GMOT – Fall 08 Season Finale

CONGRATULATIONS

LIVE’S KIDS IN REHAB

4^TH CONSECUTIVE TITLE

FOR

THE REHAB FAMILY

&

CAPITAL’S RELAX & LET IT HAPPEN

BACK TO BACK TITLE!!!

 

WHAT’S IN THIS LAST ISSUE:

 

-2009 WINTER SEASON INFO – BEGINS FEB. 19^TH

-2009 WAKA BIKINI CALENDAR

-END OF SEASON PARTY INFO

-PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH

-PICTURES

-SCORES

-WRITE UPS

-FLIP CUP SEASON RESULTS

 

2009 WINTER SEASON

Begins February 19^th

Pick up game – feb. 12th

Registration opens Dec. 8^th

 

Tell your friends, significant others, coworkers (get your co. to sponsor), lovers, neighbors or whoever will listen. 

 

Winter 2009 season positions open:

GMOT editor

Photographers

Board members

Sheriffs (Refs)

If you would like to make a difference,

contact cameron@kickball.com.

 

2009 WAKA BIKINI Calendar

IT’S FINALLY HERE!!!!

Electronic format:

 http://2009wakaaustincalendar.wordpress.com/

To order a print copy,

contact:minnie@minnimingle.com

 

 

End of Season Party

When:  Jan 10th 2 pm – ?

Where:  Rock’s family ranch

Manchaca, TX

Keg & food will be provided

  

FROM THE DESK OF EL LIVE

 

PRESIDENTE

 

Well, the season has finally come to an end.  It’s had its ups and downs, but overall I think it was a good one.  Congratulations to Kids in Rehab for winning the Golden Shower Trophy, again.  (4^th time in a row)  And also I would like to congratulate all of the teams in the league.  You all played a great season and I look forward to the next one.   

 

Speaking of next one, Registration starts Dec. 8^th.  Season begins on Feb. 19^th.  The pick up game will be on Feb. 12^th.  I hope to see all of you again next season. 

Did you have any problems, concerns or suggestions this season and want your voice heard?  If you did, we are looking for several people to be on the Board. 

We are looking for a few good people to do a variety of tasks.  The biggest one is the Blog editor.  Another is Sheriff.  If you are interested in being in charge with the “face” of the league, then please feel free to contact Cameron or myself. 

 

The end of season party is going to be in January after everyone schedule slows down a bit.  As to where and when, that is TBA.  So emails will be coming out with the appropriate information. 

 

I would also like to through out a special thanks to all of those who helped out throughout the season.  There are to many names, but I do mean you!!!!  And a great job to Jovita’s.  They treated us very well and I hope it’s the beginning of a beautiful relationship. 

 

I enjoyed serving all of you this season and look forward to next.  The learning curve is over, so Winter 2009 is going to be OFF THE HOOK!!!!! 

 

Thank you for a wonderful season and we’ll see you in February. 

 

Be Safe and think about ballin’, 

 

Steve Kuhns

Live President Fall 2008

 President Rock!

 

Hey everyone,   

    

Great season to ballers! Thank you to everyone who got to come out to play and enjoy the season. Congrats to Relax and Let it Happen for their repeat victory and destroying of Smokin Bunts.  It was a much smaller season (as it usually is in the winter) than we are used to seeing in Capital, but nonetheless a lot of fun. 

 

Next season the league is looking to being at least double the size with most the teams returning from past seasons. If you want to get involved with the league, you can contact myself or Cameron.

 

Read this GMOT issue to find out more about the end of season party and the girls of WAKA calendar. I look forward to seeing y’all out next season and y’all have a safe holiday.  Registration is now open for next season starting in middle February.  

 

Till Next Time, 

Ryan/Rock

 

FALL 08 PHOTO ALBUM:

 

http://http://picasaweb.google.com/minnie.t.nguyen/WAKAFall08

 

LIVE’S SCOREBOARD

So what happened on the field?

 

For Live’s championship map:  http://wakaaustin.wordpress.com/livesbracke/

 

CAPITAL’S SCOREBOARD

Best of 3

Relax & Let It Happen vs. Smokin’ Bunts & Drinkin’ Doubles

 

Game 1:  Relax wins 4-2

Game 2:  Relax wins 6-1

 

 

FLIP CUP SEASON RESULTS

Hi Guys,

 

Thank you all for a great season and an awesome day of playoffs of Saturday. The weather was great and I think that everyone put in a solid day of kickball, cocktails and general debauchery. That said, due to the lack of all teams showing up and the amount of consumption going on at the fields, we came to the general conclusion that y’all would not be up for aggressive drinking games at 2pm in the afternoon (call me crazy). I am sorry for the 3 of you that wanted to play…. The overall winners for this season are Relax and Let it Happen and Tourettes. We will start off next season with a head to head between these to teams to determine bragging rights for the months ahead. Below are my send off words to each of you:

 

Tourettes: Sh&t, F%ck, Ralph! You guys were awesome. Week after week we saved our energy for the real task at hand and it proved successful as your flippers are undefeated. Thanks also to Jen for sub-reffing when I am over served.

 

Walk of Shame: Your stops in were few and far between but you showed up when it counts and even took out Tourettes… Although it doesn’t count since it was exhibition.

 

Soul Train: Always ready to pull it out at the buzzer. I also particularly appreciate Heidi’s “chuga chuga” rally and associated dance moves.

 

Kids in Rehab: Started off strong and faded towards the end of the season. Time to recharge and get ready for February!

 

Sofa Kings: How do you not love these guys?! Always up for every challenge. Love ya, mean it.

 

Pro Alkies: Another group that comes out strong when they show up. Expect big things from you next season.

 

Relax: I am not going to inflate more egos.

 

Smokin Bunts: I just like to watch Ryan and Laurel take on teams by themselves.

 

Not Sorry: Boo. Why don’t you ever show up to the bar?

 

Rockin your Balls: See above.

 

Thanks again for a great season. It has been awesome meeting many of you and I hope to get next season started off strong in February!

 

~ Danielle

 

Capital’s Team Write Ups

 

Relax & Let It Happen

By Mark Meroney

 

First off, I would like to thank everyone who came out for the tournament Saturday morning.  In a repeat of last summer’s tournament championship, our team squared off against the team now known as Smokin’ Bunts.  For reasons unknown the other two teams in our league were absent from the tournament all together.  Regardless, the Holloway Cup was at stake and we weren’t about to let any other name be engraved underneath ours.  We fell behind early but as always we made a big middle inning run then held on for the win.  As a team we decided we were going to make a point of demoralizing our opponent in game two because we felt that if we could hammer them they would give up and we could focus on day drinking without kickball interfering.  We staked a huge early lead and never looked back.  The game ended in a two person dog pile, which looked as gay as it sounds, and we drank our pitcher’s special formula(Kamchatka & Grape G2) from our challis.  We skipped the flip cup tournament because of all the great football that was on, and for all Jovita’s does have, a TV is essentially nowhere to be found.  See you all next season and thanks again to the members of Relax & Let it Happen for not just sitting back and taking it.

 

LIVE’S TEAM WRITE UPS

 

SOFA KINGS

BY LISA WEBRE

 

After scrimmaging for the last 8 weeks, we are now ready to start playing tomorrow, Saturday at the Playoffs : ). 

 

Proud Spirit Award Recipients for 2007 – 2008

Brought to you by Taco Liquors, Inc.- a subsidiary of the Sofa Kings.

 

KIDS IN REHAB

BY DAVID “STEVE” DUCHOVNY

 

Well what a season!!!!  Boy did we cap it off in a great way.  3 games, 3 wins.  Imagine that, a bunch of rehabbers sweeping the competition in the playoffs.  That’s something no one expected.  Good games go to:  Walk of Shame, Sofa Kings and Soul Train.  It was a very tiring yet exciting day and you guys all played with your hearts out! 

 

All I can say is this:

Coming soon to a field near you, Kids in Rehab, The Dynasty, goes for title #5.  Who is going to stop them? 

 

Special thanks to Mrs. Nicole Dube for leading this group of has been and never will be’s to drink from the Golden Shower Trophy again.  We appreciate all of your hard work and look forward to following you in the winter season.  You are our “Big Toe”!!  We can’t walk without you!!!

 

TOURETTES

BY CAMERON KUSHWARA

 

Well, it’s over, and we did it.  Austin’s first ever over/under season.  We went undefeated at the Flip Cup table, and defeated at the fields.  We almost snatched a victory against the Alkies, but we refocused and kicked into a bases-loaded double play to end the game in a tie.  Never before has a team not won a single game, until us.  Put it in the record book, right next to that team that left their drunk, passed out teammate in the bathroom at the bar.

 

Next season, we’re going to come back under a new name looking for new challenges.  On the field, we’re going to go ahead and try this whole winning thing.  At the bar, we’re going to start Flip Cupping blindfolded, upside down and with one hand tied behind our back.  Cause come on, it’s all about finding new challenges. 

 

Kudos go out to:

 

Lisa:  Best damn 3rd basewoman out there.  Nothing gets past her.

Colleen/Julia/Lindsey:  Our rookie trio made about half the outs in the field in the playoffs, and contributed way more than three times the awesomeness.

Jen Bryant:  Thespian catcher extraordinaire.

Jen Hayes:  ASSC convert, always nice to save another soul. 

Danielle:  Rookie thrust into position of responsibilty (Flip Cup referee) came through with flying colors. 

Whitney/Mark:  Former Tippers provided veteran leadership and drinkership to the team.

Jeff:  Filled in admirably as Captain while I was on sabbatical and former Tipper too.

Zach:  Found a new home at pitcher, and over ran 2nd base more than anyone in the league.

Drew:  Didn’t matter the day or time or what shirt he was wearing, he brought the A-game.

Raul:  F@#$, S*&^, Ralph!

Nick:  The other half.  Both of them contributed to the Flip Cup dominance.

Last but not least, Leah:  Brought a bunch of that New Orleans style fun to the league.  How many fingers am I holding up?

 

Look for us next season, as we take on all comers.  No one will top us, the new, the improved, Cereal Killers.

 

Captain Lucky Charms

  

 

GMOT ~ Bye Week

Is week 8 a preview for the playoffs??? 

Notice the TX Capital & TX Live schedule this week……..

Is it a coincidence???

Play off Details:

TX Capital & TX Live games Saturday, December 6^th

 

^{It could be an all day affair til 5pm}

 ~ Games begin @ 10 am sharp! 45 min game enforced.

 ~ Double Elimination – Brackets will Be Determined after Dec. 4^th

 ~ Flip Cup Tournament after playoffs @ Jovita’s

 

2009 Winter SEASON

Begins February 19^th

Pick up game – feb. 12th

Registration opens Dec. 8^th

 

Tell your friends, significant others, coworkers (get your co. to sponsor), lovers, neighbors or whoever will listen. 

 

winter 2009 season Positions open:

gmot editor

photographers

Board members

If you would like to make a difference,

contact cameron@kickball.com.

 

 

Your 3 favorite things:

Kickball

Bikini

Girls

 

 

Letter from the editor

 

hey kickballas!

 

I hope you have enjoyed your first gmot blog. 

Thanks for those that read it and especially all your appreciation Throughout the season. 

 

best of luck to all the teams.

we’ve been working hard all season.  Here’s to hoping you can Drink out of this trophy too.  

I think Not!  Go Rehab!!!

 

Are you still reading???

 

Keepin’ it short & sweet.

 

Minnie Nguyen

Fall 08 gmot editor

 

LIVE

 

7 pm field 3 Soul Train vs. Tourettes

Ref:  Sofa kings

 

7 pm Field 1 Walk of Shame vs. Sofa Kings

Ref:  Kids In Rehab

 

8 pm Field 1 Pro Alkies vs. Kids In Rehab

Ref:  Tourettes

 

 

 

Team	W	L	T	RF	RA
Kids In Rehab	6	1	0	39	9
Pro Alkies	5	1	1	38	23
Walk of Shame	4	2	1	48	13
Sofa Kings	3	3	1	17	23
Soul Train	1	6	0	13	47
Tourettes	0	6	1	15	53

 

Game of the Week

Walk of Shame vs. Sofa Kings

 

The biggest smack talking team versus one of the most fun team.  Walk of Shame, I don’t know if you can pull this one out even with all the hot ladies on your team!!!  Then there’s Sofa Kings, they have the experience…  I think this will be a very close game and it is for 3^rd place.  Lets see what happens.

WOS – 5 vs. SK – 4

 

Upset of the week

Tourettes – 9 vs. Soul Train – 4

 

If tourettes play like their 1^st inning against rehab and only tap the opponent with the ball, they could take home their first W. 

 

Live Power Polls

Well look at the schedule.. How will it go down? Will there be upsets like Week 6? 

Should we call BCS if there’s a tie???

 

1. Kids – with a couple of slips, they still can be on top.

2. Pros – Their sneaking up, watch out!

3. Walk of shame – if their defense stays up there, it could be a face off at the end. tip:  don’t kick to their girl in RC. 

4. Sofa kings – they”re good and they know how to rock a birthday party.

5. Tourettes– could they pull a doozie on the soul?  Get that W!!!!

6. Soul train – come on, ride the train, it’s the choo choo train.

 

 

CAPITAL

 

7 pm field 2Smokin Bunts vs. Rockin Your Balls

Ref: both

 

8 pm field 2 Relax & Let it Happen 4 vs. Not Sorry

Ref: both

 

9 pm field 2 Not Sorry vs. Smokin Bunts

Ref: both

 

 

 

Team	W	L	T	RF	RA
Relax and Let it Happen	6	0	1	17	9
Not Sorry for Partying	3	3	0	18	15
Smokin Bunts	2	3	1	9	9
Rockin’ Your Balls	1	6	0	13	24

 

 

GMOT Week 7 ~ 11.20.08

 

happy thanksgiving!!!

No games This week

Games resume on

Thursday, Dec. 4th

 

 

Play off Details:

TX Capital & TX Live games

Saturday, December 6^th

*Games begin @ 10 am sharp! 45 min. game enforced*

*Double Elimination – Brackets TBA after

Dec. 4^th*

*Flip Cup Tournament after playoffs @ Jovita’s*

 

2009 Winter SEASON

Begins February 19^th

Pick up game – feb. 12th

Registration opens Dec. 8^th

 

We’re looking for a gmot editor, photographers and

board members for winter 2009 season.

If you would like to participate, please contact cameron@kickball.com.

 

2009 WAKA bikini Calendar

It’s no joke fellas!

Kickball

Bikini

Girls

   

What more can you ask for? 

available at the end oF the season

 

We’re at a Constant…

after week 6 upsets, things go back to the way it was.

 

 

 

From the desk of El live Presidente:

  

This week was a nice chilly one.  About time the weather here gets tolerable.  I want to discuss playoffs briefly.  They will be Saturday Dec. 6th at Gillis and start at 10:00 SHARP.  The 15 minute delay will be enforced and also a 45 minute time limit on all games.  This is due to there being double elimination and getting to the bar before the street lights come on.  Yes, you read it here.  Double Elimination.  So every team gets to play at least 2 games.  Also, there is a flip cup tourney at Jovita’s after the championship.

 

Now about the Golden Shower Trophy, for whomever wins it.  There is a tradition that it gets filled with that wonderful beverage and passed around for the team to consume.  That is a long-standing tradition that was originally started by John Adams back in the late 1700’s.  You don’t want to ruin that awesome tradition now do you?  I didn’t think so.  Only 1 more week of regular season to go.  It has been a good time. 

 

I look forward to next season.  Registration opens Dec 8th.  Pick up game will be Feb 12^th, and the season will begin Feb 19th.  I look forward to seeing everyone out there. 

 

I would also like to advertise the calendar issue.  I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE IT!!!  There will be more info on that coming soon to a theater near you.

 

We are also taking applications for anyone who wants to be on the Board.  So, if you have the desire to help out and make this league better, “We Want You!!!” It’s a good opportunity to use your ideas to make the league better.  Instead of complaining, you can make a difference. 

 

I also want to give a special Thank you to our little foreign GMOT editor, who will be retiring after this season as GMOT editor.  Minnie, for a hot chick, you did one hell of a job on the blog.  You took something that hadn’t been done before and made it AWESOME!!!  We wish you’d stay on, but know you have other things to focus on.  we/I thank you for all of your hard work.  What you did was not an easy task.

 

If anyone has any questions, please feel free to contact me at s_kuhns@hotmail.com.  If I take a while to get back, it’s because my stupid laptop is dead. 

 

Wear clothes, or not, just kick the ball dammit!!!

 

Steve Kuhns

President

Live, Fall 2008

 

SSS

Schedules, Scores & Stats

 

LIVE

Bye Week – 11.27.08

 

Scores

 

Kids In Rehab 6 vs. Tourettes 3

Soul Train 0 vs. Walk of Shame 9

Pro Alkies 7 vs. Sofa Kings 3

 

 

 

Team	W	L	T	RF	RA
Kids In Rehab	6	1	0	39	9
Pro Alkies	5	1	1	38	23
Walk of Shame	4	2	1	48	13
Sofa Kings	3	3	1	17	23
Soul Train	1	6	0	13	47
Tourettes	0	6	1	15	53

 

Anti Power Polls

 

1. Tourettes:  They finally ^%%#ing scored

2. Soul Train:  Not bad, but need to focus.  Just like Daniel-san.  Maybe painting a little more fence can help.

3. Sofa Kings :  You guys are sooooo much fun.  What a way to celebrate birthdays.

4. Pro Alkies:  You guys are there. 

5 & 6. Walk of Shame and Rehab – you two are like an angry couple.  You just need to get laid and get it over with!!!!

 

CAPITAL

Bye Week – 11.27.08

 

Scores

Not Sorry 7 vs. Rockin Your Balls 3

Relax & Let it Happen 4 vs. Smokin Bunts 2

 

 

 

Team	W	L	T	RF	RA
Relax and Let it Happen	6	0	1	17	9
Not Sorry for Partying	3	3	0	18	15
Smokin Bunts	2	3	1	9	9
Rockin’ Your Balls	1	6	0	13	24

 

 

Hey there Flip Cuppers,

 

The showing this week was not great, but considering how cold it was, I can understand. Thank you to those of you who did show up. Special kudos to Sofa Kings who are always there, always ready to play and always a joy to be around. I really appreciate it! We are going to do an end of season tournament on playoffs day and I am going to award seeds based on season stats. If you didn’t show up at the bar, or didn’t have a team, you got a zero for that week so there may be some surprises when the board goes up.

