.500 can come quicker than you think (not that we were thinking that quick tonight). Lost three... but I still think Keith and Salty must have blocked/touched every ball at the net. Sometimes it's nice to play in the forest with the big trees.

(from Bic) Slow as jello? Slow as quicksand? Slow as wet cement? (Steph is awesome) With our captain away frolicking with the Wild, Gang Green had difficulty with positioning and movement. Indeed, a snail could've beaten us in a foot race. (I heart Steph) The play of choice for the evening was to yell at someone else to get the ball because you were too close to it to bother. For example, "PITTER!!!" echoed through the gym on one occasion....What, you couldn't be in mid-air blocking while simultaneously down on the floor three feet away for the dig? Tuh! (Steph is beautiful) Despite our efforts to imitate inert life forms, all three games were really close. By far, however, the highlight of the night were Stephy's brownies--Yum! THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!

(from Craig) Short and not so sweet. The Greeners mounted their horse and seemed poised to defeat the misfits known as Dig-Em. After missing more than his share of serve receives the captain called several time-outs which were unable to charge the rest of the squad. Being mentally down from missing two of their favorites to injury and sickness, the Gang needed the subs to overcome their admitted weakness. This feat proved to be too much for Leah and her ringers, as they got no help from the mainstay of the team. Dig-Em (with only 2 guys, who were overrated at best) beat us down with weak tips in the middle 15-13 and 15-11 in the first 2 games. We managed to muster a victory 15-13 in the final game. Things to work on….. serve, serve receive, digs, attitude and spiking that ball so f-ing hard Dig-Em will be drowning in tears on their next visit. OUT

Well, the highlight of the evening was definitely the BBFB (Blue Footwear By Bic - thanks!). With each choosing their own style of sock wearing (over-the-knee, tucked, scrunched, rolled), Gang Green took the court in an energetic, playful mood. Unfortunately, the competition didn't allow for must heated play. GG managed to miss plenty of serves, but still came out on top of a fairly easy three games. The Pepper Game (and attempted Nacho Game) peaked interest for a short while, but in the end, only incented weak hits and dodging of serves. Good times were had by all (except "can't waste 15 minutes" Leah) at Don Pablo's (I've even got the photos from Colorado to prove it!). That's about it. Except, we did learn one valuable lesson that we should never forget: Craig is hilarious (even if he does buy cheap, crotchless underwear)!

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Alright pat here goes the recap. By the way it is 12:45am.

It was a damn cold Tuesday night as Gang Green entered the gym. The team seemed loose in warm ups and if I do say myself, quite acrobatic with Pat flying around the gym like a crazed man. As the team started game one, it looked like this \ was going to be a somewhat easy and yet fun night of play. With great serving and the boys hammering the ball like there was no tomorrow. The Gang took game 1 with ease with almost a shut out. Going into the game two it looked like the team was going to steam roll their way to victory. The first half of the game was well played out with great bumps, perfect sets and lets not forget the hammering done by Pat and Craig. With the team up 11-1 something happened. It was either the team went into auto pilot or the fire in their bellies was snuffed out. With a blink of an eye the teams energy was going. And the A.D.D team that was on the other side came back and took the game 16-14. Going into game three things didn't seem like it was going to be any better. With the score zig zagging back in forth gang green dug down deep and came out with some great digs by Steph and beautiful placed sets by Bic and Leah. Oh, and the hammering boys from game one took their hammers out of the net and placed them down the A.D.D teams throat. All and all we came out with two wins, but the look on the teams face as they left the battle field told a different story. It was summed up best by Leah " It wasn't a bad night, but we know we should have won all three". And Bic, we will try not to be all disappointed when we don't win all three. We just know we are superstars.

(from Leah)

It was a typical night of ball for the Green,
With ups, downs, and scrambles and us getting mean.
At the end of the night, we finished 2 and 1,
But knew that we should have had some more fun.

Steph and her hits were right on the mark,
Keith manned the blocks and left our opponent in the dark.
Pat and Craig kept on swinging, whether sets were good or not,
And Leah's serves stayed in -- good god, who would have thought?

Now Bic, the littlest asie, struggled part of the night.
Her body and her arms seemed to have an atrocious fight.
Twisting and twirling and "help, help" just inches from the ball,
But her team still loves her, even if she isn't tall.

So stayed tuned in two weeks, when we play our next game,
We're sure to finish the season on a high note -- what fame!