Friday, December 31, 2010

GOKickball Sponsor Bar

The response to the sponsor bar was anything but a "consensus." With margin of error, the results were pretty much 50/50 and a lot of "both are fine" emails. After reporting this back to GKB, the manager (Johnny) decided to go with Yard of Ale.

For those of you liquor people, it's time to discover wine.

As mentioned before, there is still a contest running to name the division and conferences. $50 bar tab is up for grabs so get on that.

Also, registration is nearing the end. The league is about as big as GKB wants the inaugural season to be. If you haven't signed up yet, you're just about out of time. No worries though... I hear WAKA has some spots open.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing..rolled out at Busch Stadium...


I could watch this all day...



Here's how it works - their is a magnet at the bottom that raises when filling, then drops when done.

Monday, December 27, 2010

GOKickball Bar and Contest

Hello DPT readers.  It's time to get involved and help shape one of our endorsed kickball leagues.

GOKickball has been very appreciative that many of us have decided to try their league this Winter/Spring.  The league manager, Johnny, is willing to let our group help make key decisions which will define our experience.  Today, we have two items to discuss.

1)  League Bar - We have gotten two offers from bars which we feel are acceptable.  Please comment, email, text, gChat or communicate to me your choice.  If you don't vote or don't spread the word to others to vote, then we will assume you don't have a preference and are OK with the federal deficit tripling in two years.
  • Bungalow - $1 beers (not sure which type, but probably Miller Lite draft equivalent).  20% off all food and liquor drinks. They'll pay for karaoke if we find them a vendor.  They've also agreed to open their private room upstairs to our group so we'll have our own bar.
  • Yard of Ale - $2 drafts / $7 pitchers of Yuengling and one other beer TBD (either Fosters, Presidente or Stella).  50% off all pizzas.  They'll bring in karaoke for us.
So start voting, debating and commenting.  We need a consensus ASAP.

2)  Division Name - We need a name for the division, and GKB wants to tap into our creative minds.  There will be a post on GKB - Tampa's FaceBook wall at 6pm tonight opening the contest.  "Like" them so you can participate.  If a name you suggest is selected, you will win a $50 bar tab at the season meet and greet (February 3rd).  That's right... a kickball league is actually going to give someone free drinks, instead of drinking beer and then charging us for it.  If you aren't playing in GKB, I'm sure you're still eligible to win.  You can suggest names here on DPT... but it won't count for the contest so make sure to go on FaceBook and suggest also.

That's all for now.  Hope those who celebrate Christmas had a nice one.  And those who don't... at least the annoying cliche songs will cease.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Merry Christmas DPT

Your Boy


Tryna be part of my friend group?

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Feel the Warmth

Winter is officially here, and the Tampa Bay area has already seen a string of cold nights recently. While the next few days should be pleasant, 30 degree weather will be back early next week. DPT stresses the importance of staying warm while you party. Through our extensive research, we've found the warmest fire is made with solid dry wood and a World Accuracy Kick Association t-shirt. Here are two examples from last few weeks (more pics to follow throughout the winter):

A rare shirt: "Kicktease" from the Jeanette Era.
Your post-burning pose is key to successful warmth.
Remember to turn your head to avoid "smoke eyes."

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Should skydiving be the next Cayo Costa trip?


So a buddy of mine is the pilot for a jump plane and has been bugging me to participate in my first ever skydive. Well i always gave him excuses like how its pricey and how far the place is for a South Tampon like myself and that all seemed to work.. until now...

CrowdSavings is discounting a tandem skydive from $285 to just $129! The place is skydivetampa.com and its located about 45 min from here. (near Smithkey's hometown of Lakeland) Now heres what really intrigued me.. If we get a big enough group to sign up he's invited us to come make a trip out of it and camp overnight. The jumpsite welcomes drinking and bonfires so combine that with skydiving what can go wrong?

You have a few days to decide on buying the coupon and we have till the end of June to use it. Given the 1st quarter of 2011 is packed with weddings and gasparilla shenanigans maybe we can we can find a weekend for us all to go do this before July? Even if you dont want to skdive (pussy) you can still come out and camp with the group.

So let me kow your thoughts about it and if enough people respond that are interested I say we start buying some of these coupons.

Here's the crowdsavings link to the discount. Post your thoughts..

Pretty Catchy

Monday, December 13, 2010

MLoop Speaks; Grammar Weeps.

Despite the multiple emails sent by new Bayshore Division Rep Erik, WAKA decided to call in the "big guns" today and have MLoop take a stab at increasing the pathetic registration numbers.  Usually by now, Bayshore is sold out with 16 teams and 380+ players.  But this year (for some reason unbeknownst to me) there are only 7 groups signed up with only one containing the required 18 people.  O' how the mighty have fallen.

