And this is how you say F#@K off PiG, nicely.

So, I saw what I saw, said what I said and answered the questions asked of me.

Since I am big fan of passive agressive dismal bullshit, I thought I would post the response to my responding email reply regarding the Rainy City bout from MissMelMangles:

although I completely disagree with many of your points I appreciate your feedback and will share it with my league and coach via our private forum.

I read your post mortem and want to remind you that we are NOT a WFTDA team although we do abide by their rules. Nor was this a sanctioned WFTDA bout.

I personally am perplexed at the level of alleged "renegade play" I never once was hit hard enough that it makes an impression. I did see calls being missed and miss-called on both sides but really I think that happens in every bout.

I witnessed some bad reffing in the past and am in no way saying that our reffing was top-notch...but TVRG didn't bring a single ref with them and took responsibility for that when they decided to forfeit. Ryrid also offered up a passive or positional blocking only game as a compromise but they respectfully declined that as well.

I don't see their call as brave or well timed. I see it as giving up. It is presumptuous to say that it was well timed to prevent injuries and don't all bouts have an increase for injury during any portion of a passionately played game?

I think that you said it was brutal in a tough to watch way. FYI no RCRD ladies were complaining at our 10am practice the next day about any aches or pains, no one felt as if TVRG was hitting very hard at all. Maybe we're just blinded by our past bouts but this one didn't seem that rough or tough to me and plenty of my fellow skaters.

There were also a significant number of TVRG skaters that really wanted to finish the bout. RCRD wants to bout them on their own turf, with their own officials, and their home crowd. We still want to hit them agressively and win...they can even tack on the extra 20 min if they want to. And if they beat us by 100 or by 1 we will finish the game and not give up.

oh well!
see ya soon
-mel mangles

Like she says...Oh well! LoL!

In the iThurtson blog he clearly blames the worst element of all...Refs from OrEgOn!

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=468253274&blogId=500220600

It is a good play by play recap...as long as we glaze over the 300lb elephant in the room.

To Eject and To Serve

So I have done my job for my the Coroner'sInquest and struggled with being able to do a recap versus telling the story...I told the story. It actually pisses me off that I couldn't concentrate on the bout at hand because of the horrible officiating that that was going on.