After the first week of over fourty outdoor soccer canceled due to wet fields, Out do soccer has now begun. Tuesdays are 9 on 9 soccer  on half fields, with mostly the same rules as indoor soccer. No off sides, subbing on the fly and no drop kicking from the keeper. Other that that it is just like an outdoor game. 

The Brewers ODB came out in good form. There was a lot of good passing to be seen and a lot of halfway decent shots. Most of the shots in the first half went over the bar as players were still trying to get used to the smaller goals. Yet most of the possession and shots in the first half came from the Brewers. 

Lonie had two really good runs in the first half. The first was fed to him as he ran between two defenders in the middle of the field. He collected the ball just outside of the box with one touch and his second went just over the crossbar. His second run later in the half he received the ball inside the box as someone pushed the ball between two defenders. Lonie took one touch, which might have been one touch too many, then shot the ball. He did not get what he wanted on it and the keeps was able to save it with little effort.  

Still in the first half, Kent forgot what sport he was playing. He thought he could triple-deke his way through four defenders. He made it past the first two and got himself in the box, took a another touch or two to get around the third but as he want past the fourth he lost the ball. The defender's big toe got just enough of the ball to get it out from under Kent. He was quoted at half as saying, "I had him, I just needed one more centimeter and I would have been through." He attempted to dribble through two or three defenders a few more times before half, all with the same effect. 

While on the bench, Kent also yelled at Jamie for drippling to much and that she should pass the ball. Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black. Luckly Kent saw the humor in his own statement. 

Then Tator showed up and the energy changed on top. On his first shift on the field, he had only been on the pitch for five minutes,  he received the ball and with the energy only he can possess, muscled the ball past the goalkeeper for the first goal of the season. The half would end with this being the only goal.

The second half started and from here on in, it became the Kent and Tator show.

Kent crossed the ball in the air and over both the goalie and two defenders. Tator was waiting in for the ball and as it came down, dead center of the goal, he picked it out of the air with one touch and put it into the back of the goal.

Later in the half Mark would have a tremendous cross that was actually going into the goal, when at the last second before the ball crossed the line, Kent would steal it and knock it in with his head for another goal. 

Two great opportunities would be missed. Tator would receive the call from Kent on the top of the box and instead of shooting he would lay it off to where Kent should have been if he would have finished his run. The reverse would happen a little later when Kent would get the ball form Tator inside the box with an open goal in front of him, but he would pass the ball to where Tator should have been if he would have continued his run. 

Tator would go on to get a Double hat trick. He would score four goals in total. Kent pointed out a double hat trick would have been six goals, but Tator pointed out that goals one through three counted as the first hat trick and the second to the fourth counted as the second hat trick.

Kent would get a second goal, capping off the final Brewers goal total of five for the game. 

Joe was distracted by a tasty on the side lines in the second and no one was surprised that he would notice her, or mention that he noticed her. 

The Brewers did not fall apart after the fifth goal, but they would be scored on twice after.

One of the Andy's, the one with the bad knees, was defending the player with the ball. The guy made half a move and when Andy changed direction his knees and legs did not want to do what he wanted and he stumbled. He did not go down, but it was more than enough for the player to beat him. Adam said he would take some of the blame because he stepped off him man, but in the end no one is blaming Adam. Especially not Andy.

Mark put in a crunching tackle on one of the other teams better players. The ball was played out to the wing. IT was a fifty/fifty ball and they both got their feet to the ball at the same time. Mark stopped the ball dead and the player went head over heels and rolled down the sideline.

This guy would later go on to score the second goal for the bad guys. He danced at the top of the box. Joe was doing a good job sticking with his fakes. One, two, three, but the fours one opened just a little window and he took the shot. It went through a crowd and Dan never saw it. By the time Dan did see it, the ball was right next to him and it was too late to do anything.

Bobby would leave the game early with a foot injury. Dan thinks it might be an Anne Frank injury, or did he say Lizi Frank? Either way it might be serious so maybe it should not be joked about. Bobby does not know this, but this is what the drinking team thinks (it might be called Lisfranc injury) 

The game ended with a well deserved win 5 -2 and the consensus is that four subs is the right amount of subs for most nine on nine games.

The drinking team was disappointed with the amount of tickets they got after the game. Sure there were not as many people on the team as when the games are eleven on eleven, but the amount of people that say after the game is about the same. Needless to say a few pitchers were purchased to make up for this oversight. 

Now that it is warm outside the conversation turned from the normal conversation of when Dan and Jamie are going to move into their home they are building, to lawn care. It seems that a lot of home owners like to take care of their lawns and some of them take it very seriously. Mark tends to be very meticulous when it comes to lining his lawn and he once attempted to carve a Packer's G into it. From the ground he said it looked good, but when he went on his roof to take pictures, it still looked like a G, but not a Packer's G.

Dan pointed out that it might have been easier to do if he would have used a segway lawn mower. Now I'm sure that Dan had no idea, but they exist and here is prof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdFr-HtdXUQ

Once again the talk went to the long and drawn out process of Dan trying to buy a boat. This has also been a topic over the last few games. Of course when you talk about boats the talk leads to fishing or water skiing. This time it was fishing. My notes do not do this conversation justise so it is going to end up on the cutting floor.  