 

Stats for this week:

 

Sofa Kings: 3

Tourettes (or 2 Tourettes players and a random assortment of others): 1

 

Rocking your Balls: 2

Soul Train: 3

 

Thanks also to those of you who brought stuff for the animal shelters. If you forgot and have things to donate, please bring them and I will get them to the appropriate people. Have a great Thanksgiving and I will see everyone next time!

 

~Danielle

 

Live write ups

  

Tourettes

By Leah, F#$%-SH@*- Ralph

 

Well, the Tourettes played another game of kickball and well, lost. But we sure did have a gay ol’ time. Between the birthday celebration for our beloved Julia-Gulia with cake, champaign and gifts, the fact that we didn’t get creamed by Rehab, the many great plays and runs that were scored and us being the FUNNEST team around, I thought this week’s write-up would be simple.

 

But NOOOOO….

 

There had to be a problem, a situation.  There had to be DRAMA!!! You would think that with only showing up to three games all season, Cameron, could keep things civil. Of course not, he had to go and get the Tourettes in trouble. He had to cross the line, make his appearance known and piss on the other team like a cat marking his territory. 

 

As a result, I received the attached letter, hand delivered in my office today. 

 

Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

The Law Office of 

Cock, Arse and Seiman

1234 5^th Street

Cummings, GA 30319

Cameron d/b/a

Captain of the Tourettes

TX Live Division

Austin, TX 78745

 

Dear Sir:

 

It has come to my attention that you have made an egregious and duly unnecessary attack on my client Minnie, a/k/a, Winona Ryder, during the course of her tenure with Kickball. Due to your paroxysm against her, she has had to undergo immediate, life threatening, rib transplant surgery.  This sporadic and parlous procedure has subsequently required her to move to the Arctic Desert, adding supervenient costs.  My client’s surgery has been further complicated by the fact that due to her small, abnormal and freakish physical, stature the doctors are finding it nearly impossible to locate an adequate donor.

 

At this time you are hereby notified under Texas Penal Code 19.02 to cease and desist all communication with my client.  Communication is thus defined as, although not limited to: speech, contact, pursue, harass, attack, strike, bump into, brush up against, push, tap, grab, hold, threaten, telephone (via cellular or landline), text message, instant message, page, fax, email, follow, stalk, shadow, disturb her peace or keep under surveillance, preceding, during or following any kickball activities.

 

This letter also serves as your warning that all future communication with my client must henceforth commence through my office.  Any action taken on your part to directly communicate with my client will be viewed as an aggressive act and the proper authorities and courts will be immediately notified.

 

With kind regards, I remain,

 

Very truly yours,

I.C. Seiman, or Attorney for Plaintiff                                                                                               

 

KIDS in REHAB

By David Duchovny

 

Rehab out on top again.  Looks like Tourettes are almost getting better. Scoring 3 runs on Rehab.  How’s that?  Who knows?  Good game Tourettes and good luck in the playoffs.  Ok, now for the down and dirty.  Yes dirty.  Even with Misty and Lauren gone, we still had some serious diry action happening.  Hopefully they can make it to the final game and playoffs. 

 

Defense was a bit like Michael J. Fox in the first inning.  Quite shaky, but solid at heart.  However the stem cell research came through.  We found a cure and no Tourettes scored the rest of the game.  But still, they %^$#@% scored 3 runs on us!!!  Derek and Kevin, doing the tandem thing on the mound.  You guys didn’t let that wind get to you and your ability to take the ball down the strike zone.  I think you two enjoy double teaming that mound.  That big, round mound that gives you both so much pleasure!!!  Oh, I can’t leave out the special forces of Jon, Carrie, Will and Robert.  You should get a special gold star for your performances.  I think even your significant others would be impressed, if they existed. 

 

Offensively, where to begin.  We were down 3-1.  Imagine that.  despite ex WAKA players who are “TC” (Too cool) to play anymore,  so they chat with runners on base, (yes, Buisan, that’s you).  we overcame that deficit to score some serious runs.  Speaking of runs, Minnie had them for 3 days after the game due to a really nasty hit by ‘Ol Kickball Cam.  What kind of guy throws a ball as hard as he can at a girl who is 3′10 and weighs 50 pounds when he is 1 foot away?  Well, he is.  Poor Minnie’s whole system was messed up so bad, pepto didn’t even work.  Smart base running by Robert, who I’m going to call Bob because that’s what he does, Carrie and Kim….Way to go!!!  Minnie also had the glow for scoring.  For a virgin, she sure did look like a pro.  And a extra special shoot out to the team Captain providing a little offensive support by a RKI.  Good job Mrs. Dube! 

 

I’d like to give a special thanks to Cindy Darrel and Marley for coming out and showing support.  We thank you for your cheers as you drank our beers. 

So, we have playoffs soon.  Fortunately, we have a bye no matter what so, Walk of Shame, you should be warmed up for us!!!

                                                                                                                                   

By Andre Rogers

 

Chugga chugga chugga chugga DE-RAILED!!! The Walks took the W from our friends on the Soul Train. Maybe they had their minds on flip cup? Despite being some of the funniest people we’ve played against, we really took care of business. Soul Train had heart though. I can’t lie. One nameless player (Corey) decided that since he couldn’t make it to base, hell, he’d just try and knock the black dude out cold. What he didn’t realize is that just like our MVP from the Rehab game, Kim, I’m a monster. That’s right, I don’t just eat (kick)balls, I eat people. And, now, part of his rib cage missing. What were you thinking? Let’s go over this:

 

Corey < Dre’s arm

 

Good game guys!

 

Weekly MVP honors go to none other than Ki-Ki. This guy is on some kind of roll. He somehow threw a guy out on at 1st from the short stop. It was a big play and we needed it. Not only does he have a huge arm, he’s sexy…. I mean look at him….This is what you can produce 9 months after taking the Walk of Shame.

 

Hubba, hubba?

 

As for next week… Big rematch with Sofa Kings. Playoff seeding is riding on this. We want that #2 seed! We’ll have to play our best, last time we tied them. They’ve got some kind of superhuman playing first base. He catches everything. They’re scary good. And maybe we can finally make one of their team members get naked this time. We definitely are not the same team right now that we were then. They might not want to make that agreement now. Also, to get that seed we’ll need Captain Dube and the rest of Rehab to take care of the Alkies. Can you do that for us please? Please?  

 

Enjoy your Thanksgiving, ballers.

 

Capital write ups

 

Relax & Let it Happen

By Mark Meroney

 

We defeated Smokin’ Bunts  4-2 .

 

We had our smallest turnout of the season and fell behind early by 2 runs but still no one panicked as we knew that ultimately talent would prevail.  We had great games at the plate by the top of our order and avoided any costly mental mistakes in the field as well.  My personal favorite part of the game was watching their outfielders pretty much back up to Oltorf when Joey Thomas came to the plate because of the moonshot he had against this team the last time we played.  With this win we clinched the number 1 seed in the playoffs so all we are really playing for in our final is the possibility of an undefeated season.  However, we play for the trophy so all we really care about is being the last team standing.  Thanks to Max and Cameron for reffing the game and I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving. 

 

By Adam Cowart

 

Not Sorry For Partying came through with a huge win after a

season-worst 2 game losing streak.  Due to the cold weather, both

Rocking Your Balls and NSFP decided on a slow-pitch, no man-bunt game

to allow for more action, running, and warmth to be spread all around.

 

NSFP got off to a fast start with a 3-run first, and 4-run second

inning and then didn’t need to score for the rest of the game.  NSFP

would like to extend a hats off to Jessica Fertitta, as she managed to

eat shit twice… once while standing at home plate and once while

running to first.

 

It was a hard fought win, but as always we are NOT SORRY FOR PARTYING.

 

 

 

GMOT Week 6 ~ 11.13.08

Breaking News!!!!

 

Rockin’ Your Balls wins their FIRST game!!!

 

Kids in Rehab defeated with false talk from Walks!!!

 

Tourettes Tie!!!

 

 

 

Coming Soon!!!

 

2009 WAKA Bikini Calendar

 

With your very own TX Capital & TX Live girls!!!!

 

 

 

Play offs: Sat. Dec. 6^th

^{Games starting at 10 am}

^{Flip Cup Tourney}

^{after kickball championships @ Jovita’s}

 

In This Issue:

·     ROCK BREAKS HIS SILENCE

·     CHARITY PAWPATCH

·     PICTURES

·     SCHEDULE, SCORES, STANDINGS

·     SPORTS CENTER

·     FLIP CUP

·     TEAM WRITE UPS

 

 

Let It Rock! 

Good games last week everyone, we had an upset and the division’s first encounter with the new tie break rule. So if you were not part of the game and didn’t see it, the new rule will be explained to everyone before the games this week.

Other than that, I don’t think much more has to be said.  Y’all have a good one and see y’all at the fields. 

Quote of the week 

“Your uncle molests collies.” I need the actor/actress, characters name and yes, the movie.

 

Email Ryan rjlogue@gmail.com with the answer.

 

 

CHARITY – PAWMATCH

Ballers,

Paws Shelter & Humane Society of Kyle (http://pawsshelter.org) is unique in that we rescue cats and dogs—of all breeds and ages—from shelters throughout central Texas, as a part of our Shelter Partnership Program, and present them for adoption in highly trafficked public locations.

Here’s how you can help:

Animal Care

Gift certificates to Walmart, PetsMart, Petco, Bark-N-Purr, and Target, Kitten Milk Replacement (KMR) or Puppy Milk Replacement, Canned cat, kitten, dog, and puppy food, Towels (small to large), Blankets (no electric blankets), Non-clumping cat litter, Scratching posts, Collars/leashes, Dog and cat beds (washable), Crates (all sizes), Litter pans (stainless steel, found at Acemart)

Medical Needs

Heating pads, Cotton balls, Q-Tips, Alcohol, K-Y Jelly, Anti-fungal cream, Digital thermometer, Human baby food—meat-only varieties (beef, lamb, chicken)

Cleaning Supplies

Rubber gloves, Laundry detergent (liquid or dry), Bleach, Antibacterial liquid hand soap, Liquid Dishwashing soap, Industrial mops, Commercial mop buckets, Dust pans and brooms, Paper towels

Administrative and General Shelter Needs

Digital cameras (5 megapixels or greater) with software, All office supplies/equipment, Printer and copier paper, Laminating supplies, Copier supplies (Konica 7155), Dry-erase boards/markers, Permanent markers, Paper (all colors). 

I am asking for these donations because this shelter has many animals and not enough supplies, and it is getting cold.

Some of the shelters they receive animals from include Austin, San Antonio, as well as many small towns from here to there. “We also take in pets from owner surrenders. Each animal receives a medical exam and is spayed/neutered, prior to being offered for adoption. Paws Shelter of Kyle provides a nurturing and a safe environment for all animals at our facility. This program has helped dramatically reduce euthanasia rates for the participating rural shelters.” 

When you donate these items, you get the satisfaction of knowing an animal will stay warm or get the attention it needs.  Also, when you donate gift certificates or cash you get an opportunity to write this donation off of your taxes.  Who wants to pay taxes? 

You can bring your donations to the kickball game on Thursday.  I will pick them up from you and make sure they go to the correct location.

Thank you for donating. 

Sincerely,

Benjamin Parker

512-809-4357

 

MEMORIES!!!

Please submit pictures to minnie@minniemingle.com

by Monday evenings.

 

Fall 08 Season Album:

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/minnie.t.nguyen/WAKAFall08

 

 Click on the picture to enlarge.

 

 

 

 Mid-Season Party

 

By Jenny B.

Thanks to everyone who came to the chilly Mid-Season Party! Beer and quesadillas always taste better when they’re free! There wasn’t any Flip Cup to speak of, but I think everyone had a good time mingling with their frienemies and teammates. Thanks to the powers that be that put it on and their hardwaork to make sure everyone had a good time.

 

 

 

 

SSS

Schedule, Scores & Standings

 

LIVE

Game Times 11.20.08

Field 2 – 7 pm – Kids In Rehab vs. Tourettes

Ref: Soul Train

Field 2 – 8 pm – Soul Train vs. Walk of Shame

 Ref:  Sofa Kings

Field 3 – 7 pm -  Pro Alkies vs. Sofa Kings

Ref:  Walk of Shame

Scores

Pro Alkies 4 vs. Tourettes 4

Soul Train 0 vs. Sofa Kings 4

Kids In Rehab 0 vs. Walk of Shame 3 

 

Team	W	L	T	RF	RA
Kids In Rehab	5	1	0	32	6
Pro Alkies	4	1	1	31	20
Walk of Shame	3	2	1	39	13
Sofa Kings	3	2	1	14	16
Soul Train	1	5	0	13	38
Tourettes	0	5	1	12	47

 

CAPITAL

Game Times 11.20.08

Field 1 – 7pm - Rockin Your Balls vs. Not Sorry

Ref: Both

Field 1 – 8pm – Smokin Bunts & Drinkin Doubles vs. Relax & Let it Happen 

Ref:  Both

Scores

Smokin Bunts & Drinkin Doubles 0 vs. Rockin Your Balls 2

Relax Relax & Let it Happen 4 vs. Not Sorry 1

  

Team	W	L	T	RF	RA
Relax and Let it Happen	4	0	1	13	7
Smokin Bunts & Drinkin Doubles	2	2	1	7	5
Not Sorry for Partying	2	3	0	11	12
Rockin’ Your Balls	1	4	0	10	17

 

SPORTS CENTER

Your hostess: Mrs. Bob Sugar

She makes the Bob… a little bit sweeter.

LIVE Game of the Week

Pro Alkies vs. Sofa Kings

They are close in stats, this will be a tough game for both.  The Sofa’s got the kicks but the Pro’s can sneak by with runs, if you’ve have errors.

Pro 2 - Sofa 3

Fun Game of the Week

Tourettes vs. Kids In Rehab

 Tourettes 1 – Kids 5

This team has players that have been friends, teammates and creating new friendships on the way.  It should be a great and fun game!

LIVE POWER POLLS

1.    Walk of Shame – They took the Kids but only for one night.  Smack talk can’t work in their favor every week.

2.    Kids In Rehab – Is this how it feels to do the walk of shame?  Had an off night against Walks but you gotta let someone else be on top for a second.

3.    Pro Alkies – They are quiet on and off the field but slowly creeping up.  Do they really live up to their name?

4.    Sofa Kings – So not we todd it.  Watch out!

5.    Tourettes – WOW!  They almost &*^%$+ won against Pro Alkies!

6.    Soul Train – Did their train get derailed somewhere off Mopac?  Can they pull off another W this season?

 

FLIP CUP

Greetings Flip-cuppers,

 

This past week was awesome! We had a great turn out and I think everyone has the program pretty much down. Thanks to all of you for being ready with beer by the time you are up. It makes a big difference in keeping things moving and I really appreciate it. That said, Not Sorry for Partying and Rockin your Balls… Who are you? I am pretty confident that you have never participated and that is lame. Called out. Everyone else, I like your style. Here are the stats:

 

Soul Train – 3 vs.Sofa Kings – 1

 

Kids in Rehab – 2 vs. Relax and let it Happen – 3

 

Tourettes – 3 vs. Walk of Shame – 0

 

Exhibition Game:

Smoking Bunts – 2 vs. Relax and let it Happen – 3

 

Game of the week has to be the exhibition game. Things got heated, words were exchanged, but at the end of the day, Relax pulled it out. MVP’s are Lindsay and Carrie who, with a single flip-off tie breaker, drank like 7 times in a row.

 

I am sure this has already been addressed, but PLEASE PLEASE bring blankets, towels, medical supplies etc for the baby dogs. It is this week’s charity and who can say no to puppies?!

 

See y’all Thursday!

 

~ Danielle

 

TEAM WRITE UPS

 

Capital

Not Sorry for Partying

By Max Reinbach III

 

We lost to relax like 1,000,000-1

 

So sorry it hurts,

 

MOR3

 

Relax & Let It Happen

By Mark Meroney

 

There is no lack of drama or intensity in this kickball league.  It could be due to the familiarity all the teams have with eachother since we play eachother over and over again.  After some last at-bat heroics/comedy of errors the game ended in a tie which called for the tiebreaker scenario none of us had ever played before.  “Not Sorry for Partying” played a hell of a game but we had a big last inning in the overtime period and ultimately walked away still undefeated.  There was some serious trash talking going on and hopefully everyone could take it all with a grain of salt.  Cameron did a remarkable job of tolerating Jay’s call begging but that is just how it goes behind the plate when the pitcher is drinking a bucket of vodka and gatorade.  We finally made a return to Jovita’s and continued our team’s reign of complete dominance in flip-cup.  Team after team challenged our group, led by self-proclaimed MVP Lindsay Clarke( a fair assessment), and one by one they were all demoralized by the feathery soft touch of our cup flippers.  Finally, I’d like to offer my deepest apologies to my teammates for miscalculating how much beer we had, I failed to account for how drastic the impact of having an extra hour to play beer pong at the house would be to our beer supply, lesson learned. 

 

 

LIVE

Kids In Rehab

By David “Steve” Duchovny

 

OK, Rehab is human.  We got outperformed by a lucky Walk of Shame.  We just couldn’t break through their defense.  Well, never say that hell can’t freeze over.  Good job to Walk of Shame.  I guess all that smack talking works.  We’ll see you in the playoffs!!!!

 

Congratulations to Kim and Jason on their engagement.  Can anyone say Kickball game at the reception? 

 

Rebuttal from the editor to Walk of Shame’s false information in last week’s write up.  If there is going to be smack talk, at least get it right!  J

They’re the two time defending champs. 3 time defending champs.  They’re older than us (much older than us we have a few years on you but it’s not nice to call your elders out.  We also have some youngies on our team so shhhh!). The president is their captain. The captain is Nicole Dube, the president is on our roster.  They’ve beaten a team from Capital for crying out loud. Oh one fact right!  They’ve even beaten us. (With half of our guys missing in a game that didn’t really count…excuses, excuses.) They think they’re the shit.  Um I don’t think so.  I think you might need to check yo’self.   

 

 

Walk of Shame

By Andre Rodgers

 

Wow, wow, and wow. The Walks aka “the red-headed stepchild” pulled off the shocker! Put your fingers down, not that shocker. We actually got the victory over the juggernaut that is Rehab. This team took it to us the first time we played them, so it was only fitting that we return the favor with the same final score, 3-0. Thankfully I didn’t have to pull my foot out of my mouth. In the grand scheme, the game was only a regular season and didn’t mean anything. However, the intensity was there as if it was a playoff game. There were members of Soul Train (reffed), Pro Alkies, and Tourettes all gathering to watch. Win or lose it was easily the most fun game anyone on our team as been a part of. Hooray!!!

