At the end of the day (at least my day), there was a disturbance in the Force:
Shirted up teams with more attitude than skill. Now I try not to use the "s" word anymore, but when you lose, and are saying you should have the court, because you want to have it, you get this:
First from Dan on the court:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWuhdLVSQtY
Now by me:
Dear Scrubs--there are rules out there, like shirts, wins, losses, keeping score, playing with an actual volleyball rather than a beach ball, not letting drunk people float in and out of the game, and no children with water wings.
You seem to have gotten some of that right. But there are shirts up for a reason. And, as in most games, you must win to stay in. By our own volition, we've limited that to 3 games in a row.
But you can't just have the court because you want it. You've gotta earn it. What none of you realize is that you walked in on the watervolleyball version of the NFL today. Most of the time, things are moving so fast for you, you don't even know the game is over when it's over. Because it didn't take long.
Sorry for that. But not much. For two reasons. I will play on scrub teams when they need somebody, and do my dambdest to help them win, so that they know I will fight just as hard with them as against them. And because me and mine put a lotta effort into this game. And you don't, or I would know you by now and you'd be with us rather than against us.
While I understand that betting beat by guys that are old enough to be your daddy is not much fun, flipping us off, giving us the stink eye, and, most of all, sticking to your same team of friends that lost really really bad the last time, and expecting things to be different the next time, means you know nothing, and you're just gonna make it worse.
We were dominant, but friendly. We got anger in return. Good. I can work with that, because some of the scrubs had some skills. Split em up and mix em in, as I have done successfully for the first time this year at Riata, and there might be some learning and some good games.
But... if you say no, give me the finger, and want to bring out your same dysfunctional team every time, rather than mixing it up and trying to learn what's going on out on the court, you deserve exactly what you get!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Ne9sRcSrM
See Creepy's old video compilation: "We are probably going to beat you in watervolleyball."
And anger and passive aggressive whining about losing makes me just want to hit you harder, because the way you exit the court, with some dignity or absolute slaughter is up to us, and our reaction to your tude.
Pretty sure Dan is with me on this one. Not only is watervolleyball not a crime, playing good watervolleyball and winning is not a crime.
Our way or the highway, scrubs. Join or die. Choice is yours.