Week 9 News and Notes
Why Is Adriano Winking At Me?
Hopefully, Cobra Kai Doesn’t Have Any Loose Photos Of The Media
For the first time since his free agent signing with What The Puck, former Cobra Kai member Adriano “Muscles Marinara” Bratta took on his former team on Sunday. Still upset at the 2008 regular season scoring champion for deserting the team, the Kais had some tricks up their sleeves for Bratta. On the second shift of the game, the Dojo unveiled its “5 Adrianos” formation, consisting of five players all with cutouts of Muscles’ face poorly taped to their chests. Captains Enayet “Retail” Rasul and Greg “Lysol” Altman even convinced stand-in goalie Minkus to partake in the charade. Although the mind games worked well enough to hold Bratta to only one goal, What The Puck still won the game 7-3 or 8-3, depending whom you ask.
“We’ve been wearing white since this league was initiated!”
Adding another chapter to an already storied rivalry, Mexican Standoff was up to its usual shenanigans against LBS, Inc. during Hockey Night in Tompkins. As the home team, Peaches’ crew elected to wear its white jersey, despite having a multitude of other options, a decision that forced LBS, Inc. to don atypical dark jerseys for the game. In addition, Standoff player Ben sported a LBS-like white collared shirt under his Standoff jersey, which only added fuel to the fire. LBS, Inc. was clearly disoriented in its makeshift uniforms, as the team stumbled out of the gate and allowed Standoff to take an early 1-0 lead. Corporation member Karsten Pichon noted, “At one point, I passed to the wrong team, because I’m so used to passing to white.” Although LBS, Inc. eventually came back to win the game, the team remains miffed.
A Special Message from Hector “Jam3$ Joyc3” Melendez
The Elves did what past teams haven’t been able to do: get a lead and hold on to it against us. This isn’t kissing anyone’s ass, but the Elves gave us a run for our money. I guess, overall, you can call the Happy Little Elves the “$how$topp3r$” from now on. But then again, we do play one more time. Who will win??? You have to wait and see. Hope Nicole gets better, and Randy’s text message after was worth the laugh out loud on my train ride home, as he never texts me.
Know Your Neighbor
Name: Alex Eben Meyer
Team: Mega Touch
Nickname: Coop
Rejected Nicknames: Co-op, The Flying Tomato, Oscar Meyer, Rasputin
Origin: Philadelphia, PA
Hair: Curly
College: Washington University in St. Louis
Early Aspirations: To be a jock who torments nerds
First Job: Security guard at the Liberty Bell
Current Job: Freelance illustrator
Hero: Rocky Balboa
Reason to Love Him: He’s the webmaster for btsh.org.
Reason to Hate Him: Whenever eben.com goes down, btsh.org mysteriously goes with it.
Fast Fact: He claims to have scored a goal by shooting the ball “through” Craig “Ug” LaCombe’s head.
Favorite Things: Martin Biron, cheesesteaks, foul language, bicycles
Favorite Mega Touch Teammate: Joe Lops
Least Favorite Things: Pittsburgh Penguins, haircuts, Santa Claus, pork Best Known For: Winning the Brendan “Flounder” Hay Memorial Award in 2007.
Hockey Comparison: Scott Hartnell
Non-Hockey Comparison: Sideshow Bob
Things the Media Will Continue to Overhype about Him: He’s the fastest gunslinger in the West.
Down the Road: Disenchanted with society’s increasing amount of materialism and ever growing dependence on technology, Coop retires to a simpler life in the Amish Country. While there, he adapts to the lifestyle quickly and begins to enjoy the 4 AM wakeups, the barnraises, and the 20-hours work days. However, to satisfy his desire for recreational outlets in his one free hour a day, Coop establishes ESH: Eben Street Hockey. He captains a team named the Mega Taste, which finishes second to last in the league, only in front of the Moderately Pleased Little Elves.
Tags: 2009 season, Cobra Kai, coop, Muscles Marinara, news and notes
Man you guys are bitter. The biggest free agent in BTSH spurns Math to go to the Elves and we get punished by finishing last in the (Prestigious?) and very imaginary Eben Street Hockey League!!
Very classy Show. Thanks for the props. Held on for dear life but held on none-the-less.
hey finally a Mega Touch-er for “Know Your Neighbor”…and it’s the one person on the team everyone knows. Nice.
I think you’re just upset because Alex’s favorite teammate is Joe Lops.
I hear that some girl got her first goal this weekend.
Oh wait, that was in another league.
This is apropos of nothing, but the Fairy Tale Cup is real, and one of these days I’m going to prove it.