 

 

In all seriousness though, Rehab is an awesome team with really, really nice players.We really don’t want to see them in the playoffs, so please someone take them out! Congrats to the newlyweds over there, and thanks Carrie for offering and letting me taste the cupcakes. It tasted amazing.

 

The victory was a team one, hardly any mistakes made at all by anyone. But one player in particular probably saved the game for us, making her our MVP of the week. Ladies and gentlemen, Kim(bo) “Slice” Rodriguez. The opposing team had a game plan to exploit what could have been an “opening” in the outfield. What they didn’t know is that Kim, well she’s a monster. Seriously. She eats, er, catches balls. That was amazing. Keep it up, lady.

 

About flip cup. We actually lost fair and square. Can’t blame anyone or anything, we guess. Well maybe we can blame it on our stomachs not being equipped to handle anything after hearing one of the most disgusting stories of our lives from Raul. (More on that in a second..)Tourettes for some reason truly believes that their flip cup beat down the week prior at our hands didn’t count? On the contrary, my friends. You got that ass kicked. Everyone saw it. Adjust your record to acknowledge that the Walks dominated you that day. Why is it that everytime there is controversy involving Walk of Shame, Tourettes is somehow in the picture? Oh and by the way….guess what team Raul plays for? Investigate please.

 

This week we get Soul Train. They’re really good people and funny. The game this week should be fun. We requested the services of of Corey and he decided it’d be more fun to ride the Train. Seriously? You’d look better in forest green. Besides, who’d better know about soul than us? For your blatant lack of loyalty to the cause, we are forced to thrash you and your team on the kickball field come Thursday. Blame it on Corey. See you guys out there.

 

 

Tourettes

By Cameron Kushwara

 

New and Improved!  Tourettes is back and better than ever.  Namely, we didn’t f@#$%@g lose!!!  That’s right, we snatched a tie from the jaws of victory!  Individual kudos go out to Drew for his rightfield/homeplate doubleplay.  Whitney pitched a hell of a game and made every play that was anywhere near her.  Honorable mention for Jen Hayes who almost had the game winning kick and Jen Bryant for not being there.  And the team we’re playing this week lost, so clearly we have the momentum and will win.  It’s really not even worth taking the field for, we should just head to the bar and continue our undefeated Flip Cup season.

 

F!@k, S#$t, Ralph! 

 

BODY PARTS

WHO ‘S THE OWNER???

 

GMOT Week 5 ~ 11.6.08

WAKA Austin News

***Top Story***

Capital’s Smokin’ Bunts & Drinkin Doubles

are shut out by

Live’s Kids in Rehab

Score: SBDD 0 – KIR 6

and also defeated in Flip Cup

KIR 3 – SBDD 2.

 

What’s inside:

·      Mid-Season Party Invite

·      The Presidents

·      Photos

·      SSS (Schedules, Scores & Standings)

·      Sports Center (Game of the Week, Upset of the Week & Power Polls)

 

·      Minglers of the Week is back!

·      Team Write Ups

·      Flip Cup

* I apologize for some color overlap mid through this issue.

 

YOU’RE CORDIALLY INVITED:

TX Capital & TX Live

request the honour of your presence
at their Mid-Season Party
on Saturday, the fifteenth of November
Two thousand and eight
five to eight o’clock in the evening

Jovita’s

1619 South First Street
Austin, Texas

FREE APPETIZERS & DRINKS FOR WAKA PLAYERS & SIGNIFICANT OTHERS ONLY

 

From the desk of El Live Presidente

 

So, there we were at Jovita’s chillin’ and having a few adult beverages when all of a sudden I look around and all Live teams were representing!!  Great job.  Way to be out there showing you support.  I guess technically, that would be athletic support.   

 

Ok, this Saturday, November 15^th, is the mid season party at Jovita’s.  5-8.  Free food and beer.  Can’t beat it.  I hope to see all of you there.   

 

Also, Dec 6^th, Playoffs.  It’s a daylong extravaganza and I hope everyone saved the date on their calendar, crackberry, I pod or whatever else kids use these days.  There will be more information soon about the activities/schedule for that day.  Just be prepared to bring your “A” game. 

Also, if you have any questions about rules, reffing, setting up the field, drinking or kama sutra stuff, please feel free to contact me and I will hopefully be able to help you out.  If not, I can point you in the right direction. 

This week ought to be a good week to celebrate all the veteran’s of the league.  Those who have been around longer than dirt.   

 

I would also like to send a special thank you to all of the real Veteran’s out there.  Without you, life would be different!!!! 

 

Have a great week and we’ll see you Thursday.

 

Kick the ball, hold the cup and consume the beverage,  

Steve Kuhns

 

Letter From President Logue

Let It Rock!

As last week was a slow week for Capital, it was also an embarrassing one for us as well. If you didn’t hear, Smokin Bunts played Kids In Rehab, the legendary group of kickball misfits who seem to own their division season after season. Last thursday they kept the tradition and broke up, rolled and smoked the Smokin Bunts. It was absolutely an ugly display of kickball on our parts and ashamed to say the score, so if you want to know, I’m sure anyone in Live will be happy to tell you. Lets just say, our score rhymes with hero and their score rhymes with dicks. I give the guys/gals great respect for their play, and hope one day we can play them Capital style and then show them how real men play kickball. (I had to talk a little crap at least).

 

Captains:

Remember that you have to provide atleast one ref for the game either before or after your own. Not doing so will result will public humiliation, a size 13 soccer shoe in your ass and a possible forfeit for your game.

 

 

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: I am going to need the MOVIE and YEAR it was released into theatres. And again you can either email me the answer (Rjlogue@gmail.com) or on the Tx Capital facebook group. Also, if y’all let Joey win again I am going to be disappointed.

 

“It must be take a worm for a walk week”

 

One last thing, MID SEASON PART!!! Come represent and have some a good time this saturday from 5-8pm at Jovitas for some free drinks, food and hookers/ladies of the night. After the bar some will be going to downtown and some of the older folks may be going back to geriactrics ward, either way, come show us what you actually look like outside of kickball. However, kickball shirts are welcome if you just suck at laundry.

 

Y’all have a good week and see yall manana.

 

Mr. Logue

 

SAY CHEESE!

Do you own a camera?  Bring it and take pictures & submit them by Monday evening to minnie@minniemingle.com.

 

Click on the image to enlarge:

 

 

 

  

Fall 08 Season Album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/minnie.t.nguyen/WAKAFall08

 

 

SSS

Schedule, Scores & Standings

 

LIVE

Game Times 11.13.08

Field 1 – 7 pm – Pro Alkies vs. Tourettes

Ref: Kids In Rehab

Field 2 – 7 pm – Soul Train vs. Sofa Kings

 Ref:  Walk of Shame

Field 1 – 8 pm -  Kids In Rehab vs. Walk of Shame

Ref:  Soul Train

Scores

Tourettes 0 vs. Walk of Shame 13

Pro Alkies 4  vs. Soul Train 2

Kids In Rehab 5 vs. Sofa Kings 2

Special Game:  Capital vs. Live

Smokin Bunts & Drinkin Doubles 0 vs. Kids in Rehab 6

 

 

Team	W	L	T	RF	RA
Kids In Rehab	5	0	0	32	3
Pro Alkies	4	1	0	27	16
Walk of Shame	2	2	1	36	13
Sofa Kings	2	2	1	10	16
Soul Train	1	4	0	13	34
Tourettes	0	5	0	8	43

 

CAPITAL

Game Times 11.13.08

Field 3 – 7pm - Smokin Bunts & Drinkin Doubles vs. Rockin Your Balls

Ref: Both

Field 2 – 8pm – Relax & Let it Happen vs. Not Sorry Ref:  TBD

Scores

Smokin Bunts & Drinkin Doubles 0 vs. Kids in Rehab 6

Relax & Let it Happen – Win vs. Rockin Your Balls – Forfeit

 

 

Team	W	L	T	RF	RA
Relax and Let it Happen	4	0	1	9	6
Not Sorry for Partying	2	2	0	10	8
Smokin Bunts	2	1	1	7	3
Rockin’ Your Balls	0	5	0	8	17

 

SPORTS CENTER

GAME OF THE WEEK

        Picked by:  Howard Cosell                         

 

Kids In Rehab vs. Walk of Shame

 

For some strange reason Walk of Shame has been counting down this rematch since the last meeting.  Can Walk of Shame be the ones to de-throne the ever so lubricated Rehabbers?  I think not.  It will be a good game with Walk of Shame’s hard-hitting offense, but Rehab’s defense is just too strong.

 

Kids in Rehab win 6-4

 

 

 

LIVE POWER POLLS

By: Bob Sugar

“I have the sweet to make you bob.”

1.    Kids in Rehab – They shut out a Capital team.

2.    Pro Alkies – Even though they barely skipped over Soul Train, they remain #2 due to a solid defense.

3.    Walk Of Shame – They are moving up the charts again, but what will happen this week against Rehab?

4.    Sofa Kings - With a tough game against Rehab, they have an opportunity to look good against Soul Train this week. 

5.    Soul Train –They are slowly coming around.  We’ll see what kind of damage will happen against Pro Alkies.

6.    Tourettes - *(&^% not shutout &)”$# lost by 13 runs.  *&^# Shutout again!  #$@# will win eventually!!!

 

UPSET OF THE WEEK

 

Sofa Kings -10 Soul Train -2

MINGLERS OF THE WEEK

WAKA Veterans

They were here at the beginning

& still with us today…

 

Capital was established in Summer 2006.  9 seasons later, some of these veterans are still around and can tell you stories from the first season of WAKA compared to what it is now. TX Capital had gotten so popular, hence TX Live was born a year later, Summer 07. TX Live’s daddy is still yet determined…

 

Since Summer 2006

·      9 Capital Seasons

·      5 Live Seasons

·      8 Bars (Fox & Hound, Alligator Grill, Opal Devine’s, Jaime’s, Cedar Door, Third Base, Freddie’s, Jovita’s)

·      5 Capital Presidents (Kari, Carrie W., Cameron, Josh & Ryan)

·      3 Live Presidents (Kari, Andrea & Steve)

·      79 GMOTs and now we’re the 1st league to have it in blog form

·      ? friendships formed

·      ? love connections

·      ? hook ups

·      1 wedding

 

The Veterans:

These Veteran pics can be found at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/minnie.t.nguyen/Veterans?authkey=8SIAvmncZNM#

 

In alphabetical order:

Marc Dube

Nicole Dube

Kari Holloway

David Kealey

Stephen Kuhns

Lauren Nitoski 

Carrie Walton

Honorable Mention – Retirees

Ben Bui – Kids In Rehab Superfan & Traitor on C&C

Andrea Troncoso – Getting mo’ edumacation

 

 

Name: Marc Dube

Sign: Leo

Likes: Beer, free beer, napping, college football, snack time, dogs, disc golf

Dislikes: hot air ballons, rats, fish sticks, losing, hangovers

Drinks: Beer, Tequilla, Crown

Current Team: Kids in Rehab

Original Team: Last Kid Picked

 

 

Name:  Nicole Dube

Sign:  Leo the Lion –GRRRR

Likes: Cheesy dance clubs and Footloose

Dislikes: Movies and sobriety

Drinks: Umm..everything except grapefruit juice and gin

Current Team: Kids in Rehab

Original Team: Last Kid Picked

 

 

Name:  Kari Holloway

Sign: Aries

Likes: Chocolate, Food, Wine – preferably together

Dislikes: Never having won a championship

Drinks: Tito’s and soda – extra lime

Current Team: Smokin Bunts & Drinkin’ Doubles

Original Team: Blue Balls

 

 

Name: David Kealey 

Sign: Taurus

Likes: Being Canadian, flying planes, sailing, NPR, and Cricket the Wonderdog

Dislikes: Canada jokes, losing to Live teams

Drinks: Goose and Tonic

Current Team: Smoking Bunts and Drinking Doubles

Original Team: Blue Balls

 

 

Name:  Stephen Kuhns

Sign:  Gemini

Likes:  Food, beer, diving, movies, Asian Porn

Dislikes:  Stupid people, morons who drive slow in the fast lane, cooked mushrooms and tomatoes

Drinks:  Water, Tang, beer, A good Malbec

Current Team:  Kids in Rehab

Original Team:  Bacon

 

 

Name: Lauren Nitoski 

Sign: Taurus

Likes:  Traveling and anything the involves and water

Dislikes: Smelly people, waiting in lines, and being late.

Drinks: A Margarita please and Tequila Shots

Current Team:  Kids in Rehab

Original Team:  Bacon

 

 

Name:   Carrie Walton

Sign:  Sagittarius

Likes:  Christmas lights all year long

Dislikes:    close-minded people

Drinks:   Shiner Blonde beer

Current Team:   Smokin Bunts and Drinkin’ Doubles

Original Team: Blue Balls

 

Honorable Mention – Retirees

 

Name:  Ben Bui

Sign:  Gemini

Likes:  Mac & cheese, puppies, egg rolls, crab cakes, hugs, championships, blue, rawking with plastic instruments, C&C, watching KIR kick that ass (That ass means anyone not on their team other then Ward, Jordy and I since we don’t play in LIVE.)

Dislikes:  WAKA’s corporate machine, when Dube loses and cries a ton, and Ward sitting too close to me at games.

Drinks:  Anyting you want

Super Fan of:  Live – Kids In Rehab, but only the real members.  Not those spares from Just the Tip.  They’re trouble! 

Original Team:  Bacon, Team America (Co-champions, but really actual Champions.  Of the universe), Rolling Dubes.

 

 

Name:  Andrea (Draya) Troncoso

Sign: of the Cross..

Likes: Whisky Sours. Men who can make it third without ANY help Winning.

Dislikes: Drama. Long Island Iced Teas. Losing.

Drinks: Water and Diet Coke.

Super Fan of : Capital – Smokin’ Bunts & Drinkin’ Doubles

Original Team: Team Lush and Second to Last – the first team in the history of our little league here to win it all.

 

 

 

TEAM WRITE UPS

 

 

Capital

Regret the Error!  Last week Relax & Let It Happen did submit a team write up.  Mark was the first to submit and the editor deeply apologizes for the mishap.  Now back to your weekly write ups.

 

Relax & Let It Happen

By Mark Meroney

Our opponents were obviously terrified of the kind of damage we have been doing to the capital division and decided they could only seek refuge on the other side of the Louisiana border.  We decided to sharpen our skills with an intrasquad scrimmage that was pretty fun but just not the same satisfaction as playing an actual opponent.  We did have front row seats to watch one of our upper division counterparts get annihilated by a live division team.  Now we all want to see what its all about.  I’ve been waiting all season for something on the ground straight down the middle and I know the rest of our team has been as well.  Again we did not make it to Jovita’s but who is kidding who?  Everyone else could use the practice to keep up with our flip cup juggernaut and we have a beer pong table at home which is another drinking game we dominate.  We should be back in the house at Jovita’s next week and hopefully it will be after a real game.

 

Live

 

 

Walk of Shame

By Andre Rogers

 

We didn’t want to say we told you so, but seriously, we told you so. The Popeye’s incident has clearly ignited a fire in the ass of Shame. And we are just serving notice (are you listening Rehab?) that we’re rollin’ now. This game went well in every way it really could have. The defensive mistakes were minimal and the offense was plentiful. The base running was awesome. Along with pitching, Chris is also no longer allowed to base coach. You are beginning to suck at everything. Get your life together, man. Tony Robbins, perhaps?

 

 

 

 

MVP of the week goes to Cindy. Yes, Cindy. Not sure how many times she got on base, but she kicked the hell out of that ball this week. I mean seriously, what got into you? Coors? Ah, you don’t drink beer. Caffeine pills? Oh Jesse would be so proud.

 

In case word hasn’t gotten out. Walk of Shame also killed it in flip cup at Jovita’s. We got our revenge against Tourette’s. This was call for real celebration. Bottles were broken. Love was made. And even an honorary member of Walk of Shame was inducted, just to show there were no hard feelings. Welcome, Leah. However, your 7 day trial membership pass expires on Thursday. To experience the Walk of Shame again, you’ll have to see us again for details.

 

The countdown clock will end this week as Rehab finally has their date with doom. All the odds are stacked against us. They’re undefeated. They’re the two time defending champs. They’re older than us (much older than us). The president is their captain. They’ve beaten a team from Capital for crying out loud. They’ve even beaten us. (With half of our guys missing in a game that didn’t really count…) They think they’re the shit. But, have they really taken the Walk of Shame before? I mean, how good are they really? Are they that impressive? Or did they beat all those teams short handed? Beat us again and make me a believer. We don’t think you can do it twice.  Could it be the Live game of the year? Probably not. Defense wins and so do the Walks. Our Prediction?

 

Shame: 4

Rehab:  1

 

Countdown to Rehab rematch: 1 day

 

Kids In Rehab

By  David “Steve” Duchovny (He said) and Winona “Minnie” Ryder (She said)

Week 5 was such a great week for Rehab.  I guess it was an all around Rehab day.  Lets see, beating Sofa Kings 5-2, giving another beat down to that Capital team, whatever their name is, something about doubles and drinking licking butts.  I don’t know, 6-0.  Then to cap it off, winning a little bit of Flip cup at the bar.  Not bad for an evening out and with our fearless leaders swimming in the Caribbean with stingrays.    Well, one was swimming the other taking pictures.

Ok, Sofa Kings, good game. You guys played well and challenged the interim coaches…well really Minnie, as Steve was too busy flirting.  Good luck in the final slide of the season.

Defensively, great catching by Will, Derek, Jason, Jon and Robert.  But, one surprising catch, Little Minnie followed to a kicked ball out (to those that wouldn’t know what was just said like me…it was a live pop up right in front of home plate) to make an awesome catch.   Kevin – great pitching.  Just need your bourbon and smoke.  Can you hear me now?

Offensively, Jason powerful kicking as always… kicking in Derek, Kim & Zach and Kim, she kicks it like no one’s business.  If it’s two people that like to score with each other on a regular basis, it’s Jason and Kim.  Kudos to Derek & Jon on getting on the board.

