Parity - Week 13 Lowlights

This week is an unlucky week 13. Do you know how I know this? So many of you failed at frisbe (sic). Let's take a look at some of the hilarious yet abysmal failure.

Slow Start, Worse Finish: Al Colantonio had 2 drops in the first point of his game and was rightly scored on. He finished the week with 8 total throw aways and 3 drops for 11 turnovers all on his own.

Why Didn't You Do More of That: There was a Callahan! I totally get to call out my own team on this, because nothing improves morale and on-field execution more than shame, blame and finger pointing.

Stacy Wowchuk was stuck on a sideline after picking up the disk and Justine was marking the hell out of her! Chris Tran was the bail handler and ran an up-line cut to set up a backfield reset that moved the disk off the sideline! This is basically the perfect play!

Then Dave O'Connor ran right at Chris Tran, jammed the space and left Chris Tran with no options. Stacy then had to throw a desperation reset to contested space, and it was caught for a Callahan! Stacy, Chris, Dave - you guys directly caused a Callahan.

I guess we should also give Ian credit for catching it, but honestly given the rest of the game he had (12 total throwaways, I think a new record for the year) I'm going to give the Callahan credit to Justine's good mark and the abject failure described above.

Did Someone Say Abject Failure?: Everyone failed to throw at Adam MacDonald. Almost a 1/3 of the disks thrown at him were thrown at him by the other team (he had 7 D's and most of them were freebies).

Pew Pew Pew!:Lots of people threw the disk away a lot. In the late game, there was a string of 4 straight throwaways before Megan Berry completed a single bail pass. Here are the names with more than 5 throwaways:

  • Al Colantonio
  • Alex Bush
  • Allan Godding
  • Andrea Proulx
  • Geofford Seaborn
  • Graham Brown
  • Heather Wallace
  • Ian Ewing
  • Jessie Robinson
  • Khalid Al-Zahrani
  • Kris Bergman
  • Krys Kudakiewicz
  • Megan Berry
  • Mehmet Karman
  • Owen Lumley
  • Sandra Hanson
  • Sina Dee

This is... a lot of you. It's also an interesting slice of Parity talent, and you are all in good company, being on a list with Owen Lumley. I also must point out that every single player on this list also did some pretty great things.

The Few Shining Moments of the Evening: Kirsten Querbach had 9 goals. 9 goals! Greg Probe dished out 4 A's and 1 2A and only threw it away 1 time, proving you can do great things without Pew Pew Pew! Brent Burton completed 22 throws and never threw it away! Matt Kerr was quietly and efficiently productive with 4 scoring events on 11 touches! Michael Blanchard rarely shows up but when he does he scores goals! James Maeng, Rob Tyson, Stan Kent and Kathryn Jarret-Ekholm converted 7 of 8 points they started on offense! So did Laura Chambers, who with a $117,500 week looks like the driving force on her line. 

Parity Debut: Sideline Chirpmaster Ariel played a game as a sub, and was just okay at frisbee.

But you couldn't even spell the word.

Glass houses, my dear Keates, glass houses...

Correcting a typo, like some sort of "Game, set, match!" moment? The only reason you aren't in one of the lists of failures is because your stat line is so completely bland that I didn't even notice it! 

You also incorrectly ended a sentence with an ellipsis ....

...

my stats are pretty impressive considering I've been traded so many times I wasn't sure on which team I was playing.

I figured Stacey was hoping I'd just D that pass, then pick it up and immediately throw it away again (a reasonable assumption) for what would amount to a two-turnover free reset to the middle. Not her fault I accidentally caught it instead.

So much like.


Ugh. So much shame in one post. Nice touch with the OTT play breakdown for how and why the callahan happened. It makes me feel soooooo much better about my choice of throws / receiver. 

To make up for his lack of support on the field, Chris Tran did not immediately phantom after our game but instead listened to me go on and on about medicine. I think we're even.

Maybe we didn't read the same narrative! It was mostly not your fault.

Mostly.

I'm sad that I couldn't add my name to the list of failures :( Which obviously caused my team to finally win...

Ariel failed to keep the man, Stan, down.

