Charlotte Kickball

[JimmyB]

Try and spread the word about coming to jacksonville in May! Beach vacation + kickball!

[btaylor]

Try and spread the word about coming to jacksonville in May! Beach vacation + kickball!

Jacksonville might be a little too soon. There's one team that might travel and I'm going to try to get them to Atlanta. It's a little closer and gives me more time to meet them and get them interested. I might be able to squeeze one circuit team out of this city.

[The Scorekeeper]

Try and spread the word about coming to jacksonville in May! Beach vacation + kickball!

Jacksonville might be a little too soon. There's one team that might travel and I'm going to try to get them to Atlanta. It's a little closer and gives me more time to meet them and get them interested. I might be able to squeeze one circuit team out of this city.

hey, one is a start! if you can get them to go to any event, even if it's just one measly mish-mash "availables" team, i can just about guarantee they will have a good time and take it back to tell all their friends and teammates about it. keep in mind, if you can't make JKO with a whole team, we always need refs which is at least a way to get people exposed. easier to convince two or three people to go than to get a whole team. we also have DC and VBKO within reasonable* driving distance from charlotte.

*note: i haven't flown to a tournament since 2006, and i've attended a lot of tournaments since then, so my reference for "reasonable driving distance" may be a bit different from your average player.

[btaylor]

Try and spread the word about coming to jacksonville in May! Beach vacation + kickball!

Jacksonville might be a little too soon. There's one team that might travel and I'm going to try to get them to Atlanta. It's a little closer and gives me more time to meet them and get them interested. I might be able to squeeze one circuit team out of this city.

hey, one is a start! if you can get them to go to any event, even if it's just one measly mish-mash "availables" team, i can just about guarantee they will have a good time and take it back to tell all their friends and teammates about it. keep in mind, if you can't make JKO with a whole team, we always need refs which is at least a way to get people exposed. easier to convince two or three people to go than to get a whole team. we also have DC and VBKO within reasonable* driving distance from charlotte.

*note: i haven't flown to a tournament since 2006, and i've attended a lot of tournaments since then, so my reference for "reasonable driving distance" may be a bit different from your average player.

Virginia beach might be driveable, but Washington DC is probably something I would want to fly to. But I hate driving and I'm flying to jacksonville from charlotte which is only about a 6 hour drive.

[The Scorekeeper]

Try and spread the word about coming to jacksonville in May! Beach vacation + kickball!

Jacksonville might be a little too soon. There's one team that might travel and I'm going to try to get them to Atlanta. It's a little closer and gives me more time to meet them and get them interested. I might be able to squeeze one circuit team out of this city.

hey, one is a start! if you can get them to go to any event, even if it's just one measly mish-mash "availables" team, i can just about guarantee they will have a good time and take it back to tell all their friends and teammates about it. keep in mind, if you can't make JKO with a whole team, we always need refs which is at least a way to get people exposed. easier to convince two or three people to go than to get a whole team. we also have DC and VBKO within reasonable* driving distance from charlotte.

*note: i haven't flown to a tournament since 2006, and i've attended a lot of tournaments since then, so my reference for "reasonable driving distance" may be a bit different from your average player.

Virginia beach might be driveable, but Washington DC is probably something I would want to fly to. But I hate driving and I'm flying to jacksonville from charlotte which is only about a 6 hour drive.

see, and from vb we drove to sfko the last few years (15+ hours one way), so driving to nyc (8 hours?), atl (9 hours), and jax (10+ hours) is nbd. harrisburg (6 hours?) should be easy enough, and dc (2 to 4 hours, depending) is a no brainer.

[The Scorekeeper]

oh, i take it back. i flew to vegas in 2009 and 2011.

[btaylor]

No games last night, rained out. Anyone had a bunt homerun yet?

[FlyingV]

No games last night, rained out. Anyone had a bunt homerun yet?

