Now What?

So, how are you? I'm doing pretty well, thanks for asking. I sort of disappeared there for awhile but now I'm back, and I still don't know what to do with this blog.

But first, our last game of the season. We played Woodie's at our bar and beat them (probably in 7 games but I don't really remember. I've slept since then.) By us beating them, we knocked them out of a 2nd place tie with the Stafford Ye "Olde" Puckers.

We ended up tied for 4th place with Cozy Corner I and they way we started the season off, I think that's pretty damn good!

Now on to the new season! We packed up and headed to a new place... Carolyn's Place to be exact. Are we still the BarFlies? Nope. New bar, new team, new name. So how do you choose a new name? Do you remember our Rally Rooster? Well, around Thanksgiving, our fearless leader Lex started calling it a Tur-duck-en. So she suggested calling the team Carolyn's Turduckens. Margaret (or Mom as most of you have heard me and Lex call her) suggested calling the team the TurPUCKens (see what she did there?). Well, it stuck. We are Carolyn's Turpuckens and we even have a mascot.

Well, we started the new season last Wednesday against the Cozy Corner ClusterPucks. Not to brag, but we beat them 4 games to 0 in probably our quickest win ever. It's nice to start the season with a win.

This week the Turpuckens take on the Stafford Sandblasters to try and get a winning streak started. It should be a good game. We always have a good time against the Sandblasters (we have a good time with whoever we play!).


Check out our new super sweet baseball sleeve shirts! It is the Spring-Summer season after all!Thanks Nathan!

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Missing: Blog Posts for 3 Shuffleboard Games

But I think I've found them... finally. 


As usual, I just haven't felt like writing about shuffleboard. But I figured that I've come this far so I should really try an finish out the season; we only have one game left. So here we go - the 3 weeks that I've missed.

Crowe BarFlies vs. Cozy Corner ClusterPucks

This match was a tough one and it took us all 7 games to get through it. Shelly and I lost the first game to Jerry and Marcus. It was rough. Roger and Patrick were up next against Scott and John, and lost this one as well. Bert and Margaret played against Tori and Lauri in the third game and following suit, lost. So now we are down to one more loss and we can call it an early night. But you all know we played 4 more games. 


Steve and Nathan stopped the bleeding against Lee Lee and John. Lexie and Patrick put up another win for the good guys against Jerry and Tori. Really wanting to not play a 3rd time, Steve and Nathan win against Scott and Lauri. So here we are... the dreaded 7th game. Lexie and Patrick battle against Lee Lee and Lauri. It was a constant back and forth. 9th frame. Tied 14-14. Lauri has the hammer... and it drifts an inch further than Patrick's blue puck. We lost by one frickin' inch. Grr.

VFW Flyers vs. Crowe BarFlies

The Flyers came to our house for this match and all the games were hard fought. Lexie and Margaret start it off with a heart breaking loss against Bob and Alma. Roger and Patrick beat Carl and Teresa in the second game. Nathan and Steve lose a close one against Adolph Sr. and Dee. Patrick and I get a win against Fred and Joanne. This back and forth could go on all night!


Lexie and Nathan take on Dee and R. C. in the fifth game and take them down. Now we're on a roll. We need one more win to end this fight. Margaret and I played against Sonny and Carl in the final game. That's right, the final game. We won... and in 6 games this time!

Crowe BarFlies vs. Stafford Sandblasters

Lexie and Shelly go up first (which no matter what people say, no one ever really wants to play first) against Tony and Larry, but lose this one. Patrick and Nathan win against Jean and Phil in the second game, which brings up Margaret and Dave against Larry and Danny. The BarFlies are victorious. Bert and I play against Patty and Annie and we win.

For those of you who are still with me, the BarFlies need one more win to take the match. Can we do it? We put up Steve and Patrick for the fourth game and they lose against Charlotte and Jean in a very close one. Shelly and I take on Charlotte and Tony, but they are too much for us. So, we find ourselves (again!!) in the seventh game. Geez! We play a lot of 7th games. The Sandblasters put up first and they play Phil and Annie. Nathan and Patrick play for the good guys. 8 frames later, the game is over. But who won? The suspense is killing you isn't it? Patrick and Nathan held on and won it for the BarFlies! 

Last Wednesday, we had our bye week. So here we are, at the end. Our record - 8-7 with one game to go. Wednesday we take on Woodie's. It will definitely be a fight. We want a winning record. So bring it on Woodie's!

GO BARFLIES!!

Silly Me!

I totally forgot to write a post about the Crowe BarFlies last game of the half against Woodie's. My bad!