I'm sad I wasn't added to the line of Rob, James, Stan, and Kathryn - converting 7 of 8 points.  Had Amos been the one there, he would have dropped all of Stan's floating and unreadable hucks!

Amos - I failed because he said I had to perform to your standard and made me a cutter :(

Let's be absurdly clear here that Stan has unequivocally established himself as the "Team Dropper." We all play a supporting role otherwise.

One can't "drop" it like it's hot, if said person is not thrown to.

I vociferously object, the sheet says I only had (drum roll please) _4_ throwaways, that's much, much less than 5.  Also I had 1 threwdrop (statskeepers may have missed another one though perhaps it was counted as a throwaway).  I do not belong on that list with those fine people, that is for this week only of course....

One of my throwaways deserves special mention - as I picked up a turned over disc in the endzone, made googly eyes at David O'Connor (who had already scored 6 goals at that point, so who can blame me), and, _telegraph_ really isn't a strong enough word, I sent out calendar invites with RSVP cards, took out ads in the newspaper (for the kids, those are things people used to read in a physical format, they were large and could be folded and were printed early in the morning) all to say "I intend to huck the disc the length of the field".  I'm not sure if Jim even had to move to hand/leg/body block that attempt with severe force, I can only hope it left a well deserved bruise.

Also you haven't really lived until you have two N(i)(ee)na's on your team, or Nsquared.  

M.

Your hopes are well-grounded in reality, Mehmet...Jim's calf was already bruising by the end of the game. Judging from the location of the bruise, you'd have had to stretch another foot or so to clear his outstretched leg.

If Peyton Manning's completion percentage is affected by receivers who bobble the ball despite him serving it up on a platter, the same will hold true for all players in parity.

Such is the price of our princely parity pretend pay rates. 

Any bruise and pain associated with that bruise is masked by the 3rd degree turf burn on the same leg from a layout for a 3 yard gain earlier in the game.   Much less dramatic but much more painful. 

About a foot and a half further and the shin block would have still been a foot block.  

Jim probably lays out the most in parity (we should have a button for that because curiosity). He apparently lays out for 3yd gains as well as Ds that steal money from his GM. Jim is a parity baller.

Mr speaker I object i had to take atleast 2 sreps to most of my Ds

Does "sreps" = tugs?  Then yes.  Yes you did.

sure why not

"Sure. Why not?"

you re welcome adam that was largely my doing i believe three of my four throw aways were directly to you instead of someone wearing the same coloured jersey as me i m what they call an extreme team player in that i watch out for players on both teams

Whew!  That took concentration to write 'properly'.

It's nice of you to put so much effort into speaking to him in his native language, though. You're a good man, Andrew.

I dislike your attitude and will continue to unnessarily mac every D. Also just be generally myself so exuberent.

My next Warholian effort is to take an everyday object, an AdamMac post, and install the expected punctuation. 

 

"I dislike your attitude. And Will (Leckie), continue to unnecessarily mac every D. Also, just be generally myself: so exuberant!!!"

Al pulls out the big red pen, or should I say, Mr. Colantonio. Grammar points to Al, coz everyone cares about grammar in Parity. Well, as far as I can tell, three people do.

Adam wins at stats. Cha......$..........ching.

I chirp Adam's grammar because I can't chirp his stats. I can't cover him on the field, so I chirp from the sidelines.

Those who can, do; those who can't, criticize online.

"Mr. Speaker, I object! I had to take at least two S.R.E.P.S. for most of my Ds."

 

*Steps Requiring Effort, Producing Stats

Nobody can blame Ian all that much. I wasn't at the game so he didn't know who else to throw to. It's comforting to know that I can't be traded lest my manager become the butt of all parity-related-throwaway jokes. Although I might ask to be traded to a team that doesn't play yet another late game next week...

Ironically, I'm getting a black hole tattooed on my body this weekend. Must be those gravitational ripples that allow my throws to connect.

So Ridiculously Erroneous Punctuation Slips?

Bisang, were you the only one at work today?

Boy, I'm Sure Angry (that I work for our) National Government

But ultimately super happy, Canada only lacks a noteworthy treasury, or needs  investment opportunities.

This is my new favourite. I love it so much.

TIM N. FILISM? Is he a frisbee player?