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Terrible news from the north my friends. We all know what a great year Sam Norris is having on writing for the website. However, his agent called me and said since Sam is a rookie, he’s on a strict word count. So for the next two weeks, he will not be writing previews. Does that mean we will go preview-less?

Sam will not write about you troglodytes the next two weeks.

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Did you know that we don’t have games this Sunday?  Well, here’s someone you might not know, Tia Lendo, this week’s feature of Know Your Neighbor!

Tia enjoys long walks in Central Park

Hometown:  Philadelphia

College:   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  I really love UNC and the Tar Heels.

One of Tia’s annual Halloween Tar Heels pumpkins

This is my annual UNC Halloween pumpkin.

Profession:  I work on the Google for Education team. We try to get educators and school districts to use technology well to improve teaching & learning. I used to be a teacher and have had a lot of different roles in education, but this one has crazy scale, which I love.

Favorite BTSH team other than the Riots:  The Dark Rainbows #Obvi.

Random BTSH Fun Fact: At her very first BTSH game (2013 with Cobra Kai) her nose was broken by a ball someone shot.  She still doesn’t know who it was. Luckily, 6 days later, she went to DC and saw her friend who is an ear, nose and throat plastic surgeon. They had a few drinks, she asked him to look at her nose, and then suddenly, without warning, he popped it back into place.  Talk about dinner and drinks.  Later, she had an X-ray and the doctor told her her friend did a perfect job.

Favorite memory this year at Ocean City:  My favorite memory was watching Coach run into the ocean around 4am Saturday night. He tried to run in gracefully, as a sort of rallying point for all of us on the beach. The problem was he forgot about the 4 foot vertical drop. He fell, but bounced back up almost immediately- kind of like Chevy Chase in Vacation–still smiling. Amazing. He deserved the trophy he got.

Coach took home Michaliga’s inaugural OC Spirit Cup, named after WTP face, you know who, who will not be named

Favorite NHL team:  Flyers

Is that Josh Wilson?! No wonder why you like the Flyers so much you Rainbow loving fool!!!

What celebrity stole your identity: 

I have been told that Toni Collete is my celebrity doppelganger. And she did do a good Philadelphia accent in The Sixth Sense. So I’d say her.

I believe your true doppelganger is BTSH fan favorite, Caroline Webster! For the longest time, I thought Caroline was just everywhere, until I learned of Webster doppelganger, Tia Lendo!

Nobody likes this question, but it’s the best one.  If Sigmund Freud analyzed your game play, what would he conclude: 

I think he’d say that I play best when I’m a bit angry. He’d probably say this means I have some deep-seated issues. But then I’d take him to Ace Bar for a beer and he’d realize I am a nice person and take it all back.

What makes the Rainbows so dark:  We wear pink, but we’ll rip your face off if we have to.

Incorrect dramatization: it appears Olivier is ripping off Rainbow faces #FrenchieFaceRipper

If Noah cruised to Tompkins, what two BTSHers would you put on his Arc (excluding yourself): 

First I’d send John Walker on the ark, so we could all get some more playing time during Thursday scrimmages. I’d also put Tompkins the hawk on. Whenever he flies during our games we lose so I need to get rid of him. Look how mean he is:

Favorite NYC bar:  I like any bar that is outdoors.

Mets or Yankees:  Ewwww. Gross. Phillies.

Tia and the Phillie Phanatic, demonstrating early indoctrination to Philadelphia fandom.

Current Aspirations:  In addition to mastering the electric kazoo so that Lime Walker can work some ELO into our set list, I’m also trying to get better at comedy. I am on a few improv teams and doing some comedy and writing courses. My dream job would be to write for Inside Amy Schumer.

Improving the death of Rich Glanzer–one of the best comedies to hit Broadway this year!

If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, what would it be:  Ghostbusters. I discovered their firehouse the other night when I was out downtown and I got really excited.

Would you ever have married Freddie Norblatt, given the chance:  I don’t know who that is, and I am writing this on a plane so I can’t Google it right now.

What the BTSH media will begin to overhype you about:  I feel like I am already over-exposed after earning a star for my kazooing.

If you found one of your teammates at the end of a Dark Rainbow, who would it be and what would he/she be doing:  I think that at the end of the Dark Rainbow you’d find all the former Rainbows who betrayed us. Like Dontolevich. He’d probably be there just rockin’ out.

Happy Labor Day, BTSH!

Why do you hate Rich Glanzer so much: Awwh, that’s not nice!

All right, this interview is over.

3rd star: (censored)

2nd star: Danielle Haselton (pronounced “Hassle-ton”) – Instant Karma

This week Danielle remembered to do something that I personally have intended to do every single week of the season but have forgotten to do every single week of the season. (Even setting phone reminders has not helped the situation, sadly.)  The thing that she did brought a lot of fun to many BTSHers at the courts, and culminated in me getting Vitamin Water Zero spilled all over the front of my favorite Unicorns shirt.  It was worth it.
While everyone knows that the 1st rule of lime toss is “always be ready”, perhaps the 1st rule should be “remember to actually bring a lime”. 
Thank you, from everyone who played lime toss on the sidelines this Sunday, for taking care of the responsibility that myself, Chadwick and Heather A. have been slacking on all season. 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.” I assume that he was referring to bringing a lime.  This particular little thing earned you the 2nd star this week.

1st star of the week: The refs. 

This was an, umm, strange? week at BTSH.  I watched a lot of the games and saw that the refs had to make some really difficult decisions, and deal with some things they never should have to deal with.  I won’t go into all the specifics but at least one ref was pepper sprayed by a player during a game, I heard that one woke up with a horse’s head in their bed, and I know for a fact that at least one of them got farted on (sorry about that, Hopper, I had tacos for lunch).  While my admiration for the refs is different this year now that they get paid quite a bit more, it is a tough and relatively thankless job nonetheless.  A job that I have always avoided like the plague.  They make the tough calls and deal with crap that they shouldn’t have to deal with, week in, week out. A big thank you to all the league’s refs, especially those of you who suffered undue abuse this past Sunday. You handled it with aplomb.
I implore you, be nice to your refs, people.  They, among other people, keep the league running. Speaking of running – man, those tacos really did a number on my system.