So in case you didn't get this email (like myself) here it is below.  I've highlighted a few lines that I'll discuss in a bit:

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Hello WAKA Kickballers:

Our holiday season pricing discount
is still effect, but ends soon.
Register now to play in the winter 2011 season for the FL Bayshore division in Tampa and take advantage of teh $10 discount.
Registration for the Tuesday night Breaker division opens in January.

Details:

Season Start Date: February 10th
Registration Close Date: As soon as the spots are gone, we work on a 1st come 1st served basis.
Game Nights: Thursday evenings at 7 & 8pm rotating weekly
Season length: 8 week season plus a Saturday morning/afternoon tournament.
Field Location: Police Athletic League.- 1924 W Diana Street Tampa, FL
Fees: $62 per player(early registrants only) includes team shirt, field equipment, and parties, lots more.

How to register:

Go to www.kickball.com/flbayshore
Read the entire info section carefully and register by clicking the blue register logo on the right side of the page.

Important:

If you want to return to the team you played on last season, make sure when you register to pick that group.

If you want to play on a team with your friends, make sure the 1st one who registers creates a “group” and everyone else who registers joins that group
. (Otherwise you will end up elsewhere and will not be able to switch later) Groups are not guaranteed to become teams and may be merged with others to form teams.

If you are an individual just register as an individual and you will be placed on a team.


Division Bar:

The Bayshore division is proud to call MacDintons home of the WAKA special $1 beers our home away from home again.

Miscellaneous:


WAKA does not issue refunds once you register.

Game schedules may change due to circumstances beyond our control.
We also play on some holidays. The current schedule is posted on the division website.

TO UNSUBSCRIBE - REPLY BACK WITH THE WORDS "REMOVE ME" IN THE SUBJECT LINE

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Holy shit.  We've already put MLoop through our Customer Service Training Program, so why not grade his writing?  Let's do this:
  1. "...is still effect" is missing a key word.  I guess MLoop gets props for using the correct effect/affect.
  2. "Teh" is a common typo of "the," and is really only used on purpose through internet slang.  I highly doubt Michael was using leetspeak, so it boggles my mind how he didn't spell-check his email. Or... maybe he did.
  3. "1st come 1st served" should really be typed out.  It's a cliché phrase, not a statistical quote.  This is an official company email, MmmBop.  Please take the time to write the word "first."
  4. The games rotate weekly between 7 and 8pm?  No they don't.  Game nights always start at 7pm.  Individual team's kickoffs will be one or the other... but even that isn't evenly rotated.  Plus, it's looking like WAKA can fit the entire league into one time-slot.
  5. While this isn't a grammatical error, I'm very curious as to what falls under "lots more."  How about medals for field set up?  Considering that Bull, Souder and I set up almost EVERY field weeks 1-7 last year, I want that damn medal I was promised.
  6. Put the period AFTER the parentheses.
  7. You sure as Hell can switch your teams after registration.  It happens all the time, every season.  And WAKA really shouldn't be in the business of making strict rules these days.
  8. Souder already touched up on the horrible sentence about MacDinton's and the ridiculous number of times "home" is used.  But listen up, WAKA people.  MacD's offers $1 Miller Lites to ANYONE who walks in the door on Thursday.  It is NOT a special for WAKA players.  Any other kickball league can head to that bar and annoy the shit out of you one dollar at a time.  Coincidentally, GoKickball has already gotten a $1 beer special offer from another SoHo bar on Thursdays.  In one week of sponsorship discussions, it's painfully obvious to me how little effort our WAKA reps put into finding us the best deal possible.
  9. I'm assuming "circumstances beyond our control" refers to lightning strikes, which will probably shorten the WAKA season to 5 games. 
  10. I still love how WAKA now puts the "remove me" option at the end of their emails.  Since when has that ever been an issue?  Hopefully all of you see how an organized group can force change just by holding our vendors responsible.  Using their services is our right, and their privilege.  Bullying and taking customers for granted should never be rewarded.
Brie pointed out to me this morning that when she was hired on as Breaker's rep, MLoop always stressed to proof-read each email carefully (due to the number of recipients).  Yet the emails from Michael and Erik are nothing but laughable.  Get your shit together, WAKA.  Remember how popular and widely used AOL was? Or Myspace?



