Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Notes on Vegas Kickball

So the only odds I beat out in Vegas was actually surviving the trip. And while there are many fun stories... here are my takeaways from the kickball portion of the weekend:
  • Let's start with the Founder's Cup (the real tournament).  Every team out there would bend any Bayshore team over the counter and tickle their colon with an erect penis. It's not that we aren't athletic or skilled enough to compete... we just don't play Douche Kickball.  DK is exactly what we thought it would be.  Every guy munts and the pitching is ridiculous. Some teams' short stops didn't even pick up the ball to throw to first, rather, would kick it there like a soccer ball with incredible accuracy.
  • Douche Kickball had an interesting side-effect:  teams would load outfields with girls and everyone would usually play shallow.  I guess this is due to the whole "everyone munts" thing.  But if you COULD connect on a ball (good luck with that), home runs were easy to come by.  The 'Ballics kicked a bunch of them in four games, and all of us know that they aren't a home run team in our league.
  • The 'Ballics played in the "Kickball Games" which was the fun division.  Basically you only got 4 games... nothing more.  They struggled to win the first game (in full costume) before destroying the final three teams.  I didn't see any good teams in this division.
  • The team spirit contests were a joke.  The 'Ballics were one of only a few teams who even made an effort to dress up... and they were clearly the best (winning $1,000 in Mloop Bucks). They ALSO should have won extra thousands for "life of the party," but there was some fine-print rule which only allowed them to win one category.  Seriously... Bayshore has multiple theme games every week that would have won money out in Vegas.  In fact, our Cooler Game which garnered threats of paper forfeits was more creative than some of the teams out there.
  • Bull and Souder had good things to say about almost every WAKA person they came in contact with (while reffing). I hear one dude-ref got fired during the opening pool rounds, and started to cry.
Overall, the kickball thing was fun... but that was probably due to the people in our group. Congrats to the 'Ballics for doing a great job representing Bayshore. I now feel we are totally justified in our daily bitching and attempts to hold WAKA to a higher standard.  We really are the closest and most actively fun group in the country.

No Power Rankings this week.

5 comments:

Florian said...

What! No Power rankings? Booooo!!!

bull said...

It did seem that just about everyone in some position of power in WAKA is pretty cool and just wants have fun and get drunk...everyone but MLoop that is. The guy didn't even say hi to us. Let's see, you are the Rep for ALL of Florida, and you have a team that is winning prizes and games and you ignore them. AND you have two Refs that on multiple occasions were called the "among the best we have" by all the other WAKA reps, yet you ignore them also. Geez, SO glad our Fla Rep cares about us!! And don't even try to say that the tournament was too big and crazy to for MLoop to know we were there, cause I had lots of other reps talking to me about the teams and refs that they had at the tournaments. Oh and they were ALL saying how crazy and fun the Ballics were.

Geoff said...

Exactly... We, from the 'ballics to to the refs from bayshore, to the other players that showed up definitely represented the spirit of WAKA. Maybe "the powers that be" should spend less time trying to handcuff US and more time trying to get other divisions to embrace the game of kickball like we have.

FRANK said...

tru dat geoff

Angie AKA Clam, HJ, ... said...

MLoop was there? ha!