SPUTTERING ALONG

Boasters League round 2~~

Definitely a step up from last week with attendance, but that wasn’t exactly a high bar to reach in the first place. Patrick Petz had the perfect motivation for his team to turn up with sponsored shirts to hand out. He had 12 players rock up for their bonus points and a very loud green “Caduiex Café” shirt… makes them look like leprechauns, but so far they haven’t been very lucky on court. Not that there are too many results to get excited about but only 3 wins in 2 rounds isn’t the start one would hope for.

Mongoose jump to the top of the standings, tied on points with Foss Nation, but they do have more bonus points. On the opposite end of the spectrum to Caduiex Café, Mongoose only has 1 loss in the 2 rounds so far – sounds intimidating – but they have only played 9 matches. Out of a possible 32. So perspective is important.

It was great to see our 2019 Club Champion in the house yesterday – Stefan Houbtchev (Nicker Ballers). Stefan has been stuck for almost 2 full years in Canada, unable to cross the border due to the pandemic and he made first appearance in style for the league with a convincing 3-0 win over Ryan Covell (Butter Nutz) . However, it wasn’t all tears and misery for Ryan as he did beat Stefan on the doubles court. We’ll be seeing Stefan and Ryan this Saturday complete against the BAC for the coveted Farris Cup.

Also making a rare appearance was Peter Logan – all the way from where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play, the backstreets on Montana countryside. Where, actually, there are only backstreets, tumbleweeds, and 1850 western towns where it’s never big enough for the 2 of us. Peter is here also to represent us on Saturday, all fired up for a good ol’ fashion butt-kickin’ over them city folk of Birm'ngh'm.

Mentioning other mentionables worthy of mention, JB Peabody (Foss Nation) picked up his second straight 2-1 win of the half over Michael Craig (Over Served). JB lost the third game and blamed his fitness level for fading away at the end of the match. Of course, nothing like admitting to that while you’re guzzling a beer. Julie Vande Vusse (Mongoose) guzzling of the wine was of the celebratory kind as she must have been rather satisfied with her 2-1 victory over Todd Baker (Cadieux Café), and John Mann (Over Served) is a man (!) on a mission, desperate to prove himself after being dropped one spot in the league for the second half. He took care of business with his second 3-0 of the season.

So we were better this week, but still not where we need to be. We need to get matches completed. What will week 3 have in store for us? Will the Nicker Ballers get more than 4 players to show up? Will Evan and Matt Moore start wearing name tags so I can tell who is who? Will the Christmas tree in my living room ever find it’s way to the basement again? Ahhh… the mysteries of the universe…