The question of the night was what is worse, fire ants or sister ants? Turns out that sister ants are worse, because they are both your ant and your sister. 

If you did not know there is a right and a wrong way to hit someone with a pool cue. You always hold the narrow end. If you hit them with the skinny end the cue will not break. It would act more like a whip than a bat. But if you hold the skinny end the thick end will snap off and hurt more. 

At last call Dan, Joe and Mark liberated some tickets from one of the other teams and when the call was made they all got up and ran to the window to collect their last free beers. 

I will not go into this too much, but Joe once shook OJs hand. He chased him down yelling "the Juice" If you want the whole story that is something for him to tell again. I would require an entire post on its own. . 

It is now known that a Beer party in the bathroom is not when you are holding your girlfriend's hair as she is throwing up in the bathroom while you are drinking a beer. We are not sure what that would be called, but it is not a Beer Party in the bathroom. Nor is having a shower beer. 

As the teams started to clean up their tables at the end of the night. The Caterer tossed a beer can end over end over Jaime's head in into the trash can six feet away and it went in without hitting the sides.

First Sunday Dune Pumas game of the Fall. 9/25

It was another good win. The corrected score, according to Sunny, was 8 to 4.

Tator did not play this week, but he came to coach, run subs and text play by play to Kent. At one point he looked up from his phone after checking out how his fantasy football team was doing and said, I should really be paying more attention to this game. Those are the words of a really dedicated coach.

Justin had a great first half in goal, but got distracted while trying to recruit a few U-14 girls playing soccer on the field behind him. This led to the first goal against us in the game.

The first goal was a rocket, upper right corner, by Cam. That set the pace for the reset of the first half. 

Two penalties were awarded to the Dune Pumas. Billy missed the first according to Sunny. According to Sunny, Billy missed, Brian missed and Adam missed the same penalty Sunny took and MISSED. It was on frame, but right at the keeper. This leaves Sunny with ZERO goals on the day.

Brian on the other hand scored two penalties on the same penalty. He was so excited to shoot that he scored the first one before the ref was ready. The first one was well placed and right into the side netting. The second and the one that counted was right next to the keeper, who got a hand on it, but it still went in. That gave Brain four goals on the day, but only three counted. 

Tall Andy had at least one goal on the day and in the second half he had a great opportunity to score another. He hit the post with the first shot, it came back to him and he hit a defender on the second shot and the third shot missed the mark as well. 

Old Nick (AKA Shirtless Nick) stoled a goal from Gill. Gill did all the work and the ball was heading into the far side of the net when Nick slid in and pushed it over the line.

El Presidente had what he thinks was the make or break play of the game. He had a great pass through the middle to New Nick who tucked it into the side netting around the keeper.

New Nick might be the new Rabah. Maybe little Rabah. It is to early to tell.

In the second half Andy took a break from the field and played some of the second half in the goal. He did his best to help the Dune Pumas lose the game, letting in 3 goals. The first of which was punted right to the top of the goal box, to a player on the other team and was chipped. He blames Kurt for not saving it off the goal line. Kurt was so close and he had done it in the past, but he failed when Andy needed him most. Andy did have two good saves in the game, but still let three goals in.

A new drink was invented, but not created. The Redneck Mimosa. Who would not want orange juice and Miller Lite?  At some point after the game Billy took a phone call and said, "I have no Balls." 

Kent was MIA in today's game. 

Sept 15th Game recap

The fall season has started for the Dune Pumas and it was a great win.  Even after a month layoff we continued playing good soccer. 3-1 win and we haven't beat that team in 3 or 4 games. 

Our first goal was an own goal but the tall Andy takes credit for it since he was the last one on our team to touch it. He later went out of the game with a minor injury 

Shortly after that the OG Andy had two hand balls in our own box, in the same play, within seconds of each other. There was no penalty called. Even though the second one was well over his head. 

Sunny only saw one bad pass from OG Andy. 

Adam missed a penalty shot after he got fowled maybe in the box. He decided the best thing to do was shoot it right up the middle into the keepers hands. I give him some credit in this since the keeper keeps moving so it can be hard to hit a moving target. 

New Joe did a bicycle kick in our own box. He made good contact and there was good form.  The ball was cleared about 13 yards right to the top of the box.

The go-ahead goal was scored by Tator. He tucked it in  centimeters between the goals glove and the post. We had a great view of it from the bench. 

The 3rd goal was even nicer. Tator while already in the box passed the ball ... Passed the ball ... Not shoot the ball he passed it to New Jason. Who hit it in with a nice pass in past the keeper. 

After Otto megged Luis in the game he put his finger to his lips as if to silence the crowd and then said "just rubbing salt in the wound." Fuck Luis. 

After the game we got or free beer and when we tried to by more in the form of pitchers New Jason was told no and came back to the table with only two Modelo cans. One was given to Sunny and New Jason said he licked it and now his  testicle juice was on it and Sunny was drinking it.