New WP Men's League Mandate --- January 15th deadline

With the recent retirement of JD from the Porterhouse Pub team, and recently passed regulations from the WP Men's League Board of Commissioners, We find ourselves begging for volunteers!

The Board of Commissioners has set January 15th as the deadline for all teams to have at least on player on the roster sporting a bushy mustache!

With JD's abrupt retirement this year, this leaves us in a severe bind!

Calling all hirstute Pubbers  -- you gotta help us out here!!!

Todd is too young to grow one and I believe Bill has/had one but it is too thin according to WP regs! 

We need JD bushiness!  Who will step up?  Here is the target!!! 

Pubbers fall to "Brazen" Competitors in heart breaker of a loss!!!



Crowd reacts to the "flubbed" play

 It kills me to be writing this!

After a gritty, valiant, and gut wrenching late 2nd half comeback, the Pubbers missed an opportunity to steal a win from the Brazen Fox last Thursday at the Eastview gym before a capacity crowd of 9 kids.

It may have been visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads, or perhaps the vision of Larry T in an elf outfit and a cast on his knee, but whatever it was that distracted the Pubbers they did not look like themselves right out of the gate for the third game in a row!

The addition of TOT to the floor was a big boost indeed, but the holes created by the numerous missing Pubbers were really the difference in this game.

Brazen's mountain of a center kept TOT and everyone else's hands full as we gave away not only several inches but double digit pounds at least in the paint.  Despite this disadvantage, the defense did a tremendous job containing that threat as best they could and keeping this game close!

After an ok first half, the Pubbers came out in the 2nd half and did the uncharacteristic and unspeakable  - Went "O-fer" the first 7 minutes of the half allowing the Foxes to extend a once surmountable half-time lead!!!!!

The Pubbers, warriors that they are, finally got into a bit of a groove and after they began pressing full court, found themselves in a battle for the win and three points away from tying it up with less than 10 seconds left on the clock.

A brilliant play was drawn up to free Bants for the sure TRES, but yours truly failed to implement and execute the pass and despite some questionable timekeeping/officiating on the final play, the Pubbers were handed their first (and LAST) loss of the 2010 -2011 season!!

That will not happen again!!!!

Sure, the officiating was sketchy especially with some bad block calls down the stretch that should have given us the ball back and the timekeeping was sketchy and unappealable - but those are mere excuses given that we did not play our game, failed to execute properly in key plays, missed some free throws down the stretch, and have not yet found our dominant groove that is sure to come!!

And when it comes it will be unstoppable!!

Stay tuned for the rematch of this one --- and the Quest still continues!!!

Happy New Year all!!!

Spate of Bad News continues for Pubbers!!

The devastating news hit all of us like a punch in the gut. The news we feared and dreaded came today, officially, and it has sent shivers through the White Plains Men's League - D division world!!!
British tabloid The Sun is reporting breaking news that Larry T has been told the following:
LARRY T has suffered an ACL and meniscus tear.
Dr. Jonas Salk tells us that if he wants to play bball again, he will need an operation & long recovery period ...approx 3-6 months.  He  has some time before making a decision . Apparently a doctor friend (other than his orthopedic) will advise LT on his courses of action.
This is a devastating blow to the Pubbers offense and rumor has it that several players, having not taken a shot in years, rushed out to the gym to work on that lost skill.
Calls to player/coach Henry were not returned and a report has Jimmy Bants Nangle wearing a black arm band to work today.
The news was released to the rival Mercy College assembly and the noise of jubilation was so deafening that 4 students were hospitalized with ear drum trauma!!
We will keep you posted on any developments as LT ponders his near future with the Pubbers!!
In the meantime, the quest continues!!!!

The raw footage of LT ejection...

Warning!!!  This footage is disturbing...viewer discretion advised...LOL

http://ncaabasketball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/14/high-school-basketball-player-attacks-tosses-referee-video/?ncid=txtlnkusspor00000002

Porter House makes it 2-0 with Gritty, if not pretty, Victory!

It certainly was not pretty, but it was indeed a gritty victory that the Porter House Pub team pulled out in front of a capacity crowd of 7 fans in the EastView "Sauna" Gymnasium last night!

Much to the dismay of the crew, the electric atmosphere was severely lacking coming off the 80 plus person crowd in attendance last week, but it was a bad referee call and subsequent ejection that provided the "spark" the team needed to power through to their second straight win!

From the outset the Porter House team seemingly had control but it was spotty at times as the shooting percentages were extremely low from just about all players. The team was constantly pushing the ball up and running hard and quickly tired out the younger, shorter bench of the competition, but the shots and some easy buckets just weren't falling.

It was an incident halfway through the second half that seemed to jumpstart the Pubbers and bonded them through to the final whistle. Larry T was on a breakway for an easy layup with one guy trailing and as he went up and made the basket, the trailer crashed into him, sending him sprawling dangerously into the brick wall in the gym.

The 7 fans and the whole team gasped at the violence of the take down and waited to see if LT could make it back up to shoot his free throw! 

It was eerily quiet in the gym (there were only 7 children fans afterall) as LT rose to one knee and stared in disbelief at the referee!

Incredibly, there was no whistle despite the fact that this hit took place directly under the nose of the referree!  Needless to say, LT was not too pleased with the blatant no-call and perilous action of the other player and unncharacteristically let his feelings be known to the offending ref.

And he was spot on!

So spot on that two technical fouls later and an ejection from the game, the stunned crowd of 7 fans looked terrified and worried at the prospect of LT not returning.

However, the team huddled, kept it together, clamped down on the D, and made the crucial free throws down the stretch to finally put this game to bed. 

The savvy coaching of Henry (on DL) and Bants secured the W and disaster was averted!

It was not a pretty game but it was effective, and without the presence of some of our regulars it was a pretty strong victory --- even if the video of it may make some nauseous!

Next game Thursday!!!  The Quest continues!!  Nice job Boys!!!

Here it is!!!!

After much public outcry and demand, here is the 2010 Championship T shirt, earned by Porterhouse Pub!!!  I even wore it proudly at this am's 5:30 run!!!  This year, regular season will not do!!!!

Game On~~ Opening Game Victory Bails out Flaherty Guarantee! Porter House Pubbers make it 1-0 to start 2010-11 Season!

It began with the ceremonial distribution of the 2009-2010 Championship Jerseys we have all been clamoring to receive!  As Jimmy Nangle handed them out, the jerseys did not disappoint and it was well worth the wait!  That undefinable shade of vomitous green never gets old!!  Larry Toglia made a point of wearing it during the game for the pure intimidation factor  (and his forgetting his game jersey)!!

As the layup lines began, the Eastview Gynmasium had all the excitement, noise and atmosphere of a North Carolina - Duke game at Cameron Indoor Stadium . The crowd was raucous and overflowing as the YOUNG opposing team seemingly drew 50-60 spectators to cheer them on in their opening game!  It was headache inducing noise, playoff ambience, and the veterans from the Porterhouse Pub Men's Hoop Team seemed whimsically amused as well as thoroughly confused by this unprecedented show of support at this "advanced" level of play!

The noise subsided rather quickly as the wily Porterhouse team, after a slow start, found their groove and executed a game plan of patience, solid defense, and most importantly, exceptional Free Throw shooting down to the wire to secure the first regular season victory of this Championship Quest!

It was an overall Team effort with EVERYONE contributing!!

While not the prettiest game for our team from a technical standpoint, it was effective enough to put us in the Win column as we pursue the ultimate trophy!!

1-0.... The First step to Gold!!!

Well done Boys...



PS,, if anyone sees TJ please let him know the game is at 7pm!  Eastview!  lol