You’re right Roach… we all “Like Ike” except when his bitching about non-calls and playing true shutdown defense.
Don’t look now but the Goombahs seem to have gotten their proverbial heads out of their asses and finally found their game. Last week they doubled their wins to two but more importantly they have put together a winning streak.
Shining Moment
Congratulations Dave Costa… you finally got on the board with a goal to break the ice on your 6-goal challenge.., and you got the board with a beauty.
Dave ripped a PPG just 3-seconds into fill-in defenseman Doug Sedille’s delay of game call.
It was the one shining moment for Vulcan Grip.., unlike Dave’s hair that wasn’t glistening from gel.
Now there’s just one question we need answered. We all heard of “Dry January”.., but we’re curious if Dave is participating in “Gel-less February”? If you’re out of stock maybe Jim Barber can lend you some from his beauty stash.
The “Offspring”
Looks who’s now old enough to have his son play with him in the Over-30 League.
John Kelleher’s son (John Jr) made his unofficial debut last week filling in for his father’s team after turning 30 just days prior.., not like other players that snuck into the league with fake ID’s. John is actually 30 and by the looks of his calf tattoo’s he’s best suited to fill-in for Dominic DeFrancisco and the Roadrunners (because we all know they could use another young, fast, forward with talent). But seriously… check out his calf tattoos.
John also has two twins in their mid-20’s who are both excellent hockey players… the question is; Does John have in him to last as long as our legend Dan Broderick and play for another 4-years until the twins turn 30 and complete the future “Kelleher Line”?
Until then... "You gotta keep 'em separated"
Texas Shootout
If was a good ole fashion Texas Shootout between the Justice League and Captain’s Mutiny.
Aside from the two goalies and the woes last week.., there were several highlights to come out of that game. First and foremost, Tony Rolli scores himself a natural hat trick.., Thank God Tony got permission to fill in for the Spring Season as Captain’s Mutiny got a legit goal scorer and two way player. We also learned that Donny Maccini shows us why it doesn’t pay to shoot, and records 4-assists.
Rob Sheridan scores a PPG and extends his point streak to 6-games and “The Legend” Dan Broderick records his first 2-assists and adds to his storybook career. Oh, and Mike Luise finally scores his first goal of the season… and probably his last until the 2023 tax season is over.
GWG?
The season of the “Wurlitzer“ continues.., it must be a lot easier to just focus on playing when you don’t have to worry about scraping up the $340 to play.
Gary had himself his 3rd multi-point game in a row.., he also had another 2-goal performance one of which was a GWG in OT.., and ironically his own Captain called it. Matty Iannello called it before the OT started when he declared “Gary Wurlitzer in OT”.., so now they can call him GWG! (Game Winning Gary)
6-5 Lapping?
We checked the Captain’s Mutiny team stats and learned that Gary Wurlitzer and his 5-goals is one goal shy of tying Jim Barber (3-goals), Leo Trombley (2 goals) and Matty Iannello (1-goal) combined. He’s also tied for the team lead with 8-points with Tony Rolli.
Leo Trombley (Tournament Player), Matty Iannello (former Tournament player) and Jim Barber (never a tournament player) are in danger of being lapped by a 60+ year old league rookie.
We asked Captain Matty for a comment on the lack of scoring and he frustratingly exclaimed…
“I don’t know how many more opportunities I can give Leo and Jim.., it’s like spoon-feeding two infants and all they do is throw up everting I feed them”.., it’s like having Glista’s new kid as a linemate.., and I can’t put Donny on my line because he doesn’t shoot.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
That-a-boy Shawn Mulcahy.., show your woman how to “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” a winning streak.
Unlike Colleen.., you were smart enough to "fake" being tired 2-weeks ago when you returned from your month long hiatus in Florida and the final 9-hour drive on Saturday.
Thankfully your return started a new potential winning streak with your OT win last week.., oh wait you guys are playing the Roadrunner this week, there will be no winning streak this week.
FYI.., Marty Makarewicz it’s safe to return this week as there is no official winning streak (nor will there be).., but our suggestion would be to shut it down another week and return when you can make a difference.., as this Saturday’s game against the Roadrunners might be too much running for a lower body injury and quite frankly it should be another typical blowout.
