The Cobra Kai

Recently, some of the members of the Dojo left another teammate hanging in his pursuit to bring the team together. The Grand Master and Swami himself Elliot went out of his way to organize the dojo for a team practice and grill out/BBQ. Much like preparing himself for a game Elliot went all out and spent money on beer and food not too mention his precious time. Many of us wanted to and said we were all in to attend.

However, most of us ended up for one reason or another not making it out. Now, I'm not here to call anybody out or make excuses just hopefully explain sometimes members of a family let other members down. Well, it got me to thinking what are the Cobra Kai all about?

To me, the Kai really are more than just a championship caliber team, we are a family. At the end of the day the most important aspect of the Cobra Kai is about the relationships we build as a team. I am proud of the relationships we have built in the Dojo and we now have family members all across the country because of that.

For a team and a family to be successful it takes trust. I hope we can rebuild that trust that Elliot had instilled in us that made us the most dominate team at Red Bug Lake. Elliot truly has been our missing link providing way more than a big bat and solid glove. He has provided a tremendous amount of leadership to the team and that is something that is not easily done.

I certainly hope he finds it in his heart to accept the Dojo's apologies and realize that once in awhile you let a teammate down but in the end the Dojo always makes it up to their family members and picks each other up. Now, I don't now how we will make it up to E......but I can guarantee you this........We Will!

When all is said and done the Kai is about Family. When JW weighs in on Friday and makes the cut, not only does he succeed the whole team succeeds.

"For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.''

We left our lead member of the pack stranded......briefly but the pack always succeeds. I hope E accepts the Dojo's apologies and we can move forward to our Championship Season not only this year at Red Bug but for a lifetime to come.

Who is this man? Most of you know him simply as Keith, aka The Dinger, aka Greiveldog, aka Brewers Boy, aka The Best Blaze Impersonator Ever! But with so many aliases, can we really trust this so called, innocent Wisconsinite?

The answer is an astounding NO!!!!

Anyone who has known Keith, if that is indeed his REAL name, has heard the story about his brother being the kid in the famous Mean Joe Green Coca-Cola commercial in which Green tosses the kid his jearsy at the end. I've heard it, you've heard it, we've all heard this amazing fairy tale concocted by our cheese head-loving comrade. It does not bring me any joy to introduce you all to Tommy Okon.

Okon is the real kid from that commercial. Okon is now a family man raising four kids in Yonkers, running his own stone-fabrication and installation business in The Bronx. Okon was in over 50 commercials as a kid and grew up in Whitestone, Queens.

So what say you Mr. Greiveldinger? What's going on with our trusted and revered motivational force behind our team? Should we have seen the signs? The sometimes slightly exaggerated weekly game reviews, ripping down Dojo posts for unexplained reasons, cloak and dagger fantasy football transactions, Batmanesque goodbyes, and of course the outrageous and ludicrous accusations toward the legendary New York Yankees organization.

Is our beloved orator actually some kind of Keyser Söze living amongst us?

Many questions, few answers. Perhaps a few Cobra Kai shots tonight will point Keith towards the light and start the recovery process.

. . . Or not, who cares, just keep hitting those lead-off shots Keith, or whoever your are.

Mock Draft 2009
This is the moment you all have been waiting for. The Rob Reger pseudo mock draft. This is NOT what I think will happen. Rather, this is what I would do if I were the team drafting. Enjoy!!!

1. Detroit – Matt Stafford – Georgia
2. St. Louis – Jason Smith - Baylor
3. Kansas City – Aaron Curry- Wake
4. Seattle – Eugene Monroe- Virginia
5. Cleveland – Brian Orakpo - Texas
6. Cincy – Andre Smith - Bama
7. Oakland – Michael Crabtree- TT
8. Jacksonville- BJ Raji - BC
9. Denver (from GB) – Mark Sanchez
10. San Fran – Malcolm Jenkins – Ohio St
11. Buffalo – Tyson Jackson - LSU
12. GB (from Denver) – Michael Oher – Ole Miss
13. Washington – Robert Ayers - Tenn
14. New Orleans – Brian Cushing - USC
15. Houston – Vontae Davis - Illinois
16. San Diego – Rey Maaluuga - USC
17. New York Jets – Jeremy Macklin - mizzou
18. Denver – Knowshawn Moreno - Georgia
19. Tampa Bay – Chris Wells – Ohio St.
20. Detroit – James Laurinitis – Ohio St
21. Philly – Brandon Pettigrew - osu
22. Minnesota – Aaron Maybin –Penn st
23. New England – Clay Mathews - USC
24. Atlanta – Peria Jerry – Ole Miss
25. Miami – Everette Brown - FSU
26. Baltimore – DJ Moore - vandy
27. Indy – Eben Britten - Arizona
28. Philly – Percy Harvin - Florida
29. Giants – Hakeem Nicks – Nc St.
30.Tennessee – Ziggy Hood- Mizzou
31. Arizona - Larry English – N Ill
32. Pitt – Michael Johnson – Georgia Tech



