BAR TEAM OF THE YEAR: Team Mikusucks (except for Hunt). It is not so much that they won it rather it is more like every other team lost it. This award is even more impressive considering how bad Team Red was on the court.
All-Bar Team- Andy Rees, John Ryan, Mike McElherne, Dave Statham, Brian Nichols, Tom Figel, Danny Maloney, Joe DeCarlo, Gale Stoffergen, the entire Red Team minus Hunt, Greg Baker, Gary Hammelman(when he showed up for his games anyway-plus he gets extra credit for bringing one or two friends to the bar because he apparently does not have any friends in the league and he loses credit because for all the time he spent at the bar and he still did not know his teammates’ names-of course, it would have helped if his teammates showed up at the bar once in awhile)
BAR MVP: Co- MVPS Joe DeCarlo and Brian Nichols
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Bill Bendoraitis
HONORABLE MENTION: Derrick Brown and Jeff Alkovsky and Mark Koll
ALL-ROOKIE TEAM: Derrick Brown, Jeff Alkovsky, Pete Spain, Bill Bendoraitis, Mark Koll, Brian Harrigan (put these guys on one team and they could win the league)
MOST OUTSTANDING PLAYER: Kevin McCann
RUNNER–UP: Alex Shimko
MVP (season) Andy Cosme
Honorable Mention: Kevin McCann, Mark Manzke, Alex Shimko, Dan McEldowney, Bill Bendoraitis
MVP(Championship Game): Kevin Statham
Runner-Up: Alex Shimko
ALL-OFFENSIVE Team : Kevin Carroll, Derrick Brown, Andy Cosme, Kevin Statham, Bill Bendoraitis , Alex Shimko ,Kevin McCann, Kyle Whirity, Mark Koll, Ryan O’Malley, Brian Harrigan, Dan McEldowney
HONORABLE MENTION: Jeff Alkovsky, Pat Fitzgibbons(quietly had an outstanding offensive season), Adam Goyke, Brian Wagner, Brian Hunt., Mark Manzke
ALL-DEFENSIVE TEAM: Dave Granville, Pete Spain, Bobby Rovy, Pat Fitzgibbons, Danny Maloney, Mark Manzke, Mando, Kevin McCann
HONORABLE MENTION: Bill Bendoraitis, Ben Schrader, Joe DeCarlo, Tyler Bailey, Dan Bedell, Packy McFarlane, John McDonagh
6th MAN OF THE YEAR: Tim Lyman
HONORABLE MENTION: Ben Schrader, P.J. Dwyer, Joe DeCarlo, Mike Taft, Matt Mustafa, Terry McGuffage, Dan Gainer
ALL UNDER- RATED TEAM: Jeff Alkovsky, Pete Spain, Neil Vanderlee, Dan Gainer, Dan Bedell, Terry McGuffage, George Terell, Mike Taft, P.J. Dwyer, Matt Mustafa, Mike Spadoni, Tim Smith, Tim Lyman, Brian Healy, Marc Mandarino
Most Disappointing Team: Team Marooned
Most Surprising Team: Team Orange
MOST IMPROVED PLAYER: Dan Gainer
RUNNER-UP: Joe DeCarlo, George Terell, Matt Mustafa
GM OF THE YEAR: Alex Shimko, who somehow convinced the rest of the captains that he is the 9th best player in the league which landed him the 1st pick in the second round(which he somehow bungled), He also drafted the biggest team in the league and surrounded himself with a perfect mix of complementary players and if it were not for his brother’s failure to show up for the Championship Game his team may have won it all.
RUNNER-UP: David Statham, for grabbing Jeff Alkovsky and Pete Spain in the 5th and 7th rounds respectively sight unseen, for ignoring Mike Greene’s warning not to take him in the first 5 rounds and drafting just enough size to allow his shooters to do what they do , and,most importantly, for sacrificing most of his minutes for the good of the team. It won’t happen next year- OPTION 1 will be back.
COMEBACK PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Mike Greene
Sportsmanship Award( for the player who best represents what our league is about): Tom Figel
The All-Roz Team- Kevin Carroll, , Kevin McCann, Andy Cosme and Ryan O’Malley, Mark Manzke
THE ALL-SHAME TEAM(for pathetic bar appearance(no appearances for some) and failure to understand what this league is about): KYLE WHIRITY(two years running), Bill Bendoraitis, Mark Koll, Brian Harrigan, Brian Hunt, George Shimko, Sr. (Most of these guys could not be picked out of a line-up by a majority of the players in the league). The biggest shame of it all is that they are all great guys and great players and they would have so much to offer to the group by showing up once in awhile-maybe next year)
HONORABLE MENTION: It is really hard to make the ALL-SHAME team and unfortunately there is a long list of guys who qualify as honorable mentionees which I will not bother to list but you know who you are.
TOP 10 HIGHLIGHTS/LOWLIGHTS OF THE YEAR
1) Draft Night-always one of the best nights of the year(except for Mikuzis although it is one of 3 nights that he not at the bar after a loss)
2) Hanging out at the bar
3) Witnessing DeCarlo’s weekly attempts to win BAR PLAYER OF THE YEAR
4) DeCarlo’s Elder ABUSE
5) Seeing Hammelman struggle to name the players on his team after week 10 and then totally butchering the pronunciation of one of them(it is Badell Not Beattle)
6) The saga of Team Spadoni’s 3rd rd pick
7) Championship Night(wonder why)
8) Bar Attendance
9) Tom Figel soaking in the last few games on his way to retirement, making his last shot and leaving the game on his terms and not leaving the bar until the lights were turned off
10) The parity in the league-eight teams had a legitimate shot at winning the league-we all know which one did not)
11) Fucking Cold Pizza- Terry McGuffage might have been the only one who enjoyed it