The date - Wednesday, November 10th.Image by DaveFayram via Flickr
The place - Woodie's Ice House
The challenge - keep our 3-game winning streak alive

First up for Woodie's is Rod and Lupe going against our Nathan and Bert. After a shaky start, the BarFlies settle down and win the first game 16-8, thanks to a 7 point frame from Bert. Next up for the BarFlies are Patrick and Shelly, who had a rough time against Tu and Lupe. We lost this one 3-16. Dave and I go up for the 3rd game and Stephen and Jade are our opponents. With no handicap points, we squeeze a win out of this one 16-12.

For the 4th game, Margaret and Lexie play for the BarFlies opposite of Stephen and Bob. Now this game got a little hairy, mainly because I, and some of my team mates don't know how to count. We have a rule in our league that you must play 6 different players by the 4th game. Over the years there has been some very heated arguments over this rule. Someone mentions to me that they have only played 5 players and we are in the 4th game. So I look down at the score sheet... count... count again and come up with 5 players (beer and counting do not mix).  I stand up and announce (very sure of myself) that we have won this game (not the match) due to their lack of 6 different players. So they say they're players out loud, while I count AGAIN! Oops! 6 players. I'll go back to my seat now (with my tail tucked neatly between my legs). After all the laughing died down we got back to the game. The BarFlies lost this one 12-17.

The 5th game ends up pretty much the same way as the last. Bert and I lost against Tu and Lupe. Lexie and Nathan tried their luck against Jade and Jerry in the 6th but couldn't quite beat them. Woodie's won the match 4 games to 2.

Grrrr!

So we've had a week off and will have this one off too. Hopefully we can find our winning ways again!

 GO BARFLIES!!

Bye Bye Bye

This past Wednesday was the Crowe BarFlies Bye week, so Mom and I headed over to Hunter's Pub to watch our sister team, the Crowe Wildpuckers take on Hunter's Rocks. The Wildpuckers came out on top to make their record 6-1.


This week we are up against Woodie's Ice House for the last game of the first half. Hopefully we'll keep our winning streak alive!

GO BARFLIES!! 

Image by Oberazzi via FlickrOkay, so now that that's taken care of, I want to hear from you!  Yes, you!! Since I can't seem to get anyone to write a guest post for me I've come up with this brilliant (HA!) idea. I'm going to try (most likely unsuccessfully) and come up with a weekly shuffleboard question and I want you to answer it in the comments. Ready? Here we go!

What is your favorite part of shuffleboard?

Pretty easy right? Can't wait to see your comments (hope I get at least one)...


**UPDATE** 12/13/10 - I never got a comment. Sad face.

What a Shocker

Image by Richard Milnes via Flickr

Well, we came, we saw, we tried, we lost. Again. I don't know what it is but the Crowe BarFlies just can't seem to catch a break. 


We almost won on a technicality if I hadn't opened my big, dumb mouth. See, in our league, if a player wins 2 games in a night, that player is no longer eligible to play. It was game 7 and Woodie's wanted to put up Bob and Stephen. Stephen had won 2 games that night and I had to tell them. If he had shot one puck they would have had to forfeit that game and we would have won the match. But that's the chicken shit way to win in my book. They put up a different player and won fair and square.


Every game was a fight down to the last point. It was pretty scary when we lost the first 3 games (yeah, we're that good) but we managed to claw our way back and win the next 3. We just couldn't close the deal.


Now we are down to the last three games of the season, and I'm pretty sure we've sealed our fate out of the top 3. 


Next week, we travel over to Cozy Corner to play the Cozy Corner Clusterpucks. Our team never plays that well over there so we'll really need some good luck to help us to a victory on Wednesday. 

Record

6-7

Next Opponent - Cozy Corner Clusterpucks

Go BarFlies! 

U-Turn Ahead

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Well, it's Wednesday again and again it's time for the Crowe BarFlies to make a 180° turn. Coming off of a 3 game losing streak isn't easy, especially after not playing for a week. 

Including today's match, we have 4 games left in this season. We still have a chance to get into the top 3 (well, the 2nd or 3rd spot). Unfortunately, it's a pretty slim chance.

C'mon BarFlies! We can do this! Okay, enough of the pep talk.

So I've gone back and forth on how to write this blog. At first I liked doing a game by game recap, but after a few matches, it felt like I was saying the same things over and over, regardless of who won. Now, I just kind of ramble on about how we need to win (because I'm awesome like that). I have no clue what tomorrow's (well, probably Friday's) post will look like.

Tonight, we're up against Woodie's Ice House. In the first half of the season they struggled to get enough players to some of their games but it seems now that they're on the comeback. Tonight should be a good match. 

Go BarFlies!