Round 2

33. Detroit – Alphonso Smith - Wake
34. New England – Max Unger – Oregon
35. Rams – Louis Delmas – Western Mich
36. Cleveland – Darius Heyward – Bey – Maryland
37. Seattle – Darius Butler – uconn
38. Cincy – Lashon McCoy – Pitt
39. Jax – Kenny Britt – Rutgers
40. Oak – William Beatty – Uconn
41. GB- Conner Barwin – Cincy
42. Buffalo – Phil Loadholt - Okla
43. SF – Clint Sintim - VA
44. Miami –Ron Brace - BC
45. Giants – Jarron Gilbert – San Jose St
46. Hou – William Moore - Mizzou
47. NE – Sean Smith - Utah
48. GB (from Den) – Donald Brown - Uconn
49. Chi – Patrick Cheung - Oregon
50. Cleveland – Andre Brown – NC St
51. Dallas- Fioli Maola - USC
52. Jets – Duke Robinson - Okla
53. Eagles – Andy Levitre – Ore St
54. Minn – Josh Freeman - K st
55. Atl – Herman Johnson - LSU
56. Miami – Jason Phillips - TCU
57. Balt – Brian Robiske – Ohio St
58. NE – Paul Kruger - Utah
58. Car – Cornelius Ingram - Fla
59. Giants – Jared Cook – s car
60. Colts – Juaquin Iglesius - Okla
61. Titans – Alex Mack - Cal
62. Ari – Shonn Greene - Iowa
63. Pitt – Gerald Cadogan – Penn st

I know this subject was beaten to death but the next single from Eminem's new album just leaked and its another great one! Its a lot darker then "We Made You" and its more representative of what the new album is gonna sound like.
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The Cobra Kai were fresh off an opening day drubbing of Los Servicos and looking to pick up right where they left off this past Friday night under the lights. "I really wanted to get things started tonight and set the pace for our season by getting a second win under our belts….I’m not usually one that can do it two times in a row" Doc Guttierez told a reporter before the game……again the reporter was not sure what he was referencing.

Either way the Cobra Kai were ready to go in pursuit of their first league title as they came ready to play despite missing their power hitting third basemen Roundhouse Reger whom was called to duty to help our minor league affiliates. Mad Dog was ready for this game as he stifled Top Shelf hitters from the get go holding them to 5 hits and 6 runs and he was backed by a solid defensive outing from the Kai’s. Johnny Blaze took command of the defense and made sure we didn’t implode and held strong in support of Mad dog’s solid pitching performance. “Capt Tucci told me before the game Defense wins championships so I told him we will hold our own today….but then I told him I thought the object was to score more runs than the other team so clearly he was wrong but I decided to play solid defense anyways….but it was on my terms” said JohnnyBlaze after a solid defensive outing.

However, the real story of the night was the offensive outburst the Cobra Kai unleashed on the unsuspecting Top Shelf team. When the Kai’s signed the Grand Master Elliot in the offseason to a long term deal they knew they were getting a strong glove and big bat but didn’t realize the veteran presence would help settle down our lineup and turn them into a league juggernaut at the plate. “I stopped looking at personal goals when I signed with the Kai, my only goal is to bring a championship to the team…..and get our Shortstop laid” Said The Swami Elliot after the game. Well he certainly came through on that promise as he unleashed a hard liner down the right field line painting it just like Mr. Miyagi taught him sparking the Kai to our biggest offensive rally of the year.

That hard liner set up Captain Tucci for the hit of the night. The Captain stepped into the plate and fought off a 2-1 count and then blasted a shot to deep Center Field that hit the fence and then bounced over it for a whopping 256 ½ foot Crane Kick right to the Top Shelves cranium setting up an undisputed knockout just a few batters later. Doc Guttirez had been punishing the ball deep all game but after Capt Tucci drove one out it pushed the Outfield back on their toes and Doc lined one right in front of them. “I was eager to score after getting thrown out by Ichabad Crane an inning earlier on a feeble base stealing attempt.

