{"id":25707,"date":"2019-10-16T08:33:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/?p=25707"},"modified":"2019-10-16T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:33:27","slug":"three-stars-of-2019-sweet-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/three-stars-of-2019-sweet-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Stars of 2019 Sweet Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Cat<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To celebrate having my Sundays back, I volunteered to do the stars. And by \u201cvolunteered\u201d I mean I made the mistake of asking in the BTSH media thread, \u201cwho is writing the stars?\u201d And by \u201chaving my Sundays back\u201d I mean being completely devoted to winning the Schlitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a great week for the beef beat. People yelling at refs. Arguing about rules. Goal or hand pass. Is that win even an upset. Nothing like the playoffs to bring out the worst in everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really believe that this is one of the more evenly matched years. We have low division teams that completely hold their own against upper division teams – see: WTP’s applause-worthy win streak, Mega Touch holding it scoreless for more than half their game against Rehabs, the Rainbows pulling a repeat upset over the Butchers. We have historically meh teams at the top of their game (most notably Anklebiters) and historically impressive teams starting to sweat as they hold onto their crowns (Fresh Kills, Hookers, Filthier – I\u2019ll add Cobra Kai and Fuzz to that list, as they both had A+ seasons in 2018). The median skill level of the league is soaring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I guess what I\u2019m saying is\u2026 don\u2019t we all deserve stars?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THIRD STARS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironwomen of BTSH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fielding enough players for the playoffs is tough. October is wedding season, football season, holiday season. We\u2019re working off of pre-approved rosters, limiting the use of subs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot <\/em>of teams as a result had girls playing the whole game: Sam for Karma defense, Ryann and Andrea on Fuzz both played the whole game, me!, Nico from Poutine played defense the whole game, a position she had never even played before… probably more that I don\u2019t know about because I\u2019m not omniscient\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My number one fan, Rich, likes to give shit for giving stars to girls just for playing but honestly boys are douchebaggy and girls make 78 cents on the dollar so I do what I want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

SECOND STAR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven from Instant Karma<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was one of my favorite games on Sunday. Poutine and Karma were ranked neck and neck going into the game, and both brought it, emotions ran high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poutine is one scary m–f–ing team when it comes to offense and Steve held strong in goal until Derek clinched the GWG and Creed padded the lead with an empty netter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FIRST STAR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamie from Gremlins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ahhhhh this is going to be so so bad for my home life but congrats to Jamie on the shut out. That was a hard fought win on both sides but I think I can still diplomatically say that Jamie is a very fine goalie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Cat To celebrate having my Sundays back, I volunteered to do the stars. And by \u201cvolunteered\u201d I mean I made the mistake of asking in the BTSH media thread, \u201cwho is writing the stars?\u201d And by \u201chaving my Sundays back\u201d I mean being completely devoted to winning the Schlitz. It was a great week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-league-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25707"}],"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\/6355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25707"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25713,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25707\/revisions\/25713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}