{"id":11897,"date":"2016-02-11T08:31:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/?p=11897"},"modified":"2016-02-11T08:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:31:32","slug":"franchise-four-fresh-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/franchise-four-fresh-kills\/","title":{"rendered":"Franchise Four: Fresh Kills"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you have the longevity and the sustained success that Fresh Kills does, the candidate pool is going to be considerably larger than it is for other teams.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the selection committee is bound to only pick four players for each team, so the honorable mention here will just have to be a little deeper.\u00a0 And despite being in the league since its early years, this franchise can reasonably be split into two eras, the years prior to and after the Riots split after the 2009 season.\u00a0 We considered players from both eras, including those who spanned both, and here’s who made the cut.
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Patrick Barch<\/strong>

\"Fresh<\/a>

Fantastic…now I’ve got to go dig up a different photo for Dave (spoiler!).<\/p><\/div>When the Riots formed and took half of the Fresh Kills roster with them, Fresh Kills was left without a goalie.\u00a0 Patrick showed up to the free agent scrimmage before the 2010 season looking for a team.\u00a0 There were a few teams who needed a goalie, but Fresh Kills also had plenty of other roster space available.\u00a0 That turned out to be a fortuitous circumstance, as Patrick was looking to join a team that could also add his buddy, Nick Hobbs.\u00a0 Since then, Patrick has backstopped the team to two championships, while being a constant social presence both on and off the courts. <\/p>\n

Kevin Foster<\/strong>

\"Fresh<\/a>

Man, Ariel keeps popping up in all of these photos. To bad he’s just an honorable mention (spoiler!).<\/p><\/div>Kevin’s career with Fresh Kills spans both eras of the team’s history.\u00a0 He is an intimidating presence, has a hard shot from the point, and captained the team for many years.\u00a0 He’s been part of all three of their championships, and even scored the game-winning goal in the 2011 championship game.\u00a0 And yet, his place on the team originally hinged on his performance in former captain Jeff Lesser’s rigorous tryout back in the early 2000s.\u00a0 Luckily for Fresh Kills, he passed…barely.<\/p>\n

Dave Gil de Rubio<\/strong>

\"Fresh<\/a>

Do you know how difficult it is to find a photo of Dave from his Fresh Kills days? At least he’ll like this one.<\/p><\/div>Dave joined the migration to the Riots after the 2009 season, but before he left, he carved out a pretty decorated legacy with Fresh Kills.\u00a0 Without his performance during the 2008 playoffs, they don’t win their first title and finally shake the label as the team that couldn’t win the big one.\u00a0 If he doesn’t have the most wins all-time in league history, he’s pretty close to the top of the list.<\/p>\n

Dave Sokolyansky
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\"Fresh<\/a>

Is Ariel going to be in every photo? Looks like it.<\/p><\/div>Dave is one of the faces of the new era of Fresh Kills, although he has also been on all three of their championship teams.\u00a0 He was the one making most of the key roster moves after the split, and can hold his own on the court, too.\u00a0 If it weren’t for Rich Glanzer, Dave could be considered the most competitive person in the league {Ed note: Peter P. Hookers???}.\u00a0 He also freely offers his opinions on how to improve the league and is a vocal presence at league social events and captains meetings (and was a major proponent of the new ref pay system).<\/p>\n

Honorable Mention
<\/strong><\/strong>There are so many others who merited consideration for their contributions to the rich history of Fresh Kills and the league in general, but we’ll keep the list relatively short: Gabe Chenard-Poirier, Bob Weyersberg, Jeff Lesser, Amy Jones, Ariel Imas, and Erik Cortes.\u00a0 Sorry, Nick Scott, you’ve still got plenty of work to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you have the longevity and the sustained success that Fresh Kills does, the candidate pool is going to be considerably larger than it is for other teams.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the selection committee is bound to only pick four players for each team, so the honorable mention here will just have to be a little deeper.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[246,27],"class_list":["post-11897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-league-info","tag-franchise-four","tag-fresh-kills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11939,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions\/11939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}