WISE GUYS! - “Don’t be that guy!” A quote from the movie PCU when Cutter is asked, ”Are you wearing the shirt of the band you’re going to see tonight?”
“Yes I am.”
“Don’t be that guy.”
When the new Irish Eyes in Lewes is completed - I have it from as reliable a band member as I could find at the moment - that the popular Blue Collar Wise Guys will return to perform and I will be there with my Wise Guys shirt. Yes I will be “that guy!”
Nelson and Chad Pennypacker, Mike Daisey, Rick Trasatti and Brad Travis. I am stoked!
FADING PHILLIES - I would be a raging bull and promptly fired or rolled by Antonio Alfonseco (6-foot-5, 250 as listed in your program but 350 on the Pat’s Steaks Wall of Fame) if I managed the Phillies. A team with hopes of making the playoffs can’t be blowing 5-0 September leads in Atlanta to the stupid Braves who, in spite of all their division crowns, can only attract a half-full crowd. Teams with an apathetic fan base should roll over and play dead.
The Phillies sweep the Mets - who are sorry and trying to give the division away - then go down and play like turkeys - the bullpen actually looks like a turkey farm - in Florida and Atlanta. And the same smiling and supportive of each other camaraderie that makes the Phils such a likeable collection of individuals is the same thing that makes you hate them.
Where is the nasty? We don’t want to see character, we want wins!
RALLY SCORING - “Fred Pop, wake-up, the rubber game is about to commence.”
Cape volleyball will open the season Monday, Sept. 10, hosting St. Thomas More. Junior varsity action begins at 4 p.m. followed by the varsity games. Rally scoring means all points count and none of that lame “side out you can only score off of serve stuff.” Cape has two full squads of great looking athletes who absolutely deserve the same level of coverage of football and field hockey players. But an after-school three- to four-hour commitment to volleyball is an effort for a nonrelated person, but I will do my best. Perhaps a weighted grade in journalism can be offered - just kidding. I think a weighted grade to protect GPA is arrogant and that AP in front of a course is all the arrogance anyone needs to impress admissions officers who don’t care anyway.
STRIKE FORCE ONE - Cape soccer under first-year head coach Jay Hayes is poised to have a great season. The team opens Tuesday, Sept. 11, at Indian River, which will tell an early story if Cape is as good as the preseason has indicated.
I wonder if Sept. 11 will ever fade from memory like Dec. 7 has for students of AP history and what some insiders call “Dumb U.S. History.” Here is firsthand info from athlete and correspondent Bryan Mack;
“We went up to the Kirkwood Complex and every Delaware team except Sallies was there. We scrimmaged Newark, Hodgson, Wilmington Friends and Smyrna. We tied Newark 0-0 and both sides had many opportunities to score but couldn’t finish. We beat Hodgson 2-0 with goals from Ike Fairley and David Mesquita. We won against Friends 3-0 with a goal from Derek Gay and two from Mesquita. We played Smyrna last and tied them 1-1. Mesquita scored and then we took out our starters. The reserves got to play and let up a goal to tie the game 1-1.
“We scrimmaged at CR a week later and three more players came who could not make it to the Kirkwood scrimmage. We played four 20-minute quarters and won 5-1. Single goals were scored by Bryan Mack and Fairley. Mesquita led the way with three goals and an assist. CR claims they played a “two-touch restriction,” but we won anyway and will see them at one of our few home games.”
SNIPPETS - The Cape field hockey team will open the season Sept. 7 with a game at Middletown followed by a Tuesday Sept. 11 game at Delmar. The home games scheduled for Sept. 13 versus Sussex Tech and Sept. 17 versus Worcester will be played at Hudson Field.
Here is a spectator rule. Teams are on one side and you are on the other. There will be an orange line five yards off the sidelines and you are to stand behind it. When it doubt as to what to say just yell, ”block it up.”
I’m picking Eagles to beat the Packers and Redskins to win over Miami this weekend, while the Ravens will lose at Cincinnati. The Redskins are on CBS and the Eagles on FOX, both at 1 p.m. The Ravens play at 7 p.m. Monday on ESPN. I am certain my above three picks will not come in. Green Bay ain’t that bad and the Ravens may destroy the Bengals. Fantasy football - I don’t play cause it is just too gay.
