-bomb. And we lost our first game in our Play for Pay fantasy football league. Oh, and we have an early season cold.

Such was our weekend.

Thankfully, none of that matters or even bothers us.

We were wasting time yesterday before leaving to go tailgate and came across the chilling video of Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand. In the span of five seconds, he went from making a special teams tackle against Army to being paralyzed below the neck. Watch the video. It will put your "problems" in proper perspective. And then shut your mouth and stop bitching about stupid stuff. Go hug your wife and kids. Tell 'em you love them.

And say a prayer for Eric LeGrand.

The Sabbath...

And on the seventh day,

we successfully traded for Arian Foster.

Say it ain't so...

Game 1 Prediction: Giants 3 Phillies 0

8-Teen-2-Six...

Sometimes you have to be an A-hole as a coach. Even when dealing with 8-year olds. And so it came to pass last night.

Opening drive of the flag football game. Third play of the game and The Playmaker makes an interception to give us the ball on the Falcons 30 yard line. We immediately score.

Then the sheeet hit the fan.

We go for two and a kid drops a wide open pass in the end zone.

On the very next play, the defense allows a Falcon to run all the way down the sideline for a touchdown. Three Buc defenders have clean shots and fail to yank the flag. Three other Bucs stand and watch the kid run by.

Then the Falcons get the two point conversion because two Bucs were too lazy to make a play on the ball.

Now trailing 8-6, the Bucs march down the field before stalling with not one, but two drops in the end zone.

Mercifully, halftime arrives.

Our norm is to talk to the kids in the end zone in front of the parents. Last night, however, the Head Ball Coach announced, "Get your water bottle and get over to the soccer net." The soccer net is a good 30 yards away from the parents. Then for first time in memory, we tore into the kids. Each of the three coaches took a turn getting pissed.

Boys, it comes down to a total lack of effort!

We get the ball to start the second half. Still pissed, we decide to go for the jugular right away. We line up three kids wide (wide!) left. The Playmaker snaps the ball to the QB in the shotgun. We have one of our Big Guns lined up as a running back to the left of the QB. (Kind of in a pistol formation.) The three wide kids are all told to run down and outs. (As in, get the hell out of the way...) The QB takes the snap and hands to the running back, who proceeds to run a wide sweep toward the right sideline. The defense goes into attack mode and then the RB carries out the play to A-B-S-L-U-T-E perfection. He throws a prefect pass to The Playmaker who catches it and outruns the lone defender to the end zone some 30 yards away.

12-6, Bucs.

Cruise control the rest of the way. We don't allow a single first down. And just for kicks, we throw a TD to a kid who hasn't caught the ball all season.

Bucs 18 Falcons 6.

The ass-chewing worked.

Big Time.

For the game, The Playmaker had 1 interception, 3 catches for 60 yards and 1 touchdown.

The Future...

Craig Brackins

Big players make big plays in big games...

So there Your Flag Football Bucs were last night, all tied up 6-6 with five minutes left in the game. (The defense gave up it's first touchdown of the season on the opening drive of the game.) The Panthers had the ball on their own 20 yard line. The Head Ball Coach stepped into the Bucs huddle and said, "Someone needs to go get us a pick."

Little did we know it would happen on the very next play.

The Panthers tried a foolish little slip screen over the middle. The Playmaker jumped the route and made the pick (his second INT of the game). Bucs ball with about four minutes to play. We took our time in the huddle, burning time off the clock. Eventually it was third and goal from about the 8 yard line. We stepped back and let one of our assistants call the play. No dummy, he put split our two best players out wide on opposite sides of the field. He told each one to run hard to the middle of the field and then cut sharply to the respective corners of the end zone. The QB took the shotgun snap and dropped back.

The play ended with The Playmaker making the game winning touchdown catch in the end zone.

Bucs 12 Panthers 6.

For the game, The Playmaker had 2 interceptions, 5 catches (for about 50 yards) and 1 huge touchdown.