Koko kept pace as he has really perfected his swing and has started punishing the left field line. DonJuan continued his league leading .972 OBP% by jacking a couple more singles and keeping our bats red hot. Lemieux continues to hit the ball very hard as rumors swirl about his pending call up to our Boston Affiliate next season.” Right now, it’s all about winning a championship. I don’t care what the media is saying about Boston I am focused on leading these guys to a ring” Mikey Lemieux said after the game when asked about his potential call-up. Double S also contributed after coming off the DL with an undisclosed illness he was rumored to obtain in a bathroom excursion downtown with JW a few weeks ago.

The Cobra Kai finished off Top Shelve with a second consecutive Mercy Rule to maintain a perfect 2-0 record in pursuit of the Championship.

The Post game celebration was up to par for the performance but the league is not allowed to comment on it this week due to legal restrictions after the team was involved in an altercation that lead to the Police being called and several teammates being questioned.

Well, the Team gets back to work this Friday as we take on the Contractors at 8:30 Under the Friday Night Lights.

Wow....and this was a promotion put on by Pepsi that went bad after Yankee fans got pissed off.....but then again I can understand why Yankee fans are mad after their pitching staff has looked awful.

The rules are as follows:
A Sleeper is a player who outplays his potential / actual draft position.
A bust is someone who is drafted much higher than his play will warrant.

So, in other words, included on this list could be a late 1st round pick who plays like a top 10, or somebody drafted in round 4 who doesn’t make his team. Doing this list before the draft makes it a little more challenging simply because a lot of times, opportunity plays a major role in performance. So here it goes (listed in random order).

Sleepers

1. Knowshown Moreno – RB - Georgia
2. Brandon Tate – WR – UNC
3. Hunter Cantwell – QB – Louisville
4. Andre Brown – RB – NC st
5. Cornelius Ingram – TE – Fla
6. Connor Barwin – LB – Cincy
7. Javon Ringer – RB – Mich st
8. Dannell Ellerbe – LB – Georgia
9.Clint Sintim – LB – VA
10. Coye Francies – CB- San Jose St
11. David Bruton – S – Notre Dame
12. Jarrett Dillard – WR – Rice



Bust

1. Josh Freeman – QB – K st
2. Everette Brown – DE – Fla St
3. Aaron Maybin – DE – Penn St
4. Darrius Heyward – Bey – WR – Maryland
5. Mohammed Massaquoi – WR – Georgia
6. Senderrick Marks – DT – Auburn
7. Fili Moala – DT – USC
8. Brian Cushing – LB – USC
9. Alphonso Smith – CB – Wake
1o. Eben Britton – T – Arizona

11. Hakeem Nicks – WR – UNC

A new edition of "Reel Reviews with Koko" has been posted for your reading pleasure.

Just when you thought French people sucked . . . they go and TOTALLY REDEEM THEMSELVES!!!

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Why does MLB Schedule these?

Lately, I have been watching the MLB network (which I really enjoy) and I have been noticing only a week or two into the season and there are a ton of empty seats already in many stadiums during games. Now, one could argue it's the economy and all but upon further investigation it's because it is small market teams playing in miserable weather outdoors in the beggining of April. Down here we take for granted our beautiful sunny weather and forget it is near miserable conditions in the rest of the country still. Thus, in 40 degrees and rain even I wouldn't want to be sitting at a baseball game....unless it was October.

To me this seems like a logical statement. But it makes me wonder why the brass at Major League baseball does not get it? Why would they not simply schedule around this? By my quick count there are about 14 Cold weather teams in baseball that do not play indoors. If I were commissioner I would simply not schedule a home game for 7 of those 14 teams for the first two weeks of the season. The other 7 teams I would make an exception cause regardless of the weather these teams will still either sell out or come relatively close. I mean if you are a struggling small market team like the Royals, Pirates, or Reds why would you want to waste a early in the season game where nobody comes out to the park cause it is miserable outside when you could have more games at your park in the summertime when it is beautiful out and more kids could come cause they are off of school?

The other 7 teams in cold weather areas I would not work to hard to avoid since they will probably sell out anyways. This includes:

-Yanks
-Mets
-Cubs
-White Sox
-Red Sox
-Phils?
-Indians?

Cold Weather Teams that should not have a early season game

-Reds
-Royals
-Orioles
-Nationals
-Pirates
-Tigers
-Cards?

I mean why is Texas playing at Detroit? Jays (Dome team) at Indians? Rays at Orioles? Houston @ St. Louis........couldn't they have flipped them around?

I mean I see 4 games that were already cancelled because of bad weather.

