I am going to start by saying thank you to all the players that made up the "Chuca-kai-belamy-loco-edmonds" line up from Friday. Without Blazes organizational skills we would have had to field a team of 5, but he went out and scouted the landscape to find the most available and talented players.

'Even though we all come from different teams, we are here to win!' Bellamy's quote was indeed true, and was the attitude taken on by the hodgepodge team.

The MVP and Game ball winner was Jeff, we had to give him the ball cause it was hit at him all night. "It only seemed right to give the guy the ball, he had it all night anyway."- X Man.

The offensive end was a little shaky at times, with two strike-outs, by players who remain nameless. The shakiness did not scare the rest of the team, it seemed to rally the troops and have positive results. 'The bats are alive tonight fellas' was all you could from Elliott as he rounded the bases.

Blaze was not going to rest on his scouting ability alone, oh no! Blaze was on a mission to show off his speed. He was successful in this mission and ended up with his first steal of the season.

Rob was overheard saying, "the Kai's that are away on vacation, they missed a hell of a show!" I could not agree more.

The post game at Gators was slightly subdued this week, per the managers request to not chug anymore pitchers while children were present, and my legal consuls recommendations to refrain from such activities until the dispute is settled. The pitcher count was a mere 30, due to the decreased numbers that attended the post game celebration. Even with the help of Sully we fell short of our pitcher total.

'I can't believe they ain't here! I mean when I come to gators I expect two things, pussy and to see all of y'all!'- Sandy "sex on the beach" Johnson.

Well boys and girls, I look forward to seeing you under the Friday night lights next week!

J dub out!

For the past 15 plus years my favorite rocker Mr. Axl Rose has been toying with my emotions along with the other 15 die hard GNR fans left in the world by hinting he might actually release the bands next masterpiece album "Chinese Democracy."

Well, Dr. Pepper has had enough and has decided to throw down the gauntlet. Today the company is announcing that it will give a free Dr Pepper to everyone in the U.S. (except for maybe Slash) if Axl releases the album before the end of 2008.

So, please join me and check out there website and leave a message for Axl letting him know how much the world needs a new Guns N Roses Album. The website is: http://www.chinesedemocracywhen.blogspot.com/
I might even show you guys my impressive Axl impersonation if this happens.





Before there was guitar hero, there was drunk "Lamp Shade" hero as you can see the fine work being put in by Scotty and myself doing our best rendition of "Welcome to the Jungle"


Let's all hope, Axl can get Chinese democracy out this year, not only to enjoy his lyrical masterpieces but also to get that free Dr. Pepper!

The Cobra Kai and Creative Floors were set for a Showdown for 2^nd place last Friday night at Red Bug Lake Park, on what appeared to be a perfect night to play ball. Jeff Garciapara started on the mound for the flooring company and apparently all the sweeping of the floors gave him the golden arm as he pitched an amazing 3 hit shutout. We will have to consult our team pitching coach Mr. Miyagi as we have seen him teach many different techniques but maybe we need to revisit the “Sweep the Floor” technique because apparently it works for Creative Flooring.

Captain Tucci was stunned after the game and only had this to say, “Well in the famous words of my mentor Coach Morris Buttermaker, when we win a game it’s a team win, when we lose a game it’s a team loss, Heck Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

League offices are still investigating the phony “Call In” last week that curbed the Kai from making an appearance for over 3 weeks which may have been a contributing factor to our rusty outing. However, I must simply tip my hat to Creative Floors as they came out ready to play and we simply did not. We never got our bats going and the Floorers bats were red hot all night. They used our mantra against us and Struck First, Struck Hard, and certainly had No Mercy all night.

‘There is plenty of season left, and we will be ready for the those floor cleaning Creative’s next time, but for now our focus is on Bet on Black” JW said after the game as he will be one of the few original Kai’s preparing for battle this Friday as half the team is taking a sabbatical into the Mountains of North Carolina to prepare for the 2^nd half of the season.

“The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.. That's how winning is done!”Johnny Blaze was quoted after the game as he will be leading the Kai into battle next week.

However, the tough loss did not curtail the Kai from celebrating the team and game at Gators as we got back on track and shattered our Team Pitcher record by downing over 68 pitchers this past Friday night with the help of our young gun AC. By my calculations that is an astonishing 3.8 pitchers per person…..Nice Job Team! The star of the night was Jon “JW” West himself. He stepped up to the plate and set the bar high for everyone that night by accepting the challenge of slamming an entire pitcher. I was stunned he finished that, I really didn’t think JW was that much of a man, he almost jumped into my man crush category for that feat” Koko was quoted as saying. Now there have been debates about the legitimacy of the slam but we will leave that up to the debaters, for now we will celebrate JW’s feat and until somebody can top it he get’s my nod for beer slamming champ of the night.

Lastly, sometimes from loss comes inspiration. The Kai’s biggest supporter and team bodyguard Erik aka “Oso” or “Bear” for you English speaking readers came up with a team War dance. He will be unveiling this Friday night so don’t miss it! We wish the remaining team members all the best as they take on Bet on Black this Friday @ 7:30.

I would like address allegations that I did not finish that pitcher of beer, I will admit that there was spilling of beer; but the bet was that I couldn't chug the pitcher, an act that I was successful in completing. The claims that I threw up were completely untrue, I merely had a big air bubble in my stomach from the two breathes that I was so gracious for receiving. The trapped air merely released itself and some of the beer, there was not vomit.

I would like to apologize to the ladies that had to see me holding the beer in my hand after the air bubble. Secondly, I would like to apologize to Blaze, for sticking him with my food tab, my bad man.

I am not going to let this scandal detour me from my beer drinking. I don't know how the hall of fame will look at this incident, but I am pretty sure I will get and asterik.