Rained out here as well. Practiced on those same fields, went out to the league bar and the owner of Pinnacle was there (free drinks) which led to Ti^2, not a bad night for a rainout.

Which leads me to my next assumption, rainouts lead to Ti^2.

[Static]

Finally got a look at my new social team last night. I'd say we have three athletic guys on the entire team. Leadoff kicker went first to home on my bunt down three. Tall grass really sucks.

[btaylor]

No games last night, rained out. Anyone had a bunt homerun yet?

Rained out here as well. Practiced on those same fields, went out to the league bar and the owner of Pinnacle was there (free drinks) which led to Ti^2, not a bad night for a rainout.

Which leads me to my next assumption, rainouts lead to Ti^2.

My rainout led to a bar sponsored flip cup tournament, which led to a $100 bar tab, which led to 25 shots.

[btaylor]

Finally got a look at my new social team last night. I'd say we have three athletic guys on the entire team. Leadoff kicker went first to home on my bunt down three. Tall grass really sucks.

That's two more athletic guys than my team has. Will you be joining brick, mcnugget, and I in the bunt homerun sandusky shot challenge?

[Static]

Finally got a look at my new social team last night. I'd say we have three athletic guys on the entire team. Leadoff kicker went first to home on my bunt down three. Tall grass really sucks.

That's two more athletic guys than my team has. Will you be joining brick, mcnugget, and I in the bunt homerun sandusky shot challenge?

Might as well...there are a couple girls on there I wouldn't mind getting a handy from.
I ended up pitching, playing catcher and 1st base.

[btaylor]

Finally got a look at my new social team last night. I'd say we have three athletic guys on the entire team. Leadoff kicker went first to home on my bunt down three. Tall grass really sucks.

That's two more athletic guys than my team has. Will you be joining brick, mcnugget, and I in the bunt homerun sandusky shot challenge?

Might as well...there are a couple girls on there I wouldn't mind getting a handy from.
I ended up pitching, playing catcher and 1st base.

See if you can get some medals from your St. Louis brothers and we can also award that to the BHSSC champ.

Anyone else playing in such a crappy league that they want to attempt? Winner receives a delicious shot and possibly a medal.

[dp3]

Anyone else playing in such a crappy league that they want to attempt? Winner receives a delicious shot and possibly a medal.

Yup! I'm starting in a new "Crappiest Kickball League in America" division next Sunday. They've sworn to me that the division I signed up for is their "most competitive," but I still think it's a definite possibility. I had a couple last time I played (but received no HJs. Buncha prudes), and am excited to go for it again.

[btaylor]

No games last night, rained out. Anyone had a bunt homerun yet?

Rained out here as well. Practiced on those same fields, went out to the league bar and the owner of Pinnacle was there (free drinks) which led to Ti^2, not a bad night for a rainout.

Which leads me to my next assumption, rainouts lead to Ti^2.

I think its all those brightly colored mantanks that lead to TI^2

[FlyingV]

No games last night, rained out. Anyone had a bunt homerun yet?

Rained out here as well. Practiced on those same fields, went out to the league bar and the owner of Pinnacle was there (free drinks) which led to Ti^2, not a bad night for a rainout.

Which leads me to my next assumption, rainouts lead to Ti^2.

I think its all those brightly colored mantanks that lead to TI^2

I should do well in Austin then, based on our new Austin uniforms that came in last night.

[Zak]

I was going to attempt the bunt home run in the finals last night kicking at the bottom with two outs but was instructed to kick away after two fouls.

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[btaylor]

1-1 with a kick away, no attempt to bunt. This was the most frustrated I've ever been playing kickball. Somehow were getting worse. Full update in the morning.

[Justin Andrew Anderson]

1-1 with a kick away, no attempt to bunt. This was the most frustrated I've ever been playing kickball. Somehow were getting worse. Full update in the morning.

Always look forward to the Thursday morning Charlotte kickball update!

