Season 13 Party Budget Debacle

WHERE DID THE PARTY BUDGET GO?

Well boys and girls, I am posting my first ever blog, and you might be asking why? Well, I was just informed yesterday, while negotiating with Gaspar’s that out party budget was only $1600. Now for those of you, who have helped plan the parties in the past or even looked at the spreadsheet Chandler has posted on this blog, know…WAKA gives us $10 per a person for the party budget.

Well let’s do some basic math…shall we:

24 (people per a team) x 16 (teams) = 384 people.
384 people x $10 (per a person) = $3840

We can all agree we have a total of $3840, correct... Now let me explain to you how we go from $3840 to $1600, and you can decide for yourself if MLoop is a complete jackass. (I am going to refrain from throwing Jamie under the bus, because she was a little shocked with the budget as well). Now this is only based on what I know because MLoop refuses to give me an itemized list.

1) It went to parking
2) It went to our pre season/MacDintons party
3) It went to trophies (which is nominal… so who cares)

Now I want to know who told them to take the parking money out of our party budget. I personally was under the impression that the higher fees resulted in the so called free parking. And, I remember last year Ty explaining that our surplus party budget could not be used for free parking on tournament day according to WAKA. So…when did this rule change, and why we were not informed. I for one, and I am pretty sure most of you would rather pay the $1 parking fee per a game instead of having it taken out of the party budget.

The pre-season party at MacDintons, where apparently MLoop and that douche bag Keggers said WAKA was paying for. Well he lied…that came out of our party budget again. And since most people thought it was just the captains meeting, most kickballers did not get to participate in the free drinking that lasted only an hour, and $1 Miller Lights at that. I wonder if we paid for those two jerks to drink as well, and my vote is YES!

Now if you add all three of those things together for a total of $2240 ($3840-$1600). So boys and girls, that is where your party budget went. Now Jamie said she was able to work out a deal with Elmer’s, so that we could get everything on our list food, beer, flip cup tables, and Karaoke. But let’s be honest, Elmer’s was not the best venue, but I guess we will have to make the best of it.
I just thought you had the right to know how your money was being spent.

PS…I told Jamie I would help collect the money for the flip cup tournament so if you would like to play please find me on Thursday. Thanks.

Kick-It-To-Cancer!!!

As most of you know the Alcoballics plus a few others will be going to Vegas to participate in the WAKA Kickball Games this weekend. For the event, WAKA has chosen Kick-It For Cancer as the benefiting charity and is asking for support from anyone who would like to help in the fight against cancer. Kick-It For Cancer uses 100% of all proceeds for pediatric, adolescent and young adult cancer research through the Children’s Tumor Foundation and CureSearch, to fund research at the Children’s Oncology Group (COG). The COG is the world’s largest cooperative research organization with a network of more than 5,000 physicians, nurses and scientists. Additional information about the organization can be found by visiting:http://www.kick-it.org/

The Alcoballics would like to rise to the Kickball Games challenge of donating $300 to Kick-It For Cancer and would like the support of the whole Bayshore league. Whatever funds are raised will be given in the name of the entire league. There are two simple ways to donate.
• Alcoballics, Alison and I will be at this fields in our red shirts this Thursday as you drive in to park. We would like to ask that you donate $1 or more if you are able as you enter the parking lot. Every dollar counts and those who would like to be more generous are encouraged to do so. (There would be more of us, but most of our team will be heading to Vegas Thursday)
• Second, click here to be taken to an online donation site. You will be taken to a screen where you can select the amount you would like to give, who the donation is in honor of, and provide payment information. If you are having problems with the link you can copy and paste https://www.kick-it.org/donate/team/761 into your browser.

Please help in the fight against childhood cancer and let’s show how generous the Florida Bayshore league can be! See you Thursday!

Knowlton???

English Commercial Pulled From Air (should be work safe)

Week 7 Power Rankings

Note about the picks this week:  Due to the Las Vegas trip, the Alcoballics and ToeJammers are not playing on Thursday.  I hear they're still bickering over playing tomorrow or next Tuesday or the tournament week... who knows.  The game won't be in the picks regardless.