Insane

Wow. Those three letters sum it up pretty nicely. Wednesday night we played our 5th shuffleboard league game of the season at Woodie's Ice House. Woodie's board was insane, and not in a good way. From one end of the table, no matter where you tried to shoot it to, your puck either fell off the left rail (side) or found a tiny little lip and hung on to the left rail at a deep one or better. The only time a puck was anywhere but on the left side was if it was hit by another puck and bumped around. The speed from that end of the board was impossible. All you had to do was barely push your puck and watch it slowly float down the board, curve to the left and fall off. Insane. The other end wasn't much better. There wasn't as drastic as a curve as the other end but there was a curve. Historically, our team hasn't played very well on this board, but we've changed that.

Game 1 - Match Record 0-0

Elaine and Dave got the call for our first game of the night. We started out with 2 handicap points and right off the bat Elaine had the crazy, left turn curve down. She scored in all of her frames except one. Dave gave up 4 points in his first frame but then held his opponent to 1 or less points after that. After 9 frames, we won 19-7.

Game 2 - Match Record 1-0

Bert and John were up next. After giving up one handicap point Bert scored two consecutive 2 while John kept his opponent to 0. Then it was John's turn to score 2 twice in a row. Their opponents started to make a comeback but John and Bert held on to win it 17-14, the first of three games to go to 14-14 before someone scored the winning point.

Game 3 - Match Record 2-0

For game 3 we played Lexie and myself and had to give up 3 points. Lexie scores 4 points in the first frame to give us the lead. My opponent scored 2 on me the next frame and for the next 3 frames neither Lex or I could stop the bleeding. I finally scored a couple of points but it was too little too late and we lost 6-15.

Game 4 - Match Record 2-1

Elaine was back up but this time she was partnered with Margaret. We had to give up 3 handicap points again but Margaret quickly made those back up. This was a bit of a seesaw game with the points being scored on both sides. By the 5th frame we had the lead 11-5 but their opponents rallied to make it 11-12 in the 9th frame. Now it's the 12th frame, the score is 13 to 14 and we have the hammer. Elaine already has a one on the board and shoots her last puck. It falls off the side. 14 to 14. Margaret can't stop her opponent and we go down 14-20.

Game 5 - Match Record 2-2

Let's see if we can repeat our second game. Bert and John are back up together and again have to give up one point. They both started strong, scoring 3 points in each of their frames, but gave up 7 points in the following 3 frames. John started finding his speed and scored a total of 12 points in his next four frames to get us the victory 18-14.

Game 6 - Match Record 3-2

Image by AndiH via Flickr

Elaine and Dave go back up for what we hope is the last game of the night. After some confusion on who they were going to play against, we ended up getting 2 handicap points. Dave started it off and gave up 2 points. For the entire game, Dave never shot the hammer and managed to keep his opponent from scoring more than 2. I don't know if Elaine was ready to go home or what but she was on fire. Her frames were 3 points, 1 point, 7 points and then 5 points. We take the win 18-6 and take the match 4 games to 2.

Our winning streak continues. After losing the first two games of the season we have rallied to win 3 straight. Our next game is at home against the Cozy Corner ClusterPucks and is the first of 3 weeks that we will be playing at our home board. Could we possibly finish this half without losing another match? That would be freakin' sweet!

Quote of the night: "Take a left bitch!" - Elaine (talking to her puck)

Record:

3-2

Next opponent - Cozy Corner ClusterPucks

Go BarFlies!

Three-Peat?

Tomorrow is our 5th shuffleboard game of the season and we are going to try and make it 3 wins in a row. We are playing at Woodie's Ice House which has some controversy swirling around it. Well, I don't know if controversy is the right word but I don't feel like trying to think of a different one.

First off. Their board is not well liked in our league. There are crazy curves and one end can play mean tricks on your pucks. In my opinion (read again - my opinion), that is called home field advantage. Some in our league will argue that the board is "unplayable" but if there are crazy, tricky spots on the board, the other team has to play and learn those spots too. Don't get me wrong, it aggravates the crap out of me when I can't get my shots to go where I want them, but I've seen Woodie's team go through the same thing. There is a certain learning curve that comes along with shuffleboard, especially on tricky boards.

Secondly, Woodie's has had to forfeit two games already this season. In our league, any team that forfeits three matches in any one half-season of play will be dropped from the league that season. I have heard that they have had to forfeit because they couldn't get enough players to their games at 8 o'clock. That sucks, for everyone involved. It not only sucks for their team, but also the team they are scheduled to play. We've joined the league to play shuffleboard, and that's what we want to do. Am I blaming Woodie's or their players? Of course not. Shit happens, stuff comes up, schedules have to be shuffled. But like I said, it's not fair to anyone, so I feel that the forfeit rule is a must.

I guess what I am saying is that I hope Woodie's has enough players tomorrow night. I don't want them to have to be dropped from our league because I want a chance to prove that we can get 3 wins in a row.

Go BarFlies!