J DUB

Enjoyed this article about Koko's Favorite Regime in professional sports the Steinbrenner Yankees. Article is linked to the right on the Greivelwire...long..but interesting read. Looks like the future is bright as Hank, Hal, and Jennifer takeover the reign's of one of the most revered professional franchises in the history of the game.

'Hank Steinbrenner, who will turn 51 next month, bears a disconcerting resemblance to his father, George M. Steinbrenner III. The square, pinched face, the broad shoulders, the barrel chest, even the tiny feet, are all unmistakably Steinbrenner.' Even the tiny feet??? As the old saying goes small feet=small shoes??? ... and that explains why the Steinbrenners have a chip on their shoulder regarding having to be the best in everything else.

I love reading the new regime are well versed in buying and selling race horses, that will come in extremely handy running a baseball organazation. They were put into this new role because George's daughter Jennifer's husband Steve was ousted from the family after he was arressted on a DUI. Brutal.....imagine getting a DUI, divorced from the Stenbrenner family and losing your job as the CEO of the Yankess all in the same week.......try not to complain about your week from now on.

Also, you have to love Hank's shots at Red Sox Nation. Classic stuff here.

Well its Bracket time…I mean Tournament time and it is quite possibly one of my favorite times of the year. Do we need a bracket? Also, just to help you in filling out your bracket I thought I would give you some interesting tidbits so you can sound like a genius at work or your local watering hole.

My personal favorite is using your intuition and taking your gut feeling rather than sifting through hours and hours of data. But, I also like to rank highly the hot hands entering the tournament, specifically conference champions. These champs, especially the major-conference champs (Wisconsin (Yeah Wisconsin!), Pittsburgh, North Carolina, UCLA, Kansas,), have proved they're battle tested and ready for the Big Dance. Likewise, highly seeded teams that bowed out of their conference tourneys prematurely (Duke, Tennessee, and Xavier) aren't as likely to go deep into the NCAA tourney.

Anyways, enough about the big name schools; the best way to impress is to know the lil tidbits the announcers will reveal during the game. If you can beat them to the punch your peeps will be impressed.

There are some great Freshman Phenoms in the tourney which always make for a great story, plus you heat fans can get an up close look at your next potential star. Derick Rose of Memphis, Michael

Beasley of Kansas State and OJ Mayo of USC. Interestingly enough Beasley and Mayo are pitted against each other in the first round with the winner having the undesirable honor of facing the defensive stalwart of Wisconsin in the 2nd round. By the way, don’t discount Wisconsin because you never heard any guys on their roster they play tremendous Defense and love to

use burly white guys. However, the biggest story I can’t get over is when Mayo most likely bolts for the Heat or the Bucks of the NBA after the season he will be replaced by Master P’s son and former rapper Lil Romeo (13. pts and 6 dimes a game). That will make for some interesting basketball.

Well, here is some quick tidbits on those small schools you don’t know about:

Davidson (26-6), Southern Conference. The Wildcats can play some ball. Lost to North Carolina by 4, Duke by 5, UCLA by 12, and NC State by 1. That's nothing to sneeze at, I mean, it's Davidson. Everybody knows they have Dell Curry's kid, Stephen. That's all you need to know. This kid can shoot.. Plus, these kids are smart. Davidson, aka "The Princeton of the south," produced a number of Governors, and even a President...Woody Wilson.

Butler (29-3), Horizon. Butler (located in Indy) isn't an unknown, rather the best of the "little guys"but they return pretty much the entire team from last years Sweet 16 squad which lost to Florida...limiting the Gators to their lowest point total of the tournament. That's impressive. As for the school, they play in Hinkle fieldhouse. The same barn where "Hoosiers" was filmed and where that actual game (Milan over Muncie Central) was played. Plus I can’t believe nobody guessed the actor featured below was Jimmy Chittwood….that would have been my guess

Lastly,I must say I have actually kind of enjoyed Bob Knight on ESPN, I thought he would be a Jackass….but he makes all the other announcers look like jackasses cause he is the only one that actually makes sense in his astute observations
Well, I am glad I could help contribute to the estimated nearly $4 billion loss employers are expected to realize during the next week as employee productivity hits it all time lowest during March Madness.

Update.....Koko was right on the money! I don't know how you got that so quickly but I must say I am impressed. A pink Cosmo for you this Friday



The first person to name this actor wins a healthy round of shots Friday night. The answer will astound you, but as a hint he stars in one of the movies mentioned in the newest article printed hot off the Greivelwire on the right about Sports movies dying genre.

Let the guessing begin.........My money is on Koko or Prosthetic Johnson but even this one might be too hard for them.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1779769
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs

Chicks dig the long ball, so who would the Cobra Kai Sign???

Over the next two weeks Boston affiliate Scott Kluge and myself are raising awareness and collecting old shoes to donate footwear to people in need throughout the world. If you have old footwear (tennis shoes, dress shoes, kids shoes, womens shoes, etc.) that you no longer use bring them to the field on Friday as I will be collecting donations till March 23rd.

The organization I am working with Soles4Souls distributes these shoes around the world where disaster strikes and there are people in need. So let's show the community that the Cobra Kai and Lady Kai can make a difference. Any shoes will do, obviously not the one's that Bruno chewed up and you can't wear anymore but "gently worn" is the term they use.

Just imagine your gently worn retreads being paired up with those Patriot 19-0 Jerseys around the world.

Anyways, for more information check out there website http://www.giveshoes.org/

STRIKE FIRST STRIKE HARD NO MERCY SIR. That was the motto this past Friday as the Cobra Kai were hungry for blood after dropping our first game. Aloma Baptist had no idea what hit them and finally succumb to our teams greatest all around effort in club history to show no Mercy as Red Bug Lake had to invoke the mercy rule after we put 18 runs on the board to their 6.

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