Practice again.

This weekend was pretty good. I didn't play at all, but I did go to Boston on Saturday night to watch the first Umass hockey game of the season with Jesse and two of her younger sisters. Umass won. We also watched the BU game that came later that night (BU won), and Jesse's sister's hockey game the next morning (who also won). We then watched the finals and the game-to-go of club regionals. Ironside, the Boston team, came in first, followed by Goat, and then Bodhi in third with Pony in fourth. Let's pause for a moment to reflect on how ridiculous it is that the Upa allotted four bids to the Northeast for the club series. No way do we deserve four bids. No way.

Congratulations to those friends of mine who made it to Nationals. I'm really happy for all of you. It's too bad that the Son's of Liberty didn't manage to unseat Pony in the game-to-go: they looked pretty close for a while but weren't able to pull out the upset. Ryan Holmes had the bonehead play of the tournament, laying out for a gratuitous defensive layout catch out of bounds only to throw the disc down, thereby giving the disc back to Pony. He didn't mean to, but it was really a letdown.

Columbus Day was yesterday, which meant no school (good!). This also meant that today, a Tuesday, was on a Monday schedule (bad.). Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, my final class gets out at 3:20. This is usually only an issue on Wednesdays, when I have to run down to practice and miss warmups. Since today was a Umass Monday, however, I have two practices this week that I need to be tardy to instead of one. What a pain.

We had a decent practice today, which is a little surprising considering there was a lot of wind and a lot of A teamers sidelined. Some of them are out on legitimate injuries, but others are just being total bitches. I think there were at least three players who sat out of practice today because they played in club regionals this past weekend. Week fucking sauce. And they didn't even look too glum to be out of practice, either. Rather than focusing, yelling out onto the field and helping out with the people who Were playing, they sat on the sideline and talked amongst themselves or played semi-retarded games. I tried to ignore them, but that bunch of fucks really pissed me off.

We didn't split between A and B teams today, since we wouldn't have had enough players to run a scrimmage. I suppose that this isn't only the fault of the guys on the sideline, since there were a bunch of people who just plain didn't show today. So fuck them too. I suppose that means that I want to give a big "Fuck You" to about ten A teamers right now.

In Spite of all of this, we managed to have a pretty decent practice. We played a lot of zone, which was sometimes frustrating due to the number of players who had absolutely no idea how to play their position, but we managed to work through it. I ran pretty hard, so I'm rather exhausted right now. I also made a point to take some chances with the disc, trying to make some throws that I wouldn't usually go for. This resulted in too many turnovers, but I did succeed in making a good number of plays. I would say that, overall, my throws were pretty good and I did a decent job being where I needed to be on both offense and defense.

Hopefully we can get better numbers for tomorrow. We're closing in on Purple Valley and I want to make sure that our team is good to go.