KICKBALL PRACTICE NUKKA

Open kickball practice for anyone interested to be held on Saturday, February 5th at high noon. Will be held at Gadsden Park. We will have a grill, but may need more than one, bring whatever you want to cook. We have a ball, but will need bases. Hope to see everyone there.

Ty Blart

GKB Meet & Greet

Most of you should have received an email this weekend from Johnny at GOKickball.  Our meet and greet will be held Thursday, February 3rd at Yard of Ale at 7pm.  This will also be the captains meeting, which I assume will take place upstairs in their VIP section.

Unlike WAKA's inefficient system, the captains meeting will be for captains (or team representatives) only.  This way we can quickly vote on a few things, listen to the "don't be stupid" speech and get the Hell out of there.

From 7pm to 9pm Yard of Ale will have $10 all you can drink Abita beers.  So make sure to get there on time to take advantage of this.  I'd guess 95% of the league already knows each other, but it's been a long off-season.  Many of you probably gained some weight so it'll be nice to see everyone again (LOL... haha... j/k?).

It's also interesting to note that WAKA's captain's meeting takes place at the same time across the street at MacDinton's.  So if you still have the "Revolution Itch," we can probably head over there when we're good and drunk and give hugs to MLoop, Korb, Ty and whoever else is there. Technically, MLoop still owes Brie a beer for the Kegger Human Resource incident last season (see our list of grievances). 

So have a good week, be safe at Gasparilla and we'll see you on the 3rd.

GOKickball Registration Closed

2011 has been completely crazy so far... which is good since we're all going to die in December 2012 per the Mayan Calendar.  But hopefully this week I'll have time to write a complete recap of the "WAKA Boycott Aftermath."  Our story is far from finished, but we've had an astounding affect on the face of kickball in the Tampa Bay region.

GoKickball registration closed with 9 full teams and 3 groups.  Two of these groups will be combined into the 10th team, and the remaining group (7 guys, 1 girl) will be placed throughout the league.  While everyone wants to avoid "randoms" like the plague... there's not much GKB can do about it.  I guess this group was going for ToeJammer Tournament Mode with their 88% guy ratio.

Anyway, the new league has 209 members... almost all of which came from last season's WAKA Bayshore Division.  This means 55% of Bayshore's members gave WAKA the finger and bolted for GOKickball.  What's not included in that stat is the number of players who went to Kickball Society or just retired.

In fact, it's easier to gauge our impact by listing who is RETURNING to WAKA on Thursdays:

Balls N Dolls.  Pick Me Up.  I Need a Refill.

That's the list.  And I haven't spoken to anyone who is going to miss them.

At the time of this writing, the old Bayshore Division has one other "team" which moved over from their summer Wednesday league (and does have a few I'd Kick That members).  That gives them 4 full teams and 12 groups.  I wouldn't be surprised if WAKA relaxes their 18-player-minimum rule in order to get more teams.  DPT will never really get an official count from WAKA since we've pissed everyone off who still associates with those idiots.  However, we're going to try to get a DPT correspondent at WAKA's first week to obtain an accurate count per team.  If you aren't playing kickball this season and want to go over there for 30 minutes to count people, send us an email at: donkeynoms@gmail.com.  There will be some Yard of Ale beers in it for you as payment.

Regardless of how WAKA replaces us, we've still been a huge pain in their ass.  At least for one season they've struggled to sell out and were forced to offer a $10 discount (which was supposed to be a limited time thing but is now permanent).  We also proved it is very easy to set up a new league overnight and secure our own customized drink specials.

As mentioned before, DPT is not "in bed" with GOKickball.  Our role is more like a Labor Union, whose goal is to create options and hold our recreational leagues to higher customer service standards.  I sincerely hope that GKB and Kickball Society continue to treat our friends with respect while providing a fun and cost-effective place to play.  Ultimately, our experience is what we make of it.  So have fun, don't be stupid and keep speaking your mind.

GOKickball Team List:

Alcoballics
Bunt Chasers/Shake Weight (two groups being fused together; contains some Dollar Wells people)
Drunk Again and Looking to Score (team consisting of I'd Kick That and Shocker people)
Growlers (formerly Yeagabombs)
Homebase Heros (formerly WAKAshame)
Ligers
Off Constantly
Shockers
SuperBad
THEE Beer Nuts

Hey WAKA... Fuck You from New Orleans.  Love, Chan & Nate.

Tandem Skydive for $139!

Hey guys!! I just got an email from the guy that runs Skydive City about this deal:

Tandem Skydive for $139

You have to buy it between Jan 14th & Jan 21st and use it before Feb 28th but that's a pretty good deal.

Here's the link:
http://www.skydivecity.com/html/students/GetItOnTandemSkydivingDealSkydiveCityZephyrhills.htm

Also, there's a bar and facilities if we all want to go camp there for the night/weekend. There's an enormouse fire-pit that we can get going too.

Do you guys think we could organize this before the end of Feb to get this deal??

Lowry Park Zoo

Hey fellow Kickballers!!! Happy New Year!

I normally do not post to this blog, but I need your help with something. Please message me if you know of anyone that works at the Lowry Park Zoo!

Thanks a million!
Amber

Completely Speechless...........

Gator 5k- THIS SATURDAY! (1/15)!

Just a reminder to go register in advance for the Gator 5k that's happening THIS Saturday (1/15)! The weather is shaping to be PERFECT and this is a good warm up for you Gasparilla runners. Come wear your favorite team colors (why wouldn't the be orange and blue?) and I hope to see you there!
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For all you runners out there the Tampa Gator Club is doing a Gator 5k event on Jan 15 at Al Lopez Park starting at 8 am. Come support our non-profit club. Yes, even you non Gators can try and out run us (Kimmy and Nate). Depending on the interest, maybe I'll have Chandler post a spreadsheet (he loves doing those) of each runner's goal time and actual time. And perhaps get some kind of betting involved to keep Kyle and the asians interested. Hope to see ya there!
Learn more about the event here and go register at Active.com.

Time For Chandler and Jared to Suit Up!!!

If this Guy Can Do it, I think Chandler Can! We just have to come up with a theme song for him and make sure he isnt violating any copyrights.

Yard of Ale - GOKickball Special

So as you all should know by now, we are calling Yard of Ale our home away from home as it is home of the $2 non-home-brewed Yuengling draft, homeboy.*

Anyway, it appears they are in the process of changing their menu. Here is our "official" deal, as described to me yesterday:

• $2 Yuengling drafts, $7 pitchers
• $2 drafts of all Abita beers on tap (they usually have two or three to choose from, and Abita makes Purple Haze and Turbodog)
• $5 flatbreads, which are allegedly new thin-crust pizzas they're making
• $1 sliders (beef or pork)
• YoA has reiterated that they will have karaoke
• They'll also provide a couple of tables for flip-cup, which we should clearly segment like they do blackjack tables (by minimum bet).  You can find me at the IPA only flip-cup table.

So there you have it.  If anything changes I'll let you know. 

*Please note "WAKA-esque" writing was intentional.

Not Apple Snails

Apple Snails