need 2 players

we are 2 players short for monday's game (lou and phil). if anyone has any friends/relatives who want to play, send me an email.

neal

shirts

ok, i'm ready to order mamba shirts, but it's getting a little complicated with shirt colors. i've posted the most popular choices. pick your favorite and i'll order the color that gets the most votes:

3 point shooting contest results

monday was a big day for MAMBA - it marked the first 3 point shooting contest. here are the results (in shooting order):

Dan W - 4 points
Rob - 1 point
Kevin - 9 points
Charlie - 10 points
Nick - 7 points
Neal 13 points
Patrick - 4 points

i think the contest was a great success. afterwards Patrick started yapping something about the weight of the balls not being consistent, but i tuned out. come on dude, this is Mamba, not the olympics. man up.

going into the contest i feared facing the dangerous tom powers and the occasionally deadly hot shot koster. luckily for me, they canceled. now i have $12 in my pocket and i'm gonna take my lady out for a special meal at Sizzler. it's just that easy.

no game on next Monday, April 13. rest your knees and soak your disfigured finger in salt walter.

neal

slight adjustment to shirt design

it just occurred to me that there is no reference to basketball in the shirt design, so i added basketball lines on the apple (see picture). yay or nay?

MAMBA shirts

ok, i designed a Mamba shirt and found a place that will print them for about $23 each. That includes front design and name/number on back. One option is we could all go with the number "666," number of the beast.

so far these are the people ordering a shirt - dan w., patrick, brian, neal. email me if you want one.

here's the design. we could also go with a different colored shirt, but that would probably mean a price hike of $5-10.


you'll notice that the design has all of the essential imagery:

1. a large venomous black mamba snake

2. popular new york icons (big apple, empire state building, chrysler building)

3. satanic symbolism (i.e. satan's infamous apple temptation)

all in all, i think the design captures all that Mamba is.

neal

3 point contest

Bring $1 if you want to enter this Monday's 3 point contest. Winner takes all.

We'll just need 2 things:

1. everyone to bring their basketball
2. a stopwatch (if someone has one, bring it)

I think the NBA uses 5 balls per station with the 5th ball being the moneyball. We'll go with the same approach, though we might need to use less balls if we don't have 5.

In the case of a tie, players will play a bonus round.

n

EXCLUSIVE - the wounded man speaks

On Monday tragedy struck Mamba and captured the hearts of millions. Phil, lunging for a loose ball, destroyed his finger and screamed in pain. A scream heard across the Atlantic, a scream that left the world waiting in fear.

No one has heard or spoken to this wounded warrior - until now. For the first time EVER on the world wide web, Phil speaks about his innermost fears, struggles, demons, and the uphill battle he faces to recapture his Mamba legacy.

1. will you ever chase a loose ball again?

I will, but next time I'm going to try and use my face instead of my hands. I'd like to see how that works out.

2. after you got hurt, your finger did not look like a finger. how did that make you feel?

Right then and there I knew my hand modeling days were over. I also approach masturbation differently now.

3. tell us a little bit about your 7 hour wait at the emergency room.

The stench grew worse upon every hour, homeless men and women, drunk bums, drug addicts, and the mentally insane all contributed in their own special way to this horrible scene. I saw a pregnant crack head screaming at the top her lungs, a fat drunk latino man in a speedo with a knife wound, countless thugs and perps beat up by cops handcuffed to hospital beds, & drunk mexicans with bloody mouths. I watched a hobo masturbate for about 2 hours, I also got to smell his body crust as he removed all of his clothing so he could scratch himself. I saw a man with a hole in his cheek, and I watched about 10 min. of Sienfeld before I had minor nervous breakdown. 4. Mamba is all about being a warrior. Will you play again? I will play again, but the fear of injury has found a home in my brain. What will breakdown next?

Maybee I'll just play video games.

5. I know that you like to spend your time knitting scarves and mittens for friends and family. Does your wounded finger mean that all scarves and hats from this point forward will be less than perfect? I'ts a possibilty. 6. Louis waited with you in the emergency room for 7 hours. Do you love him? if so, how do you wish to repay him for this noble act of kindness?

I love Louis deeply. I will repay him with a nice sponge bath, I want to get him nice and clean, then walk arm and arm down roosevelt avenue and whisper sweet little thank you's in his ear. I'll take him to Mcdonals and then buy him a toy.

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there you have it -- the voice of a lion, brave yet trembling with the fear of the unknown. He sits and waits, watching daytime TV and nursing tender wounds. He knows that this wound will heal, but the scar will remain forever.

Hot Shot Koster was brave to stand by Phil's side. The players decide if Hot Shot is worthy of a special honor: