West Mifflin Football Club Managing Director Robert Stinner has confirmed interest in several new players: Tyler Lacock, and two youngsters to replace some of the departing players. He said "we feel that these players will do well to replace some of the players that maybe leaving. As you know the futures of winger/striker Tom Klein and center half Steve Gauss are both very much up in the air." The Blues were very thin last year due most of the time to injury and others to people just deciding to not come to the game.
Chris Reed, who also doubles as an assistant General Manager, is in talks with a former Century V player who could also strengthen the squad for the new campaign that begins sometime in May. "Ya, I figured I'd send him a tex." Way to really go out there and get em' Chris.
So, without using anyones name in particular since I don't like to use people's real names unless they say it's cool, here is the transfer speculation for West Mifflin Football Club this close season:
Out:
Dario
Maybe Out:
Mark
Gauss
Baguet
Tom Klein
Maybe In:
CV Player
Person Baguet is supposed to talk to #1
Person Baguet is supposed to talk to #2
Person Reed is supposed to talk to
Youngster #1
Youngster #2
Volk's Cousin
Tyler Lacock
So, what we have, really, is a whole lot of speculation and nothing to really wrap your head around. The next few weeks should clear some things up and I will be back here to let all of you Blues fans know what is going on. Til' then.
29 January 2009
Baguet to Leave Blues
Yesterday was a sad day for Blues the world over. Matt Baguet, affectionately know on the West Mifflin Football Club Official Website as Matthew Alan Baguet, will be leaving the squad. Whether or not he will be able to play this season is not yet known. Currently, he is working on a deal with a government agency in Virginia and will be taking an accounting position with them. The entire team is gutted over the prospect of playing without their hard-nosed left-winger, some for the first time in their footballing careers. Winger/right back Bob Stinner was especially upset over the chance of not playing with him as early as the upcoming season. "The first time I played with the bloke was somewhere around 1990 at Community Day. We won the games we played that day, all of them. Afterwards, I went over his house for the first time. I then spent almost the rest of the next five or six years either at that house or with him at my house. The little bastard, and he is short isn't he, left me without a blanket the one time I slept over there. I had to use a damned throw rug to keep warm, the cunt. But yes, I will miss him. He's a good friend of mine and I wish him the best."
The rest of the players weren't available for comment because I sit in a cube all day by myself looking at light-blue/gray cube walls.
Baguet was an integral part of the West Mifflin Wildcats that formed nearly 12 years ago, leading the team in scoring for several years. A short, but tough winger, he is able to weave in and out of defenders as well as he is able to challenge for the ball. Many will remember him for dribbling down the side of the pitch, wide open at the end of a match and just before crossing the ball, falling (backwards with no other motion in any joints in his body) to the ground grasping the back of both legs and shouting "MY CALF MUSCLES!" He has been suffering from low-potassium muscle aches for several years now. He also was the only human in the history of football, to head the ball from less than a quarter inch off the ground and have the ball go over the bar. But, probably most importantly, Baguet was part of incredible West Mifflin footballing sides that achieved such feats as: winning the Thomas Jefferson Tournament when we were all like 11, going undefeated in Division 1 in our first two seasons as the West Mifflin Wildcats, leading the team in scoring for at least one of those seasons (not sure because I didn't keep all of the Valley Mirrors that Mrs. Reed wrote Match Reports for anymore), not losing to Mt Lebanon for the first time in West Mifflin High School Soccer history, and of course, the granddaddy of them all, being a part of the vaunted West Mifflin Wildcat squad that took down ALL of Western Pennsylvania's best to win the 2001 Edinboro PA West Open Tournament (although his specific accomplishments in that tournament escape me at the moment).
Although a few of the players will have the opportunity to play alongside him starting next week in some indoor action at the University of Pittsburgh, many more may not get the chance. On behalf of Jared Pcholinski and Jon Renner, we hope to bring you a Championship if this is to be our last hurrah with you little doot. Matthew Alan Baguet, we wish you the best here at West Mifflin Football Club. And if you know what's good for you, you will find a way to play this summer.
