Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Join My Pick'em and Survivor League

As always I created a Yahoo Pick'em and Survivor league this year for the upcoming football season. In the Pick'em league your goal is to pick the winner for each game that week in order of how confident you are and for the Survivor league you must pick only one team to win each week but you can't pick a team more then once and if your team loses you are eliminated from the league. The cost is free and all are welcome to join. Follow the links below and click "join group" and enter league id and password.

Group ID#: 22987
Password: smithkey

Group ID#: 9434
Password: smithkey

Bowling?

Half Off Depot has two games of bowling (for up to 5 people) AND a pitcher of beer for $20 at Pin Chasers. Get the deal here.

Sounds like a guys night out at the lanes is in order...

Monday, August 29, 2011

BREAKING NEWS

We have two vouchers for rafting/bunks in the cabin that have just became available!! If anyone would like to join in on the fun last minute style reply A.S.A.P! Any questions, let us know.

Quote Sharing...

I will be sharing the random musings overheard throughout the season. This weeks contributions come to us from:

1) A girl on PHDivas playing shortstop in response to a teammate being told that his catch should be on a highlight reel: "My life is a highlight reel" Clearly, this isn't the case because there wasn't a single cup or beer on their sideline. However, I commend her spirit and enthusiasm.

2) A female teammate who was attacked by the first baseman from Kickball Team (i think his name is John) who was covered in sweat after the game and was left drenched: "I'd prefer semen anyday" Chandler, this is THE girl for the contest we discussed at Hooters during the bachelor party a few months back.

Brown Chicken! Brown Teneille! vs THEE Beer Nuts

This week BCBT made their GoKB debut taking on a seasoned Beer Nuts team that are in my opinion one of the funnest teams each season. BCBT took a 2 run lead in the first half of the inning starting out the game with 5 consecutive base hits. TBN did a great of limiting the damage to just 2 runs with some good defensive plays on our aggressive base runners. I think one of the big turning points came in the bottom half of the inning when Nate led off the inning with a single but then got caught making a wide turn to second and was caught dead in the water on a foolish base running error.

TBN would come back and tie it up at two before BCBT took a 3-2 lead in the third. The game would stay close for a couple more innings but the top of the BCBT lineup would prove too much to handle for TBN. The final was 7-2 but it was actually a pretty good game.

TBN held up to their reputation as one of the funnest teams to play and were very great sports. I am pretty sure BCBT is already getting a reputation for being assholes with Knowlton, Tony, Litman, and myself all playing on the same team. Overall I think we kept things fun and might be a funner team to play then most would think.

Other game notes:
-center fielder busted up his face after running face first trying to catch a ball Tony the Terrible kicked into the fence.
-Chuckers destroyed Knowlton in the chugoff while Knowlton chuckled like a little girl
-Alicia caught a ball AND scored a run
-Paid ref was very good but might possibly be a mute
-volunteer refs on 3rd base side did not have a clue and were not paying attention
-it's good to be back playing with the old schoolers again

Busy Week


It's a busy week here for the DPT! Chandler is out of town meeting his new family for a few more days, so we are doing our best to hold the site together without him.

Power Rankings will hopefully be up by Wednesday, just in time for picks. Speaking of picks...we will have our first ever GoKickball Double-Header! The Toejammers felt that starting the season on the same week as the rest of the league wasn't befitting their return to South Tampa Kickball. So make sure you get to the fields early at 6:30 to welcome the Jammers back and watch the start of The Growlers title defense. Should be a great game.

Will we finally have an answer to the question of who actually won the game between The Shockers and Alcoballics? Perhaps we will get to watch TWO doubleheaders! (granted they would only play for 7 minutes)

Will the refs (which overall did a great job) move back behind the plate? Will Superbad turn down that crappy hippy music?

Our 4th Annual DPT Summer Trip is this weekend. 26-ish wacky kickballers will be heading up to the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Georgia early Friday morning for a weekend of white water rafting, hiking and general debauchery.

Finally and most importantly, College Football is BACK!!! Go Gators...Go Bulls...Screw the Noles!

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Shockers vs. Alcoballics

I finally got access to a computer to update the schedule and standings. But I don't understand how nobody has commented about the Shockers/Alcoballics game.

The Shockers were winning when the game was called 7 minutes early because the ref (Ryan) did not know about GKB's new clock policy.

It's my understanding that the Shockers were the home team, and were about to kick in the bottom of the 6th when the game was called. Also, both teams were told the 6th would be the last inning.

