Ultimate is Cool

Well, I'm back. Nothing much happened yesterday, except I got really ticked off at Chris for not leaving a message to tell me where my car was. After about an hour of waiting for a call, I solicited the help of the airport parking department to go out searching for my car through all the parking lots in the hot sun with two suitcases. Not fun. Eventually, after about 15 minutes and we were almost all the way through the first lot, Chris did call, and told me my car was in short-term parking, which ended up costing me like 3 or 4 bucks more than long term parking. So anyways, that took a bite out of the work I was supposed to do as well. Dude, I was seriously ticked. Chris called to try to apologize and I was like, don't even talk to me right now, because I knew I had nothing nice to say. I don't think I've been that ticked in a long time.

But enough complaining. Mark randomly showed up at our house this week. I got home from Austin and he was cuddling on the couch with some girl. It took me a minute to realize that hey, isn't Mark supposed to be in Boston? But he drove down here for a week to take care of a few things. And hang out with this Krista chick. They've been inseparable. She's pretty hot, too. I wonder if Mark is serious about this one.

Today was a great Ultimate day. We played against Mike French's and Adam Taylor's team, and they got up on us early. Like 7-2 or something. They were playing a zone, and we were making a number of mistakes, and they were making none. We had a really limited turnout, too. Mostly us older and less energetic veterans. None of the young ones. Not even Jon. Ironically, I think this helped on our comeback. Because I pretty much took over on handling, and we started killing their zone. Tons of passing, lots of dropping back and waiting. Everybody was incredibly patient and willing to wait for me to get back there for the drop. Then I'd just do a quick release to throw it before the cup could get on me, or I'd just use my high backhand to get over the zone. Or I'd just wait and do another drop and try to get the disc again. I think it really helps to have veterans out there. We've got nothing to prove, and we may not have speed, but we know that there'll always be a decent throwing option if you wait long enough.

Anyways, it's hard to describe the game other than that it was cool. We came back to win 15-9. An 13-2 run. The excitement was intense. And the team spirit was pretty good as well. Mike came up to me after the game and said, "I don't understand it, how did that happen." The only thing I could tell him was that we played really bad at first, while they played really well, and then things just switched around. So it was a fun game. I love Ultimate Frisbee.

Posted June 12, 2003 (11:42 PM) | Comments (1)