[NoShoes]

I attempted a bunt homerun against the charger (Wes from the Peninsula Pounders) from JFK tonight, but he wisely held the ball instead of throwing me out. If he threw at me, then I would have only been held back by the runners ahead of me (those noobs).

[btaylor]

We played 8 innings last night, I kicked fourth and somehow only got up twice. We had less than 20 people last night too. First inning, runners on 1st and 3rd, one out. Kick a line drive in the outfield score 1. Second at bat, runners on 2nd and 3rd, 1 out. Normally I would bunt and take the free base, but... you guessed it, there is a girl behind me so I kicked away. Caught in the outfield, but both runs scored. I just described to you every run we scored last night...

Defense: What's that. The range of half the outfielders is about two feet. The other half I honestly believe are afraid of the ball. The ball went out to the right fielder (guy) and he actually shrieked. It's a big red ball not a bomb, just catch it!! I think we are about to switch up the fielding and play 7 girls and 4 guys, it's a shitshow out there. If you didn't kick it to me, the shortstop (2 diving plays for the second week in a row) or the first baseman, you did not get out last night.

The competition: Is douche spelled with or without an accent over the e? They were annoying before, during, and after. Half of the guys were wearing football gloves. I'm not sure if you're allowed to wear them or not, but even if I knew you weren't allowed to I wouldn't have said anything, but who wears gloves. It wasn't cold, you don't need gloves.

There is no way these other leagues in the bunt homerun challenge can be this unathletic. If so I feel sorry for the rest of you. Bootycapt, please put fully loaded in a pool with meatballs, flying v, jkid, cobra kai, and mms just so I can get my fill of competitive kickball before I return to this oasis.
[edit: I just talked to tst and he said please do not do that]

[The Scorekeeper]

that's just... wow. i'm so sorry to hear all that. i just can't imagine how it's fun for those people to suck that hard, whether or not they're losing to you. i'm pretty bad but at least i run around flailing in an attempt to catch the ball (generally not catching it, but making my teammates think i'm going to, then managing to accidentally deflect it away from them, resulting in the other team scoring and my teammates looking at me like the fat kid nobody wanted on the team anyway). "being social" and "having fun" is one thing but dude, did you pay good money to lose or what? the jerseys aren't THAT sexy that you signed up for the prestige...

p.s. btaylor, your avatar makes me giggle, the way your hands are daintily tucked like a t-rex trying to fly, and your bottom half appears to be dancing.

[btaylor]

that's just... wow. i'm so sorry to hear all that. i just can't imagine how it's fun for those people to suck that hard, whether or not they're losing to you. i'm pretty bad but at least i run around flailing in an attempt to catch the ball (generally not catching it, but making my teammates think i'm going to, then managing to accidentally deflect it away from them, resulting in the other team scoring and my teammates looking at me like the fat kid nobody wanted on the team anyway). "being social" and "having fun" is one thing but dude, did you pay good money to lose or what? the jerseys aren't THAT sexy that you signed up for the prestige...

p.s. btaylor, your avatar makes me giggle, the way your hands are daintily tucked like a t-rex trying to fly, and your bottom half appears to be dancing.

Half of them look embarassed when they miss a play, half don't really care. The bar is fun afterwards, its just the hour of the game feels like its taking about 4 hours. What they lack in kickball they do make up for in flop cup though. There are six of us that I don't think have lost a game in three weeks. It's quite spectacular. As far as the avatar, if your name is Brent your avatar has to be awesome. I was just following suit.

[sduncan]

A player from my team had a bunt homerun last night, I believe it was caught on video but we will have to see. His wife plays on our team, no word yet if he received the obligatory HJ once he arrived home but I can confirm that it did not take place on the field or at the bar.

This was actually a pretty decent team that we played last night too, it was a simple over throw at first where he took second, but the pitcher got a little frisky and tried to throw him out at second. The ball went sailing into the outfield and he came home with ease. Proved to be a crucial run, as we only won the ball game 3-2.