Once the game was called and someone from the Ballics alerted me... I quickly got Johnny and informed him of the error. He immediately got Kyle and Rob togheter, so I walked off. Five mintues later, I looked over and the Shockers were walking to their cars. What took so long to sort it out? Nobody had left the field yet when Johnny was alerted.

GKB hasn't posted an official score of this game, and I think there is a debate on if they're going to give them a 7 minute make-up at a later date.

But I'm still confused as to how this has not been discussed publically... and basically not resolved 24+ hours after the game ended.

Friday, August 26, 2011

My first GoKB, Liger & Recap Experience by The Todd.



I must admit, I had second thoughts jumping the WAKAship. Thoughts raced through my mind: Will the girls be hotter in GoKB? My first GoKB experience & that of a Liger was rewarding. I started the night off taking a leak in the women’s bathroom with Bull. Then met some of my fellow Liggers. Blanketed with newbies and aged perfection, I didn’t know if we would gel in time. BnD got spanked 2 seasons ago in the opener against the Bumpets. I was nervous. But everyone on the field knew the game was over half way thru our first at bat. We kicked ass in the first inning. I haven’t seen an offensive explosion like this Since BnD played Team Fabulous, it was great with super asshole performances by Blue. I knew I’d inject this team with classic BnD offensive assholishness, but watching Rollo blast a line drive into the girl pitcher’s face exceeded all my expectations. Indeed she caught it as well, proving to pose the biggest threat to the mad Ligger- O. She made great plays and had a great arm. Ligers brought great assholishness to the Defensive end of the game as well, having our fearless captain Huffman purposely drop a fly in the outfield so he could peg the girl running from 2nd to 3rd. Asshole Catcher would’ve been proud. Nothing held us back, not even the newbies that accidentally ran to other field’s 3rd base instead of our fields first base. And when we start correcting those easy mistakes, it will be no surprise to see the Ligers ratchet up the Power Rankings to a solid 9th place rank.




Gator Rompin- This Saturday!








Just a friendly reminder that the Tampa Gator Club's annual pub crawl err "Premier Social Event" is this Saturday starting at 5pm. I unveiled this year's Rompin Logo and we went "retro". So sign up online and receive a vintage soft tee and a free drink. Or wait till the day of and risk us running out of your size shirt. (we do every year) Either way come celebrate the return of college football. You don't have to be a gator fan to attend, but why aren't you one?


Sign up here and Go Gators!


*Update*- Come see me upon check-in at MacDinton's and I'll give you a free drink ticket. Only if I like you though. Let the airing of grievances begin! "I have alot of problems with you people!" -Frank Constaza

SUPA Vs. DAALTSYLLINAD

Supa started off the night already behind. Our long awaited Cooler Boom Box was locked in Abatte's House as he is chillin' on the roof tops in the Dominican Republic.






<------Abatte's Vacation

Then our fearless chugger Joe, loses the chugoff. We are Visitors.

First 4 innings sucked. Other team scored a run, on a few errors by our team. We were a bit rusty, as expected.

After looking at an early season loss, Supa picked it up in both offense and defense. Maggan and Sandra both had some awesome diving catches to eliminate possible scoring opportunities for the other team. Our two new guys, Flo and Mikey both had some nice catches in the outfield as well. As usual Drew had some nice snags and throws at third. Seasonal Gold Glover.

As we got up in the top of the 5th, we were staring at a 1-0 deficit with 9 outs left. I believe Kristy kicked a nice bunt single to start the inning. I was up next facing their pitcher, who was throwing some 1 bounce, kind of chicken shit, gas. I ground to the second base girl who bobbles it, and tries to make the throw to 2nd. Kristy was haulin ass and it was a close play. Unfortunately, Tony, the 2nd base ref had taken a potty (hotdog) break before the play, and there was noone there to make the call. After some confusion from the other team telling her she was out, she starts the, "should I stay on the bag or should I walk back to the dugout" move. The referee behind the pitcher skiddishly calls her out. She probably was out, but there was some confusion. Our ref seemed cool, but wasnt the most vocal, take charge guy, like paid refs should be. I'll give him a repreive on the first game. With one out, I am at first with a girl up. She bunts, gets out, but moves me to second. With two outs and me on second, Matt, "giraffe legs" Pinkowski is up. He fouls off three one-bounce pitches in a row. The next pitch had some pretty good english on it, enough to where Matt was not able to kick it with his right leg. In a last second ditch effort, he uses his left foot and pops a puny pop up to the Shortstop. With two outs, I was on the move, and tried to distract the SS by stopping in front of her for a split second. She bobbles it and I run home to score. Tied up!

With a little weight off our chests, Supa is looking to capitalize. Next up, Drew Crankin' Rankin blasts a two run HR, clearing the LC fence by a foot. we take the lead by two runs. All of this happened with two, should have been three outs. You could feel the momentum escape from their team after this.

With some good enough to win defense, Supa closed it out in a comeback fashion winning in a very competitive, nail biter 4-3.

While we definitely were rusty on both sides of the game, a few clutch plays on both offense and defense were the difference in this one.

Overall Rankings for DAALTSYLLINAD:
Out of 5
Fun team: 3
Competitive: 4

It was a great emotional win for our team.. Lots of ups and downs in this one.

Updates?

Just got home from YoA. I'm going to be out of town starting 7:15am tomorrow until next Tuesday. So your regular updates and Power Rankings and all that shit will be late... if not lacking.

Paige, Todd, Smithkey and Litman had perfect picks this week. They are owed one drink from Deeks, Nate, Gorecki and Caruso. I know some were paid... but many were not (Gorecki didn't even show up to the bar).

As always, its the winners job to make sure they get paid.

I know I'm asking too much... but it would be awesome to come home next week and see some recaps on the blog. Maybe about the home run that was kicked over the fence. Or the bloody scalp from the triple that Tony couldn't turn into a home run. Or about how Pauly beat out Tony for a spot on the soccer team in high school. Or maybe how the Liggers scored double-digit runs for the second time in my 8 seasons playing (we beat Your Mom in Spring 2009 12-2... because that team was always horrible).

GKB has been alerted about the beer situation at Yard of Ale. YoA will be talked to. If anyone has any other complaints, post them up!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Picks - Week 1

**PICKS ARE CLOSED!! (5 min early just because)**

It's time for the weekly picks! Here's how it works:

Look at the schedule and comment who you think will win each game this week. After the games on Thursday, the person (or people) with the most wrong picks owe 1 beer to the person (or people) with the fewest wrong picks. No, you can not pick teams to tie.

Based on previous seasons, losers usually owe about 3 drinks.... but we've seen it as high as 10+.  Most players won't win or lose anything.

There may be a prize at the end of the season for the person with the highest % correct... but they have to make picks every week to be eligible.  Good luck!



And like a true dick, Gorecki texted in his picks after the deadline. We're gonna let that slide since we don't want the AARP on our ass.  He picks: "Supa, Alco, TBN, KBT and PHD." 

Monday, August 22, 2011

Week One - ToeJammer aka Soul Glo Autograph Signing




The Powers that be at GoKB have decreed that in light of central Florida ToeJammer popularity and their inaugural season in GoKB, that THIS Thursday at 7:15 pm EST on field 2 GoKB will host the ToeJammer aka Soul Glo autograph signing and pick up game. Traveling team members will also be in attendence.

Feel free to bring you own kickball, kb shirt, picture of you and your favorite Jammer to be personality signed by your favorite Jammer. Day of photo ops will also be available. No male body parts will be eligible for signature, however female body parts will receive autograph, phone number and coupon for a free hug, restrictions due apply.

Come and play with your favorite Jammer and make an inaugrual season memory.

You can watch your beloved Jammers in action in week two with a double header where Soul Glo will attempt to dethrone BOTH finalists from last season tournament championship that no one watched.

Line-Up Sheets

If you miss having those line-up sheets to manage your kicking order and stats... I've made one for you.

Download that here.

Power Rankings - Week 1

Time to dust off the PR template and ease back into the season. What are the chances Rob ESPN does a Game Day?


Saturday, August 20, 2011

Battle For the Brown Shirts!

When the decision was made for BCBC to return to our roots we were a little disappointed to find out that SuperBad was now wearing our doo doo brown shirts and decided to change our name to something gay like Rock N Rollas (Knowlton's idea). Well after some debate of other possible name choices we decided it was best to stick to our roots and go back to Brown Chicken! Brown Cow! Unfortunately it does not make much sense for a team called BCBC to be wear white. This would be like the Cleveland Browns wearing Penn State's helmet. So anyway knowing how competitive Frank is I decided to lay down a little challenge for his team this year and asked him to put their shirts on the line when we play them this season in week 7. Frank being a good sport liked the idea and accepted the challenge. However, Frank does not wear the pants in his relationship and does not have the authority to make executive decisions without first getting permission from his boss (Sandra) so we are left waiting. Since SuperBad has current control over the shirts they are taking all the risk and thus it would only be fair if we offer something up in return so I thought the blog would be a good place for people to offer up some suggestions so if anyone has any ideas please feel free to share.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

2011 Leif Nissen Memorial Golf Tournament

This is long over-due, as I've been organizing too many other things lately. However...



