Summer 2011 - Week 9

Playoffs - Week 1
Games are at 7 PM, 8 PM, and 9 PM on the Grass and Dirt Field, with Los DP and HotBox's make-up game at 7 PM.



Flip Cup for Charity
What better way to raise money for a charity than to play a drinking game? It's a lot easier than selling chocolate in Westwood or running a marathon.

The Winners- Everyone who participated was a winner, but moral victories don't count in the real world. Congratulations to Westside on Hiatus for taking the crown, chocolate and $100 to spend at the End of Season party. 
The Winners








The Losers- the people who chose not to participate in the tournament because "we hate charity and we hate kids" then proceeded to play their own flip cup game in the corner by themselves.

The kid haters.

End of Season Party

The End of Season party is this Saturday at Yankee Doodles on the Promenade
from 7:30 to 11 PM.

In honor of the start of the College Football season the theme for EOS is:

COLLEGE NIGHT!!!

Let's relive the best 4, 5 and for some 10 years of our lives! Come dress in your alma mater's colors or honor your favorite school...it doesn't matter just have fun with it. We'll even have some football games on (that is if they're still going on) during the party! 
Be sure to come early to get your free drinks! We also have a TON of great entertainment for you including: Snap Yourself!, Music, Free Pool, Free Darts, Date Auction, and Season Awards.

Be sure to vote for the Season Awards
Who's the Most Competitive? Biggest Flirt? Best Pitcher? Which team is always at the bar? Who's the craziest? Let us know by voting in this year's E.O.S. Awards.

Here's the date auction information





Week 8 Scores



Final Season Standings

Team Recaps

Whiskey Kick-3 One Kick Wonders-2

We were told before the game by an unnamed league official (SoCal Val) that if we won against One Kick Wonders our captains would be released. This was bizarre in two ways: Val openly admitted to kidnapping our captains, and all along she has wanted us to lose only to demand a win against OKW. What is up with that?
Well win we did. The team came through admirably in a stunning performance. Lyle Lyle Crocodile and Scooter Naney were stupefied when they felt the awesome might of Whiskey Kick. The kicks were getting base runners and racing around the bases like quicksilver. The only thing stemming the flow of runs was a miscalculation by our Teutonic teammate Alex who wasn’t aware he couldn’t over run second base. In any case he was integral in helping other runners cross home plate.
Overall the Whiskey played hard and won out in the end. Our victory was short lived as we were demolished on the flip-cup tables. There was some team in-fighting, and hurt feelings but in the end we rallied and unified with the fact that our CAPTAINS WOULD BE RETURNED TO US!!! We made a late night visit to Whiskey HQ and popped open a few bottles of home brew. But awaiting us at HQ was yet another note from Val.
“Dear Whiskey,
Before you’ll see your captains again you better vote only for Find the Hole in the awards voting. If we don’t win every award you’ll never see your teammates again.
Signed
Valerie (I don’t even care that you know it’s me)
MUAH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH 
Take a look at the latest photograph below:

I wish I had a better resolution on this one, you can see Mallory’s tears if you look closely enough.
 Well guess what Val? You’ve made your last mistake. We’ll get them back without playing by your rules. We encourage the league to vote WHISKEY KICK FOR ALL THE AWARDS, except for the following:
Toot it and Boot it- Definitely should go to Hotbox
Fastest Male- Adam Gard (the dude has major wheels)
Biggest Trash Talkers- yeah this one can go to Find the Hole
Most Spirited/Entertaining – It’s a toss up between OKW and Looking to Score who had mustache night the evening they played
Other than those awards I encourage you to vote your heart…VOTE WHISKEY KICK!!!


Good game, team.
Solid defense.
Nice catches, pegs and unnecessary sliding.
And good regular season.
Now, let’s not be the Portland Trailblazers of Dogtown.
It’s playoff time.
Drink your All Sport.


Here’s to one of the most fun seasons we’ve ever had!
 Bring on the playoffs!
F T H




Summer 2011 - Week 8

End of Season Party
Join us for Dogtown's Official End of Season Party!

In honor of the start of the College Football season the theme for EOS is:

COLLEGE NIGHT!!!

