Rays vs Mariners group outing 9/25

Who: Us
What: Rays vs Mariners and most importantly TAILGATING!
When: Saturday September 25th 12 pm Tailgate / 7pm game
Where: Tropicana Field
Why: Because it's fun
For more information see the Facebook Event Page

Hey Yall,
I'm going to get the tickets on or around Thursday Sept 9th to assure that we are able to get group tickets in the TBT Party Deck before it sells out. So if you want to go start giving me your cash at kickball on Thursdays or there is a pay pal link to pay me that way. If you pay me through pay pal it's 16$ because the all mighty website has to collect their 65cents for the transaction. Sorry. It's like paying a dollar for parking, deal with it. Also if you guys have teammates or anyone that wants to go spread the word. Go Rays.

Brian Litman

Sledding Away From The British Since 1962

Today marks the 48th anniversary of Trinidad and Tobago gaining independence from England and becoming the Canada of the Caribbean. Since our very own Toboggan, Teneille, didn't mention it, I thought I'd do a little write up for you readers out there.

The actual story of their independence is pretty boring. No tea parties, no contrived Mel Gibson movies, and nary a musket or militia to be found. So, for the sake of entertainment, we'll try a little writing experiment. I'll start with a beginning to the DPT version of the story here and let the commenting faithful fill in the blanks. Hopefully this will leave us with a ridiculous story that will inspire Teneille to fall off the pacifist bandwagon.

Beginning in the early 1960's the British Empire was attempting to exploit its influence in the Caribbean by implementing a tax on all coconuts used and exported from Trinidad and Tobago. This tax angered the citizens of these islands because of the coconut's uses in everyday life. They were used as a food source, currency, and, most importantly, as a construction material in the production of sleds. Teneille's grandfather, Captain, formed the TLF (Toboggan Liberation Front) to oppose the British....

-Chris


Teneille's Grandfather Captain Ooombla Ooomble Click Clack began working on his super secret plans and a way to sneak them around. After thinking long and hard Ooombla realized the answer was right on the top of his head!



Now that he had his plans stashed away he knew it was time to recruit some help. He first turned to his best friend Knowlton the hurting vagina to be his second in command.


He approached Knowltie and said...

-Rollo

Week 2 Vegas Odds and Introducing The New Beerline.

Week 2 Vegas odds have arrived. This week Vegas introduced a new type of line called the "Beerline" that makes it easier for people who do not understand all the numbers to bet on teams. For example if I bet Chandler on the Beerline and I took Thee Beer Nuts and he agreed to take the TJs, he would owe me 3 drinks if TBN won while I would only owe him 1 if the TJs won. Basic common sense.

Week 2 Power Rankings

I'm back-dating this so I don't cover-up Smithkey's odds (which are way more interesting this week than the Power Rankings).

Anyway... I was rummaging through the Bayshore dumpster looking for juicy gossip to report on, and came across a funny team email thread. In it, a Bayshore player wrote the following paragraph:

"I also doubt that the "powers that be" really care about our blog.  That's like a parent telling their children, "Hey little ones, Santa called and said if you don't eat your vegetables, you aren't getting that Tickle Me Elmo."  Really?  Like the big guy in the red fat suit who breaks into houses stealing milk and cookies once a year really cares about me finishing my brussel sprouts?"

The imagery made me LOLz... so props to that person.

Field Set-Up Committee

Hey kids.  As captains and DPT faithful have now heard... there are two 7pm teams each week that are required to arrive early for field set-up.  This rule is apparently consistent with what other leagues do in WAKA.  However, we all know how much we hate being like other leagues.

In the past, we had a Field Sheriff who was responsible for field set-up. We'd always just chant: NATE NATE NATE!! at the Captains Meeting until Nate L. agreed to do the job (usually by saying: "fuck you guys").

While we don't have elected officials anymore (I think this is a good thing, unless you miss the crying), this now leaves a void for field set-up help.

Does ANYONE out there want to volunteer to join a set-up committee? Kyle did the job last year I think, and Tony has done it before.  If counting 20-paces is your thing, it would probably go a long way to keep consistency in the fields.  I shudder at the thought of some of the teams being in charge of this task...

BREAKING NEWS!

So last Thursday ABC Action News (whatever that is) did a nice little story on us. The video is pretty good, and you will see a bunch of familiar faces. I hope the "powers that be" don't see this! I would hate to get a PF in kickball! At this rate the Ligers will never get to .500


Kickball: It's not just for kids any more!

For those of you that are not captains...

Hello Captains!