Let’s now discuss the second game of the double header against Capital’s own Smokin’ Bunts and Drinkin’ Doubles.  They came into our house thinking they would slaughter ‘ol Kids in Rehab.  They thought “oh, the minor changes are not a big deal and any capital team will dominate.”  Well, folks, that didn’t happen here that night.  In fact, quite the opposite.  Capital was not only defeated, but also shut out.  6-0.  Way to go on the shut out:  Kevin, Wendell, Jason, Kim, Minnie & Jon!!! 

Wendell, thank you for coming to Rehab.  We greatly appreciate your contribution to the Capital game and you did sofa king fabulous! 

Defense was as splendid as always.  Zach made some crucial catches in foul territory. Will, Jason and Wendell…sweet catching in the outfield.  Offensively, way to score.  Score, score, score.  We all like scoring.   

Good job on the base coaching Ms. Gimpy McGimperson aka Carrie Gilson & the other permanent gimp, Steve.  Get well soon and Carrie, you best be back on the field this week woman!

Welcome Back Mr. & Mrs. Nicole Dube, we missed you!!!!   

Walk of Shame, you go and talk all that game.  Should we will bring you a box of tissues after we beat you like a red headed step child?

 

&#$%@&&@$

By Jenny &*$%^# B.

  

There once was a team named Tourettes

Who consisted of newbies and vets

We tried to win

But in the end

We are glad we didn’t make any bets.

Jenn H .and Lisa had an awesome double play

Danielle caught a ball kicked a mile away

Leah sat out to cheer

We drank many a beer

But we still didn’t score in the game, to my dismay.

 

It was a night full of errors, goofs and mistakes

But we still think we have what it takes

Watch out, Sofa Kings

We’re the bee that stings

We will finally have us a win, for goodness sakes.

 

We got called out by Relax and Let It Happen for Flip Cup

Too bad they didn’t even bother to show up

We lost the exhibition game

So our overall score is the same

We are still undefeated, so shut the !%$&@ up!

 

 

Sofa Kings

 They were so distraught from their loss to Kids in Rehab, their captains left for Belize.  Kidding.J

 

 

Friends,

 

Bravo on a pretty strong showing at flip cup this week. There were some nerds who didn’t show up, but those of you who did were on fire and I am grateful for your spirit and dedication. On to the important stuff:

 

STATS:

Sofa Kings 1 vs. Soul Train  3

 

Kids in Rehab 3 vs. Smoking Bunts 2

 

Pro Alkies 1 vs. Walk of Shame 3

 

Exhibition Game:

Tourettes 1 vs. Walk of Shame 3

 

Big shout outs to 2 teams: Kids in Rehab spanked Smoking Bunts both on and off the field. I know I might ruffle some feathers by talking about it in my column since I am sure it is covered elsewhere, but nice effing work Kids! Also, even though it didn’t count, Walk of Shame did take out the undefeated Tourettes. They also won their regular game over Pro Alkies. Nice work guys, see what happens when you actually show up?!

 

See y’all on Thursday!

 

Danielle

GMOT Week 4 ~ 10.30.08

It’s midseason…

and still anyone’s

game.

 

In This Issue:

·        Mid-Season Party – Save The Date: Sat. Nov. 15th

·        Live’s President – Changes for this week’s schedule

·        Pictures

·        SSS (Schedules, Scores & Standings)

·        Live’s Game & Upset of the Week

·        Power Polls

·        Flip Cup Stats

·        Captions

·        Write Ups (with videos!)

·        Jovita’s Humilation Corner

·        Missed Connections (real ones!)

 

Mark your calendar:

Mid-Season Party:  Sat., Nov 15^th

Playoffs: Sat., Dec. 6^th!!!

 

     

 

Write up of the Week!

So good, gotta read!

YO MAMA GOT TOURETTE’S

by Jennifer Bryant

Alright – STOP – tag up and listen

Jenn is back with my brand new invention

Losing – is not something we take lightly

Flows like our Bud Light daily and nightly

WILL IT EVER STOP?!?!? – YO – I DON’T KNOW!!!

Kick us the ball -and we’ll throw

To the extreme we rock flip cup like a vandal

Light up the field and wax a team like a candle

DEADLY – when we say “F&$#, CROCKPOT, MELODY!!!”

Anything less than the best is a felony

Love it or leave it – you better not hate

You better hit bull’s eye cause Tourette’s don’t wait

If there was a problem, yo – we’ll solve it

Check out our game while the referee calls it

A$$, A$$ baby – VANILLA

A$$, A$$ baby

Word to yo mutha.

Wow. That hurt my brain. Much like our very sad loss on Thursday vs. Pro Alkies. The Tourettes actually had the majority of the team representin’ and started off with a promising game. Congrats to Julia for scoring her first run ever!!! And our only run for the night unfortunately. We let the blue shirts run us down like the Texas Tech offense. Awesome catches by Drew and Cameron (rovering the field like a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Great fielding by everyone – just some ball calling is needed. Lisa is still kicking ass and taking names at 3rd base and good job to Raul for pitching for the first time. We are all improving and soon we will reap the benefits!

And yes – we are still UNDEFEATED IN FLIP CUP!!! This week, we play “Walk of Shame” again. Come on, Tourette’s – let’s make them wish they hadn’t taken 10 Jagerbombs the night before and ended up walking to their car in heels the next morning from a stranger’s house!!! (Note: I had to research that. Not derived from personal experience). We have at least 1 win in us!!! Let’s F%#@%$ DO THIS!!! CRACKERS, MOTHBALLS, EGGPLANT!!!!!

 

Live’s Presidential Speech

This past week was just so exciting and wild.  So many interesting costumes and even a couple of action packed games.  It’s good to see some Halloween participation.  

November 15th.  Don’t miss out on the awesome Mid Season Party at Jovita’s.  There will be games, drinks food and fun.  Start planning now.  NOVEMBER 15th.  

I would like to remind everyone to pick up their trash and to place any liquid beverage in cups at the fields. 

There has been a minor schedule change this week and in week 7.  It is as follows:

Week 5:

Walk of Shame vs. Tourettes on field 1 at 7 with Soul Train Reffing

Kids in Rehab vs Sofa Kings on field 3 at 7 with Pro Alkies reffing

Pro Alkies vs. Soul Train on field 1 at 8 with Sofa Kings Reffing

Week 7:

Kids in Rehab vs Tourettes on field 2 at 7 with Soul Train reffing

Pro Alkies vs Sofa Kings on field 3 at 7 with Walk of Shame reffing

Walk of Shame vs Soul Train on field 2 at 8 with Tourettes reffing.

Reffing.  Captains, please make sure the ref’s you assign know the rules.  If you are interested in learning the rules, I will be at the fields at 6 in order to go over them with anyone who is interested.

November 15th, Mid-season Party!!!

I hope this week goes along so well, the season is in the final stride.  Don’t forget the playoffs are on Saturday December 6th.  It’s going to be a wild and crazy day!!!  Mark your schedule, planner, iPhone, Blackberry and whatever else people use these days.

So, dates to remember:  November 15th and December 6th.  You will be quizzed on this Thursday.

Also, take note:  Kids in Rehab will be playing Smokin’ Bunts & Drinkin’ Doubles. Yes, this will be the first time a Live and Capital team collide.  It should make for an interesting time.  It will be at 8.

Catch the ball and consume the hops & barley, 

Steve Kuhns

 

shutterbug

DO YOU TAKE PICTURES?

PLEASE SEND THEM TO MINNIE@MINNIEMINGLE.COM.  I TRY BUT I CAN’T BE EVERYWHERE AT ALL TIMES.  THANKS! http://picasaweb.google.com/minnie.t.nguyen/WAKAFall08

 

 

 

 

Mid-Season Party

Save The Date!

Saturday, Nov. 15th

hello there

friends of all kinds

those with

small, medium and large behinds

 

i am here to announce

to all who play kickball

a great gathering of sorts

the beginning of our downfall

 

with the season

well on it’s way

your board has voted

for a much needed swarai

 

while many of us

have scored on each other

waking in the morning

saying ‘oh mother’

 

there are still some

i am sad to proclaim

who still need to work

on their pitiful game

 

with this in mind

we will all be as one

together at jovitas

for some childish fun

remember to bring

your cups, cans and cash

for although it is a party

we can all share our stash.

 

SAVE THE DATE

ok peeps, here is the hap.

Saturday, November 15th, from 5-8 pm the league is sponsoring our mid-season party.

 

There will be free food and drinks for all league members and their SIGNIFICANT others. Meaning, your significants are welcome, but not that dude or chick from the bar last week. No mothers, sisters, brothers, fathers, cousins, bosses, secret lovers, slaves, or bastard children. 

Cameron, as usual will be filling your in boxes with an evite with more details.

 

For any questions, please contact Leah:  schwanna420@gmail.com.

 

SSS

Schedules, Scores & Standings

 

LIVE

Game Times

Field 1 – 7 pm – Walk of Shame vs. Tourettes

Ref:  Soul Train

Field 3 – 7 pm – Kids In Rehab vs. Sofa Kings

Ref:  Pro Alkies

Field 1 – 8 pm -  Pro Alkies vs. Soul Train

Ref: Sofa Kings

Field 2 – 8pm – Capital Smokin Bunts vs. Live Kids in Rehab

Ref:  TBD

Scores

Tourettes 1 vs. Pro Alkies 3 

Kids In Rehab 9 vs. Soul Train 0

Walk of Shame 3 vs. Sofa Kings 3

 

Live Teams	W	L	T	RF	RA
Kids In Rehab	4	0	0	27	1
Pro Alkies	3	1	0	23	14
Sofa Kings	2	1	1	8	11
Walk of Shame	1	2	1	23	13
Soul Train	1	3	0	11	30
Tourettes	0	4	0	8	30

 

 

CAPITAL

Game Times

Field 2 – 7pm - Relax & Let it Happen vs. Rockin Your Balls Ref: Both

Field 2 – 8pm – Smokin Bunts & Drinkin Doubles vs. Kids in Rehab Ref:  TBD

Scores

Not Sorry for Partying 5 vs. Rockin Your Balls 2

Relax and Let it Happen 2 vs. Smokin Bunts and Drinkin Doubles 2

 

Capital Teams	W	L	T	RF	RA
Relax and Let it Happen	3	0	1	9	6
Smokin Bunts & Drinkin Doubles	2	1	1	7	3
Not Sorry for Partying	2	2	0	10	8
Rockin’ Your Balls	0	4	0	8	17

 

Live Game of the Week

Picked by:  Howard Cosell

Kids in Rehab vs. Smokin’ Bunts & Drinkin’ Doubles.  Even though it’s not a division game, it will be an interesting show to see who can come out on top.  The seasoned rehabbers or the Capital attitude.  Can the Capital people take a game not seriously?  We’ll see.

Kids 8  Smokin’ Bunts 2

 

Upset Of The Week

Soul Train 3  Pro alkies 2

 

Capital

Got’s nothing to say!

 

LIVE Power Polls

By: Bob Sugar

“I have the sweet to make you bob”

1.   Kids in Rehab – Hmmmm, can they be defeated?

2.   Pro Alkies – This team is really coming around.  With a dominating performance over Tourettes, they can be a contender

3.   Sofa Kings – Gradually moving up.  Even with a tie, they manage to step up a notch. Too bad they tied and Darin didn’t have to get “nekkid”

4.   Walk of Shame – What going on here?  They have it, just not utilizing it.  Maybe this week will be different. 

5.   Soul Train – Despite a nasty lost to Rehab, they do have a star player who needs the right colored shirt.

6.   Tourettes – *(&^% not shutout &)”$# lost by 3 runs.  #$@# will win eventually!!!

 

This week’s showing was a little weak, but since it was Halloween and I was a no show last week, I don’t have too much to say about it. I think we are all having fun with the flip cup tourney so let’s collectively make an extra effort to show up and kick ass. I will get the games started earlier so that those of you with plans, or dates with Grey’s Anatomy, can get going at a reasonable hour.

Stats for this week:

Kids in Rehab: 3 vs. Soul Train: 2

Tourettes: 3 vs. Pro Alkies: 1

Sofa Kings: 3 vs. Soul Train: 0

No shows:

Rockin your Balls (except Carrie and Ryan)

Walk of Shame

Relax

Not Sorry

Shout out to Tourettes who is undefeated for the season… At flip cup at least…

See you on Thursday!

~Danielle

 

Stars…they are just like us!

Mickey Mouse is a motorboatin son-of-a-bitch…

 

Joker:  Well, hello, beautiful. You must be Harvey’s squeeze, hmm? And you *are* beautiful. 

Britney:  It’s Britney Bitch!!!

 

Two guys, a girl, and a dog at a kickball field.

 

 

CAPITAL TEAM WRITE UPS

Can you hear me now?  Chirp. Chirp, chirp. 

  

Relax & Let It Happen

By Mark Meroney

This was kind of a funky game.  Not a lot of energy on either side and the game opened with a glaring mental mistake by yours truly.  I’d like to apologize to my team, but in my defense I have never ever encountered a player sliding feet first into the base im covering.  All I could think about was how the beer I had just poured inbetween innings was all of the sudden about 75% dust and the offending slider had the audacity to then get up and sprint home as I tried to figure out what the hell had just happened.  We then had a controversial foul ball/fair feet call that ultimately cost us another run.  It was probably a close call and I apologize for non-captains speaking out but all I will say is that the ruling is a “foul ball” meaning the only thing that matters is the ball, not the position of the player(I understand I’m using the baseball definition) and by all accounts the ball was foul.  Anyways, it seemed all was lost until Joey Thomas absolutely sent a ball into outer space in the top of the last inning.  Im not sure that many people in this league could hit a 7-iron as far as that ball went.  The game ended in a tie, which was bizarre but oh well, better than a loss.  Sadly none of us made it out to Jovita’s in order to save the flavor for Halloween activities.  I’d also like to thank the league for getting our newly engraved trophy that verifies out status as the reigning champions, it sits proudly on the mantle at “Relax and Let it Happen” team headquarters.

 

LIVE TEAM WRITE UPS

Kids in rehab

By David “Steve” Duchovny

Well there was some strange happenings on the field last Thursday.  Dr. Venkman and the Joker decided to show up and see what kind of damage they could do to Soul Train.  I must commend them on their sportsmanship.  They tried till the end, even with their MVP Tim.  It was a good game and I wish you the best of luck in the rest of the season.  Maybe we’ll see you again in the playoffs.

Defensively, great show.  We did what we do.  Stand solid and look good doing it.  Kevin had a great night on the mound even if he didn’t have his glass of bourbon and smokes. 

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/p0WDL6nBSgfRazvhODQgwQ

Robert made an amazing catch looking like a hottie.  Except, good from far, but far from good.  Jon decided to finally do some showboating.  Considering he gets mentioned every week, he thought, why not volley the ball around and do a little bump, set spike catch.  Carrie and Jason also contributed to the strong “D” with some nice catches.

Offense, where to begin.  I guess with the best base coach in the league, even if he was accused of flirting.  Other than that, several home runs.  Marc and Jason. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/6U1yJ73988EwS4XsPuSM8A

Job well done, it’s about time you two carry your weight on this team.  Minnie even got to third base.  She was baffled as what to do.  She hadn’t been to third since her High School junior year homecoming when her date’s mom left them alone in the car for 10 minutes.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Q3bjuFq7zJIFe4IK1vXk_Q

Lisa , Kim and Carrie all scored.  They had the “GLOW” Halloween.  Everyone had a great offense.  Can’t complain about that.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/BtpkaXxOTR_rYJia0aaupA

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bzsSnZ5P_er8FlExYw0gJw

We look forward to playing Smokin’ Bunts & Drinkin’ Doubles.  Yes, it’s Live vs. Capital in an exhibition game.  Live rules though.  It should make for good entertainment. 

 

PRO ALKIES

By Matthew Saal

Longball Powers Pro Alkies to win.

The Pro Alkies rolled to their third win of the season after beating Tourettes. The Pro Alkies got it started with some solid kicking and base running to take a 1-0 lead in the top of the second.

During the next two innings, the fireworks started. Richard “The Lightning Bolt” gave the Pro Alkies some breathing room with a solo homerun and then Dave “The Gazelle” added to it with a two run blast with the ball landing somewhere down by Jovito’s. Great job by everyone to keep trying to get on base.

Tourette’s got one on the board to cut the lead to 4-1 and were threating in the last inning but two great catchs by Dan in left field closed the door on them. Solid defense all round but we need to work on ‘running away’ from the ball if you don’t want to catch it.

Special callout to the Tourettes pitcher who gunned down one of our people as he went to first — she threw that ball from halfway across the field and caught him in the heels … impressive, most impressive.

Note: We still continue to struggle at Flip Cup. It’s not that we suck (well, I do which is why I’m not allowed to play) but the Pro Alkies are hoping to snap our losing streak this week. I believe there are some serious drunks in this league or Flip Cup “ringers” … an investigation may be in order.

 

WALK OF SHAME

By Andre Rodgers

Something is just not right with the Walks the last two weeks. Our once powerful offense has left us and somewhere our defense has followed. It’s ok though because after some real group therapy and a shouting match at Popeye’s, I think we have found what we’ve been missing. What is that missing potion you ask? Since the schedule has been changed, our pals from Tourette’s will be the first to find out.

 

As for this last game, our big goal was to make some guy put on his birthday suit. Clearly the group prayer and vigil that Sofa Kings had pre-game worked. They managed to escape the ultimate bout with shame and walked out tied. The tie insured that their exhibitionist teammate could keep his clothes on during flip cup and his naked butt out of the slammer. Any truth to the rumor that had they lost the game, he would be suspended for the rest of the season for conduct detrimental to the team? Surely he will have another opportunity to bring Hippie Hollow to Jovita’s though later in the season.

 

Hot lovin’ to Mr. Saigon himself, Louis for taking some lumps for the team and making some plays on the field to help the team. Your selfless deeds, which you selfishly bragged about to us after the game did not go unnoticed.

 

Speaking of lumps. Ki-Ki is back!!! Our shortstop has returned to form. Some people called his “injury” a separated shoulder, I called it Cellulitis. However, I thought you could play kickball with that? Either way he’s back to his old ways of two errors per game along with the occasional spectacular play. Happy times are back for the Walks.

 

On another side note. Thanks for making an honest man out of that bum, Chris, Mizzy. Your contribution to humanity is greatly appreciated. Watch out for the blow darts though, they can be killer.

 

Some nameless members of the Walks (all of them minus Dre) couldn’t make it to Jovita’s this week. They were too busy figuring out the Colonel’s 11 herbs and spices. Hopefully we can gather the troops together this week and make our anticipated return to the J.