Secondly, although I do find the media’s sour Elf-grapes amusing, I don’t really need to respond anymore. I’ll just post a link to the standings page on each article. Hey, look at that!– the Elves are ahead of the Mathematics in every single category. We’re through the looking glass, people. http://traineaux.com/hockey/btshstats.html
As a former media member, there is a saying, “Don’t bury the lead.” Guys, I think you buried the lead. There was a pretty big free agent signing no?
I mean Cobra Kai wearing Adriano’s face is certainly huge news…but one of the leagues best scorers defecting is pretty big I think.
Rich, since there’s a shred of a legit question in there, here is a serious response:
1. The News and Notes post is meant as a much softer news area than the box scores and weekly preview are. We generally avoid news such as trades or free agent signings in this area. It may get mentioned in your game preview, however.
Along these lines, we’re also not going to write about many of the more negative aspects of BTSH (even in the harder news areas), which include players’ disciplnary problems and injuries.
2. We cannot cover everything. If there’s a major piece of news within your own team, feel free to write a paragraph and send it to us. We printed Showtime’s note, we would’ve printed an HLE press release.
3. I consider Eric a friend, so this isn’t meant as a dig at him, but I’m not sure someone with two goals this season is a “top scorer”. He is a great player and one of the best shooters in the league. I really hope he flourishes with you guys, but I don’t know if this is Rob Blake moving to the Avalanche.
rich, calm down. by the sheer volume of “hey you guys missed…” and “hey we were so close, but…” posts, you’d have the entire btsh page switch to an hle page.
and who the hell are you talking about? be specific. then i might give a happy little crap.
congrats on beating the rehabs, though. nice work!
i would like to introduce everyone to Rob Veisergerb. rob-V will be helping me run the the ESH.
ESH – rule #1: brother, your attitude is unacceptable to the community, now please assist us in raising this barn.
-coop.
In reply to Derek’s assertion that:
“1. The News and Notes post is meant as a much softer news area than the box scores and weekly preview are…”
I understand there’s a PDF of a story written about Dark Rainbows’ PT Walkley that recently ran in the Long Island Press that also mentions the league and was sent forward to the site’s webmasters by none other than Bob “Olmec” Weysberg himself. Just wondering if that qualifies to appear in the News and Notes section?
Dave the Goalie
Lurk, I’m just messing around. I actually enjoy all the game posts more from other teams because I know what happened in my game. And I have no issues with them joking around with the Elves. Its all in good fun.
And I got scolded for my “media boycott” last week so I promised to be active this week.
I am obviously very good friends with Eric (formerly of the Anklebiters) and I know he would be cool with this post. He’s happy to be an Elf. Here’s a direct quote that proves it. “I’m happy to be an Elf.”
But Derek, in all seriousness, you’re citing Rob Blake as like the biggest free agent move you can think of? Like that’s your example?!?!? I mean it is better than Jason Blake but still…you could do better.
It’s what came into my head first, truthfully. However, that was Blake’s prime, and he was fairly critical to their cup that season. What would you have gone with? Remember, it has to be a mid-season move.
And believe it or not, we’re happy to have your comments, Rich. I think it’s great when anyone takes the time to comment.
OK, didn’t realize about mid-season. I’m thinking the biggest mid-season move that I can remember was Fred McGriff to the Braves in 93. Turned the season around and was the last great division race their will ever be in Major League Baseball (bc now the loser would get the Wild Card).
Though I hate the Islanders, Butch Goring helped them win four cups and he was a mid season move. Steve Larmer was a pretty big get for the Rangers in 94. And though there are a million Boston people in BTSH, and I may put up a bounty on my head, Manny Ramirez wasn’t a bad get for the Dodgers last year.
I pray Eric never reads this, because then he’ll have a bigger ego than he already does.
you’re forgetting about mathematics snagging eli off the waiver wire from cobra kai. THAT was the biggest get in btsh mid-season history (that one was mid-season, right?).
To summarize the above opinions regarding Rich’s comments: Rich isn’t not restraining himself from not writing too little enough not often enough (at present). However, I disagree!
“I pray Eric never reads this, because then he’ll have a bigger ego than he already does.”
Rich, let’s not kid ourselves, nobody read that far. And the biggest trade in BTSH history hasn’t occurred yet (me trading the Rehabs a bus trip to Chuck E. Cheese in exchange for Meredith D-F).
Yeah, give these guys a break…..if they were able to post every interesting story, they would have certainly by now done a story on someone who, though never before having played goal in their lives, has posted 3 shutouts in a row, four on the season, and shows no sight of giving up a goal anytime soon.
Yikes, “Ted”, I feel like I’m reffing the Demons game again with all of these passive aggressive jabs. Besides, we’re posting something on that tonight.
wow. that’s a lot of comments.
Ah, yes, Derek….but remember: in BTSH, passive-aggressive is still preferable to aggressive-aggressive.