Had fun the first game, and at MacD's and for the few of you.. Gator Rompin. Some questions that were brought up... Coolers... The powers that be have found out about the cooler theme (they read the blog) and they are debating giving your teams a PF. I believe I talked them out of it, knowing that YOU WILL NEVER DO THAT AGAIN :)

Field Set up... If you notice on the schedule, each team will now be responsible for setting up the fields prior to each game. If you see FS next to your team name, you will be setting up the fields before the 7pm game start. The 8pm games once complete will just pick -up the equipment and drop it off in the wagon provided. I will be there at 630 with the equipment on the fields. It is up to you as captains if you want to pre-designate a few people or have the whole team help. The field set up diagrams are on the website in the rules. ( I suggest home plates being closest to the "Parking Lots") 6 inning issue.

If your team finish the 5th inning before the required 1 Hour stop time, you can continue on the the 6th inning. HOWEVER, if you do not finish the 6th inning in the alloted 1 hour time frame, the game concludes and you go back to the 5th inning score.

Double t-shirts. If anyone on your team ordered 2 t-shirts and paid for them, but only received one, please get me the kickball usernames of those folks. No one should have been able to order more than 2.

Lost t-shirts... If anyone picked up extra t-shirts, please bring them to the game on Thursday. Well.. That it is for now... See you all on Thursday!

~Jaime

The comments on the cooler theme game and field setup are pretty ridiculous to me but thats just WAKA being WAKA...thoughts???

Leif Nissen Memorial Golf Tournament - 2010 Recap

Well... it looked like we were going to get lucky with excellent weather during the first half of the tournament.  Most teams got into their back 9's before the skies opened up and we eventually had to cut the golf short due to lightning, flooding and other acts of God. Despite all that, 62 friends and family members attended the 3rd annual tournament, to celebrate the life of a dear friend and give back to our community in his name.

I couldn't be happier with the turnout and support from our group and we raised $1,373 for the Leif & Christine Emergency Scholarship Fund!  Between this tournament, WAKA, Crystal's New Years party and various fundraisers throughout the year, we truly have one of the most generous social networks in Tampa Bay.  Leif would be very honored to see all of us carry on his charitable ambitions in the community which he loved so much.

Some final HUGE thank yous are in order:

• Alison spent countless hours soliciting all of our prizes and setting up the booths throughout the clubhouse. Everything looked awesome and the event went extremely smooth thanks to her efforts (especially with the rain staggering our finishing times a bit).
• Geoff did an awesome job designing the logo... which hopefully helped him get a break from wedding planning.
• Dawn made us signs, decals and an amazing banner using Geoff's design.  It totally made us appear to be professionals at this whole charity thing.  Thanks so much, Dawn!
• Rollo donated what is possibly the best trophy ever... which went to Jared and his team for finishing last place.
• And a final thanks to everyone who helped set up, sell raffle tickets, hand out beers and take pictures: Bull, Maria, Mel, Brie, April (short), Teneille, Vermille, Angie and Steph.  Thanks so much and I hope you all enjoyed the day with us!

As for the results... "Golf Constantly" took home the top prize, while Gomez continued to dominate winning Closest to Pin and Long Drive.

Next year we'll probably push the event back in order to lessen the chance of rain.  Until then, thanks to all who made the day memorable.  If you missed out this year, don't let it happen again!

Cooler Theme

I think Souder might post up a proper recap (or maybe an Alcoballic not named Teneille).  But here's a quick video I compiled of our Cooler Game.  Notes of interest:

• After the chug-off, the Ligers and 'Ballics ran to their cars and pulled out a bunch of coolers to litter the field.
• The Dead Hooker Cooler (DHC) was placed between 3rd and home.  Runners were supposed to hop over it before scoring... but you'll clearly see Jared did NOT follow this rule.
• Souder made a crazy catch on top of / around a cooler in right field (not in video).
• Nate K.... awesome.
• The sequence at 2:13 was as follows:
• Liger Cub Katrin lays down a nice bunt with Jared on 3rd.
• E-Flo fakes the throw to first to keep Jared from scoring, and then tosses the ball to the pitcher (Gorecki).
• Katrin totally busts ass for no reason, falling ten feet short of first base.
• Gorecki has a "senior moment" and decides to throw her out... but the ball sails wide and Jared scores anyway.
• Maria, who is safe at 2nd base, watches the whole thing and refuses to advance to 3rd... probably because 3rd base can lead to STD's whereas 2nd is typically some nice groping action.

Thanks to all those who participated. We definitely shared a few chuckles last night.  Li-ger-ball-ics 1.. 2... 3.. coolers?

**UPDATE** I dicked around with the code until I forced blogger to play the video in a non-QuickTime format.  That should fix the issue for those of you who couldn't load it due to QT not being updated.

$4 Movie Ticket on Fandango.com ($12 Value) from Groupon

$4 movie ticket if anyone's interested...limit one, but not a bad deal...
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You get a single-use code that is good until Feb 2011.

When you decide you want to go see a movie, you go to Fandango.com, select the time and movie you want to see at your local theater, then apply the promotion code. You'll then get a ticket you can print and use for the designated day/time only.