SpW4: Good Guys vs. Pillow Talk

Week Four – Friday – Riverside

Pillow Talk had a balanced line. In attendance were captains Jake Hall and Jon Read, most of Vassar College, Hunt and John Kim, and also present was Danielle Berardi in her first game back since Summer 2012. The Good Guys had one woman to begin the game, Larissa Wohl (“LoLo,” affectionately), so they started the game down a player. MUD legend Venu Manne strolled in to join forces with Good Guys for a few points of league founder vs. league founder action (John Kim vs. Venu), the likes of which MUD hasn’t seen since Fall 2008.

First Half. Talor Gruenwald IO break to Ryan Hamil. 1-0 Good Guys. Rusty Venu drops two in the next point and Hunt Clark, with what Hamil described as a “classic, perfect Hunt throw,” hits Zach Wasser for the score. 1-1. GG’s Paul Robustelli to Amadeo Lasansky, 2-1 Good Guys. Pillow throw-away and then Amadeo to Dan Seto, 3-1 Good Guys. Wasser from Vassar gets an around break to Josh Schaffner, 3-2. Next, despite the fact that every time Hunt got the disc GG captain Jeff screamed “NO HUCK,” Hunt puts up another one to Jay Lucey. Was he straddling? Apparently not. 3-3. Venu Ds a John Kim shot to Jerald Isseks; Pillow captain Jon Read gets in Gruenwald’s and Rostustilli’s way for a deep D; GG gets it back though and captain Jeff finds Robustelli with a cute catch on the line, 4-3 Good Guys. Hamil goes lefty big to Gruenwald, 5-3. Robustelli pulls in a nasty, literally dirty layout catch and then hucks to Dan Seto, who skies Dan Nelson for another GG score, 6-3. Hunt, trying to stanch the bleeding, finds Pillow captain Jake Hall, 6-4. Captain Jeff responds with one to Venu, 7-4. And for half, Gruenwald sinks one to Piotr SVC, 8-4 Good Guys.

Second Half. Good Guys waste no time getting the D, and Seto finds Eleni Healey, who arrived a few points in to assist LoLo in the savagery, 9-4 Good Guys. Lucey to Wasser, 9-5. Venu, acting like it is 2009 and he’s at some exclusive, invite-only pickup, finds Seto for the score, 10-5. John Kim sees that and hits Wasser to make it 10-6. Venu again finds Seto after an amazing cross-field break by LoLo, 11-6. Next as Amadeo gets it to Seto for the 12-6 score, some punk on the sideline, probably Eric Shoemaker, says “old guys getting it done.” In disgust or solidarity, the ancient Piotr finds his captain Jeff, 13-6. Pillow Talk tried to take back momentum with an Isseks hammer to captain Jon’s spirit-foul teapot, 13-7. It briefly worked as captain Jon then found Schaffner, 13-8. But the masters took it back as Amadeo hit Piotr to make it game point, 14-8. Shaq Fu gets mentioned in the newsclips with an extraneous score to Vassar’s Wasser, 14-9. Pillow somehow gets one more point, 14-10. And then, even though they’d been silent all half, Gruenwald sends a huge huck to Robustelli for the GG win, 15-10.

Now, here’s what I don’t get: After starting 3-0 and tied for 1st, Pillow Talk dropped 2 in a row to The Funeral and Good Guys, respectively. Next they found a W3 win against BYOB, but since they have lost five in a row and have fallen to 6th place overall. Pillow Talk is all over the bed. Two early season wins barely came on universe point: they shushed Quiet during Opening Sunday Festivities, and found a come from behind victory over a gassed Nader’s Raiders. Pillow Talk’s early boasts may have been disingenuous; however, recent losses could be attributed to low attendance. One thing playing to Pillow Talk’s favor: this evening won’t be over for 5 more weeks.

Good Guys, meanwhile, remain stuck behind The Funeral, having beaten every other team in the league (though they lost once to BYOB, oddly). It seems for the Good Guys that the season is getting a bit boring. captain Frazer has boasted that the Good Guys can beat The Funeral, and they will have that chance this coming Wednesday.

Thanks to 5-season MUD veteran Brad Paris for additional reporting.