Rays Game 2 tickets

If anyone is interested I have 4 tickets I am trying to sell since I dont really want to miss the Beer Olympics game this week against the Ligers. Let me know if you are interested.

Thursday Oct 7th, 2:37pm
Section 134
Row AA
Seats 5-8

OC v. INaTL: Annihilation

This goes out to the suckers that picked I Need a Throwing Lesson. Thanks for the beers next week.

From wikipedia:

Annihilation is defined as "total destruction" or "complete obliteration" of an object;^[1] having its root in the Latin nihil (nothing). A literal translation is "to make into nothing".

Or what we did to I Need a Throwing Lesson.*


A visual representation:


And before you ask, no, nobody was wearing pants.

The game started well for the OC with BEARDFACE kicking a single after holding the Empty Cups scoreless in the top of the first. After a pop out bunt, I managed to kick an extraordinarily weak dribbler to the first baseman and as he was slowly getting the putout, BEARDFACE made his typical "I'm going to keep running" move and drew an overthrow to third which allowed him to score.

That was all well and good, but the real action happened in the bottom of the third when a few clutch kicks and some shoddy INaR defense resulted in 6 runs, after which the game was pretty much over. After a diving catch from Katie in rightfield, the wrong shade of blue had to be pretty defected. BEARDFACE took advantage of more poorly executed throws after that to earn his first "homerun," and the OC defense took a bit of a nap in the top of the 6th allowing the Empty Cups a garbage time run.

Other items of note:

• The real OC is back. No, not because we dominated this game, but because we are arguing calls and being assholes again. This time we argued a call that WENT OUR WAY! Yes, you read that right. A fellow rounded first to go to second, was thrown out on his way back, the ref made the appropriate call, the runner protested a bit, and we immediately jumped down everybody's throats (this was all sans pants, remember). WE'RE BACK, BABY!
• I can't believe we allowed another run.
• Their pitcher was good, as I didn't get good contact in either of my attempts.
  
• Sets up a battle for third place in BADASS division next week with the Kitten Killers. Second is officially out of reach with WAKAshame playing Team Bad next week.

I'll leave you with a team feature we like so well: Picture Purrrrfect



Cat-tion: A couple of OC stars of the game get an early start in celebrating Cat-toberfest.

Rays Haw.

*Annihilation should really have been reserved for what PMU did to Team Fab in the game before ours, but I'm using it anyway.

Microsoft Paint Pic of the Week

Below is a diagram of the questionable play at 3rd base last night between the Ligers and Shockers. The play happened in the top of the 5th with the Ligers trailing 4-3. Basically what happened was Chandler over slid 3rd bringing with him the 3rd base below his body. Chandler quickly realized the error in his ways and quickly made an attempt to reach his hand back to the location of where 3rd base should have been. Unfortunately Chandlers blazing speed and jet like aerodynamics carried too much momentum and he slid too far past the bag and was not able to get anywhere close to getting back before getting tagged out. Chandler was called out by myself and Tony and arguments were to follow. The game was called in the bot of the 5th at 9:05 with the Shockers kicking and up 4-3. Could the Ligers have tied or won that game if a different call was made at 3rd? Could they have tied or won if so much time was not spend arguing the call? Could they have tied or won if they did not take 15minutes to take the field in between inning? We will never know.

Edit: 10.10 When a base is displaced during play, any runner is safe while in contact with the base's original and correct location. All displaced bases should be restored at the end of each play (see Rule 1.01b).

Will yella be yella in his 100 dollar bet?

There was a play last night between the Toejammers and Yeagabombs in which there were bases loaded, 1 out and a popout to right field. Once the ball was caught, the runner at third tagged and ran to home. The runner at first did not tag up. The ball was thrown to first base after the runner scored at home, thus allowing the run to count, but making a inning ending double play at the same time.

Yella is angry over the call and claims that the non tag up out at first base nullifies the run scoring, even though the runner at third scored before the ball got to first.

The best part is that even though he hates Ty with a passion, he runs over to him, stopping play to ask him the rules.... Almighty Ty, ruler of all calls which is WAKA, please tell me im correct..

