On Tuesday night (7/12), Target R took on Kriesher Miller in a repeat of their game two weeks ago. After last weeks trade of KB rocked the volleyball league to its core, an even more stunning trade occurred earlier this week- KB for Steve (who hasn't showed up to any games), Mean Joe's Ford, and a favor from Terry. Knowing this trade would make Target R unstoppable, during negotiations Terry said to Kevin "what do you need me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy?" While nefarious thoughts danced through Kevin's head, in the end he decided to simply have Terry keep his seat at Double Visions warm until he got there after Target X's game.
In celebration of this coup, Mean Joe, Terry, Frank, and GLG all missed the game, as Target R was forced to go to battle with a bruised and battered four players- Bad-Knee KB (nursing an oozing knee injury), Injured-Ankle Aaron, Bellyaching Mike Bell, and Green-With-Envy Gabriela (jealous that she was not one of the many people to miss the game).
As expected, the rich man's Ben Lin started the game off with his jump serve right into the net, straight out of the Book of Text. Target R jumped out to a quick 5-2 lead in the first set and it looked like they might have a chance, despite being out manned (and outwomaned). Yet somehow, this seemingly insurmountable lead was quickly surmounted. Despite Mike Bell's best efforts, diving all over the place, there was just too much empty space without GLG's bulbous dome to occupy half of the court.
Target R battled back in the second set, coming back from a 14-7 deficit to cut the lead to 14-13, but in the end, they were overpowered. As Bootleg Ben Lin kept chanting "Let's see the soup" and "Nice job" to his own team, KB tried to get in his head by asking "What kind of soup?" and saying "Thank you." Eventually BBL was tired of this, and after a KB spike just evading his horizontal-dive, he yelled out "Cracker!" What a racist...
The lesson, as always, is that words hurt, but having one four players hurts even more, as the reason for the loss is placed squarely on the shoulders of the invisible fifth and sixth players. Meanwhile, Target X had a game as well, which I believe they won, given their plethora of players who were unwilling to help out Target R. As a disgusted KB walked away from both teams, awaiting his next trade, he screamed out "A plague on both your volleyball team," before reversing course, hugging it out with everyone, as he whispered, "I wish I knew how to quick you."
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