Saturday: Battle of the Bulge

From the heading you are probably wondering: what do you ever mean-saturday is what? My esteemed colleagues, the movement of this past Thursday's play to Saturday day presents us with several firsts and other important items. First off, Saturday will be the first time we will play during the daylight. Now I know what many of you are thinking, day-what? As we have traditionally been creatures of the night, nocturnal obsessive-complusives that wander in shadow with colored mallets, Saturday will be the first time in the new season (longer than that actually) that you will see your rival without firelight illuminating his face. Think of it, for the first time, you will be able to see all the balls and wickets in their true colors.

Another equally important point, Saturday will probably be one of the last meetings of play for the season. Here, push comes to shove. Saturday is to our croquet season as to Napoleons Waterloo, the Allies D-Day, Germany's Battle of the Bulge, and yes, the Greeks Battle of Thermopylae. If I have lost you, Saturday is important for each player to secure their victory. So Morris, doesnt really have the points to do that, but he will be their as the rogue agent. For Todd, Jake, and Jumpy, the games (atleast 2-maybe 3 or 4!?) coming are going to make or break you.

And finally, Saturday presents a flaw in the season. If we could have been playing Saturday or Sunday in the day before why didn't we? Those missing weekend games would have definately made the stats more conclusive. Really, we could have nearly doubled the play, just meeting for an hour on either or both days. Having numbers from 28 games rather than 16 would have shown far more depth for each players ability.

See you around 1:30-ish (for Todd that means trying to get there at 11:00 am)