Unbeaten no more

After a couple of miserable outings, we managed to sneak a W against the only undefeated team in the league. It sure as hell wasn't easy; an on time & completely sober Matty B lost to some girl while Liz beat the illustrated man leaving it 1-1 & us up by 1 rack. In a situation like that, the obvious thing to do was to send in someone who guarantees victory before he even knows who he's playing, Mike "Bootsie" Wenzler

and his cohort of years, the usually steady skipper. It looked as though a stellar performance by Maharaji might go to waste as Bootsie seemed to be struggling. I guess 15 mins of practice time each week can be too little even for a man of his obvious natural talent. Despite missing some easy stuff and THE worst ever positional shot to get to a 9 ball (that was right by the pocket) that I'd ever seen, Weasler's opponent was kind enough not to win. And we won. Super.

As an aside, Mr Jessen being disappointed by the news of not playing that evening, decided to try to fill his time as constructively as possible by challenging Thorsten Hohmann (former world champion, European straight pool champion, etc..) to a game. A terrified looking Hohmann made some excuse about needing to warm up first & then shot out of the pool hall

while our backs were turned. He knew the way the cards laid....