The Leif Nissen Memorial tournament is back for it's 4th installment. As mentioned previously, it'll take place on Saturday, September 24th at 1:00pm. We're finally going to try a different location, and have chosen Bardmoor Golf & Country Club. Price will be $35 per person, due BEFORE the tournament date.

We also now have a FaceBook page, for you to "like". This will keep you informed of all information regarding the tournament. Go check that out.

There will be raffle prizes again this year, which is where all of our charity donations come from (we aren't charging you extra for the golf). So bring cash to win some prizes and raise money for the foundation.

The format is the same as in the past: 4-man scramble, shotgun start, prizes going to the winner of each flight, closest-to-pin and long-drive contests. So even if your team sucks, you can still be the winner of the losers!

Finally... be sure to register ASAP. Use the PayPal link below to pay for yourself or your team. If paying as an individual, make sure you list what team you're on (or if you're a free agent). The list of registered players will be shown here.


Thanks for all the support over the years, and for keeping the memory of our beloved friend.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

OC takes a break from GKB

As has been noted in the chatterbox over there on the right, the OC has moved back to comfortable old WAKA for the time being.  The reasons were numerous, but I won't get into a lot of it so as not to bore you.  I will, however, provide a brief summary:

Last spring was the least amount of fun I've ever had playing kickball.  Some of it came from within my team, some of it came from other teams in the league, some of it came from the league itself, and some of it came from my work situation.  I don't think my work situation factored into the rest of my team agreeing with me about the fun level of the spring, but they agreed on the rest.

In order to try to get back to having fun, we moved back to where we've had fun before: WAKA.  Yes, it's more expensive, but I recently picked up a second job laundering all of WAKA's ill-earned money which I guess was partly mine in the first place, and am now rolling in the extra Hamilton's it took to sign up for the Bayshore division.

So cost no longer being prohibitive, we made the switch.  I know it wasn't fun for some of y'all out there playing us, either.  We tried to play hard and maybe wanted to win a little too much at times.  I do think certain things were blown out of proportion, but it's the past and I'm over and beyond it.  Hope there are no hard feelings out there and maybe one day when things get a little more settled we'll head back on over to GKB.  I always say the biggest improvement always comes between the first and second season, so I'm sure the league will operate without a hitch and hopefully some better luck in regards to falling trees.

I might do some picks for s's and g's if y'all don't mind, and perhaps I can offer an occasional WAKA scouting report in the form of an MSPaint.  I do enjoy doing both of those things.

Your pal,

Jack from Off Constantly

Schedule

I received the GOKickball schedule, and have posted it on this blog (and should be up on GKB's site soon).

This season, each team is required to provide ONE ref every week for the game before or after theirs. These refs will be used at first and third, and will assist the paid referee that GKB provides. If you want to also provide someone for 2nd base... go nuts.

Monday, August 15, 2011

GKB Season Information

Schedule and all that jazz will be out very soon.  Don't forget the Captain's meeting and "Meet n' Greet" is at Yard of Ale this Thursday at 7pm. Be there.

Oh... the ToeJammers are back.  Get ready.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The Cost of Kickball - Fall 2011 Edition

In DPT's continued effort to hold kickball leagues accountable for their rates, we've now added a page at the top of the blog showing the pricing trends of leagues in Tampa.  Check that out here, or through the permanent link up top.

Remember that some of us were banned from WAKA for complaining about the rising cost of kickball (among other things). It shouldn't cost an arm and a leg to play a children's game while getting drunk with your friends.  Just sayin'.

Nice kick, Kid. That'll be $12.

*edit* - I've gone through my emails and pulled up the receipts for every season I ever played in WAKA. So that data goes back to Winter 2008.  Their chart now looks like Mt. Everest.

*edit 2* - If any "Old Guard" people want to help gather some data for us... we're trying to go "balls deep" into the old WAKA Bayshore seasons.  Search your mail for "wakastore@kickball.com".  We need the actual receipts for seasons prior to 2008.  Let us know if you find anything.  Thanks to James A. for getting us receipts back to Fall 2006.

*edit 3* - Well apparently the blog still has some power.  Since this post went up on Wednesday the 10th, WAKA has now LOWERED their price for Bayshore from $83 (late registration) back to $73.  Their page still references the $10 late fee, but it's not enforced anymore.  They are trying to fill a 14th team, so maybe that had something to do with it.  Regardless, they're not raping people as hard as they were two days ago. And our data will accurately reflect this.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Captains Meeting

The GKB captains meeting will be on August 18th at Yard of Ale.  Hopefully soon I'll get the list of teams, schedule and other information to post.  Power Rankings and all that other asinine shit we do will then follow.