Let's relive the best 4, 5 and for some 10 years of our lives! Come dress in your alma mater's colors or honor your favorite school...it doesn't matter just have fun with it. We'll even have some football games on (that is if they're still going on) during the party!

Free drinks. Snap Yourself. Free Pool. Free Darts. Lots of Friends. Specials. Charity Night Date Auction. Calendar Sale. Pop Polls.

You WON'T want to miss this awesome party. More details to come. But for now, be sure to get this in your schedule!

Saturday, October 1 · 7:30pm - 11:00pm

Flip Cup Tournament
You may have heard about this already, but if not, tonight after the last game is over, we are going to be having a FLIP CUP TOURNAMENT for charity so come play, have fun, and raise some money for the kids!! We will have teams of 6 people, $5 per person so $30 per team... Depending on participation, we will have a bracket of 8, 12 (if possible), or 16 teams. The first couple of rounds will be best out of 3 games, and the finals will be best out of 5 games. The winning teams will get a $100 in either real money or in Brennan's dollars (both can be used for drinks) and the pride and glory of being the top Flip Cup team in Dogtown!!

Respond on here letting me know your team name if you have an existing team of 6 people. Otherwise you can put your team together between now and 10pm tomorrow nite, and let me know your name when you get to the bar. We will also have a really big hat which will contain the names of all the people who wanna play, but don't have a full team so we can pick their teams out of the hat and integrate all the different teams!!! So that way all the different colored shirts can unite and conquer :-)

So pretty much come have play flip cup, drink some beers, have a ton of fun, raise money for the kids, and then have some more drinks/food on the house if you are really good in Flip Cup!!!! :-)

Charity Date Auction

Dogtown Does Dating
It’s for charity, I swear.

The charity date auction will be held at the rocking End of Season party on Oct. 1 at Yankee Doodles. The auction should kick off around 8:30 pm with all proceeds going to Children Are Our Future, which provides homes for abused and neglected teenagers. So pull out those wallets, help some kids, and get some action (the help some kids part makes this technically not prostitution)!


Keven Brooks - LOS DPS   
This date promises to be a little longer than a three-hour tour. Join Keven for a day trip to beautiful Catalina island. Start with cocktails out of a brown paper sack on the hour boat ride from Long Beach Harbor to Avalon, Catalina. Explore the island and partake in a perfectly planned, but still impromptu photo shoot. Have some food and drinks on the beach before heading back across the channel (unless the date goes really well…).




Heather Quinlan - One Kick Wonders
Return to a sense of youthful fun (hey, we are kickball players) with a heated battle on the miniature golf course. This will be an exotic adventure to the Valley (you may need a compass and a map to find it) and try not to get beat by a girl (she has mad skills y’all). So, red or blue balls? Guess it depends on how the date goes…






Connor Murphy - Whiskey Kick
You know the way to a woman’s heart? Wine. Or perhaps that’s the way to a woman’s something else. Either way, Connor will treat one lucky lady to wine and tapas at the aptly named Crush Wine Bar & Bistro.







Addison Bath - Whiskey Kick
You know what makes Santa Monica so freaking awesome? You can hit the mountains and the beach in the same day. Or you can if you join Addison on his date of hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains followed by lunch/dinner overlooking the ocean at a restaurant on PCH. Do heels go with hiking clothes?





Valerie Wang - Find the Hole
Our fearless leader herself is going to take one lucky bidder to happy hour/dinner at Rusty’s Surf Ranch, followed by a night at Pacific Park. If you’re lucky, she’ll wear this outfit! Smokin’!







Tony Sano - Find the Hole
Tony is too busy fulfilling his dreams of being a top male model in Japan to submit a date idea, but you know anything he picks will be 全く驚くばかりの









Angela Kelly - Find the Hole
Don’t let the animal print fool you. This is one domestic goddess with a crazy penchant for adventure. Start off parasailing (I know, right?) then shower up and head to dinner, complete with a homemade dessert and wine pairing! I smell bidding war.













