Archive for the ‘Weekly Previews’ Category
Week 7 Preview: Part I
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014GOTW: Cobra Kai at Gut Rot
In an admittedly poor effort to try to get Rachel Greene to end her boycott, we have decided to focus on her namesake division for this week’s Games of the Week. Up first, a matchup between division leader Cobra Kai and the pre-season division favorite, Gut Rot.
Boycotts are kind of Richie’s domain, Rachel…even if he doesn’t know how they work.
Week 6 Preview: Part III
Thursday, May 15th, 2014GOTW: Corlears Hookers at Fresh Kills
These Brown Division rivals certainly aren’t strangers with one another. They met three times last season with the Hookers taking two of those games. Although Fresh Kills won handily in week 14 with a 5-2 victory, the Hookers defeated Fresh Kills 5-4 in week 17, ruining their bid for a perfect season in the process. With each team besting the other once during the regular season, they met one final time in BTSH’s Greatest Game Ever Played©: the 2013 playoff semifinal when the Hookers defeated Fresh Kills 2-1 in triple overtime.
Despite reffing more than 60 additional minutes of “free hockey,” the league only paid Dan for one game following that 3OT thriller. (Glanzer Note: That’s why it’s “Free” Derk)
Week 6 Preview: Part II
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014So its my birthday weekend and instead of you giving a gift to me, I am going to give a gift to you, the BTSH Universe. Elly is going to write a preview on how he thinks I am perceiving this matchup, and I will do the same for him.
Suddenly after switching brains with me, Elly remembers every game in BTSH history from the start of the Modern Era (2008), and all of his shirts magically turned lime green.
5 Thoughts, by Elly:
1) Why doesn’t Richie ever talk about Brad or Langer in our previews?
2) I know why, its because I’m better than both of them. I scored two goals last week, none of those two jerks scored any.
3) Why is my grammar really terrible all of a sudden?
4) Hey…why won’t those guys in the background let me sit with them?
5) My life sucks, I wish I was Rich Glanzer.
5 Thoughts, by Richie
Rich is hoping to play some Skeetball at Ace on Sunday to celebrate both his birthday and a Mathematics win!
2) This weekend is also my birthday weekend. Shaun deLacy has not wished me a ‘Happy birthday!’ yet. Neither has Gil’s son. Or Gil’s son’s dad. Don’t they know it’s my birthday weekend this weekend? They’re all getting benched to start the game. I will start instead…
3) Any girl on our team who scores a goal against Math on Sunday gets a dollar. If Derk or Elly are on the court when the goal is scored, I’ll add another dollar. That’s fair…
4) However, if I give you a dollar, you have to play me in Skeetball at Ace Bar after the game. And I will win. Because I never lose to a girl in Skeetball. Or arm wrestling…
5) Derk, Elly, that’s not what I sound like. I sound like this. Derk, Elly…”
[Derek’s Note: There’s no way Richie wrote that, because I’m pretty sure he’s never spelled “deLacy” correctly in his life.]
I Love You Not….Previews Week 6
Monday, May 12th, 2014Love. It’s why we’re all here. From the time we are a baby, snuggled into our Daddy’s arms, to when we are leaving this earth, as our great grandchild clasps our hand one last time, we are looking for one thing.
Love.
A 2009 photo of Ben Chadwick and I after we beat the Demons in overtime.
But as we find out…true love doesn’t last forever, and often times, the ones we love are the ones we leave.
I don’t know these two people. I actually just used a Google image search.
But perhaps they would be happier if they didn’t have some creeper taking a picture of them while they were in bed?
Which brings us to…
Week 5 Preview: Part II
Friday, May 2nd, 2014GOTW: Butchers at Gremlins
It’s an all Kazin Conference week for the featured games, as our second Game of the Week features a couple of Glanzer Division squads. Last week, the Butchers downed the Dark Rainbows for a second consecutive win, while the Gremlins struggles continued with a shutout loss to Cobra Kai.
Keys for the Butchers:
They have moved on well from the off-season defections, and that opening week loss to Fresh Kills seems so long ago. Wins against Filthy Gorgeous and the Dark Rainbows have the Butchers spirits soaring, and their new players have been leading the way.
We found Jeff!!!!!
Tim says he will stay with the Butchers until the Expos get back together.
Keys for the Gremlins:
Even though they are 0-3, the Gremlins must be doing something right, because how else would they get a cushy Game of the Week spot? Marketing, that must be it. Sad Jamie and his other, less frequent, iterations have been all over this site since the season started, and why not, since the only time he has been kicked out of the crease is when someone shows up in a town car. Unfortunately, this “All Jamie, all the time” blitz has obscured the rest of the Gremlins. John Walker, Luke Berg, and a bunch of other people we don’t really know are getting buried right now. The key to ending this?
We want to write about other Gremmies besides Sad Jamie! But in the mean time we made Sarah T. and Jo-Ann very happy with another cat picture.
If Jamie smiled more often, he wouldn’t be so sad. Maybe Julie can teach him.
Even though he had to latch on to the rising tide of Fresh Kills, Jamie did get his first win of the season on Sunday. With that taste of victory still fresh in his mouth, maybe he can now spur the Gremlins on to a victory. Sad Jamie is slowly morphing into Happy Jamie, and the Gremlins prevail, 3-1.
Rich’s Pick: I’ve played a lot with Arnold lately. At the charity tournament that Rachel rigged so she would win my team purposely took him out and busted his nose. Arnold didn’t miss a shift. Respect. Respect. Butchers 3- Gremmies 2. Sad Jamie, remains sad.
Derek’s Pick: At the beginning of the season, I really thought Sad Jamie and the Gremlins would make a nice little run. It’s make or break time. This game is divisional, and an 0-4 record would put them into quite a chasm. They realize this and notch a 4-3 win. (P.S. Eli, you remind us of all those old-timey Mighty Squirrel players, but no Tim “(S)crappy” Gray mention? For shame!)