[krabbas]

that's just... wow. i'm so sorry to hear all that. i just can't imagine how it's fun for those people to suck that hard, whether or not they're losing to you. i'm pretty bad but at least i run around flailing in an attempt to catch the ball (generally not catching it, but making my teammates think i'm going to, then managing to accidentally deflect it away from them, resulting in the other team scoring and my teammates looking at me like the fat kid nobody wanted on the team anyway). "being social" and "having fun" is one thing but dude, did you pay good money to lose or what? the jerseys aren't THAT sexy that you signed up for the prestige...

p.s. btaylor, your avatar makes me giggle, the way your hands are daintily tucked like a t-rex trying to fly, and your bottom half appears to be dancing.

Half of them look embarassed when they miss a play, half don't really care. The bar is fun afterwards, its just the hour of the game feels like its taking about 4 hours. What they lack in kickball they do make up for in flop cup though. There are six of us that I don't think have lost a game in three weeks. It's quite spectacular. As far as the avatar, if your name is Brent your avatar has to be awesome. I was just following suit.

It's been a good 3 weeks or so since someone has taken a picture of me looking like a stroke victim on the mound.

[kim dude]

A player from my team had a bunt homerun last night, I believe it was caught on video but we will have to see. His wife plays on our team, no word yet if he received the obligatory HJ once he arrived home but I can confirm that it did not take place on the field or at the bar.

This was actually a pretty decent team that we played last night too, it was a simple over throw at first where he took second, but the pitcher got a little frisky and tried to throw him out at second. The ball went sailing into the outfield and he came home with ease. Proved to be a crucial run, as we only won the ball game 3-2.

I was screaming "handjob!!!!" from the adjacent field as it was going down.

[btaylor]

A player from my team had a bunt homerun last night, I believe it was caught on video but we will have to see. His wife plays on our team, no word yet if he received the obligatory HJ once he arrived home but I can confirm that it did not take place on the field or at the bar.

This was actually a pretty decent team that we played last night too, it was a simple over throw at first where he took second, but the pitcher got a little frisky and tried to throw him out at second. The ball went sailing into the outfield and he came home with ease. Proved to be a crucial run, as we only won the ball game 3-2.

I was screaming "handjob!!!!" from the adjacent field as it was going down.

I think the hj has to occur during the game. It's really only fair to the bunter. I also love that we are now heckling about hjs.

I forgot before, but we have tentatively scheduled a practice for next Sunday. My apartment complex has a soccer field so were going to try to do it there. Keg and grill will be going so we'll probably get about 17 minutes of practice in before people quit. Better than no practice I guess.

[Horses and Genitals]

Some dude on my team pulled it off last night, in dancepants, nonetheless. Earned him Ape of the Week honors, but unfortch for him no HJs.

[Horses and Genitals]

that's just... wow. i'm so sorry to hear all that. i just can't imagine how it's fun for those people to suck that hard, whether or not they're losing to you. i'm pretty bad but at least i run around flailing in an attempt to catch the ball (generally not catching it, but making my teammates think i'm going to, then managing to accidentally deflect it away from them, resulting in the other team scoring and my teammates looking at me like the fat kid nobody wanted on the team anyway). "being social" and "having fun" is one thing but dude, did you pay good money to lose or what? the jerseys aren't THAT sexy that you signed up for the prestige...

p.s. btaylor, your avatar makes me giggle, the way your hands are daintily tucked like a t-rex trying to fly, and your bottom half appears to be dancing.

Half of them look embarassed when they miss a play, half don't really care. The bar is fun afterwards, its just the hour of the game feels like its taking about 4 hours. What they lack in kickball they do make up for in flop cup though. There are six of us that I don't think have lost a game in three weeks. It's quite spectacular. As far as the avatar, if your name is Brent your avatar has to be awesome. I was just following suit.