I had a decent conversation with Jonathan Korb three weeks ago, and Alison talked to him last week about her banishment.  I'll do an analysis of that later if anyone is interested, but currently I'm spending my designated kickball time volunteering for the new league.  So if anyone has concerns or questions, let me know.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Name Contest

So the latest rumor is that Dollar Wells is breaking up, so Caruso is planning on forming a new team in GoKickball.  But he needs a team name.  So let's help him out.   The winner will be entered in the "free drinks" sweepstakes.

But so will everyone else.

Because Caruso averages buying 5 drinks a night due to shitty picks.

Help this man buy you drinks.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Who's Next?

Can anyone replace The Herb?

Over/Under 5.5 days until he is back?

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Update: This is called a hyperlink. They're fun.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

DPT - Winter/Spring 2011 Kickball

GoKickball registration is open, and an email has been sent out to those who've asked to be on the distribution list.  If you want to play and don't have the email, please let me know.

Location is now the Doc Nance baseball field at 3100 N. Ola Ave., Tampa, FL 33603. The sponsor bar will be determined in the next two weeks based on feedback from those of you who join.  The season will start Feb 10th, and will run eight weeks with a tournament on a Saturday.  Cost is only $50, with NO additional charge for parking.  You'll need the promo code for the $50 rate, so email me or DPT if you'd like it.  The GoKickball Tampa manager is not a douchebag. 

DPT proudly endorses both GoKickball and Kickball Society in the Tampa area.  Both are locally run leagues, where you can literally discuss all issues with the league owners/managers.  There are pros and cons to both leagues, and they will definitely be a change from what we're used to.  But regardless how the immediate Winter/Spring season plays out, at least we exercised our right to choose a better option.  And WAKA will definitely think twice about swinging the Ban Hammer the next time one of their leagues complains.

How about some MS Paint???

Created by Chris S.

Created by Jack - used in OC team email

WTH WAKA? WAGGDTGBAH?!?!

So someone must have a crush on me at WAKA (crosses fingers that it's Sarah Nelson) cause it seems no matter what I do I can't get banned. I've sent emails to WAKA Founders and talked all kinds of shit on the blog! What am I doing wrong?!?!  I bet you Geoff can still log in after making the Accuracy Kick game!  WAKA has no heart and no balls!  Send me a generic banishment email, MLoop (one syllable)!!

Oh Sarah... please "poke" me on FaceBook.  Love, Bull.  <3 <3 <3

Monday, December 6, 2010

GoKickball Update

GoKickball registration will open tonight at 6pm.  Before this happens I'll be sending an email out to everyone on my distribution list, and later I'll post details on the blog.

Thanks to everyone who has been patient with this whole kickball debacle.  DPT will continue to find (or create) better options for the entire group.  Regardless, it appears our Winter/Spring choices are finalized.

More to come in a few hours... after I do some actual work today.

**UPDATE**
The email with all the details and such will go out after 6pm tonight.  So all you people with ants in your pants just need to drink a beer and relax.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Don't Forget to Register...wait...



For an organization full of people who claim to rarely, if ever, read this fine interwebs publication, WAKA seems to know an awful lot about what is said on here. The possibility of our banned and boycott group beating a trail to GoKickball seems to have accuracy kicked them in the ass. I also received one of those emails today and what's the first thing I notice? A $10 discount for returning players. Now they may have planned to do this all along, but for my money (I hope they didn't hear that, they'll try to take it to pay for "parking" during the winter league on Wednesdays) they finally realized a lot of us were serious about getting the fuck out of WAKA and they're, gasp, trying to cultivate some customer loyalty. WAKA has never really been anything but the only choice for kickball anywhere close to the center of Tampa. They took it for granted that people wouldn't go looking for a better option if they eventually got fed up with the piss-poor customer service. First, there was "update #2", now it's an attempt to seem magnanimous when really, they're making a half-assed attempt to keep many of the people responsible for making Bayshore so popular in the past. They might have been fooled into thinking we weren't organized enough to coordinate a mass-exodus when they see MS paint pics and grown men making fun of high schools girls, but as soon as Mike and Chandler got the ball rolling with one of their competitors, they MLooped their pants. I don't want to opt out of these emails though. If I did, I'd miss gems like this...

"The Bayshore division is proud to call MacDintons home of the WAKA special $1 beers our home away from home again."

Grammar policing is a pretty common occurrence around here, and it usually has to do with Teneille's ongoing pie fight with which "your/you're" to use. But, it's more fun to pick on WAKA reps. I would suggest home that instead home of using the party home budget for parking home and buying MLoop home drinks at the home captain's meeting, they home buy a thesaurus and a home bag of commas.

Now, I have to get back to trying to win that damn accuracy kick game...
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Update 12/1: Yesterday I could still log in to my account on the WAKA website, today, not so much. I never replied to the email with "remove me", what else happened in the meantime?