Speaking of Roadrunners vs Captain’s Mutiny blowouts… Hey Dominic DeFrancisco, don’t forget about your last meeting and the message fellow Captain Matty Iannello sent to you about running up the score.
Perfection
Roadrunners are perfect so far this season… oh no, did we just jinx them? In the Over-30 league history, no team has ever gone undefeated and won a championship.
So which one do you guys want.., Undefeated Season or a Championship? Because historically you can’t have both, so choose wisely.
To the other (5) teams in the league… Which one of you is going to step up and prevent this from happening? Which one of you will be a footnote in their potential “2007 Patriots Season”
Brothers
Did anyone see the Medeiros Brother splitting the defenders (back-to-back) last week?
First up, Roadrunners’ Steve Medeiros (and we use this next term very loosely) “Bobby-Orr’ed” it.., by carving his way through the neutral zone, splitting the defense, made a juke move and continued his way in on a partial break-away.., only there was no flying goal celebration as he ultimately shanked his efforts.
Then his brother George Medeiros from Devils Disciples took a pass from his brother’s shanked attempt, and he too immediately went the other way and carved up the opposing defense (which was now missing his brother Steve) and was on his way in on a breakaway attempt.., but was viciously taken down and not awarded a penalty shot.
Since there was no penalty shot awarded… we’re left pondering the questions; George Medeiros vs Steve Taddonio mano-a-mano penalty shot… What would Encore’s new Sports Betting put those odds at.., and who are you putting your money on?
Busch or Schlitz?
Ok.., we all should be familiar with the term “Punk Move” that Joe Shannon refers to when a player scores an unnecessary goal on an open net with just seconds winding down. Kinda like when Joe did that Week #3 when he buried an ENG to make it 6-0 with 1:38 left to play.., and then claimed he didn’t know the next was empty.
This week we have a debate for our readers and it goes like this;
Devils Disciples pulled Goaltender Scotty Rosato for an extra attacker.., and were giving it a hell of a try to score 2-goals to tie it up in the last minute plus of the 3rd.
With less than 30-seconds left to play in a 4-2 game between the Roadrunners Captain Dominic DeFrancisco chases down a clearing attempt shot on the empty net.., that shot ended up behind the goal which Dominic collected and paused for a few seconds and then he buried a soft backhander into the empty net goal with 23-seconds to play (and) into the face of the opposing defenseman.
One heckler in stands yelled “Bush League” and the debate was on.
Should Dom have just dumped it in the corner as there was no chance of a 2-goal comeback with now less than 25-seconds to play.., was it a “Punk Move”?
We asked Dom’s teammate Gary Goodwin what he thought about the goal… Was it “Busch League” goal or a “Schlitz Move” to score that late? Gary just simply replied.., “I’ll take one of each and a Corona please”.
Friday Night Lights
It was a tough weekend last week if your name is Mike Naczas.
First we got reports that (Naz) stunk it up at Golf under the Friday night lights by going +16 and never got a chance to putt.., which ultimately lead to him breaking his “Cheat Wedge” club.., and to make matters worse.., the Blind Guy that was in the next tee box shot a better score than Naz.., and that guy was draining putts left and right thanks to seeing eye dog caddie.
You have a few months Naz to replace that “Cheat Wedge” club before the next fundraising event.
That’s a Plus/MINUS
Sorry to inform you ALD Mike Naczas.., No we are not removing you from your ALD position and weekly duties as you do a fine job (#TYT)
What we are removing your “Plus” from your +/- tracking.
Being on a stacked team that is currently destroying their opponents and averaging 5.5 goals a game.., you’re getting the “Plus” by default for just standing on the dek.
However the same said team is only letting up 1 GAA.., so it’s more important to the “That’s a Minus” Hecklers that they get to enjoy their one or maybe two opportunities to yell “THATS A MINUS!!”
Plus it important for Steve Taddonio to understand why he’s losing potential shutouts. Not to mention your "-2" performance last week has caused an uptick in Steve's GAA to 1.20.
Interpretation Forum
For the first time in our now 485-articles.., we are leaving this next storyline “message” up to the readers. Based on the cult classic movie Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino, there is a great scene at the end of the movie when Jules trying to explain the meaning behind his famous killing phrase (Ezekiel 25-17).., here we’ll remind you;
