Mighty Gamers Drop Two

Hicksville, NY - Gamers 1b Zac Nicholson, a NYU film student and aspiring pornographer needed to come up with a good idea for an upcoming film festival with a mustache trimmer as its grand prize.

"I knew that I couldn't submit footage from fantasy night or from Hot Bunz: Hot Stickz," Nicholson said. "But I really wanted that trimmer, so it was on to plan B."

Which for the Gamers meant agreeing to take part in a parody of the three Might Ducks movies entitled the, 'Mighty Gamers'. As such, they lost the two game showdown against the Stallions on purpose, 18-5 and 13-4, to set up a dramatic comeback victory against the favored Stallions in the championship game that Nicholson hopes will be the final scene in his film.

In explaining his vision, Nicholson said, "We wanted to portray the Stallions as a team of thugs with superior talent similar to the Hawks in the first movie or team Iceland in the second one. Luckily for us they helped us out more than we could have ever hoped for, trash talking, issuing death threats, and getting players thrown out of the game left and right."

Like any of the three movies the Ducks still had their moments despite the losses. Rf Dave Roll, portraying the role of the portly goaltender, Goldberg, made a diving catch preventing a goal, er run from scoring. Similarly, rcf Billy Bezouska did his best immitation of the female Olmypic Figure Skater from the second movie, making a spinning triple axle catch that ended in a pirouette. As they took the field to start the second game the outfield of Bezouska, Roll, Brian Malfettone and Greg Roll actually ran out in a flying v formation.

In Game Two, star second baseman Rob Rathbun played the role of star winger Adam Banks perfectly going down with a knee injury in the sixth inning just when the Gamers were about to make their run which is usually when Banks would hurt his wrist.

From his hospital bed, Rathbun asked Nicholson, "did you get my good side as they were taking me off on the stretcher? I can come in tomorrow for another take if you need to do it over?"

To replace Rathbun, Javier from the Hurricanes filled in ala Los Angeles' own Russell Tyler from the second movie. He didn't have a knuckle puck in his repetoire but he did play good defense and pop up in his only at bat like everyone else on the team. In fact, the Gamers first four batters, R. Roll, Rathbun, Malfettone, and Dave Kheel combined to go for 4 for 21 in the two games with four rbis all by Roll.

Instead the offensive stars were Nicholson (four hits, three rbis), Craig "Averman" Shames (3 hits), Dave "Goldberg" Roll (two hits), and Billy "Charlie Conway" Bezouska (two hits).

Despite the two losses the Gamers were excited about their parts in the Might Ducks remake.

"Maybe this will be the big break I need to get discovered for my own reality tv show," Shames said. "But I don't want to get my hopes up."