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Tim, the captain of Scratch This, has asked that I post this statement here in reference to the earlier posts. Please note that I find it hard to believe that he forgot that I post every summary here, as I’ve been doing it for years (and emailing the team that they can find the write-ups on this site). Still, it is quite possible that he wrote that particular post without intending it be made public. I’m not making excuses, but on a personal note, I should not have posted it. Not out of respect for Tim, but out of my own respect to the APA members who read this.

I would like to write a note to those from the pool league who read this blog, especially those of you who now think I’m a total pr1ck due to the heavily censored recap of the match between our team and More Luck than Skill.

I am happy to be a part of this pool league and respect and like those in it. I apologize if I offended anybody by anything I wrote. I will be very sorry if these over-the-top and (assumed to be) private writings of mine have made me lose people who I considered part of my community and friends.

Being the old person that I am and semi-luddite who even remembers life before MTV, I had no idea that Matt was printing my recaps here. I don’t read any personal blogs and never have – I only actually read baseball blogs, that’s how big a dork I am. Those recaps were meant as private emails for the team and not for pubic consumption. I only found out tonight that they were being posted.

I would hope that those of you who have conversed with me and played against me realize that on a scale running from SPAZ to PR1CK, I fall squarely on the former as opposed to the latter. The stronger emails and recaps I write are conspicuously and purposely filled with self-referential hyperpole to accentuate the high-strung persona that entertains my team so much. I took those liberties in my language and attitude because they were private and those who read them know me well enough to know that. (You may have noticed a certain amount of, well, BITTERNESS that flows from me when I have lost.) The recaps can’t really sound that way to those who only know me as that hyper talkative moody dork coaching the other team and I apologize that they were made public, as they were not polite nor suitable.

be well -

timothy j. beck