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Boom, baby! BOOM!!

Posted in Football, Poking the Herald on November 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Don’t tread on Whidbey.

North, South and Central, and all the far-flung Wolf fans in every corner of the big, wide internet came together as one Tuesday and taught Marysville (population 62,402) a simple fact.

Coupeville (population 1,865) doesn’t go down easily.

Using an 800-73 run over a two-hour span (seriously) we broke the Everett Herald’s poll, now and forever.

Finally tally in the Herald’s poll for Prep Football Player of the Week:

Jake Tumblin of Coupeville (2,073 votes)

Deion Stell of Marysville-Pilchuck (1,624 votes)

That’s more votes than there are people in the town of Coupeville. Any questions?

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You want a war, Marysville? You got it!!

Posted in Football, Poking the Herald, Startin' a war on November 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Jake Tumblin, takin’ care of business. (John Fisken photo)

What part of “you already lost” do you not understand?

What began as a simple thing — the vote for the Everett Herald’s Prep Football Player of the Week — has transformed into an epic battle between the plucky town that could, and its supporters everywhere, and the big town that’s going down.

There are seven players nominated, but it long ago became a two-man battle between Coupeville’s Jake Tumblin and Marysville Pilchuck’s Deion Stell.

Jake ran for 315 yards, scored four touchdowns, picked off a pass, recovered a fumble and took a knee at the one-yard line on what could have been another touchdown, to set up fellow senior Raymond Beiriger for the only score of his high school career.

Stell, a very good player, ran for … 75 yards.

When the voting kicked off Sunday morning, Jake took the lead and held a 40-vote margin for some time, then got swamped and fell behind by 350+ votes. But then, he rallied and shot past Stell and held a 150-vote lead.

An email from Herald prep sports editor Aaron Swaney, sent Tuesday morning, states:

Voting ended yesterday so it seems Jake won the fan vote for player of the week.

Except, the Herald hasn’t actually frozen the vote and Marysville (2012 census population of 62,402) has now shot Stell back ahead 1,468-1,344 (no one else has more than 199 votes), while Coupeville (2012 census population of 1,865) is like, “What? We won! Give us a freakin’ break!!”

So, we’re playing Chicago rules, then?

I call on every man, woman and child on Whidbey Island, especially Oak Harbor fans, who have no love for Marysville, to vote, vote, vote.

One Whidbey, united, kickin’ Marysville’s fanny.

The link: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20131110/SPORTS01/711109894/1007/Vote-for-Prep-Football-Player-of-the-Week-

Or, email the Herald at aswaney@heraldnet.com and ask him to acknowledge on the web site that Tumblin won.

This is not over, Marysville. We got the equivalent of votes from 72% of the town. You got 0.02%.

You already lost.

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Vote for Jake!!

Posted in Football, Poking the Herald on November 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Jake Tumblin and big sis Ashlyn Cronin. (John Fisken photo)

Launch the torpedoes!!

The Everett Herald just posted its weekly poll to pick a prep football player of the week and this is our chance to swamp the poll and carry Coupeville to victory.

Coming off a 315-yard, four-touchdown performance Friday night against Chimacum, Wolf senior wing Jake Tumblin is one of seven area players nominated.

It’s simple. Follow the link. Vote. Tell someone else to vote. Send Mr. Tumblin out a winner.

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20131110/SPORTS01/711109894/1007/Vote-for-Prep-Football-Player-of-the-Week-

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Let’s go spank the Everett Herald!!

Posted in Football, Poking the Herald on September 4, 2013| 1 Comment »

“Gentlemen, prime your buns!!”

Let the paddlin’ commence!

It’s time for the Everett Herald to get nice and irritated with Wolf Nation once again. It’s been too long since we chafed their very souls.

The occasion? The posting of their annual preseason Cascade Conference football poll.

Yes, the very same poll we broke last year, when we mustered enough votes to smack the fans of Archbishop Thomas Murphy and King’s right upside their overly-entitled heads.

Now, we’re already in a wee bit of a hole, down by 29 votes and lodged in seventh place (out of eight teams) as we launch our assault.

No matter. We overcame a bigger climb last year, and held fast when ATM started paying their gardeners and maids to vote.

We are Wolf Nation. We break polls. It’s what we do.

Let the dogs of war loose!

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130903/BLOG18/130909955/1007/What-team-will-win-the-Cascade-Conference

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Local man sticks it to state lottery system!!

Posted in Gambling: It's what we do, Lottery mania, Poking the Herald, Whidbey's Best on July 30, 2013| Leave a Comment »

“This is … COUPEVILLE!!” (Jeff Johnson photo creation)

Apparently, it’s not only 90-year-old women in Kansas that win the lottery.

Who knew?

One of my former customers at Videoville, Jim Sebastian, scored recently when he won $440,000 playing Hit 5 at the Coupeville Country Store. The store will get a $4,400 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

You can read the complete story (and see Mr. Sebastian’s beaming face) over at the Everett Herald — http://heraldnet.com/article/20130729/NEWS01/707299928/-1/NEWS01.

And, in exit, I have two things to say.

One, the Everett Herald correctly spelled the name of a Coupeville resident.

After their frequent bizarre bunglings of Wolf athlete names, turning Taya Boonstra into Boonscara, Anthony Bergeron into Buchosson and Bessie Walstad into Walstud, Walsted, Walstid and Wizzenheimer (am I making that last one up? Could be.), I am shocked. Shocked.

And two, suck it Kansas!!

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