I walked into the New York Newts clubhouse to interview the team. Let me set the scene. Wang Bangliang was chugging Slurpee from the machine in the corner. Sweet Eddy, Gavin "Give em the" Byrd, Ed "Take it or" Leavitt, and Imiliano "I'm a Villan" Villamater were playing snertz on the floor, surrounded by a rainbow of Surge cans and chocolate wrappers. Bastian "Sledgehammer" Seidinger was sitting on medicine ball. Dawid "the Walrus" Ossowski waved me over to the long wooden bench by his locker. "I'm surprised you came. Its been a rough season." "I'm doing a piece on your next tv game against the Cougars." "We had high hopes, the Sledge and I, that management would bring in the missing pieces. We're getting older and im not going to get through another rebuild. Rafi, he's the future. We're gonna give it all the we've got to keep the team from relegation but its just the 10 of us going hard 3 or 4 nights a week. We can't keep up with the deeper rosters in the league. Trust the process they say. Maybe we'll get a couple guys at the break and make a push in the second half. As for Saturday, we'll be there to give em hell."
Cougars by 24