Daisy/Brown ("Rickshaw") - July 20

[Loring Holden <lsh@cs.brown.edu>]

After trading the first two points, Brown was up on Daisy, 3-1.  As the
Daisy team waited for the pull, someone said "They're winning, but
they're not kicking our ass - yet".  Well, something like that.  It's
not like I held up play while I ran to the sidelines to write the quote
in my spiral reporter's notebook.  I don't have a reporter's notebook.
The quote didn't even make it onto the piece of scratch paper in the
bottom of my backpack which is a poor substitute; the scratch paper that
has marinated in the stench of sweaty socks and is so smelly that I'm
reluctant to use the scratch paper for any note taking other than the
bare minimum, which is writing down the scores of as many RIPUL games as
possible.  I may not have gotten that quote right, but I am proud to say
I got the scores to all the Wednesday, July 20, 2005 RIPUL games before
I got home.  Thanks to my tireless work, when RIPUL players arrive at
work Thursday morning they will immediately have new RIPUL web content
to browse, including a new (geeky) addition to the standings page (5 is
the magic number, enough said).

When we were later tied at fives, it still seemed (at least to me) like
Daisy was narrowly avoiding an ass kicking, even though subs were
appearing on the Daisy side like mold on a bowl of potato salad you've
left out in the July heat.  Somehow we played up to Brown's level, and
took the half, 9-5.

As play started in the second half, Brown scored 2 to Daisy's 1, and the
score was 10-7 Daisy.  The three point difference was the closest the
game had been since we were tied at 5's, and each contested point made
the game seem even closer than that.  But I think it was Daisy player
Sara Soltman's rousing declaration "I could go for some cake" during a
Brown time out which helped Daisy pull out the 17-11 win.  In the end,
that 4 point lead at half was important, for Daisy outscored Brown only
7-6 in the second half.

I forgot - Brown played savage for much of the game.

One of the high points of the game for me was scoring the first two
points of the game, not on clear cuts to empty parts of the end zone,
but by cleaning up the junk that missed the intended receivers.  Plus,
throughout the game there were many hard fought vertical battles for the
disc, many on end zone hucks (and many involving Brown Cubs hat guy -
sorry, should have gotten his name, but what do you expect, me without a
spiral bound reporter's notebook?).  At one point, Capt. Tanja Wiant of
Daisy made a great D on a disc in the end zone which came dangerously
close to being caught by a Brown player.

After the game, we discovered that our team mate Jim Chen hadn't been
getting any of the team emails.  The email address we had for him was
wrong, but email to it didn't bounce - apparently messages we thought
were going to him went to someone's email Inbox.  Somewhere there is a
very confused yahoo user also named Jim Chen.