Random Thoughts VIII: The Ocho
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Ha.....not boring. That is good. I think Mr. In the Cut is still sore he did not win his Oscar. He wants you all to like him........to really, really like him.
Mangino's farts stink, btw. I think he needed a towel floss with after that one.
long one tonight!
so, volleyball tonight. I checked the schedule when we got there and it wasn't updated from last week so I don't know how far we dropped. I did know that the team we were playing tonight was 9-3 in sets, right behind us. We go out to practice and turns out the people out there already weren't our opponents but rather the 6pm team who got stood up. Remember how they sent an email saying people needed to be better about forfeiting? Apparently no one listened. So this was great cause we got to warm up and get some serves and hits in.
Then our real team showed up. Seemed friendly, one pretty tall volleyballish looking girl, some decent looking guys. Ok, we'll see how this goes.
First serve we probably volleyed for 3 minutes. And we lost it. Next two went similarly long. Lots of back and forth, lots of close saves. Think we got one of them. I whispered to DH "holy ****, this is going to be tough!" He was probably already out of breath because I swear he was teleporting to get to balls. DH was a beast. The whole set is like this. Close, lots of volleying, intense!
Nothing special on my serves there, all were good but we didn't hold it for more than 2. So we are pretty much tied at the end of the first set and the guy ahead of me goes up to serve. ******* clutch. We had some crazy saves and we had a good save to set up point, and then he got an ace. Got the first set like 22-20!!
Second set our other couple showed up late and started in by serving. Which made me nervous cause they don't play much and hadn't gotten to warm up at all. The guy got like 3 serves in a row, excellent. We keep it pretty close again and toward about half way, the other team has another guy show up to sub in. He's like ******* 6'6 and looks like he just walked off the men's volleyball team somewhere. Not even kidding, I kinda panicky say to DH "please tell me he's for the competitive night or something!" He serves and oh ****, he's good. Guy next to me is like 'we better end this before he gets to the front row!"
So we had been up 17-14 but let them back in. Start going back and forth and tall guy is pretty good. He and DH volley back and forth but DH couldn't get it down. Their girls (besides tall girl) weren't amazing, but they always covered their spots. DH would try to push it behind whoever had hit it, but they always had a person there. Tall girl goes up to serve and she's ******* good. I don't quite remember how the 2nd ended but we lost like 22-23. I did have like 4 serves in a row including at least one ace.
So, rubber match. Tall girl gets to keep serving (we figure out that she's married to tall guy and the cute baby on the sidelines is theirs.) And she ******* targets me. As she should have. I was getting my ass kicked. A couple times I did get it back over, but we'd lose the point and she'd serve right back to me. God, it was bad. We are down like 0-6 before she hits the net.
So I'm thinking welp, with her serve and tall guy in or the whole set, this may not be great. We get a few points and are down 7-14. I rotate out. Guy on our team serves and serves and serves. Gets us to like, 11. I think this was the point where the ball tipped off one of our girls, hit DH in the face, but it stayed high enough that they got it back across the net! So probably our weakest serving girl goes up. She gets two nice serves - one ace, I think. I look and we are tied. Then I watch her........and she looked up at the score too. I was like nooooooooooo don't do it! She shanked the serve. So it's 16 all. DH and tall guy go at it. Tall guy ******* throws/carries down a kill. Like dude, you're like 7ft tall, why are you carrying the ball?! They don't call it. Next play one of our guys is in the net like an inch and they call that. Whatevs. We had some great, scrappy plays off the net, chasing stuff out of bounds to save it - we were just really, really scrappy tonight.
So next guy of ours to serve is the one who closed the first set out. He has some great serves and ties us up at like, 19? I think. Don't remember how we lost his serve. I was still on the sideline. So, we trade a point again - this might be when tall guy served it into the net (thank Jesus) and so one of our other girls (the one that was late) has to go serve. I watch her face and can literally see the "why me" written all over.
She has a perfectly good serve. We get the kill! Game point! Somewhere in here I had to handle a very close to the net hit and get it back over. Yay for me. So our girl erves again. It's a little short, but one of their girls gets to it......but she's too close to the net and doesn't get it over! We win!
Definitely the best team we've played. Not even close. We went like 15 minutes over our time too. So much volleying. Our serving was much better this week than last. And we just kept the ball off the ground. This team did a lot of good 3 touch actual volleyball and we pretty much just do one hit over. We know we aren't great at passing so we tend to not try. If we can push it over, we push it over.
But yeah, really good game - and so glad tall guy wasn't there the whole game!
so, volleyball tonight. I checked the schedule when we got there and it wasn't updated from last week so I don't know how far we dropped. I did know that the team we were playing tonight was 9-3 in sets, right behind us. We go out to practice and turns out the people out there already weren't our opponents but rather the 6pm team who got stood up. Remember how they sent an email saying people needed to be better about forfeiting? Apparently no one listened. So this was great cause we got to warm up and get some serves and hits in.