Just curious to hear if the Dojo agrees with me.......I'm sure Regs will have an in depth explanation as to why these cold weather teams need to host early in the season.....but from the surface it just seems like a no-branier to me. This is not Football where fans don't mind the cold weather and many teams use it to their advantage......I mean nobody wins in a cold rainy baseball game in April right???

Editors Note: (Just some quick ramblings I thought of while watching empty stadiums early in the year on the MLB Network. By the way I think I love this channel. I like it better than ESPN and you get way more insight and stats all day and night long. Is this channel for Free? Or is it on my TV for some trial period and then it will be ripped away from me and I will have to pay?)

The NFL Has released their 2009-2010 schedule. Tampa Bay looks like it will be the hotspot this year baby. We should put together a Dojo outing either Sept. 27th when the Giants invade Raymond James stadium or Nov. 8th when the mighty Green Bay
Packers come to town.

I think the choice is easy since we know which QB everybody wants to see more. However, the dates are perfect since in September the Giants season won't be quite over yet and in Nov. Rodgers and the crew will be knocking down the door towards perfection.

Who is that Old Man in the Miami shirt next to Sonny Crockett?

Well, it is a new season one that we have been waiting a long time for. “This is our championship season, one that this team was built for and I am not going to let anything stop us from claiming that prize” said Mikey Lemieux before the opening day home opener for the Cobra Kai got under way.

Capt. Tucci has been preaching to his soldiers how we have to strike first, strike hard with No Mercy on a more consistent basis. Well, that is exactly what we did this past Friday Night against the Los Sparks Ent. To start the season off on a high note. The Kai jumped out to an early 4-0 lead as we started off on the right foot and our bats were rolling juiced with excitement and momentum much like Doctor Guttierez sex drive.

DonJuan made his old ass presence known by finding his way back to the bases springing out of the gate fully recovered from his ankle injury and his Birthday. The Donjuan was celebrating his birthday Friday and nothing was going to get in his way between first base and a victory that night as he belted 2 singles to continue to his league leading .997 OB %.

Mad Dog was in control of the game from the get go from the mound as he was baffling the los Sparks hitters who never faced the crafty veteran before. Johnny Blaze was busy patrolling the infield and sprinkled in a couple of key hits batting in the clean-up spot and belted a deep sacrifice fly that nearly reached the fences.

Roundhouse Reger was back to old form snagging balls at the hot corner and destroying the ball at the plate rounding out a 5 RBI performance and taking part in what could have been the play of the night. Regs recovered from a tough play at third and heaved a line shot towards home where Dr. Guttirez leaped into the air to attempt an inning ending play at the plate but as in life this is a game of inches and Doc came up just a few seconds to late. “When it comes to inches I was not born with the largest inches if you know what I mean but the ladies like the girth, or so I am told” Doc said when asked about the play after the game………clearly he was not on the same page as the reported for that question.

However, the play of the night came about in the bottom of the 6^th when the Servicos were attempting a rally to bring the game back in striking distance. The Grand Master, The Swami of the league Elliot came charging in hard from Center field to make a beautiful diving catch to save what could have been a game changing hit. Elliot then had the wherewithal to get up spin around and gun out the unsuspecting base runner at first base whom was in total shock of the beautiful catch which resulted in a great double play to end the inning, their rally, and essentially any shot they had at a comeback.

Capt. Tucci was stroking the ball at the plate as he has unveiled his new tomahawk swing he must have learned from JW and he crushed the ball twice to deep LF with the chop. Koko picked up right where he left off last season continuing to crush the ball with his new power stroke down the 3^rd base line. My offseason workouts with Gizmodo really helped improve my X-ray vision which helps me find the openings on the left side of the field. Sully found Nemo as he rounded out the hard hitting line-up and made sure the Kai’s put the finishing touches on our first victory of the year in commanding fashion.

The Kai’s are now undefeated for the first time in 16 contests and are on track for our best season yet.

And of course we celebrated in fashion at Gators destroying our league record 72 pitchers. The Junior Kai’s even won the Rock Band karaoke sing off with a great rendition of “Creep” headlined by the Birthday Boy DonJuan to a standing ovation to end the victorious night all around.

Well, we head back to Red Bug Lake this Friday as we look to stay undefeated under the Friday Night Lights!

A follow up to the Vegas Verbs we created awhile back. Could this be considered Garzalating or does this need a whole new set of terms?

Garalzating: ie to Garzalate: An adverb set to when a pitcher excretes excessive amounts of bodily fluids in a demonstrative fashion.