After Ty gives his blessing, he runs over to me and bets me 100 dollars that the run should not count. While I am pretty wasted at the time, I can't pass this up, as I have played baseball for 20 or so years and anyone who plays or watches baseball knows these are the rules, so we shake on it.

Worried there may be some sort of bushleague WAKA rule that I am not aware of, I go and check the rule book today and find the exact definition of this rule and it states:

Q: Can you define “Force play situation” (see Rule 10.09)?A: When a kicker puts a ball fairly in play and becomes a runner, this “forces” any runner on the base immediately ahead of the kicker to advance, as it does any runner on the base immediately ahead of a forced runner. Runners so forced are no longer safe on the base they originally occupied, until and unless a runner or kicker behind them is put out.

Note that a runner’s requirement to tag up before advancing on a caught ball (10.05) does not constitute a “force” in this sense. When the 3rd out of an inning is made on a runner failing to tag up, that does NOT nullify any runs scored on the play prior to the out being made, unless it was the scoring runner put out in this fashion.

This is also reitterated in the rules here:

Q: When a runner is called out after a play for missing a base (see Rule 14.02l) or failing to tag up (see Rule 14.02m), and that is the 3rd out of an inning, does the call nullify any runs that scored on the play? A: These outs are applied as of the end of the play, therefore:

A: On failed tag-ups: the run is nullified only if it was the scoring runner that failed to tag up.

I really dont care about WAKA rules and am out there to have fun, but if someone gets in your face and bets you 100 dollars that they are right, you gotta back your shit up! We will see if Yella stands up to his bet, like a man, and pays me my 100 dollars we "man law" shook on. Im sure it will be in some sort of bs currency. ex. pennies, pesos that he takes a shit or piss on etc... but we'll see. Maybe he'll use the excuse of no time frame of payment was given, so he can pay me a penny a day for the rest of my life.. Or he can man up and give me a crisp clean benjy.. Just wanted to put it on the record..

Week 6 Picks Recap

What a week!  We broke all kinds of records last night.

Due to the high volume of similar picks and the tie between 'Ballics/BC!BC!... everyone either won or lost.

Those that won (-1) include:  Chandler, Nate Dawg, Geoff, Kyle, Maria, Jack, Teneille, Brie, Rob, Griff, Bull, Florian, Paige, Alison, Gorecki, Todd, Smithkey and Natalie.

Those who lost (-2) include: Rollo, Kat S., Stephanie, Kristen and Caruso.

That's right... 18 people get 5 drinks... for a total of 90 drinks exchanging hands.  As always, the winners need to collect from the losers.

Speaking of losers... this also happened:

A bunch of players on "I'd Kick That" were pissed off at Florian for betting against his team this week.  He was verbally chastised at the fields because apparently you "shouldn't bet against your team" and doing so caused IKT to lose due to "bad Karma."  Let's break this down:

1. "Karma" is a concept found in Hindu and Buddhist religions.  Last I checked, nobody on IKT were devout followers of these faiths.  Even if one believes in the idea of a cycle of consequences, I guarantee you their deity is not watching (nor caring) about the outcome of a fucking kickball game.  If they were, their God wouldn't bet on IKT either.
2. Betting your team won't win has zero affect on the outcome of the game.  If you're suggesting that someone would throw the game to win $1-$5 in free, shitty Miller Lites... you are an idiot.  In fact, the following "Picks Experts" have bet AGAINST their teams this season:  myself, Florian, Rob, Kyle, Maria, Paige, Bull, Refill Kevin, Natalie, Caruso, Nate Dawg, and Smithkey.  I assure you that ALL of us still played our hearts out and would gladly owe $1-$18 in beers by winning our games.
3. "I'd Kick That" lost 9-0 to Balls N Dolls.  Good job deflecting the outcome by blaming the "picks."  Here's a reality check for you:  IKT didn't lose because Florian picked BnD.  They lost because they're horrible at kickball.  And I personally guarantee you that their season will end the same way mine does... by not winning the tournament.
4. None of the people who complained actually make picks. So I implore them to do so the following two weeks whilst picking their team to win.  I'm sure many of us would enjoy more free beer.

So there you have it.  We broke records on the number of drinks owed... AND in the number of morons getting butt-hurt. Over gambling.  For dollar beers.