Joining the fabled ranks of Extravaganza 2005 Rookie of the Year Gary "Splash" Van Dam (he fell out of his boat but saved his partner's $1,000 fishing gear that he was using two years ago"because his didn't work") and of Extravaganza 2006 Rookie of the Year Ken "I'm Da Man" Peralta (he dove into 2006 water to save an errant oar that was swiftly heading downstream), welcome one and all the newly announced and anointed Extravaganza 2007 Rookie of the Year: Dr. Michael "Book 'Em" Corcoran.
"Book 'Em" was sought out last year by Extravaganza coordinators and initially brought into the ignominious ranks of rowdy Group One to bring order where only chaos had existed for four consecutive years: Rowdiness, w[h]ining, cocktailing, horseshoeing, drinking and otherwise carrying on into all hours of the early Montana mornings has long been a Group One tradition and "Book 'Em"'s long and distinguished Secret Service record (he protected six of our presidents including, in no small part due to his superb equine abilities, serving as officer in charge of the Reagan Western White House) and his current role as President of Henley-Putnam University (the world's first nationally accredited counter-terrorism university [where I just enrolled in their Intelligence Master's Program, soon to make me the world's only "Intelligent Lawyer"]) brought to the table much needed and expected Group One qualities of increased sobriety and compliance with common law, decency and respect.
The boatmen:
Earning the distinction of Extravaganza 2007's coveted Rookie of the Year Award, witness "Book "Em's" 2007 Extravaganza Rookie feats: (a) he was the first rookie this year to sign into the equally revered Twenty Inch Club with his first-day-out twenty inch rainbow landed on his spiffy new Extravaganza custom-made rod and reel (beaten that day only by his Brad Colton veteran fishing partner's 20 1/4 inch bow--after which time they immediately took guide Tony Reinhart off the river early at 3 p.m. and, in true Group One fashion, went directly to the Rhino Bar to wile the remaining afternoon away in libation(s) (getting a speeding ticket along the way from a "perfect 10' lady of the law, I might add, who they then attempted to seek out again the next day in equally quick fashion); and (b) he is the only person (along with veteran partner "Yellow Shirt" Colton, that is) in Extravaganza history to get an $85 citation for drinking beer from a glass container alongside the fabled Blackfoot "A River Runs Through It" River in spite of all warnings and earlier protestations to the contrary
Book 'em signs in to the Twenty Inch Club:
Dr. Michael "Book 'Em" Corcoran: A rookie for all seasons; a rookie for all to admire.
Seen below with prized fish in hand, join me in welcoming Dr."Book 'Em" into the permanent hall of Extravaganza Rookies of the Year, as we now begin anew our to-date woefully insufficient efforts to seek 2008 rookie recruits to tame the likes of unruly Group One.
Any volunteers out there?!?
Congrats, "Book "Em"!!
Rock Creek Ron
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