for the Reds in the second period, when Stump blew 2 goals past the rookie goalie that Dave the Goalie Agent signed to a 2 hour contract.  The Whites picked up goals by Brinks and Steven Granato to cut the Red lead to 4-3 after 2 periods.  The 3rd period turned into and Italian feast as T&A scored twice, Steve G scored his 3rd and 4th, Brinks picked up his second and Joe JR Mazzarella capped off the 9-4 rout.  The meaningful win went to the Whites 2-1.  There were 398 goals in the 2009-10 season, 208 were scored by the Whites.  We averaged 23 guys per week, Mini Wheezer had perfect Game attendance!  Beak missed 1 game, but had perfect attendance at Wild Wings.

We will need a lot of help this year, because some of our Picnic Work Horses will not be in town.  Klinger usually brings the beer and Grill and he will be in China.  The Our beer men, Brinks and Mini Wheezer, will be in LA.  Beak and Tweedy  will be at a family Reunion in the Smoky  until late Friday.  Beak will be there to award the Klinger Krash Award.  So the Duffers will need your help.

See page 2 for a list of duties that were performed last year

Also on Page 2 is an update on the Rampage

Klinger picked up the Grill and beer and delivered it at 10:20                      (Klinger will not be there)
Stump brought 40 pounds of Roma sausage and 4 pounds of beef
Grandpa Ken brought 25 bags of ice at 10:30 and helped unload the truck         (Ken will  not be there)
Tommy Z brought 4 bags of charcoal
Bill "Maestro" Conti brought a case of corn with 2 pounds of butter
V-Man brought 60 feet of delicious bread
Beak brought 48 dogs, buns, condiments and bug spray that only repelled Kate         (Beak will be there late)
Mini Wheezer brought Jardinière, Onions and Green Peppers         (Mini Wheezer may not be there)
Tom Ambrosia brought the Pop (4 Cases), Water (2 Cases) and Bag Toss (2)
Franek brought the Paper Products
Art brought some great home made desserts
Rich Storm brought the Meaningless Trophy that Perry was looking for
Johnny Z sent some Kid's toys
Boris got the Permit from Evie Brinks supplied the beer

Rampage Update from The Grunter

We went to Brew City Showdown in Milwaukee this past weekend to defend our Div C title and managed to pull out another championship - in the shootout AGAIN! We seem to like to take it down to the wire - makes for more exciting hockey I guess. Poodle scored the lone goal in the final game on a terrific one-timer from the slot. Clams sent a beautiful cross-ice, blueline to blueline pass to Claire for the game winner in game 3 (and in front of our coach who'd come out to watch the festivities too so perfect timing!)

Our D team won their first game against their dreaded rivals the Fighting Squirrels and then fell short by one goal in the second game and got shut out in their third. Sneezy came away with 3 goals in the series and Eggs and Poodle combine for one. they took 4th in the tournament.

Grunter is seeking counseling for having been hogtied to a chair and left in an elevator with only a blow up doll for a companion.  And for the second year in a row, the Rampage ladies managed to narrowly avoid being thrown out of their hotel on the first night, but could not avoid the cops on the second night who politely asked us to leave the park.
Another successful road trip :-)

When I inquired about the sex of the blow up doll and Poodle's nick name, Grunter sent the following:

Sure be my guest - It's not wicked detailed, but I was only telling you about who you know - though I've added in some other tidbits for you so copy & paste from below.

Poodle got her nick last year at Eagle River when an unfortunate opponent failed to give her a stick length to clear the puck out of the snow bank. She chased that girl around the ice yapping at her until I finally growled, "Shut up and play the frickin' game!" Afterwards, we told her she was yapping like a little poodle - it stuck. She hated it at first (which made it all the better) but she's embraced it now. So when you hear, "embrace the Poodle" it doesn't mean hug her, it means love the nickname :-)

Claire doesn't have a nick because she's not officially Rampage. She was pregnant last season so never started playing with us. I don't remember who we were calling Ms. Clause, so it obviously didn't stick.

The blow up was a "male" who we were passing off as our coach, but came out of the box with no appendages. We fixed that so by the time he ended up in the elevator, he was quite anatomically correct.

We are 40 (something) going on 14...LOL