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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #173: (Insert Title)
im ready for baseball all day today. Starts in about 1.5 hrs.
im ready for baseball all day today. Starts in about 1.5 hrs.
Good Morning Lodge.
Back to work.
So Jr played hockey for the first time in months (other than pond hockey) yesterday. He's signed up for a spring league and in supposedly the "Varsity" league. He was really nervous before the game due to the "Varsity" tag. If these guys are all varsity, they are scrubs on weak teams. Jr, who did not make JV, fit right in.
All the expectations for BC, but I'm expecting them to have a lot of trouble with Union. BC had too much trouble with Notre Dame for me to think they can beat Union, and if they do win it'll be a very close game that goes to an exciting end. I'm expecting MN to hand UND their arses (even with the end-of-season Whioux SCSU split that series only a few weeks gone now), and then Union will eek out its first national championship.
Not all of it, but I saw enough of the BC/Lowell game to see that Lowell and Union play a similar, defensive game - only Union plays it better. Seriously, I think Union's the real deal and BC has the misfortune of being a good team that loses to one most people have already discounted. Perhaps I'm wrong, but Union simply impresses me.
Any name for this league? Where is it played?
Union is going to be a very tough team to beat. Their systems are just so seamless and fluid, great team speed and deeper than BC. They're really impressive to watch, as an unbiased hockey fan.
It is "Showcase." Played at a number of rinks around the Metro. Jr played it a few times way back as mite/squirt. One time he had Bellows and Wait, of Edina varsity, on his team when all were mites. It is a very erratic league with teams all over the map in ability. The game before the one he played wound up 9-0 and the winning team appeared to be made up of STA varsity/jv players. Nobody is checking birth certificates or anything so you can have ringers if you want, or be all scrubs and get smoked.
It gets him on the ice and he gets to play against some varsity players.
Afternoon Lodge. Ghost town here, as many took Opening Day off to get hammered and hop on the Tigers bandwagon. Some twatwaffle left the heat on full blast, and it's sweltering in here, even though I've turned all of the thermostats in my area down (clearly they are just for show).
New word. LOVE it and it's not banned on here.
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Nah, just dredged up from a few years back. I believe the retired 'diva invented it.
Nah, just dredged up from a few years back. I believe the retired 'diva invented it.
Good afternoon, Lodge.
Today, I go in for testing for a Youth Specialist job with Muskegon County. The job would be supervising juvenile delinquents or something like that. And if I get hired, it would only be 24 hours a week, but the pay is MUCH better than working in retail.
That's awesome - plus you could always pick up a part-time job to fill the other 16 hours and make even more money.