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.