Then our real team showed up. Seemed friendly, one pretty tall volleyballish looking girl, some decent looking guys. Ok, we'll see how this goes.
First serve we probably volleyed for 3 minutes. And we lost it. Next two went similarly long. Lots of back and forth, lots of close saves. Think we got one of them. I whispered to DH "holy ****, this is going to be tough!" He was probably already out of breath because I swear he was teleporting to get to balls. DH was a beast. The whole set is like this. Close, lots of volleying, intense!
Nothing special on my serves there, all were good but we didn't hold it for more than 2. So we are pretty much tied at the end of the first set and the guy ahead of me goes up to serve. ******* clutch. We had some crazy saves and we had a good save to set up point, and then he got an ace. Got the first set like 22-20!!
Second set our other couple showed up late and started in by serving. Which made me nervous cause they don't play much and hadn't gotten to warm up at all. The guy got like 3 serves in a row, excellent. We keep it pretty close again and toward about half way, the other team has another guy show up to sub in. He's like ******* 6'6 and looks like he just walked off the men's volleyball team somewhere. Not even kidding, I kinda panicky say to DH "please tell me he's for the competitive night or something!" He serves and oh ****, he's good. Guy next to me is like 'we better end this before he gets to the front row!"
So we had been up 17-14 but let them back in. Start going back and forth and tall guy is pretty good. He and DH volley back and forth but DH couldn't get it down. Their girls (besides tall girl) weren't amazing, but they always covered their spots. DH would try to push it behind whoever had hit it, but they always had a person there. Tall girl goes up to serve and she's ******* good. I don't quite remember how the 2nd ended but we lost like 22-23. I did have like 4 serves in a row including at least one ace.
So, rubber match. Tall girl gets to keep serving (we figure out that she's married to tall guy and the cute baby on the sidelines is theirs.) And she ******* targets me. As she should have. I was getting my ass kicked. A couple times I did get it back over, but we'd lose the point and she'd serve right back to me. God, it was bad. We are down like 0-6 before she hits the net.
So I'm thinking welp, with her serve and tall guy in or the whole set, this may not be great. We get a few points and are down 7-14. I rotate out. Guy on our team serves and serves and serves. Gets us to like, 11. I think this was the point where the ball tipped off one of our girls, hit DH in the face, but it stayed high enough that they got it back across the net! So probably our weakest serving girl goes up. She gets two nice serves - one ace, I think. I look and we are tied. Then I watch her........and she looked up at the score too. I was like nooooooooooo don't do it! She shanked the serve. So it's 16 all. DH and tall guy go at it. Tall guy ******* throws/carries down a kill. Like dude, you're like 7ft tall, why are you carrying the ball?! They don't call it. Next play one of our guys is in the net like an inch and they call that. Whatevs. We had some great, scrappy plays off the net, chasing stuff out of bounds to save it - we were just really, really scrappy tonight.
So next guy of ours to serve is the one who closed the first set out. He has some great serves and ties us up at like, 19? I think. Don't remember how we lost his serve. I was still on the sideline. So, we trade a point again - this might be when tall guy served it into the net (thank Jesus) and so one of our other girls (the one that was late) has to go serve. I watch her face and can literally see the "why me" written all over.
She has a perfectly good serve. We get the kill! Game point! Somewhere in here I had to handle a very close to the net hit and get it back over. Yay for me. So our girl erves again. It's a little short, but one of their girls gets to it......but she's too close to the net and doesn't get it over! We win!
Definitely the best team we've played. Not even close. We went like 15 minutes over our time too. So much volleying. Our serving was much better this week than last. And we just kept the ball off the ground. This team did a lot of good 3 touch actual volleyball and we pretty much just do one hit over. We know we aren't great at passing so we tend to not try. If we can push it over, we push it over.
But yeah, really good game - and so glad tall guy wasn't there the whole game!
Scrappy play by CG's team leads them to victory over team with really tall, really good players couple in three sets.
But yeah, really good game - and so glad tall guy wasn't there the whole game!
technically we still won over him in the third. He'd try to block but DH would just pop it overtop or push it to a side. I thought he get 72 blocks on us. He got none. So he had the height but not the timing.
technically we still won over him in the third. He'd try to block but DH would just pop it overtop or push it to a side. I thought he get 72 blocks on us. He got none. So he had the height but not the timing.
CycloneErik
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I had to hit "page down" three times to make it past the megapost.
CG, you should periscope or some app like that, your games live to CF.
CycloneErik
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I gave up. I'll never look like her.
I could hit a late growth spurt and gain 10 inches, right? And I think those abs will just show up overnight. I have faith.
Something about DH not able to get it to go down. Must be popping viagara or something.
CycloneErik
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The ones that show up overnight are the ones nobody wants...........
Unless, of course, they're just part of a special bump........
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