Pool night - 04-01-09

Yes, I’ve been away from this blog for a while - missed quite a few weeks. I make no apologies. I’m quite busy at work these days and its spring so softball is in full swing which takes a lot of my free time and there’s just been a lot going on.

This has been a tough session. I mean, we are really struggling to capture the few wins we’ve gotten. Last night was no exception. We lost 55-45. At least that was better than last week which was 65-35. Or the week before when it was 80-20. Yeah, ouch. Like I said.

And I should call out the fact that we do have some players that are playing pretty well, despite the rest of us. Hao has 67% win rate and Mick is a close second at 56%.

Me? I am THE WORST! I am just in a terrible slump right now. I gotta break outta this deal and get something going.

Anyhoo, now that I’ve cheered you up. I will say we are still having fun. I know I am at least.

Last night it was Master Hui up first. He played Kenny (SL3). Kenny’s the tattooed dude w/ finely styled beard and hair. Heavyset, as in big beer gut - stud earrings – cargo shorts. You’re starting to get the picture. I guess Kenny’s the typical pool hall patron, eh?
(SL4) Hao – (SL3) Kenny
Hao won 31-18

Next was Stephanie who got to play Bob. Biker Bob. Biker Bob who liked to talk about pickles. Pickles, pickles, pickles. Steph just loved all the pickle prose from Bob and his team of pickling picklers. They kept talking about “their” pickles trying to impress Steph. I could tell she was on the verge of telling them to shove their pickle up their pooper. Haha But she bit her tongue and got thru it.
(SL4) Steph – (SL3) Bob
Steph lost 27-25 (as in, Steph had 27 and needed 31 – so it was puuurty close eh?)

Tbone was next and had a very close match w/ another Scott. It was a Scott vs Scott match. Very diff from a Tbone vs Tbone match or just a plain bone vs bone match. Ahem Tbone looked like he had him right up until the end when Scott made a surge in the last rack or so to take the win. Some people thrive on that pending doom of a loss, others fall into a deep depression and just play even more poorly, and then there’s some that are just too scared to win. Tbone isn’t really any of these far as I know. I’m just sayin
(SL5)-(SL5)
Tbone lost 38-32

I was next and basically sucked something awful. I played Mike, an average looking, easy going sortof fella – can’t say anything bad about the guy. He played well, I didn’t.
(SL7) Jay – (SL6) Mike
Jay lost 34-46 (I needed 21 balls to win – sheesh!)

Mickster was last – pulled up the rear – and held up the teams rear as it turned out. It went down to the wire as both gentlemen needed 1 ball to win. Mick’s opponent Ronnie had the break but couldn’t make it happen. Mick has been in a pattern lately in that he takes a big lead at the start but then, for some reason, he feels sorry for his opponents and then lets them back in the game. Same thing happened last night w/ Ronster Monster. But Mick got the last shot and that’s all that matters sometimes.
(SL3)-(SL3)
Mick won 25-24

The Fretzinator was there last night but didn’t play. No fritz from the fretz. He will be fretzing next week I’m sure.

Vincent was AWOL last night as he was out of town doing late work at one of Virginia’s fine correctional facilities. No doubt he was declining parole for various low-lifes. Oh! You didn’t know that was his job? I’m totally serious.

And we had a brief visit from Thomas last night. Very brief! I guess after he saw a few minutes of the carnage of my match he had to leave to throw up. Yeah, I was that bad.

Our wait staff last night was Chrissy. Not bad. She’s no Rachel but not bad. I liked the hustle. Rachel must’ve trained her.

So…. no promises on updates for the future. Maybe I’ll just take/post some pics as suggested by Shunying. She wants visual evidence of Hao actually being there! Ha!