It's been a good 3 weeks or so since someone has taken a picture of me looking like a stroke victim on the mound.

Speaking of avatars, why are we all blurry now?

[The Scorekeeper]

that's just... wow. i'm so sorry to hear all that. i just can't imagine how it's fun for those people to suck that hard, whether or not they're losing to you. i'm pretty bad but at least i run around flailing in an attempt to catch the ball (generally not catching it, but making my teammates think i'm going to, then managing to accidentally deflect it away from them, resulting in the other team scoring and my teammates looking at me like the fat kid nobody wanted on the team anyway). "being social" and "having fun" is one thing but dude, did you pay good money to lose or what? the jerseys aren't THAT sexy that you signed up for the prestige...

p.s. btaylor, your avatar makes me giggle, the way your hands are daintily tucked like a t-rex trying to fly, and your bottom half appears to be dancing.

Half of them look embarassed when they miss a play, half don't really care. The bar is fun afterwards, its just the hour of the game feels like its taking about 4 hours. What they lack in kickball they do make up for in flop cup though. There are six of us that I don't think have lost a game in three weeks. It's quite spectacular. As far as the avatar, if your name is Brent your avatar has to be awesome. I was just following suit.

It's been a good 3 weeks or so since someone has taken a picture of me looking like a stroke victim on the mound.

Speaking of avatars, why are we all blurry now?

because the avatars all got shrunk in preparation for the upcoming board upgrades, i suspect.

[Horses and Genitals]

I don't like!

The worst HJ is a blurry HJ.

[kim dude]

JPWilks got a bunt home run yesterday but unfortunately for him, no one would give him the HJ. I''m pretty sure we made some of our new players uncomfortable when we did "handjob!!" for our post game cheer.

[btaylor]

Seems like everyone who's not trying for a bunt homerun is getting one. Are we trying to hard (hj pun intended)? Do people know who's in the challenge and not allowing us to do it? What about triple plays? Anyone had one in a while?

[McNugget]

I had a great chance for an unassisted triple play yesterday. It wasn't on film but worth mentioning.

No outs, bases loaded, and I'm catching. For some reason the guy bunts down third so I grab the ball, tag the runner, step on third, and run like hell to second. Around that time the ref (her first time reffing) decided to call it a foul ball. My feet were in fair territory the whole time but I reached to my left to grab the bouncing ball in the air before it touched foul. According to her judgement the foul line extends into the air so once the ball crossed that plane it was foul. I don't know why it took her till after the play was over to call it foul but I was devastated.

[btaylor]

I had a great chance for an unassisted triple play yesterday. It wasn't on film but worth mentioning.

No outs, bases loaded, and I'm catching. For some reason the guy bunts down third so I grab the ball, tag the runner, step on third, and run like hell to second. Around that time the ref (her first time reffing) decided to call it a foul ball. My feet were in fair territory the whole time but I reached to my left to grab the bouncing ball in the air before it touched foul. According to her judgement the foul line extends into the air so once the ball crossed that plane it was foul. I don't know why it took her till after the play was over to call it foul but I was devastated.

That would have been tough. You probably would have had to try to peg the runner going to second. Besides the bhr, grandslam, and triple play is there anything else we should be striving for in these games?

I'll be playing in a sombrero on Wednesday and I plan on attempting a catch in the hat.

While pitching, I really want to get the "peg foul out". I've seen people try it, I've tried it, but I've never seen it work. When someone has three fouls, just throw it as hard as you can near their feet. I've gotten close, but never pulled it off. Undoubtedly, the ref will mess up the call and I will not be awarded my strikeout...

[The Scorekeeper]

I had a great chance for an unassisted triple play yesterday. It wasn't on film but worth mentioning.