 

The game this week should be fun. We get Tourettes again. On one hand they were fun to play and they were really nice folks. We like them. We like how they roll on the drinking side. On the other hand there’s a little bitterness in our blood after “Flip Cup Gate” (the invisible muscular man) and their reffing of our game against Pro Alkies (You weren’t in position to make a call, but you were in position to overturn it?).  We’ve held on to that for a couple weeks now. Finally some release therapy. Drama makes for excitement.

 

Our bold prediction:

 

Shame: A lot.

Tourettes: Not a lot.

 

 

Sofa Kings

 

Luckily for Darin (and us too), our game went into extra innings and we still couldn’t get him nekkid.  Our game ended up with a 3 to 3 tie.  And on the brighter side, we shut out Soul Train in Flip Cup!

 

 

Jovita’s Humiliation Corner

Wow, lets see, I think this is going to have to be renamed to Walk of Shame’s shameless plug.  They talk a big game “Yeah, the bar is fun, we’ll be there”.  Oh he!! No they didn’t!!!  Yes, folks, they said they would come, again and didn’t.  What is it all about?  Is it because they don’t want the beautiful ladies on their team being hit on?  Who knows.  Is it because they are afraid of flip cup?  Probably not.  I think they are just plain scurred.  What is it about Walk of Shame and going to the bar?  Does anyone know?  Please, if so, please come forward and expose this team for what they are.  Afraid to go to the bar.  Very Odd!!!  I heard they went to Popeye’s to yell at one another for the tie. Relax used the excuse they needed some rest for Halloween but what they really did was stare at the last season trophy with their team name engraved on it.  Not Sorry & Rockin’ – these Capital teams have nothing on live.

 

Missed Connections

These are actually ones found online.  Where’s yours?

~Tall brunette playing kickball 

Hi. I’m regretting not coming up and introducing myself to you. I smiled and waved bye to you as we were leaving. I know this is a long shot, but e-mail me if you get this.

~spitting is a filthy habit… even at kickball

I was flirting with you – I was the catcher for our kickball team. Email me?

 

GMOT Week 3 ~ 10.23.08

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

WAKA has their own zombies…

Two kickballas, Will & Jon of Kids In Rehab took part of a new Guinness world record!  881 zombies all simultaneously dancing to Thriller this past Saturday.

 

IN THIS ISSUE:

 

·       Live’s El Presidente yapping

 

·       You’re been SNAP’d!

 

·       Schedule, Standings & Power Polls

 

·       Flip Cup Stats

 

·       Jovita’s Most Wanted

 

·       Team Write Ups and a“nekkid” proposition

·       Missed Connections

 

DRESS UP ON OCTOBER 30^TH

 

 

LIVE EL PRESIDENTE

 

Steve – One legged running man:  http://picasaweb.google.com/minnie.t.nguyen/WAKAFall08#5260577277316767138

Greetings to all people who eat, sleep and drink the fine sport of kickball.  Well, not drink, but you know what I mean.  This week went well as far as I could tell.  Good turn out at the bar and it appears people are being smart when it comes to driving.  Good call!!!

Not much to say today except I hope everyone is having a good time so far.  We are almost to the mid season point.  My…how time flies. 

I would like to point out the rules at www.kickball.com.  If you are going to be reffing any games, please be familiar with these rules.  And I recommend discussing with myself or any other Live Veteran’s, any questions you may have on the interpretation of some rules.

In the spirit of this week, I hope to see lots of costumes.  Halloween is such a wonderful time of year.  That is if you can find Halloween stuff in any store behind all the Christmas stuff.

OPPORTUNITY:  Have you ever wondered if your team is better than a Capital team?  Well, we all know Live is better than Capital anyhow, but we now have an opportunity to play.  Next week, Smoking Bunts & Drinking Doubles has a bye week and would like to play a Live team using the Live “Home field” advantage.  So, the team with highest points for vs. points against will get the opportunity for a double header next week.  

Dress fun, play hard, consume safe,

Steve Kuhns

President, Live Fall 2008

YOU’VE BEEN SNAP’D!!!

 

Our kickballas know how to dance and sing too!!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/minnie.t.nguyen/WAKAFall08#5260576425081000610

 

Direct link to all Fall pictures:

http://picasaweb.google.com/minnie.t.nguyen/WAKAFall08

 

SCORES & SCHEDULES

 

LIVE

Game Times

Field 2 – 7 pm –Kids In Rehab vs. Soul Train

Ref:  Tourettes

Field 3 – 7 pm – Walk of Shame vs. Sofa Kings

Ref:  Pro Alkies

Field 2 – 8 pm - Tourettes vs. Pro Alkies

Ref: Kids In Rehab

Scores

Tourettes 6 vs. Soul Train 8

Kids In Rehab 6 vs. Sofa Kings 0

Walk of Shame 3 vs. Pro Alkies 6

 

Team	W	L	T	RF	RA
Kids In Rehab	3	0	0	18	1
Sofa Kings	2	1	0	5	8
Pro Alkies	2	1	0	19	13
Walk of Shame	1	2	0	20	10
Soul Train	1	2	0	11	21
Tourettes	0	3	0	7	26

 

CAPITAL

 

Game Times

Field 1 – 7pm - Not Sorry for Partying vs. Rockin Your Balls

Ref: Both

Field 1 – 8pm – Relax and Let it Happen vs. Smokin Bunts and Drinkin Doubles Ref:  Both

Scores

Not Sorry for Partying 0 vs. Relax and Let it Happen 1

Rockin Your Balls 0 vs. Smokin Bunts and Drinkin Doubles 2

 

Team	W	L	T	RF	RA
Relax and Let it Happen	3	0	0	7	4
Smokin Bunts & Drinkin Doubles	2	1	0	5	1
Not Sorry for Partying	1	2	0	5	6
Rockin’ Your Balls	0	3	0	6	12

 

LIVE POWER POLLS

By Bob Sugar

“Yeah, I’ll take you out in public to fire you.”

1.      Kids in Rehab:  This Rehab team is unlike the ones in the past, they’ve learned how to perform offensively.  Defense is still solid.

2.      Pro Alkies:  By upsetting Walk of Shame, they’ve proven themselves to be contenders for the cup.  They have a solid defense and score some runs.

3.      Walk of Shame:  They have the desire and ability, but just couldn’t pull a victory this week.

4.      Sofa Kings:  shut out doesn’t help much, but they know the weaknesses are going through the proper channels to get their hands on a certain trophy.

5.      Soul Train:  They followed through on the upset of the week.  Offensively doing much better and defensively with that pitcher, are on their way.

6.      Tourettes:  @#$%^!!!! ^*&(&(^ runs, ^*&)(# victory, someday%^$^$!!!

LIVE GAME OF THE WEEK

By Rick Vaughn

Fresh from the California Penal League

My time in the joint has given me wonderful insight on how to play the game.  This week I feel the best game will be Sofa Kings vs Walk of Shame.  I find it hard to believe Walk of Shame is game of the week again, but they are just so unpredictable.  Sofa Kings are there, they just need to iron out the wrinkles.  Let’s see which team finds the “smoova” first.

Upset of the Week

Tourettes 6  vs. Pro Alkies 5

 

CAPITAL POWER POLLSPowr Polls

1.  Relax and Let it Happen- With a close game against an understaffed squad, Relax may need to step it up a notch or two to pull it off this season.

2.  Smokin Bunts and Drinkin Doubles- To bring the Holloway Cup home to its creator, they are going to need to keep up the ever progressing offense and keep themselves pumped full of HGH to keep up with the other teams.

3.  Not Sorry for Partying- With Max missing the team was lacking a physical and psychological advantage, don’t let their record fool you though.

4.  Rockin Your Ballz- Are putting the pieces together and look more and more like a team each week. They may be the snake in the grass for the play-offs.

 PRESIDENT’S CHOICE

This weeks Presidents Choice goes to a man of large stature, dedication to reading the GMOT, promptly posting the correct quote first, and motivations skills at the flip cup table…..Mr. Joey Thomas. Congrats Joey, you are still tall, and you get a beer. 

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

There are two quotes this week, both get you a beer. You may only answer one of the quotes, if you answer both you forfeit your beer and get kicked in the shin. I hear that many of you people can’t get on facebook at work, so its the first to either email me  - rjlogue@gmail.com or post it on the TX Capital facebook page.  

“Milk are for babies, when you get older you drink beer.” I need the actors name and movie.

“”You’re gonna eat lightnin’ and you’re gonna crap thunder!” I need the actors name, characters name and the movie.

 

FLIP CUP STATS

Hello Flip-cuppers, 

Thanks to everyone who showed up and went head to head this week. I appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding as I was learning the ropes of being the ref. Danielle left me with some big shoes to fill for the night and I hope I did her proud. 

We had three teams that no-showed this week…THREE! All three teams will be awarded no points and may the beer gods have mercy on your souls. I won’t be naming any teams. I’ll leave the calling out to the league presidents. I can only hope that you all will be able to show next week and represent your teams.  

We had some great matches this week. The Tourettes obliterated Soul Train with a shut out. Holla! We had an extremely close game between the Kids in Rehab and the Sofa Kings. It looked like the Kings had it made with a 2-0 score, but those darn Kids pulled out three rounds in a row to win the game. Exciting stuff people! 

A shout out goes to Relax for putting in some extra matches so some of the other teams could still get their game on when their original opponents didn’t show. I hope you all were using your baby livers that night so that your adult livers wouldn’t be abused too much with the extra drinking.  

Thanks to all for keeping the beer flowing and the cups flippin’… 

Jen Hayes(substitute referee) 

Tourettes: 3 vs. Soul Train: 0

Kids in Rehab: 3 vs. Sofa Kings: 2

Pro Alkies: 0 vs. Relax( in place of Walk of Shame): 3

Smokin Bunts: 3 vs. Relax( in place of Rockin your Balls): 0

 

JOVITA’S MOST WANTED

 

Well, lookie here, what team is starting to really like being called out?  Oh, it’s not last week’s team; it’s the week before that.  You saw it here First kids, Walk of Shame has disgraced us again at Jovita’s.  Especially after several members said they were going to whoop some arse at flip cup.  How can you win if you fail to even show up?  Maybe where you go is better than Jovita’s?  Better specials?  Better company?  Who knows, but it is a crying shame, that you missed out on a great time, AGAIN.   Where was Rockin’ Your Balls & Not Sorry on the flip cup action???  You snooze, you lose.  Bring it on this week!!!!

Walk of Shame

Rockin’ Your Balls

TEAM WRITE UPS

 

 

LIVE

 

 

Sofa Kings

 

By Lisa

Congratulations in advance to the Walk of Shame team for winning next week’s game! ….but then on 2nd thought, we really don’t want to see Darin nekkid, our new goal is to win next week!

Walk of Shame

By Andre Rodgers

In what could be called biggest upset in history of “sports”, Walk of Shame went down this week with a resounding thud to Pro Alkies. Maybe I’m exaggerating here a little. But it was definitely unexpected. To make matters even crazier, these lushes were playing short handed. Good, but questionable, pitching kept us on our heels. And good, but very questionable, defensive tactics kept us from scoring (and reaching first base at times…). Tourettes held down the ref duties, and we’ll leave it at that. All in all we were simply outplayed by a great team. We’ll surely meet again later in the season. Flip cup perhaps?

Along with points, good defense was hard to come by this week for ‘Shame, although not for lack of effort. Blame it on the beer. Someone decided it would be cute to toggle with tradition and buy imported beer. Really? Never again.

 

Quick footnotes:  Good job fielding to everyone. Chris is never allowed to pitch in a regulation kickball match again. Get your ass back in the outfield. 

Injury update: Ki-Ki is now throwing the ball around with real confidence coming off that “injured” shoulder. You guys should have seen him try to throw someone out at home from centerfield. Uncle Rico would be so proud.

 

This week is a match with Sofa Kings. I’m sure they feel since we took the L this week that we’re vulnerable, even going so far as to say they will show up butt naked to Jovita’s if we beat them. I’ve heard of the No Shoes, No Shirt policy, but I don’t know how the policy goes for No Drawers. I guess we will definitely find out this week. Bring It!

 

Countdown to Rehab rematch: 15 days

Countdown to Sofa Kings dancing on the pole: 1 day

 

Pro Alkies

 

Short-handed Pro Alkies Hold on to Win

By Matthew Saal

With only 7 players on the field at any one time, the Pro Alkies pulled off an impressive win over the always tough “Walk of Shame”.

It looked bad at the start when Walk of Shame took an early lead but the Pro Alkies fought back to take the lead over the next two innings and never looked back.  Great job by the kicking lineup to string together the hits and drive in runs.  Great job by everyone getting on and running the bases aggressively – it put the pressure on the other team.

Defensively, Joe’s pitching frustrated the other team into making several mistakes and team MVP Richard ran down anything and everything kicked his way.  Special callout to Vicki who had a great catch at second to cut the runner down.

With the win, the Pro Alkies improve to 2-1 and have them looking for more.

Special thanks to the refs who called the game — there were a couple of controversial plays and I’m glad they were there to make the call and keep the peace.

Kids in Rehab

“Dear Prudence”,

It was a “Hard Days Night” against Sofa Kings.  “Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite”, we played strong and “Something” took us on “The Long and Winding Road” to victory.  “I’ve got a Feeling” Sofa Kings will have a great season and can’t “Wait” for the Playoffs.  They had “No Reply” for being shut out.

Jason, “I’ve Got a Feeling” that the “Taxman” is going to make you “Get Back” from kicking the ball so far.  That ball was thinking; ““I’ll Follow the Sun”” with how far it went.  “Doctor Robert” couldn’t have prescribed a better homerun.

Jon, “In Spite of all the Danger”, “I want to Tell You”  “Because” you played so well, again, “Eleanor Rigby” said “You’ll be Mine”.  You really know how to “Think for Yourself” out there at 3^rd and “There’s A Place”

behind home that makes you kick so well.

“I’ve Just Seen a Face” and it was Kim.  “She’s A Woman” who is a “Day Tripper” that crossed the plate “Like Dreamers Do”.  Misty decided to take “The Magical Mystery Tour” around the bases not running anyone over with her “Glass Onion” this week.  “She said, She said” “Any Time at All” I will score. 

Carrie and Minnie each had an “Old Brown Shoe” and a “Savoy truffle” to help them “Come Together” to play so well right before their “Golden Slumbers”.  “Help”, all the Girls are “Getting Better” “It Won’t be Long” till we have the trophy again.

“If You’ve Got Trouble”, call Marc, “The Fool on the Hill”.  He made a play at shortstop that made him “Carry that weight” for this game.  Also, Marc, you can “Drive my Car” and be an AWESOME designated driver any week.

Will, “tell Me Why” you ran into a tree looking for “Norwegian Wood”.  You’re not “Mother Nature’s Son” “Her Majesty” should know “What Goes On” after the game. 

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band” will play with “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” all the way to the Championship. Just like the fearless leader, Nicole, says, ““Don’t Let Me Down”, “With A Little Help From My Friends”, I’ll give you a “Ticket to Ride” to the finals.  ”Tomorrow Never knows” if the “Things We Said Today” will cause “Misery”.  If “There’s A Place”, Like a kickball field, “I Will” be there for you because “In My Life” kickball is “The Inner Light”.” 

“The End”,

Sincerely,  

“Michelle” 

Tourettes

Sole Train Pulled on Tourettes

By Jennifer Bryant

Let me start off by saying that – yes, it is true – we have not won a game yet this season – BUT – that does not mean that we all haven’t worked our %$@!* asses off thus far. We have seen more balls flying at us than Madonna’s face in the 80’s – but I have faith that we will use our undefeated Flip Cup abilities on the field soon…

That being said, the game against Sole Train was awesome – we almost derailed them. With a strong double play by Jeff and Whitney in the 3rd inning, Lisa holding down the station at 3rd base, Mark being a catching powerhouse and a surprising catch by Jenn B (mainly to her surprise) in left center, we were steaming ahead to a win.

Jenn B, Mark, Whitney, Nick and Zach scored runs throughout the game, so we started off 5 – 4 in the top of the 5th inning – all we had to do was not let them score and the game was ours. But a couple of mishaps and we let them steamroll us with 3 runs before our chance to redeem ourselves. Lisa did us proud and scored our final run, but it wasn’t enough to secure a win against the Sole Train ending with a score of 8 – 6. They were gracious winners, but we enjoyed beating their &^%$#!@ asses at Flip Cup!!!! Tourettes always has a good turnout to Jovita’s, so if we haven’t played you in Flip Cup yet…be prepared. We’re everywhere…

Next week is Pro Alkies – I hope they are ready for a #$@!&* ass whooping from the Tourettes! As we always say, “F**k! S**t! JIMINY CRICKET CAN BITE MY ASS!!!! (or insert any other random term)

F*@%$#g Jenn B

 

Soul Train

 

By Rebecca Garlett

 

Soul Train won their first regular season game, against a worthy opponent!  One of the contributing factors to our team improvement was the practice that was held last Tuesday.  Six dedicated individuals – Adam, Heather, Rebecca, Heidi, Amber, and Matt, met up at the Jaycees Fields last Tuesday to practice kickball fundamentals.  In the spirit of a funny You Tube video, or an SNL skit, we ran drills, and practiced kicking an underinflated kickball.

After our practice session, game night was filled with the anticipation of our first win.  The game got off to an uncertain start as Tourettes broke open an early lead, scoring 4 runs in the first inning.  However, Soul Train came roaring back down the tracks in the second inning, scoring 3 runs off a homerun kick by Tim.  The bottom of the second inning brought a streak of good luck for Soul Train.  The late arrival of Keevin, finally brought our field the full number of players.  Keevin immediately stepped up to field a ground ball to the shortstop position, and force an out at 1st base.  What’s more, he kicked a homerun on his first at bat of the night.  We also saw some first-rate fielding by Amber, who caught a line drive at second base, and Will, who made several stops at the pitcher’s mound.  Overall, our game saw great improvements, with Frank forcing 6 outs at first base, one by tag.  Adam, in his attempt to score his second run of the evening, provided the night’s comic relief, in a run toward 3rd base.  For unknown reasons, he stopped to do a full combat roll, creating a cloud of dust, before being tagged out just inches away from the base.  Subsequent innings produced more runs for Soul Train, putting them in the lead at the bottom of the 5th inning.  The game ended in a 3 person effort between Will, Heidi, and Keevin to tag out a player at 3rd base, which resulted in the final out of the game.