A proper goodbye tribute may be posted here later...and that's a huge maybe.
p.s.-I am nearly in tears writing this in my cube.
The rest of the players weren't available for comment because I sit in a cube all day by myself looking at light-blue/gray cube walls.
Baguet was an integral part of the West Mifflin Wildcats that formed nearly 12 years ago, leading the team in scoring for several years. A short, but tough winger, he is able to weave in and out of defenders as well as he is able to challenge for the ball. Many will remember him for dribbling down the side of the pitch, wide open at the end of a match and just before crossing the ball, falling (backwards with no other motion in any joints in his body) to the ground grasping the back of both legs and shouting "MY CALF MUSCLES!" He has been suffering from low-potassium muscle aches for several years now. He also was the only human in the history of football, to head the ball from less than a quarter inch off the ground and have the ball go over the bar. But, probably most importantly, Baguet was part of incredible West Mifflin footballing sides that achieved such feats as: winning the Thomas Jefferson Tournament when we were all like 11, going undefeated in Division 1 in our first two seasons as the West Mifflin Wildcats, leading the team in scoring for at least one of those seasons (not sure because I didn't keep all of the Valley Mirrors that Mrs. Reed wrote Match Reports for anymore), not losing to Mt Lebanon for the first time in West Mifflin High School Soccer history, and of course, the granddaddy of them all, being a part of the vaunted West Mifflin Wildcat squad that took down ALL of Western Pennsylvania's best to win the 2001 Edinboro PA West Open Tournament (although his specific accomplishments in that tournament escape me at the moment).
Although a few of the players will have the opportunity to play alongside him starting next week in some indoor action at the University of Pittsburgh, many more may not get the chance. On behalf of Jared Pcholinski and Jon Renner, we hope to bring you a Championship if this is to be our last hurrah with you little doot. Matthew Alan Baguet, we wish you the best here at West Mifflin Football Club. And if you know what's good for you, you will find a way to play this summer.
A proper goodbye tribute may be posted here later...and that's a huge maybe.
p.s.-I am nearly in tears writing this in my cube.
28 January 2009
Blues in for new stadium
Managing Director/General Manager/Coach/Player Robert Stinner has informed us that WMFC is in talks with the West Mifflin Area School Board and Athletic Department regarding a deal with the club that would allow them to play home fixtures at West Mifflin Area High School's newly renovated Titan Stadium. Having gone through a makeover last summer, the pitch now adorns field turf and is well suited for proper football matches. Stinner conceded that negotiations were on going with the Athletic Director as well as Larry Mawhaw regarding the terms of the lease that WMFC would have to contract to. Stinner had this to say:
Stinner said that upon asking Mawhaw as to what sort of paperwork and approvals from the board would be needed he simply said, "we'll take care of that."
Titan Stadium was originally constructed in 1999(?) to house West Mifflin High School's sporting teams. They will remain the primary users. However, Sunday afternoons (and maybe even an evening or two since the new park has lights) will see Titan Stadium filled to the brim with thousands of die-hard Blues fans, singing their lungs out for the squad.
And with the lights it will make it damn-near impossible for fat, slobbish-cunt drifters from Heiderlberg to not make up a game when the home team schedules it.
So, good news for WMFC. Keep checking back for updates.
Obviously this is a huge opportunity for us. We will always love Borland Park and will probably still field practices there. I initially had skepticism about whether or not a deal could be worked out. I asked around about who to speak to and once I contacted Mr Mawhaw I surprised at how feasible he made it sound.
Stinner said that upon asking Mawhaw as to what sort of paperwork and approvals from the board would be needed he simply said, "we'll take care of that."
Titan Stadium was originally constructed in 1999(?) to house West Mifflin High School's sporting teams. They will remain the primary users. However, Sunday afternoons (and maybe even an evening or two since the new park has lights) will see Titan Stadium filled to the brim with thousands of die-hard Blues fans, singing their lungs out for the squad.
And with the lights it will make it damn-near impossible for fat, slobbish-cunt drifters from Heiderlberg to not make up a game when the home team schedules it.
So, good news for WMFC. Keep checking back for updates.
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