No outs, bases loaded, and I'm catching. For some reason the guy bunts down third so I grab the ball, tag the runner, step on third, and run like hell to second. Around that time the ref (her first time reffing) decided to call it a foul ball. My feet were in fair territory the whole time but I reached to my left to grab the bouncing ball in the air before it touched foul. According to her judgement the foul line extends into the air so once the ball crossed that plane it was foul. I don't know why it took her till after the play was over to call it foul but I was devastated.

That would have been tough. You probably would have had to try to peg the runner going to second. Besides the bhr, grandslam, and triple play is there anything else we should be striving for in these games?

I'll be playing in a sombrero on Wednesday and I plan on attempting a catch in the hat.

While pitching, I really want to get the "peg foul out". I've seen people try it, I've tried it, but I've never seen it work. When someone has three fouls, just throw it as hard as you can near their feet. I've gotten close, but never pulled it off. Undoubtedly, the ref will mess up the call and I will not be awarded my strikeout...

pretty sure dave regelsky (dregs) did this in waar a few times. it was previously a one-bounce underhand league so people would choke up on the bag and he'd just throw a no-bounce right at their feet. doesn't matter how many times it bounced if you make contact...

[McNugget]

The runner at second was easy because he stood at first watching the play unfold. Thats common for a lot of players in this league. Moving one base at a time is a major achievement for many.

[btaylor]

I had a great chance for an unassisted triple play yesterday. It wasn't on film but worth mentioning.

No outs, bases loaded, and I'm catching. For some reason the guy bunts down third so I grab the ball, tag the runner, step on third, and run like hell to second. Around that time the ref (her first time reffing) decided to call it a foul ball. My feet were in fair territory the whole time but I reached to my left to grab the bouncing ball in the air before it touched foul. According to her judgement the foul line extends into the air so once the ball crossed that plane it was foul. I don't know why it took her till after the play was over to call it foul but I was devastated.

That would have been tough. You probably would have had to try to peg the runner going to second. Besides the bhr, grandslam, and triple play is there anything else we should be striving for in these games?

I'll be playing in a sombrero on Wednesday and I plan on attempting a catch in the hat.

While pitching, I really want to get the "peg foul out". I've seen people try it, I've tried it, but I've never seen it work. When someone has three fouls, just throw it as hard as you can near their feet. I've gotten close, but never pulled it off. Undoubtedly, the ref will mess up the call and I will not be awarded my strikeout...

pretty sure dave regelsky (dregs) did this in waar a few times. it was previously a one-bounce underhand league so people would choke up on the bag and he'd just throw a no-bounce right at their feet. doesn't matter how many times it bounced if you make contact...

Ahhh, you say that, but in Charlotte you might be wrong. Last week I pitched, batter took a couple (let's call it two) steps then stopped. Umpire called it a ball, then it hit the kicker, I said it hit him it should be a foul and he told me the kicker didn't make an attempt to kick it.

1. Are you starting to see what I'm dealing with up here.
2. He started to make an attempt, hence the first couple steps.
3. It doesn't matter if he attempted or not, it's still a foul!!!

My argument was unsuccessful mainly because the ump is the rep for the league!! Are you kidding me?

Also, I do have a question, because I argued an encroachment call later in the game, obviously to no avail, but I think I'm right. I wasnt 100% sure so I didn't really push it. They called the other team for their first encroachment and on the pitch a girl popped out. They said the play stands and the next one is a walk. I though the first encroachment was a ball, then the second one is a walk or the result of the play, whichever you choose. IS that correct or were they right?

[btaylor]

The runner at second was easy because he stood at first watching the play unfold. Thats common for a lot of players in this league. Moving one base at a time is a major achievement for many.

We have the complete opposite problem. Everyone runs no matter what. There are easily 6 double plays a game.

[The Scorekeeper]

the first one is a warning. no punishment on first call. i think every subsequent encroachment does have an enforceable consequence, though. seems like the consequence has changed every single year that we've been involved in kickball, so i'm not sure off the top of my head what it is this week. and i'm too lazy to look.