Sports and poking
I am playing more rec sports. This season it's half-field 5-on-5 soccer in addition to Ultimate.
My soccer team is Potential Exposure, which has a double meaning--"potential exposure" is a credit metric, and most of the team works in quantitative credit analytics at Bank of America. So it's a common work term that has been turned slightly salacious as well.
Potential Exposure has improved a TON from the start of the year, but we're still 0-4-1. We have very little experience, but are getting better. We actually led 2-0 at half last game but lost 4-2. I am playing pretty well as a defender because I am aggressive and coordinated. I also have caused, nearly caused or suffered injuries in all our games this year, which was one of my goals for the season.
Also I am fairly sure that Alexis Bledel from Gilmore Girls was playing for Asskickasaurus when we played them a couple of weeks ago.
My Ultimate team doesn't have a name yet. I thought it would be kind of subversive to have a team name that's just openly explicit in order to mock the tee-hee-hee nature of rec sports team names. To this end, I wanted our team name to be Fellatio. However, I do not think this will fly. My second choice is Chocolate Rain because our uniform is brown.
We won our first game 11-9 after taking a big lead early. I am handling a lot. My team has some good runners and good hands. I anticipate scoring almost no goals but throwing for a ton, though a lot of my teammates are good throwers too. My deep throws last game were mostly unsuccessful. Some of that was my inaccuracy, some of it was bad reading of the disc by the receivers, but I think a lot of it was just that I expected the receiver to be doing one thing and they were planning to do something else. I think experience will help this. My power seemed bigger than usual last game; I had no problem snapping off full-field tosses.
Also, there are some interesting facts about our team composition. Of the 13 players on the team, 5 have double initials. All but 3 of us have first names starting with A, J or M (Abhinav suggests we should have the team name be something with JAM). Every brown person in the league is on our team. Straight up racist. All their names start with A too.
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Alyson and I are going to Atlantic City! I'm sure I'll write more about this later, and I am stoked. We're staying at the Taj, in the new Chairman Tower with an ocean view. Check it out at http://trumptaj.com/rooms-suites/index.cfm.
Also, attention to Atlantic City poker players: the Biscuit WILL get his chips into the middle. Good hand, bad hand, whatever. If you play a pot with me, the money is going in. You have been notified.
My soccer team is Potential Exposure, which has a double meaning--"potential exposure" is a credit metric, and most of the team works in quantitative credit analytics at Bank of America. So it's a common work term that has been turned slightly salacious as well.
Potential Exposure has improved a TON from the start of the year, but we're still 0-4-1. We have very little experience, but are getting better. We actually led 2-0 at half last game but lost 4-2. I am playing pretty well as a defender because I am aggressive and coordinated. I also have caused, nearly caused or suffered injuries in all our games this year, which was one of my goals for the season.
Also I am fairly sure that Alexis Bledel from Gilmore Girls was playing for Asskickasaurus when we played them a couple of weeks ago.
My Ultimate team doesn't have a name yet. I thought it would be kind of subversive to have a team name that's just openly explicit in order to mock the tee-hee-hee nature of rec sports team names. To this end, I wanted our team name to be Fellatio. However, I do not think this will fly. My second choice is Chocolate Rain because our uniform is brown.
We won our first game 11-9 after taking a big lead early. I am handling a lot. My team has some good runners and good hands. I anticipate scoring almost no goals but throwing for a ton, though a lot of my teammates are good throwers too. My deep throws last game were mostly unsuccessful. Some of that was my inaccuracy, some of it was bad reading of the disc by the receivers, but I think a lot of it was just that I expected the receiver to be doing one thing and they were planning to do something else. I think experience will help this. My power seemed bigger than usual last game; I had no problem snapping off full-field tosses.
Also, there are some interesting facts about our team composition. Of the 13 players on the team, 5 have double initials. All but 3 of us have first names starting with A, J or M (Abhinav suggests we should have the team name be something with JAM). Every brown person in the league is on our team. Straight up racist. All their names start with A too.
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Alyson and I are going to Atlantic City! I'm sure I'll write more about this later, and I am stoked. We're staying at the Taj, in the new Chairman Tower with an ocean view. Check it out at http://trumptaj.com/rooms-suites/index.cfm.
Also, attention to Atlantic City poker players: the Biscuit WILL get his chips into the middle. Good hand, bad hand, whatever. If you play a pot with me, the money is going in. You have been notified.