Soul Train did not fare as well at flip cup, against Tourettes.  They gave it their best effort, but Tourettes swept the series 3-0, with some of the best flip cupping we’ve seen to date. 

Watch out next week, the Soul Train is on a roll – Make that a dusty roll. Chugga-Chugga, Chugga-Chugga, Achoo!

 

 

CAPITAL

 

Smokin Bunts & Drinkin Doubles

By Kari Holloway

It was an all around successful night for Smokin Bunts that started off with a 2-0 victory and then absolute domination at the flip cup table. Crucial outs were made by Jonah, Nick and Ben along with Nicole’s amazing catch as she dashed across the field to make the running grab. At the bar, the so called ‘geriatrics’ pummeled their opponents proving that age and wisdom will always conquer youth and inexperience. 

Relax & Let it Happen

By Mark Meroney

We had a pretty lackluster offensive showing to say the least against a very depleted version of the “Not Sorry For Partying” roster.  However, we’re not sorry for beating you.  The hero of the game was Erin Abney who with 2 down in the bottom of the last inning found the perfect spot to land a slightly popped-up bunt and score Jay Russell from 2nd base.  Before anyone gets the wrong idea, Jay runs on two surgically repaired knees and was operating on about a pint of cheap vodka, so its not like he set any records rounding 3rd, we had the benefit of an errant throw.  Sadly, after squeaking out the game, we were not able to protect our undefeated streak in flip-cup.  A little too much relaxing and letting it happen.  I still maintain that when our best team is out there we cannot be beaten, but it will be up to them to prove that this week. 

 

MISSED CONNECTIONS

-Hey, who’s the lady in the t-shirt and shorts?  You are hot.  We talked briefly.  I enjoyed the conversation.  I don’t care if you have crabs, we can remedy that.  I want to take you out for coffee or a drink. 

-We played each other tonight. You were wearing pink pants and I was the third baseman. Your team beat us. I thought you were cute and good at kickball. Wanna grab a beer after next week’s game. (This is an actual posting from Craigslist – the team name was edited to protect the innocent but I will say it was the other Austin kickball league.)

Fun Fact:  The World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) is the largest for-profit adult kickball league in the United States, although there are many other independent leagues as well.

 

GMOT Week 2 ~ 10.16.08

On the minds of our leaders…

And what they do outside of kickball:

 

Ryan singing – We Are the Champions:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWG3jImC2qU

 

Ryan dancing:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ZaVWRT5EA

 

Steve dancing – Night at the Roxbury?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6cw1JUV0Qo

In this issue:

·       FYI:  The more you know or not.

·       Steve’s Ramblings

·       Pictures

·       Schedule, Standings & Power Polls

·       Charity

·       Flip Cup Stats

·       Minglers of the Week

·       Jovita’s Most Wanted

·       Team Write Ups FYI:

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TX LIVE PRESIDENT STEPHEN “GIMP” KUHNS

So week 2 started off rough with an over sleeping President.  Those naps are so nice in the late afternoon.  Yes, naps are crucial when you get to be my age, of 28. 

A special thanks goes out to Molly who took time out of her busy schedule to come talk to us about the Capital Area Food Bank.  I also want to thank all of you who showed up early to listen to her speak and also donate to the cause.

Don’t forget to put your beverages in cups while at the fields. 

Be safe out there.  We don’t want any ballaz getting into trouble with Johnny Law.  He’s not kind to drivers that have ½ of a beer. 

When your team ref’s, if you have any questions about the rules, please feel free to contact me or better yet, if you are the ref on your team, you can print out a copy at www.kickball.com.

Week 3 is upon us now and it should be a good time.  Be sure to bring canned food and or cash for charity.

Also, don’t forget to bring your “A” game this week.  The intensity is building.  Well, not really, but it sounded good. 

Short and sweet this week.

Kick the ball and run, but don’t spill your beer,

Steve Kuhns

President Live, Fall 2008

PRETTY IN PICTURES

Direct Link to Fall Season Pictures

http://picasaweb.google.com/minnie.t.nguyen/WAKAFall08#

SCHEDULE & STANDINGS

CAPITAL Game Times 10.23.08

Field 3 – 7pm - Not Sorry for Partying vs. Relax and Let it Happen Ref: Both

Field 3 – 8pm – Rockin Your Balls vs. Smokin Bunts and Drinkin Doubles Ref:  Both

Scores

Smokin Bunts and Drinkin Doubles 3 vs. Not Sorry for Partying 0

Relax and Let it Happen 5 vs. Rockin Your Balls 4

Team	W	L	T	RF	RA
Relax and Let it Happen	2	0	0	6	4
Smokin Bunts & Drinkin Doubles	1	1	0	3	1
Not Sorry for Partying	1	1	0	5	5
Rockin’ Your Balls	0	2	0	6	10

 Live Game Times 10.23.08

Field 1 – 7 pm – Tourettes vs. Soul Train Ref:  Pro Alkies

Field 2 – 7 pm – Kids In Rehab vs. Sofa Kings Ref:  Walk of Shame

Field 1 – 8 pm - Walk of Shame vs. Pro Alkies Ref: Tourettes

Scores

Sofa Kings 4 vs. Soul Train 2

Walk of Shame 17 vs. Tourettes 1

Pro Alkies 1 vs. Kids In Rehab 9

Team	W	L	T
Kids In Rehab	2	0	0
Sofa Kings	2	0	0
Walk of Shame	1	1	0
Pro Alkies	1	1	0
Soul Train	0	2	0
Tourettes	0	2	0

 

Power Polls

Capital

1.  Smokin Bunts- Took their Alzheimer med’s and remembered how to play some kickball. Just think of the possibilities when they get their hip replacements.

2.  Relax- Even if they don’t defend their title, at least they are all-stars at Jovita’s.

3.  Not Sorry FOR Partying?!- I think it should be Sorry for NOT Partying after the games. With a rusty game against the old folk’s home, they will need the vocals from their captain and a couple more shots to pull in the W this week.

4.  Rockin Your Balls- With a close game last week, lets see if they can give a scare this week and put a tally mark in the win column.

President’s Choice

This week’s choice goes to a mystery man I can’t remember the name of, but he was the third baseman or shortstop for Rockin Your Balls. He wins the award for his line drive catch off the foot of giant, Joey Thomas.

Quote of the Week:

(Post on facebook to win award, this time I need the actor’s name, character name and movie).

“I’m hung over, my knees are killin’ me and if you’re going to pull this shit at least you could’ve said you were from the Yankees.”

Live

 By: Bob Sugar

“I have the sweet to make you bob”

1)      Kids in Rehab – This group of has been and never will be’s, who just so happen to have won the trophy the last 3 seasons, is on top of their game.  Even without the Veteran Pitcher, they seem to be making the magic happen.

2)      Walk of Shame – Despite all the pressure against them, they appear to be going against the odds and producing results.  This team is one to be scared of later on in the season.

3)      Pro Alkies – Despite a rough loss in week 2, they are a veteran team that is coming around.  They are aware of the potential and ironing out the wrinkle to become a contender.

4)       Sofa Kings – What can I say, they had a rough spell against Soul Train this week, but came out on top. 

5)      Tourettes – They are lost without their leader on the field.  Maybe Kickball Cam should get his priorities straight.  His team needs him more than he needs a paycheck.

6)      Soul Train – This team has potential.  They have a star pitcher that can make this team win.  Once they come together, watch out.  This team is my pick for surprise of the season.

 

LIVE GAME OF THE WEEK

Picked by:  Howard Cosell

Walk of Shame vs. Pro Alkies

This will be a good game between the #2 and #3 in the power polls.  Both teams have the potential to be a contender and with this meeting, it may be the beginning of a nice rivalry.  I’m going to go out on a limb and predict Walk of Shame with a 5-3 victory.

Upset of the Week

Soul Train 2 over Tourettes 1

 

CHARITY!!!!  GIVE BACK!!!

 

Dear Ballaholics,

This past week can be summed up in four simple words -KING OF THE HILL!

First and foremost I want to congratulate Clay from Smokin Bunts and Drinkin Doubles for being the first official King of the Hill of the TX Live/ TX Capital Fall 2008 season.  (At the time of publication, Rock did not provide a picture of Clay.  Sorry Leah!)

For all of you lame-os that somehow didn’t manage to actually make it to the bar (we will assume that due to the fact Mercury is in retrograde, you got lost), you missed one hell of a match off.

After our regular team flip cup matches (which once again Tourettes dominated!) all those with hearts of gold (it was for charity after all) and livers of steal (the only way you can drink that much beer, that quick without ending up at St. Johns) bellied up to the table to see who in fact is KING OF THE HILL.  This elimination style tournament started off with 26 peeps, lasted 20 minutes and ended with just one lonely sole at the top. 

Although this week I will have a new, fun filled, debauchery infused game for charity, King of the Hill was so popular, it is quite possible it will be back for a second appearance.

As for the charity, I want to thank everyone who came out early to meet Molly from CAFB.  As she said, they are in desperate need of food and funds due to hurricane Ike.  So, make sure to continue to come to the fields with you cleats, cans and cash every week and help this worthy cause.

Well, that’s it for now ballers, flippers and guzzlers.

See ya on the fields.

Leah

FLIP CUP STANDINGS!

 

Hello Flip-Cuppers!

Thank you to all of you who showed up and put those fingers to good use. We saw some epic showdowns and, as always, I appreciate your enthusiasm. There were a couple of teams that did not show up which is pretty lame. I won’t give you too much shit this week, but you get a big fat zero and no points towards the end of the year tourney. Remember that seeds are awarded by season wins and losses.

I think everyone has the program down now and I really appreciate y’all being ready with beer this week. That makes it so much more fun because we can get through our normal matchups and then play for bragging rights later in the night.

Keeping it short this week: MVP goes to Smokin Bunts for almost taking out an undefeated Relax. It was one for the record books. Also, a big thank you to Leah for organizing King of The Hill. It was a great success and everyone who participated should feel awesome about your contribution.

Have a great week and see you on Thursday!

Danielle

Week 3 Scores

Tourettes: 3 vs. Walk of Shame: 1

Relax: 3 vs. Sofa Kings: 0

Soul Train: 3 vs. Pro Alkies: 1

Relax (in place of Rockin your Balls): 3 vs. Smokin Bunts: 2

Kids in Rehab (sort of): 3 vs. Pro Alkies (In place of Not Sorry): 0

 

MINGLERS OF THE WEEK

Because you don’t have to be single to mingle

Get to know your fellow kickballas!!!  Find out what that cutie likes to drink, strike up that conversation and network.  We’re young professionals and you just never know!  Want to be a Mingler?  Especially if you’re in the Capital league!!!!!  Please submit a picture to minnie@minniemingle.com with details about yourselves or just send me pictures!

FRIENEMIES

A friend & enemy

Step outside your team & league!!

 

Name: Kim

Nickname:  Kimmie, Schminion

Sign: Virgo

Likes: Jason, sports (watching & playing), concerts, movies, chillish bars, soccer, KICKBALL, doggies, trees, Wii

Dislikes: most cats, unnecessary apostrophes, misused quotation marks, stupidity

Drinks: Beer, Wine, Snakebites, Dirty Chai Lattes

Friends since: Summer 2007 – Played on Rollin’ Doobies together

How we know another: Played on many kickball teams together, and if you haven’t heard, 99 out of 100 kickballers agree — Nicole is the essence of kickball. Plus, she’s fabulous, has awesome doggies, throws great parties, and is someone who always has your back. If you don’t know Nicole, you should know that you’re missing out.

WAKA member since: Summer 2007 – First Team: Rollin’ Doobies

Team: Live – Kids in Rehab Dynasty ;o)

 

Name: Nicole

Nickname:  Nic, Nickle, Pickle, Coop, Trikki

Sign: Gemini

Likes: Tailgating and turning the tower orange, beer, wine, my pups, kickball, long walks on the beach at sunset, and pina coladas in the rain.

Dislikes: People that don’t understand the importance of kickball, mean people, rye bread

Drinks: Sailor Jerry and sprite, beer, wine, Jägermeister, beer, wine, and repeat.

Friends since:  2007

How we know another:  Kickball

WAKA member since:  2006

Team: Capital – Smokin’ Bunts and Drinkin’ Doubles

 

Name: Kevin

Sign: Taurus

Likes: Sliced bread, long walks on the beach, romantic movies with cheese popcorn and Barry Manilow.

Dislikes: Dependents, bums, cry babies, self scan at the grocery store and girls.

Drinks: Mad Dog 20/20, Cosmopolitan and Zima

Friends since: 2001

How we know another: ninja training camp

WAKA member since: 2008

Team: Live – Kids in Rehab

Name: Drew

Sign: Yield

Likes: Gangsta rap, the kiddie train at Zilker, Ferris wheels, baby oil rub downs, Connecticut, California and Massachusetts.

Dislikes: the fuzz, sports, un-matched clothing and hairy chests

Drinks: Old Crow, Strawberry Hill and herbal tea

Friends since: 1967

How we know another: hill #224 in ‘nam

WAKA member since: 2008

Team: Live – Tourettes

Disclaimer:  95% of Kevin & Drew were made up.

 

JOVITA’S MOST WANTED

So, they may be the reigning champs, but they are losers in the book of Live this week.  In fact, they are the epitome of lame.  Look up Loser in the dictionary and you’ll see a picture of KIDS IN REHAB.  Yes, you heard it here first, they may be a fun team, social team and good team, but they are a bunch of hypocritical, bar skipping, non-socializing losers.  They can’t make it out to the bar because they are “Too good” for it.  They stick their noses up to all the other teams that make the effort.  If you see them this week, be sure to not invite them because they will say they are going and then stand you up at the bar like a prom king to a dumpster baby that’s his.

Kids In Rehab

 

TEAM WRITE UPS

TOURETTES

By Jiminy Cricket

(Crickets chirping) 

Um, Tourettes played a game last week.  Jen Hayes scored her first run ever.  And, uh, yeah.

(Crickets chirping)

KIDS IN REHAB

By David “Steve” Duchovny

Music was playing this week as we played the Pro Alkies.  It was a “Thriller”.  Pro Alkies, good game.  You guys fought hard and played with integrity.  We wish you the best of luck with the rest of the season.

“Everybody’s Talkin’ “ about that third baseman, Jon.  He’s the “Rocket Man” who likes to “Beat It” with those throws to first.  Then the opposing team was “Watching the Wheels” as he ran around the bases for a double and a triple.

Kim was “Hopelessly Devoted” to succeeding offensively with some great kicks and a little score.  “She’s Nasty”!!!

Our fearless leader didn’t have the “Get Off” approach; she was determined to get on.  Not once but twice.  Even though “One” is the loneliest number, she got in once.  And who says married people don’t score?

With 9 runs, it sure smelled like “Sex and Candy”.  Carrie, Will, Kevin and Minnie.  Carrie was thinking “My Humps” the whole way around the bases while Will and Kevin were thinking of “All the Girls they’ve loved before”.  (Sick thought)  Meanwhile Minnie just had her heart set on a score.  Even being “Like a Virgin” she  crossed that plate like “Lady Madonna”.  But “After the Thrill is gone”, they will follow the “Long and Winding Road” to more scores.

Robert got “Caught up in You” as he made plays from the outfield singing “Your Love” getting runners out.  He really had some “Good Vibrations”. 

Derek and Kevin were “Throwing it all away” with nice pitching performances by both “Crazy” men. 

With “Fire and Rain”, KIR took the “Stairway to Heaven” and really did “Take it to the Limit”. 

 

By Heidi Small

Chugga –chugga, Chugga –chugga, Chugga-chugga, Choo-choo!  The Soul Train rolled into town this week at full speed, but was derailed by Sofa Kings, in the 4th inning.  Soul Train lost in a squeaker, 2- 4 game.  (Hey, after a 1-12 loss in week 1, we definitely consider that a squeaker). 

The Train started down the tracks with a lot of enthusiasm, when our team leader, Heidi, rounded the bases full steam ahead, to score the first run of the game.  Way to go!  Our veteran pitcher, Will, returned for his first game this season, to pitch some serious curve ball zingers, and score one of our two runs.  We also saw some excellent fielding this past week, with Staci catching several pop flies in the outfield and Corey making a double play.  Unfortunately, a wheel fell off the Soul Train in the 4th inning, when Sofa Kings kicked up some serious line drives and outfield shots, to deliver the two winning runs of the game. 

What we lacked on the field, we made up for in flip cup.  Yeah, that’s right.  The Soul Train steamrolled their flip cup opponents.  The Train out-chugged their opponents and mastered the art of “using 2 hands”, to lead the team to victory. 

I betcha didn’t know, the Soul Train rolled to Jovita’s with the ENTIRE team, bringing all 13 players to the bar for the post-game festivities.  A special thanks goes out to Adam, Zac, and Heidi for buying rounds of watermelon shots for the whole team.  We also heard through the grapevine that Staci likes black camel humps.  What? 

Steer clear of the tracks, and watch your caboose next week, for the double threat (kickball and flip cup), that is The Soul Train.

Walk of Shame

 

By Andre Rogers

What a great week for this up and coming kickball powerhouse. The Walks put together their most impressive victory in the history of their short franchise. Victory was short lived though as somehow, someway Tourettes rebounded from their kickball loss and absolutely destroyed us in Flip Cup at Jovita’s. We still think they cheated. Where’d that big muscular man come from??? Whenever we lose, someone cheated. That’s just how it is. Anyway, it was great playing those guys. We will have our flip cup rematch, however.

Big, big props to Jorge the friendly, Cholo for kicking the ball halfway to Tijuana. Even your favorite captain took his chubbiness around the bases for a 3-runner. But the star of the show was none other than Kristopher Catalan Orlando Lee. Yes and for those of you counting, that’s 4 names. Get a load of this….

Kris has finally put aside the pain of having a “separated shoulder” and managed to kick one out of the field. And I mean way out. Who would have ever thought Ki-Ki could be such an athlete while dealing with such devastating “injury?” Truly, shades of Curt Schilling in the 2004 ALCS. This kid has “heart.” Even more amazing is the trip to 24 hour fitness where he was seen bench pressing 240lbs. How do you do it, Ki-Ki? How do you do it? Remarkable.

Good job to our folks in the field for the great defense. And great debut to Kia. Welcome to ‘Shame. Let’s all do it again next week against the Alkies. Smell you later.

Countdown to kickball Rehab rematch 22 days.

Countdown to flip cup rematch with Tourettes 1 day.

THANKS FOR READING.  AS ALWAYS, HAVE FUN & BE SAFE.

