PreSeason Finale

One last chance to get the kinks out before the season begins. Captains are eyeing the playing fields, getting their last reads on potential draftees, and there is some tension in the air.

Slower, Whiter, and the Seven Dwarves (obviously Rook's team) meets FHS in the championship game. The Dwarves have proven to have a potent mix of youth and experience, consistency and daring, and the flexibility to meet other teams' strengths and weaknesses. FHS has demonstrated its own strength, losing its first game in a veritable battle against itself, and winning its second in a game they ran away with. Their foes simply haven't had an answer to some of their weapons, and the Dwarves will have to once again prove their own flexibility and dynamism to come out ahead again, if they can.

The chumpionship, pitting the two teams with the lesser records against one another, could prove to be as exciting, if not more, than the championship. Ricky's Mom will return its powerful Will Neff, Ryan Purcell, and Ricky Eikstadt, all absent last week, to lead this Wednesday's charge against the injured Colin McIntyre's Magnificent Four. Ricky's Mom had trouble against the poachy defense of the Dwarves in the first week, and last week, with its top 3 absent, were felled by FHS. This week, they should be hungry to avenge these frustrations. The Magnificent Four will certainly have their hands full. However, with the speed of Dave Fumo, the throws of Colin, Nate, Ollie and Kaiser, and the size and cutting of McGrath, Shih, Rao, and Merrins, they've got the potential to inflict some damage.

Post-game festivities take place at La Cantina this week, on the corner of South U and Church, with $1 off purchases of $6 or more. I'll be eating a burrito and a beer for damn sure.