I know JW will correct my grammar so I am looking forward to his grammatically correct procedure.

what about that fucking dante stallworth. driving his luxury bentley high on alcohol and whatever else was in his system that the law did not test. now a mother and father (assuming the man came from a stable family) is without a son. a wife without her husband children without a father and so on and so forth. you get the fucking drift. why in the hell isnt this man spending the rest of his life in jail. When someone has everything why do they make stupid mistakes. is it because they are human like the rest of us or is it because they take their extra priviliges they have for granted and think that they can buy their way out of trouble. personally if i was rich, without being rich i can tell you that i think i can afford to have a driver when i get hopped up on drugs and alcohol. plus why would i sacrifice all the groupie bitches and free v.i.p. perks i can get for a premature death.

Just so you know Double S, that's what legal girls look like.

So I was at the mall this weekend with my daughters and had an interesting exchange with a man in the bathroom (not the same kind Rich has). I had gone into the bathroom to change Sienna because she had diarriah and Soleis also had to go poop. Sienna was tired and I had to fight her tooth and nail to get her to be still, but failed misserably, as she stuck her hand in the poop and it was all over the changing table. At the same time Soleis was having her own troubles. She had just finished and was ready to wipe when she realized that the toilet paper was too high for her to reach and needed my help. Long story short, I handled both situations and when I was washing my hands, a guy who had heard all of the chaos said to me " The World would be a much better place if everyone was like you. You are a blessing." Which was a really cool thing for somebody to say to you period and he didn't even know that I had just gotten done participating in 2 Gymnastics classes and was heading to 2 baseball games from there. But the fact is that it got me thinking of a couple of things. First, if his statement was true. Would the World be a much better place if everyone was like me? Me initial response is "probably not" I have done too many crazy outragious things to justify that statement. The second thing I thought about was fatherhood in general and what makes a good dad.

This morning I heard on the news that Tony Dungy won some award for being " Dad of the year" or something and also was being considered by Obama for some post in the government having to do with Faith based family values. This through me for a curve because, although he's a good coach and pretty much everyone says he is a good guy, how can you be considered a great dad when you are gone from your family almost half of the year? How can you be an authority on how to raise children when your only attempt so far resulted in your son committing suicide? Especially when it was reported that one of the reasons his son killed himself because of failing to live up to his father's expectations. With a non working wife, the finest private schools, millions of dollars in the bank, a nanny, and a housekeeper, this is about as far away from reality as it gets!!!! Give me a break.

I think the number 1 criteria should be that you have to be around. I never considered my dad to be a good father. He worked long hours and when he was home, he was mostly crabby and yelled at us constantly about everything from having a messy room, to getting a bad grade, to not listening to our mother. Every night it was something different. The one thing that he did do is always attend every event that myself or my brothers had. You see, he owned a business and made his own schedule, meaning he could leave whenever he wanted. Every single baseball, football, basketball, soccer, track, event/game that I had, he was at. He also coached my baseball and basketball teams when I was younger. It was like clockwork, if we had a game, my dad was there. Every time I had a school play or recital, dad was there. Even though he was often critical, I still was glad that he was there.

I would like to hear what you guys think makes a successful parent, as I already have a bunch myself and a lot of you guys are either getting married soon or are newlyweds or already have kids and may want more someday or some at all. I'm pretty sure that being gone half the time and having your kid kill himself isn't the right answer (I feel terrible about his loss and I don't wish that upon anyone, but you can't help but think if things would have turned out different if he wasn't in Indy when his son was in Tampa.) I know that I appreciate my dad a lot more now than I did then and understand why he did things the way he did, even though I didn't like it at the time. Anyways, that is my 2 cents

Kudos to Koko on the Great April Fools Joke!

I was seriously pissed off at Sully last night when I checked out the Dojo. I was traveling for work all day and didn't get back till late last night and had several messages from concerned family and friends as to why the Dojo was not up and running.

Props to My Cousin Joey in Wisconsin who showed her true colors as an avid reader and expressing her true disappointment in not being able to read the Dojo yesterday. We have a bigger following than just the regular "commenter's." I even had a message from my concerned Grandma whom is an avid reader.

You can imagine my dismay when I logged on to the site expecting to see some under construction note, and then to see for violation of the "Child protection Act."

Dude, I was mortified and thought now my family and friends across the globe is going to think we are a bunch of degenerates. Wow...........I was relieved and had to laugh when I text Koko close to Midnight and He sent me the following Text:

April Fools Fucker!

Ha........Great One Koko!