 

GMOT Week 1 – 10.9.08

In this issue:

• Words from our Lords of the Fields
• Schedule, Standings & Power Polls
• Flipcup Stats
• Kickball News
• Confessions
• Jovita’s Most Wanted
• Minglers of the Week
• Tribute to our Fans
• Team Write Ups

FYI:

 

• Please mark your calendars:  Playoffs, Saturday, Dec. 6th.  It could be a one game affair or an all day affair.  It’s up to you.  If you didn’t know, every team makes play offs, so it’s anyone’s game!
• Capital Area Food Bank will have a representative at the fields Thursday, October 16th @ 6:30 pm.  Be there to help the community! Don’t forget to bring can goods or $1 bills to donate weekly!
• Interactive GMOT!!!  Did you know this???
  • You can leave comments about the newsletter and/or click on the picture and leave a comment.  Anyone can post!  Please submit your blurb and picture(s) to minnie@minniemingle.com. 
• Jovita’s $2 wells, $2.50 beers, $3 margaritas and ½ off nachos.
• Interesting fact:  Kickball players can burn between 300 and 600 calories in an hour, depending on the player’s weight and game intensity.

PRETTY IN PICTURES

Direct Link of all Fall Season’s Pictures

http://picasaweb.google.com/minnie.t.nguyen/WAKAFall08

  

TX CAPITAL PRESIDENT RYAN J. ROCK LOGUE

Hey Everyone,

“Attention campers lunch has been canceled today due to lack of hustle….deal with it.” The first one to post the correct movie from the quote above to the TX Capital Facebook group will win a free beer from yours truly. (My little brother does not qualify to participate, sorry Clay.)

So far, this season is looking like it’s going to be a lot of fun. With some of the new young blood in the league, competitions on the field and at the flip cup table are getting heated up (minus my team for sucking and not showing up to the bar). Refer to the letter from Danielle, the flip cup extraordinaire, about the details for flip cup at Jovita’s.

A majority of the shirts will be in this week for the games; some may not come in due to y’all signing up at the last minute (if not last second). Once all the shirts are in, unless ok`d by the other captain and myself, all players on the field must wear a jersey. For the playoffs, there are NO exceptions; all players must wear a jersey. Remember, the other league of jokers that play by the airport require you, no matter what, to wear a jersey.

Do NOT bring outside drinks into Jovita’s. Common sense. (Beer or jello shots) Thanks. They contacted us at the bar and after about the issue.

CUPS at the FIELD. Remember please to bring some sorts of plastic, foam, paper….something cup to the games to use and make sure cans aren’t sitting on the field. I know it hasn’t been a legal issue yet, but trust me, the manly lady that came up to me before the exhibition week, was more than ready to write tickets. WAKA and/or I do not pay for these tickets if received. We could also lose our field rights if they turned us in to the city. Thanks again.

Schedule – Final one will be out very soon, I promise.

Also, we are having a speaker come out Thursday for our charity stuff. If you can come out early (6:45pm) it would be greatly appreciated. WAKA isn’t only about sports and drinks; we are also about the community. Come out and learn how you can help out.

FINALLY…. FRIDAY is MY BIRTHDAY. Not that last week wasn’t crazy and I didn’t get drunk enough, get ready for me to be even more drink provoking. I’m not really that happy about turning 25, but all those drinks y’all are going to buy me will help me forget. Also, if any of you are down Friday night, we are doing a “South of the River Pub Crawl”. We will start with purples, oh yeah, and dinner at Baby A’s and then work our way east towards the SOCO (S. Congress) area. So if you are down with dinner or joining us for drinks let me know via email, phone, or Facebook.

Anyhow, I am tired of typing and should probably get back to the work I am paid for. Y’all have a good week and if I forgot anything let me know.

-Your President/Rock/Ryan/That Guy    

TX LIVE PRESIDENT STEPHEN “GIMP” KUHNS

Damn, that was a fun week!!!  I want to thank everyone for coming out to play and most of all making Jovita’s such a big hit.  They were appreciative and not necessarily ready for a big group of ballas coming in and drinking all of their beer.  But, they will be prepared next week with more staff and adult libations for us.  I also want to thank everyone for being so understanding with them.  They are still learning how to deal with a group of professional kickballers. 

I want to make a point of several things:

1)    Trash.  We know the routine.  We are smart.  We are great.  We are who we appreciate.   A clean field means, well, it means no trash on the fields and the City of Austin won’t kick us off and make us homeless.

2)    Safety.  We all know how to be safe and have a designated driver. 

3)    GMOT.  The GMOT is interactive, please check it out, add stuff and talk smack.  Smack talk is such a wonderful thing when used right.  Kind of like how I am the master of the 80’s game and everyone else sucks!!!

4)    Capital Area Food Bank.  Leah is doing a great job with this and we appreciate your support.  They will have a representative there this week to speak to us at 6:42.  It would be nice to show a little support. 

5)    Speaking of little support, be sure to play smart and not get hurt.  Wear the proper attire if needed.   

6)    As far as Jovita’s is concerned, they are a bar; people aren’t allowed to bring their own booze in.  So if you have it in your car, leave it there and save it for next week.  If they see this again, the individuals will be escorted off the premises.  We don’t need to make them mad.  Thank you for your cooperation.

 

Rumor has it some shirts may be in this week.  We’ll see about that though.  If not, just keep doing what you’re doing by wearing similar colored shirts. 

Oh, I do have something important to announce:  sign ups end soon.  They end the week after week 2.  Pro Alkies needs another lady if anyone knows someone who wants to play. 

If anyone is on Facebook or My Space, you can be a friend of Live or join the Live group and get more updates and information.

See ya Thursday, be sure to remember,

Sip with a straw, and kick hard!!!

Steve Kuhns

SCHEDULE & STANDINGS

CAPITAL

Game Times 10.16.08

7 pm Field 2 Smoking Bunts and Drinkin Doubles vs. Not Sorry for Partying

Refs: Jess/Joey/Mark 

8 pm Field 2 Relax and Let it Happen vs. Rockin Your Balls

Refs: Max/Rock

 

Week 1 Scores

Smoking Bunts and Drinkin Doubles 0 vs.  Relax and Let it Happen 1

Rockin Your Balls 2 vs. Not Sorry for Partying 5

LIVE

Game Times 10.16.08

7 pm Field 1 Sofa Kings vs. Soul Train

Ref: Kids In Rehab

7 pm Field 3 Walk of Shame vs. Tourettes

Ref: Pro Alkies

8 pm Field 1 Pro Alkies vs. Kids In Rehab

Ref:  Walk of Shame

 

Week 1 Scores

Kids In Rehab 3 vs. Walk of Shame 0

Sofa Kings 1 vs. Tourettes 0

Pro Alkies 12 vs. Soul Train 1

POWER POLLS

CAPITAL

1.  Not Sorry for Partying- Played a B+ game against the newbies in the league, but pulled off the W. With the Smokin Bunts coming off an opening week loss, they will need to play an A+ game to be victorious.

2.  Relax and Let it Happen- With enough players to start a small country they barely held off the Smokin Bunts. They will need to keep a tight defense and find their offense to hold off Rocking Your Balls.

3.Rockin Your Balls- Getting better and better by the week. Kickball is similar to chess as it can take a lifetime to master, but these guys are studying and getting better by the week. Watch our Relax!!!

4.  Smokin Bunts and Drinkin Doubles- With a combined 4,000 seasons of kickball under the teams belt, they should be a powerhouse. They may be moving up to the geriatrics league. Old age is a bitch.

Presidents Choice Award- Week 1

This week’s award goes to someone who reached for the stars…and came back with a kickball instead. Congrats Katie Ressler for an amazing catch and this weeks President’s Choice Award. Your beverage of choice will be waiting at Jovita’s for you. Jay, sorry, you didn’t win.

LIVE

In 1 week, that doesn’t give enough foundation for a team to bring on the power.  Live power polls will be up in week 3. 

~Your Live President, Steve 

FLIP CUP STANDINGS!

Flip Cup: Week 2

Greetings flip-cuppers,

First off, thanks for your patience last week as we ironed through a few changes from week one, I know it was confusing and I am sorry. The way that this thing is going to work is as follows:

I will have the poster with the team match-ups by the entrance of the bar. Please take a look at it on your way in so that you have some idea of when you need to gather your 5 man team. If 5 people from your team don’t show up to the bar (lame), you can have someone on the team go twice, or three times as we saw last week. This may lead to some very drunken souls so tell your teammates to not be retarded and come to the bar.

Second, your team needs to supply the beer for the game. Please, please play attention and get your beer while the team before you is playing. I greatly appreciate your help with this as it will help to move the games along faster. It seems like 1-2 beers per person got the job done last week, though if you want to be a hero and play with bigger fills, by all means buy more.

We will go through the entire poster and if people want to play for fun after that, or rematch or whatever, I am more than happy to hang out and continue screaming. That said below are the official scores from last week and the FC MVP picks. Pay attention to these as we are going to have a FC tourney at the end of the season and seeds will be awarded according to season wins and losses:

Team vs. Team
Best of 5
Not Sorry	0	Relax	3
Rockin’ your Balls	3	Smokin Bunts	2
Pro-Alkies	3	Soul Train	2
Sofa Kings	0	Tourettes	3
Kids in Rehab	2	Relax	3

 

Shout Outs!

Relax and Let it Happen: Ladies from Relax are this week’s MVPs for killing it in both games that they played.

Soul Train:  Kudos for not only being ready with beer, but having it served to them off of a platter at game time. Very impressive!

Thanks again for your patience and magic fingers. See you on Thursday.

Danielle 

ESPN8 – “THE OCHO”

If it’s almost a sport, we’ve got it!

Your sports newscaster, Cameron

 

 

“Welcome back to the Kickball World Series on ESPN8, The Ocho.  I’m your host, Gus Simmons, and with me is my color commentator, Kick Larson.  Kick, it’s been quite a game so far, and we still have another half inning.”

“You’re exactly right Gus.  Two different teams, almost identical match ups and handicaps.  Drinkers with a Kicking Problem had their left fielder pass out, she’s currently lying under the bench in the dugout, but she’s still clutching her beer.  Meanwhile, the Alcoballics lost their 2^nd baseman after his beer helmet was weighted down by an entire suitcase and he suffered a neck injury.”

“Well we’re back to the action now, the Alcoballics kicking, tie game, a run will win it.  Richard Hurt to lead off.  Here’s the pitch… and it’s a munt!  Drinkers can’t make a play, Hurt is safe.”

“Tough play there for the shortstop Gus, he had a bottle of whiskey in one hand and was trying to switch to his other hand to make the throw.  Didn’t get the out, but didn’t spill a drop either, nice.”

“Now the Alcoballics will look to move the runner over.  Right fielder Helen Bedd to the plate.  Bedd showing bunt… no, she kicks!  Ground ball to the right side, trying to make a play…”

“Gus, she’s flashing the 1^st baseman, trying to distract him!”  “… the peg attempt goes wild!  Hurt advancing to third, Bedd covers up and scrambles into 2^nd.” 

“Wow Gus, not enough that she was bunting him over, she whipped out the twins and distracted the fielder, you could see him take his eyes off the ball and he never set his feet to make the throw.  Great base-running.”

“Now the winning run is 60 feet away.  Peter Poon up to the plate.  Kick, how should the Drinkers play this one?”

“Well Gus, if they let the run score, they lose, so they should definitely try to keep the runner from coming home.”

(Awkward silence)

“Right you are Kick.  Well here’s Poon, looking to get a fly ball or something deep enough to score the run.  Curveball from the pitcher… short fly ball, to the 1^st baseman.  Hurt, ready to tag.”

“Going to be a close play Gus, both of them are close to home!”

“Here’s the throw home, play at the plate, they’re going to get him!  Ooooh!  Hurt throws his beer bottle to the catcher, the catcher grabs the beer and drops the ball!  Hurt is safe, Alcoballics win!”

“Wow Gus, what a great strategy, knows that the Drinkers catcher came straight from an AA meeting to play this game.”

“Well Kick,that was quite a game.  We’ll take a break now, when we come back, Wilford Brimley’s Moustache Ride takes on My Dixie Wrecked.  You’re watching the Kickball World Series on ESPN8, The Ocho, we’ll be right back.”   

CONFESSIONS

Dear Liver,

As you are well aware the last few Thursdays have been a great strain on our marriage.  I know that my insatiable promiscuity with various beverages such as vodka, tequila and beer (not to mention those beautiful jello-shots you caught me with in the woods at the park with), have done tremendous damage to our relationship.  A smaller gal than myself would attempt to place blame on our arrival in a new city and the ‘Wheel O Decadence, but you are way too smart for that. So, all I have to offer is a simple apology. 

I want you to know that those drinks meant nothing to me.  You are my true love.  They were all just one night stands.  I don’t even know most of their names or what exactly was in them.

But honey, you have to understand something.  A woman has needs.  We need to be held and kissed and pleasured.  And, to be frank, Liver, you have never really done that for me. You just kind of sit there, pumping away and not really paying attention to my needs or desires.  Yes, I understand that yours is a thankless job and that without you I would be quite frankly be, dead.  But, sweetheart, I just need more.

So, I will make you this deal.  If you allow me to freely open up this relationship and partake in the weekly festivities of our kickball league, I will always come home to you with a dozen gallons of water, fresh fruits and vegetables and even the occasional detox (I know how you love to be tickled and massaged with them).

Liver, please know that I never meant to hurt you.  I promise that no matter what next week brings, you are the one in my heart.  Please don’t leave.  I love you.  I need you. 

Your Lover,

Leah

JOVITA’S MOST WANTED

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there were some teams that were so lame; they were just too good to come to the bar.  Despite having a good time at the fields, they snuffed their noses up at everyone else to go someplace else because they are “To Cool” for Jovita’s.  So, if you see Walk of Shame & Smokin Bunts

on the fields this week, ask them why they were the only teams to not show up at the bar? Possible invite them, so if they don’t show up again, they can get called out in an even bigger way!!!

Walk of Shame  

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MINGLERS OF THE WEEK!

 Because you don’t have to be single to mingle

Get to know your fellow kickballas!!!  Find out what that cutie likes to drink, strike up that conversation and network.  We’re young professionals and you just never know!  Want to be a Mingler?  Especially if you’re in the Capital league!!!!!  Next week’s Minglers….Frienimies – a friend on a rival team.  Please submit a picture to minnie@minniemingle.com with details about yourselves or just send me pictures!

Couples of WAKA

Name: Wendell/Lisa

Age: Both of us older to know better

Sign: Gemini/Aquarius

Likes: Travel Beer Kickball

Dislikes: Work (neither born rich), Curry

Drinks: YES Like fish

WAKA member since:  June 2008

Team: Live – Sofa Kings

   

 

Name: Lisa Naeyaert

Nickname: Andariel, Bringer of Pestilence and Death

Age:  Young enough to be Minnie’s younger sister

Sign: “For Sale”

Likes:  Getting injured while not even playing kickball, doctors, medical insurance and whatever you like.

Dislikes:  That guy on Sofa Kings that nailed me in the face with a ball going, like, a hundred miles an hour.  Just kidding!  I’m over it.  Really.

Drinks:  The blood of opposing team members.  For breakfast.

WAKA member since: Summer 2007

Team:  Live – Kids in Rehab aka Fall 2008 Live Champions.  You’ll see.

 

Name: Zach Arrington

Nickname: “Zachary”

Age:  27

Sign:  Aquarius

Likes:  Warm butterscotch, a false sense of security, patent leather

Dislikes:  Racism, Belgians

Drinks:  Peach Schnapps

WAKA member since:  Fall 2007

Team:  Live – Kids in Rehab

Name:  Marc

Nickname:  Dube

Age:  31

Sign:  Leo

Likes:  Beer, Nicole, chicken wings, kickball, UT, dogs, disc golf

Dislikes:  Heights, bees, whiney people, OU

Drinks:  Beer, jager, tequila

WAKA Member since:  Spring ‘06

Team:  Live – Kids in Rehab!

Name:  Nicole Dube

Nickname:  Chugger

Age:  30

Sign:  Leo

Likes:  UT, purses, shoes, travel, puppies, kittens and unicorns

Dislikes:  cleaning, laundry, exercise, mornings, and hangovers-especially mornings when I have a hangover

Drinks:  beer, whiskey, and wine

WAKA member since:  2006–first team was Last Kid Picked

Team:  Live – Captain of Kids in Rehab

 

WAKA’S 2 FANS & A MASCOT

 

Name: Ben

Nickname: Bui, Boo, Pooey, Bui-San, Benny Hanna, Minnie’s older brother

Age: old

Sign: Gemini

Likes: kickball, basketball, football, beers, winning, rock band, excessively matching, hanging with Jordy, a good book, hot cocoa, a nice cardigan

Dislikes: Losing, small talk, rainy days and Mondays, dudes who don’t like sports

Drinks: The adult kind

Favorite Team:  Live – Kids in Rehab

 

Name: Jordy Parker

Nickname:  Jordache, Joseph, Poo Poo head, Jo, Jordan McKnight

Age: 5ish

Sign: Taurus

Likes: My mom, pets, kisses, treats, cats, kickball, walks in the park, ladies

Dislikes: Pit bulls, unfixed dogs, crates, squirrels, kb teams that oppose KIR and C&C

Drinks: Water, milk

Favorite Team:  Live – Kids in Rehab

 

Name: Chris

Nickname: Ward                   

Age: 28

Sign: Capricorn

Likes: kickball spectating, bowling, tall Asian men, tanning, writing poetry, lifting weights in front of a lot of people and grunting on every rep…um…pencil, notepad, stapler, paper clips, desk, trash can, coffee mug

Dislikes: painful conversations, Mariah Carey, short Asian men

Drinks: liquor that comes in plastic bottles

Favorite Team:  Live – Kids in Rehab & Tourettes

 

TEAM WRITE UPS

LIVE

Kids In Rehab

By David “Steve” Duchovny

So there we were…Kids in Rehab face the Walk of Shame.  Walk of Shame, good battle to start the season off and we wish you the best of luck!!!  Especially since you forfeited in flip cup later on that night.  As many of us know, most of Rehab has done the walk of shame.  Well, none of the girls because they are all virgins.  But the guys, we know, we’ve been, we’re scurred.  So let’s give a real quick synopsis as to what happened last week in this tight game.

Misty Steel toe, what can I say, those slippers work.  You kick a great ball and then go and run over the first baseman.  I think he’ll be sore for a few days. 