**UPDATE**

"GOKickball Tampa Fall Meet and Greet and Captains Meeting"
Yard of Ale: 7pm
Thursday Aug 18th
Captains meeting starts at 7:45pm (unlike our old league, it lasts like 10 minutes)

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

New Krewe in town


If anyone is looking to join a Gasparilla Krewe, Ye Eternal Krewe of Davy Jones is officially taking members. Ray Rose and I started up the Krewe with advice from founders of other krewe's in the area. Our float will be under construction in a couple weeks. It's going to be a 2 story float modeled after the flying dutchman from the movies. Besides all the partying we will be doing volunteer work in the area. If you are interested our brochure can be found here:


Our website with more information is www.DJKrewe.com

Monday, August 1, 2011

Competitive Kickball

The ToeJammers (and friends) went up to Atlanta this past weekend to compete in GOKickball's Southeast Kickball Fest, which was an open tournament played in conjunction with their national tournament.  For me, the experience was much like that Las Vegas trip we took with the Alcoballics last year (but on a smaller scale... and I didn't lose a shit-ton of money gambling... and I don't think we're going to be banned from this league in a few months).

First off... we made the "Elite 8" before getting anally raped (10-0) by the team that has now finished 2nd both years this event has taken place.  Our team played well, and all three games we won were come-back wins in the LAST inning.  Apparently the second team we beat was the dominant team of their local GKB league, so at least we were able to beat one team who thought they were the tits.

ToeJammers (and friends) love tits.

We also finished 2nd in the flip-cup tournament... which was a disaster due to the cups provided by the bar.  They were taller and had a smaller diameter than normal Solo cups, so even in the finals BOTH teams had players 8+ flipping.  I haven't lost very many flip-cup tournaments in my life, so that was a little more disappointing than the kickball.

Anyway, the whole event was more organized than I expected.  GKB is still a growing league, but they have a long way to go and need to make a few changes before they'll ever be as large as the "Microsoft of kickball."  The problem (which will never go away) is that their rules cater too much to competitive kickball.  I'll post up my thoughts on their rules later in the week.

Last year in Vegas we learned about "The Circuit," which is a group of teams that travel the US and play in kickball tournaments.  From what I know... their site started as a portal to bridge all kickball leagues together.  They have a message board where people bitch and complain about all the normal kickball-related bullshit... and it's 100% all serious.  Ironically, I haven't heard of WAKA banning people for talking shit on that website (apparently MLoop doesn't read it).  It's only a matter of time until the guys who run the site attempt to start leagues nationally, and it appears the groundwork for that has already begun.  Everyone is a whore for your kickball dollars these days.

So what's wrong with competitive kickball?  The team we beat that was "the tits" had a line-up that was used by EVERY top team in the tournament: ten guys followed by four girls.  That is ToeJammer Tournament Mode on steroids.  The reason this happens is because munting (and in GKB's case, allowing the pitcher to run up past the mound) eliminates the need for females.  Not even the strongest legged girl is going to boot a ball over the defense when a male pitcher is throwing 100mph fastballs.  And no girl bunting will sprint faster to first base than a roided out Ed Hardy fan who is also allowed to munt.

We actually asked a guy about their line-up.  His response was (and I'm not joking): "We're here to win money.  Guys score the runs in kickball. So if a girl wants to play on our team they can take their rightful spot at the end of the line-up."

ToeJammer Christian quipped how we actually like our girls, and our rules make them a crucial part of the team.  But competitive dude-fests don't need chicks and as long as the rules of major leagues stay the same, they never will.

I came back from the tournament happy to have spent the past three years playing kickball with everyone in Tampa. We're easily the most creative, most close-knit and most ambitious kickballers in the nation.  Every season there's a few teams that take it too far and suck the fun out of the game... but even they are light years away from "The Circuit."  I look forward to sitting back in a few weeks, drinking beer at the fields (in my ice-cold and previously outlawed cooler), helping the Ligers to another .500 season... all while enjoying the companionship of our female friends.  Hell... they get on base more than our guys do anyway.

Oh... and the team that won the tournament... a traveling team ranked #5 on The Circuit at the time of this writing.  They also won the GKB national tournament in the morning, which means they won about 20 games in 14 hours (and lost none).  No thanks.

Ruben and Griff in action.