San Jose’s 9th Man Blog

David Richardson suffered an open wound (compund) fracture to his ankle Saturday night against San Jose. David underwent a successful surgery on Sunday in San Jose. He is expected to return to Los Angeles in a couple days.  Please submit your best wishes here and I will make sure the L.A. Avengers forwards it to David.

It’s is now complete.  I have posted the 2008 9th Man Player of the Year Nominees to go along with the 2008 Kitten of the Year Nominees and voting for both is NOW open.  Although voting has been taking place for about a week and a half for the Kitten of the Year, it’s now time for you to also express your opinions by voting for your favorite palyer. 

The winner to both contests will be announced at the first annual 9th Man Awards on Satuday, May 31 inside of Britannia Arms - Almaden.  Good luck to all of the nominees for both the Kitten and Player of the Year.

I have been finally able to begin updating the photo gallery.  I have updated the gallery with pictures from week 4 action hosting the Dallas Desperados.  The pictures from the game hosting the Philadelphia Soul will be up in the next two or three days.

For the remiaining viewing parties during the regular season, the host venue will remain Britannia Arms - Almaden.  However, for the post season, if we were to have any viewing parties, including the ArenaBowl, it will be at a different location.  This location will be announced by the middle of this week.  Possible locations are Stanley’s Bar & Grill at the Sharks practice facility, Jersey’s on S. 1st St downtown, and the Downtown Britannia Arms.

Also on the main page, I have a survey for feedback on the viewing parties host venue, Britannia Arms - Almaden.  I want to hear your feedback by participating in the survey, if have gone to a viewing party.   YOu can also comment here on this blog entry as well for more feedback, as the survey is just a simple ranking.  All comments on the 9th Man Blog are subjuct to approval to only allow appropriate material to be posted.

As some of you may already know, I have begun the voting process of this year’s 9th Man Kitten of the Year.  Now remember that this is an award to be presented to your favorite member of the SaberKittens, as they have been nominated.  The 9th Man Player of the Year voting will begin next week.

This year I decided to spice things up a little.  We are not going to display the final results on the web site until after the winner has been announced at this year’s first 9th Man Award Ceremony.

This special event will be held at the last regular season viewing party on Saturday, May 31st while the SaberCats take on the SoCal rivals, Los Angeles Avengers at 7:30PM.  So come in force to the Britannia Arms - Almaden to not only cheer on your defending ArenaBowl Champion San Jose SaberCats, but also to see who wins at the First Annual 9th Man Awards.  The final announcement about the categories will be announced shortly.

GO SABERCATS!