Jon, we should change your name to Duran Duran.  When you catch the ball, it’s because you’re “Hungry Like the Wolf”  

Will like to roll around in the hay.  Oops, wait….the grass.  Even if it is by himself, but he’s used to doing things by himself anyhow.  Great catch even with the theatrics.

And another miracle, Dube kicked a homerun.  Where the hell was this guy last season?  Oh, on the sidelines playing pocket pool watching his man crush win all the games on the mound.

Kevin, great job on the mound, but still need to have the bourbon and cigarette to make it right.  Like Neil Diamond says: “Girl, you’ll be a woman soon”.

And the biggest feat of them all, Lauren.  Yes, the quiet one finally scores.  As she was running the bases you could see the glimmer of scoring in her eyes.  Then as she crossed 3rd you could see in her smile that the flush was coming out.  She was going to score.  GOOOOAAAAAL!!!!!!!

Tourettes

By Cameron “&*%#$^*” Kushwara

Team Tourettes played much !@#$%^& better this week.  Last week we got our %^#&%! handed to us, and this week we just barely lost on a #@!%^#!% play.  The &%@!%$@ ref missed it, it was right in front of his ^%$@ nose.  But that’s okay, we tore those same !@$^%@ *&#!%@% up on the Flip Cup table.  0-1 on the field, 3-0 on the table.  That means we won 1.5 to 0.5 for the night, ##%$!@ &^#$%@!, so suck it!

Walk of Shame

 

By Andre Rodgers

Somehow, someway things just did not click for the Walks this week as we went down 3-0. After careful deliberation, we refuse to actually concede that we lost to the better team. That just would not be the ‘Shame way. So we are putting the blame squarely on the fact that our entrance music idea just didn’t make the right effects. I think it was the speakers. If that is not a good enough excuse, then maybe it was the fact your friendly captain had to run all 280lbs of himself around the corner during the first inning to fetch his lush teammates beer, forgetting the fact that he is black sprinting from behind a convenient store. I expect to see my face on Crime stoppers any day now. Or my favorite, the fact that we were missing 3 of our best guys of the game. One was in Fort Worth playing the Stockyards. Another was in another part of Austin hosting a “3 Card Monty” tournament. And the other one “forgot we had a game” so he spent his time buying speakers for his car at the flea market. That, and Rehab is really freakin’ good. All things considered 3-0, wasn’t that bad, right? Right.

 

Ah so goes life for the Walks. Pitching and fielding are still good. And the Walks are giving thumbs up to this new Ref system, as long as all the calls go in our favor. If not then we still like it because it gives us something us to place to blame on in case we lose. Cameron, Heather was safe. Just sayin’.  ‘Til next week.

 

WHAT ELSE HAPPENED ON THE FIELDS OR AT THE BAR?  ARE YOU TOO SELF CENTERED TO TELL US ABOUT IT?  WE’RE A FAMILY… SHARE YOUR WEALTH OF DRUNKEN KNOWLEDGE OR THAT ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC PLAY MADE.  DON’T BE MODEST.

 

SHAME ON THESE TEAMS:

For not contributing to your reading pleasure.

 

What does your heart tell you? Write gosh darn it!!!!!

Not Sorry for Partying

Pro Alkies

Relax and Let it Happen

Rockin Your Balls

Smoking Bunts and Drinkin Doubles

Soul Train  

Sofa Kings

 

 Thanks for reading.

As always… have fun and be safe.

It’s cheaper to call a cab then to pay for a lawyer.

 

Just Kick It!

 

 

KICKBALL FALL REGISTRATION OPEN – FIRST GAME THURS. OCT 2ND

First game is Thursday, October 2nd.  Registration is open now. Hope to see lots of familiar faces out there next month.  Tell your friends, your family, your coworkers, your AA sponsor, your parole officer, tell anyone and everyone.

www.kickball.com

Gillis Field – 2504 Durwood Ave.

Bar – Jovita’s 1617 S 1st St.

Specials!!!!

$2 wells
$2.50 beers
$3 margaritas
1/2 off nachos

Questions???  Email cameron@kickball.com

WAKA is the World Adult Kickball Association, a social-athletic organization designed to provide and promote the joy of kickball to those young at heart. The WAKA organization is the international body encompassing WAKA kickball divisions across the globe. Each WAKA division contains a maximum of 16 teams of 26 players each and is run by a President, other division officers, and a Board of Directors.

A division’s kickball season lasts from a couple of months to as many as four months and consists of eight games against other teams within the division. At the end of the season, each division holds a division tournament to crown a single team as the division champion.
Two divisions to choose from: The TX Capital (competitive players) & Live Divisions (social players) serves the Austin Area. Games are played Thursday nights. In addition, we have two big, ginormous league parties per season where you can swap kickball war stories, finally get a chance to hit on that special kickballer or ballerette, and drink copious amounts of booze playing Flip Cup.

GMOT Exhibition 10.2.08

In this week’s news:

·         Changes – Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat. That’s the way it is.

·         A Note from Live & Capital Presidents

·         A Word from our Social & Charity – Wheel of Fortune!

·         Schedule

·         Minglers of the Week

·         Team write ups & unusual encounters

TX Live and TX Capital: New and Improved (?)

During the off-season, sweeping changes affected the league.  New faces came in, familiar faces left, new bar, even new (old) fields.  To make sure everyone is caught up, here’s a quick look back/look ahead.

 

Live President:  Was Drea, now Steve.

Drea:  Brought excitement, exuberance and huge tracts of land.

Steve:  Complete with his own AARP card, walker and oxygen tank.

Capital President:  Formerly Josh, now Rock.

Josh:  Contributed to the GMOT and maintained a steady hand.

Ryan:  Contributes to bar tabs, receives a Christmas card from Lone Star and will act completely inappropriate.

Fields:  Used to be Jaycee Fields, now Gillis Park.

Jaycee:   Pro:  Four fields to play on, plenty of room.  Con:  Disgusting, dirty bathroom populated by creepy bums.

Gillis:     Pro:  Bathroom, while disgusting and dirty, is bum free!  Con:  Walkway through Power field complete with foot traffic.

Bar:  Freddie’s to Jovita’s

Freddie’s:  Washer pits, plenty of room, Claire.

Jovita’s:  Flip cup.  Specials, Flip cup.  Flip cup.  Did I mention Flip cup?

GMOT:  From PDF to Blog form!

PDF:  Very elegant and well done.

Blog:  First of its kind in ALL of WAKA, and everyone likes to be 1^st.

So that’s what’s new for this season.  Feel free to comment on anything new and improved that might have been missed.

 

Cameron

cameron@kickball.com

WAKA Austin Representative

 

Pictures:

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From the Desk of El Live Presidente….

So we are starting the season with an action packed week.  This past week was exhibition games and will not count in final standing unless there is a tie of some sort.  This week, Oct. 9^th, is when the show really starts.  We are looking forward to having an exciting season.  There are many new faces along with old ones.  Old meaning veteran players, not old like me.  There are 6 teams that are beginning a journey to the top of the league.  I would like to welcome all of them to Live and wish each the best of luck. 

To take care of some business, I would like to meet with each Captain on a one on one basis this week to discuss certain aspects of the league.  This meeting is to re-emphasize certain points and to also inform them of any changes, and educate them on certain rules and regulations.  For starters, each team will be responsible for providing a ref 4 times throughout the season.  The ref schedule will be included with the game schedule.  The rest will be discussed Thursday. 

As many of you know, the charity for WAKA this season is Capital Area Food Bank.  We had a strong showing last week and I thank you for your support.  Leah did a great job providing goodies for all!!!  Next week, there will be a wheel of fortune.  So be sure to bring your canned food or your cash to win something big!!!  There will be a representative from Capital Area Food Bank coming to talk to us on Oct. 16^th.  So if you are interested in hearing what they have to say, show up at 6:30. 

I hope everyone enjoyed Jovita’s the other night.  They are being great and I “hope it’s the beginning of a beautiful friendship”.  Jovita’s has been kind enough to provide us with several specials after the games. So in order to capitalize on these fine specials, you need to show up and also partake in a little flip cup challenge.  Also, be sure to take care of you food server while there.  It’s not very easy for them to take orders for 80 people at once.  Another note, dogs are welcome at Jovita’s, but not inside.  They have to enter through the front area.  As far as the kitchen goes, I’m going to find out what time it closes and will inform you as soon as I find out. 

In case any of you are concerned, shirts should be in soon.  So you need not be worried about having them in a reasonable amount of time. 

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me at s_kuhns@hotmail.com.  I will do my best to respond in a timely manner. 

Sincerely,

Stephen Kuhns

 

  Letter from the Capital President

 

 

Hey Guys and Gals,

 

As always I want to thank all of you for coming out last week and playing in preseason exhibition matches for the fall season.  Between the talent and drinking habits of the teams this season, it should turn out to be a great season.  I went over most of the important information in the email that I sent out last week before the games. Here are a couple more things that need to be addressed.

 

1.      Trash Bags- Make sure someone from each team brings a trash bag and cups for people to use.  We need to make sure that all alcoholic sports beverages and their packaging are kept from plain sight. That will keep the authorities from giving us any problems.

2.      The refs are out there doing their best. Remember we are drinking too and are not paid professionals. We will do our best to be fair, but as you have seen, not perfect. So if you have questions about a call have your captain speak with the ref.  We haven’t had any problems with this yet, but as the season goes on it always ends up happening.

3.      Each week I will nominate a player as that week’s “President’s Choice.” The award will go to the best, crappiest, funniest or possibly even stupidest play of the night.  Each week the prize will be different for award and will be given out at Jovita’s after the game.

 

I will see y’all out there Thursday and make sure to look at the schedule for your team’s game time.  Remember to come to Jovita’s after the game for good drinks, flip cup and food if you eat. Have a good one guys.

  

Mr. Logue

 

Presidents Choice

 

The President’s Choice Award for the preseason goes to….Chase Northington of Rocking Your Balls. His bunt at home plate that flipped him to his back won him the season’s first award.  If you didn’t see the play it’s a little difficult to even describe, but it was amazing. Keep up the good work Chase.

 

 

Power Poll

 

Not Sorry for Partying- With strong pitching and defense it looks like they are going to give everyone a run for their money. Let’s see how their offense comes together.

 

Smokin Bunts and Drinkin Doubles- A whole bunch of veterans who need a hobby other than kickball. They have the experience, but can they keep it up against the new young blood in the division.

 

Relax and Let It Happen- Don’t let the preseason loss fool you, the returning champs were missing a few key players and their loudest player. 

Rockin Your Balls- For their first WAKA game they held on pretty well for playing a bunch of veterans.  They shouldn’t be taken lightly and who knows what we will see out there this.

A word from our social/charity chair….

 

 

First and foremost, thank you to everyone who contributed to our charity this past week.   For all of you who are not aware, this season our charity is the Capital Area Food Bank.    Each week I will be coming out to the fields with an exciting, fabulous and usually intoxicating game or event to help raise money.  Last week, I introduced my super-duper, secret-ninja, straight from New Orleans, jello-shots.  Although, the recipe is a secret, I promise there was plenty of flavor and booze in them. 

Next week, I will be bringing out my WHEEL OF FORTUNE.  The game is simple. For 1 buck or 1 food donation you get 1 spin (3 bucks gets you 4 spins).  Each spin wins a prize.  I promise that each prize will be worth well worth it!  So make sure to bring cash and cans to the fields.

Back at the bar we saw some great match-ups at the flip cup table.  I know that the cups were, lets say, less than awesome-o, but I swear on all the good beer in Austin, that next week, this situation with be rectified.   

We all owe our thanks (and will continue to owe, throughout the season) to Danielle- THE ENFORCER, our official Flip Cup Referee.  She will be the one officiating at the tables each week, so all bribes, including beer, handsome dudes, and lollipops should directed to her. Since the games were just exposition this past week, I will be kind and NOT announce the scores achem achem REHAB achem…  But starting next week, it will be official, so come ready with your five person teams to match off.

 

Well, it was nice to meet everyone last week.  I hope everyone had a grand ol’ time kicking that big red ball around and flippin’ those plastic cups.

 

Have a great week and see ya on the fields.

Leah

 

SCHEDULES 10.9.08

 

LIVE:

7 pm Field #2 Rehab vs. Walk of Shame  Ref:  Tourettes

7 pm Field #3  Pro Alkies vs. Soul Train Ref:  Sofa Kings

8 pm Field #2 Sofa Kings vs. Tourettes Ref:  KIR

 

CAPITAL:

7 pm Field #1 Smoking Bunts and Drinkin Doubles  vs.  Relax and Let it Happen Refs: Max and Jesse

8 pm Field #1 Rockin Your Balls vs. Not Sorry for Partying Refs: Rock and Joey

 

 

Minglers of the Week!!!

 

Because you don’t have to be single to mingle

 

Get to know your fellow kickballas!!!  Find out what that cutie likes to drink, strike up that conversation and network.  We’re young professionals and you just never know!  Next week’s Minglers – couples of WAKA.  If you are a couple, who both are currently playing the Fall season, please submit a picture to minnie@minniemingle.com with details about yourselves or just send me pictures!

 

Cameron

Nickname:  Kickball Cam

Age:  27

Sign:  Aries

Likes:  Tattoos, kittens and books.

Dislikes:  The Designated Hitter, Austin Drivers and munting.

Drinks:  Guinness

WAKA member since:  Dec. 2006

Team:  Live – Tourettes – Red

 

 

Jennifer

Nickname:  Jenny B.

Age:  30 and fabulous

Sign:  Leo

Likes:  Karaoke, trivia and Willy Wonka

Dislikes:  Ticking clocks, misuse of synonyms and reality TV

Drinks:  Bud Light

WAKA member since:  June 2008

Team:  Live – Tourettes – Red

 

 

Minnie and Bob

Nickname: Hoo-Chi Minn, Mirrer Rite girl, Minnie Loo, Minnie Moo and Bobbie (he likes what she likes)

Age:  Old enough to be your older sister.

Sign:  Capricorn

Likes:  Knee High socks, acting like a tourist and funny people

Dislikes:  Tools (people not the object) and people who smack when they eat

Drinks:  Mirrer Rite

WAKA Member since:  Summer 07 & 2 time Live Champion

Team:  Live – Kids in Rehab – Grey

Live’s Write Ups and What nots….

Walk of Shame

By Andre Rodgers

New season. New players. Same good time for the Walks. We began our season with an exhibition game that was taken at the last minute by about half of the Tourette’s team, yet they still fielded a full roster. (scary!) And not that we were keeping score, but we are pretty sure we took the victory. (Not goin’ out like Kimbo Slice) Anyway, big thanks to Tourettes for being awesome and letting us play, when they didn’t have to.

Good job to the new players, Christian and Heather, for scoring and good kicking. Great pitching and solid fielding seem to be working again for us. We definitely can keep this up. This week we have a date with the defending champs and it should be amazing, as long as we don’t play on that kickball field that is straight from Beirut. Seriously, our ankles still hurt from the landmine field that we were playing on. Speaking of hurting… Kris, no one actually believes your ass is hurt. Suck it up, and stop toting around a poodle. It’s not a good masculine look for you.

Let’s get a win.

 

Capital’s Write Ups & Something, somethings…

 

Sorry for Not Partying

 

By Max Reinbach, III.

 

 

 

After a season long break, Not Sorry for Partying (formerly known as 5th Year Frat) has returned and things seem to be starting out well.

Being scheduled to play the returning champs, “Relax and let it happen”, we knew we had our work cut out for us.  Adam “ShowStoppa”

Cowart picked up right where he left off and slung his balls at our opposing team and proved that he could help us win our first game.

Newcomer, Leah Hansen, earned MVP honors for the first game as she helped out the team with 2 RBI’s.  The game proved to be tight, but in

the end NSFP came out victorious defeating their opponent 5-4 and celebrated with the ceremonious post-game shotgun.  Looks like there

is a new sheriff in town Relax and let it happen and we aren’t sorry for partying.  Good luck to everyone this week and see you on the

fields!

 Not Sorry.

 

Your new home away from the fields…

 

Jovita’s

 

And where you can have unusual encounters to write about next week.

 

 

 

 

  

Specials!!!!

$2 wells
$2.50 beers
$3 margaritas
1/2 off nachos
 
The front patio is reserved for kickballas and flip cup. 

http://www.jovitas.com/

1617 S 1st St
Austin, TX 78704
(512) 916-4988

 

 

Thanks for reading, be safe and see ya on the fields!

 

 

CAPITAL’S SCHEDULE

 Updated 12/5/08

Team	W	L	T	RF	RA
Relax and Let it Happen	6	1	1	17	9
Smokin Bunts	4	3	1	9	9
Not Sorry for Partying	3	4	1	18	15
Rockin’ Your Balls	1	7	0	13	24

 

Week 1   October 9th, 2008
Field	Time	Teams	Score	Refs
1	7pm	Smokin Vs. Relax	0-1	Both
1	8pm	Not Sorry Vs. Rockin Balls	5-2	Both
Week 2   October 16th, 2008
Field	Time	Teams	Score	Refs
2	7pm	Smokin Vs. Not Sorry	3-0	Both
2	8pm	Relax Vs. Rockin Balls	5-4	Both
Week 3   October 23rd, 2008
Field	Time	Teams	Score	Refs
3	7pm	Not Sorry Vs. Relax	0-1	Both
3	8 pm	Rockin Balls Vs. Smokin	0-2	Both
Week 4   October 30th, 2008
Field	Time	Teams	Score	Refs
1	7pm	Not Sorry Vs. Rockin Balls	5-2	Both
1	8pm	Smokin Vs. Relax	2-2	Both
Week 5  November 6th, 2008
Field	Time	Teams	Score	Refs
2	7pm	Relax Vs. Rockin Balls	W-F	Both
2	8pm	Smokin Vs. Live – Kids In Rehab	0-6	Both
Week 6   November 13th, 2008
Field	Time	Teams	Score	Refs
3	7pm	Rockin Balls Vs. Smokin	2-0	Both
3	8pm	Not Sorry Vs. Relax	1-4	Both
Week 7   November 20th, 2008
Field	Time	Teams	Score	Refs
1	7pm	Not Sorry Vs. Rockin Balls	7-3	Both
1	8pm	Smokin Vs. Relax	2-4	Both
November 27th, 2008 – No Games – Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 8 December 4th, 2008
Field	Time	Teams	Score	Refs
2	7pm	Smokin vs. Rockin Balls	W-F	Both
2	8pm	Relax vs. Not Sorry	F-F	Both