{"id":993,"date":"2013-11-30T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T19:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=993"},"modified":"2015-11-27T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T20:07:30","slug":"taboo-championship-2013-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Taboo Championship 2013: 61*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the annual Men versus Women Taboo Championship \u2013 The women have now Three-Peated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Women-Taboo-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Women-Taboo-2013.jpg\" alt=\"Women-Taboo-2013\" width=\"315\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Women-Taboo-2013.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Women-Taboo-2013-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As can be seen above, I think it safe to say that Jenna is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pict0015_0616-225x300.jpg\">Tim<\/a> of the Women\u2019s team in terms of excitement (or at least takes after her <a href=\"http:\/\/steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/0921-1024x768.jpg\">father<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s match was much closer than last\u2019s.\u00a0 By tradition, scorekeeping was done by Pius \u2013 a nun.\u00a0 Going into the final turn, this lady of the cloth reported that the men were down 61 \u2013 54 and needed 7 to tie or 8 to win.\u00a0 I was up for the final turn and got the needed 7, making the game 61-61. \u00a0We had the first tie in Taboo Championship cup history and were befuddled of what to do (and more importantly questioning Who would serve pie?)<\/p>\n<p>A midst the confusion, the sister scorekeeper spoke up and said that she had made an error, and the men only had 60.\u00a0 This caused a minor uproar among the men\u2019s team \u2013 but Jeff calmed us down (and wanted to eat) \u2013 so for the third year in a row Jeff cut, Jim plopped on the whip cream, and the rest of the men served with dignity (as we always do).<\/p>\n<p>As the unofficial captain of the Men\u2019s team, I am still taking this loss somewhat hard.\u00a0 However, I am encouraged by the prospects we have in our farm system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Alex-Taboo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Alex-Taboo-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Alex-Taboo\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Alex-Taboo-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Alex-Taboo-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Alex-Taboo.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean, look at all those cards on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the annual Men versus Women Taboo Championship \u2013 The women have now Three-Peated. As can be seen above, I think it safe to say that Jenna is the Tim of the Women\u2019s team in terms of excitement (or at least takes after her father). This year\u2019s match was much closer than last\u2019s.\u00a0 By tradition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-story","category-taboo-championship-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}