Frank Owens - Westside on Hiatus
Take a trip across the country in just four blocks with these brown eyes. Start at the New York-inspired West 4th/Jane for some dinner and drinks and then hit up the Coney Island-esque Santa Monica pier carnival games. Frank will even try to win you a teddy bear. Don’t miss the Sex on a Plate Dessertwich at West 4th/Jane- or perhaps that’s best saved for the, ahem, “walk” on the beach to end the evening.





Lenny Mazel - Looking to Score
Iron Man Lenny is keeping the sand warm for your date, which will start with drinks, a walk by the ocean, dinner on Montana including dessert (there’s always room for dessert), and potential makeout session depending on how the first 3 parts turn out :-) (he wrote that part himself).



Brad Nelson - Looking to Score
Despite being volunteered at the last minute (what are friends for?), Brad has come up with a killer date idea. Music-loving ladies prepare your best mosh pit moves (or slow jam shuffle and snap) for a night at the House of Blues in West Hollywood. You’ll get there early and snag a seat at the restaurant for some pre-show noshing before taking in a TBD show at the intimate venue. Think “Caress Me Down” at Sublime tribute, Oct. 8. Yep, “That’s what I got.”



More Charity Information

Charity Photo Shoot! One of our league members, J Pinder, is a professional photographer and has volunteered his services to shoot photos for a sexy 12-month Dogtown Calendar. Ideally, we'd love for each team to represent a month. However in order for this to happen we need all of you to volunteer! If you'd like to model for this calendar and represent your team, email J at jbpinder@gmail.com. Check out his portfolio here. Calendars will be sold online and at EOS. All proceeds will go towards our charity.


Week 7 Results


Week 8 Standings



Team Recaps






Whiskey Kick

Hotbox 9 Whiskey Kick 2
Another week goes by and Team Whiskey Kick has received yet another ransom note. These inhumane bastards have begun torturing our beloved captains:

Look at this!!! Forcing them to drink inordinate amounts of beer, they’re probably trying to force them into alcoholism or early liver failure. Our calls to the US Government have fallen on deaf ears. One congressional page told us that Congress’ concerns go in the following order:
1-      The economy
2-      Fixing the BCS and NCAA
3-      Accepting huge earmarks and bribes
4-      Molesting congressional pages (they actually were crying when they said this to me)
5-      Totally screwing over the middle class
6-      Maybe, helping citizens being held abroad, if they have time.
Disgusting right? Well take a look at how else they are torturing our teammates:

They’ve taken them to the Eiffel tower and I bet they wouldn’t even let them see it. Plus there is the whole issue that they’ve been taken to France. This is total bullshit. The problem is we are no closer to finding out who these bastards are.
“Dear Whiskey Kick-
ONE team can only have so many KICKs in a season before they have to WONDER if everything they do is worthless. ONE thing we know is that soon you won’t have to WONDER about your captains for much longer, soon they’ll KICK the bucket. Have you ever WONDERed why we took your captains in the first place? We bet you’re just KICKing yourselves with worry. You have ONE more chance to insure they’re safety. Do not succeed on Wednesday and you’re team will be ONE, once again.
Signed
Unnamed League Official”

So of course during our game with Hotbox we felt immense pressure to make sure our missing teammates stayed safe. Hotbox had no such worries and decided it was a good night for a kicking clinic. They railed us for a number of runs but then Adam B on our squad took notes on said clinic and proved he learned his lessons well by knocking one out of the box. Bringing the final to 9-2 Hotbox.
This week we face off against One Kick Wonders and they’ve been oddly quiet in the trash talking department.





Summer 2011 - Week 7

A Few Reminders
-Our End of Season Party is scheduled for Saturday, October 1st. Exact time is TBD, although the party will be at Yankee Doodles on the Promenade. All registered Dogtown players get free drink tickets and food for the night. Fun activities include pool, darts, and a number of other awesome time games.

-Charity Information


  • Flip Cup tournament at Brennan's after Week 8 of games (September 21)! $5 per person, best out of 3 for early rounds and best out of 5 in the finals. Still working on prizes for the winning team... as soon as we figure out the prizes we'll let you know.
  • Charity Photo Shoot! One of our league members, J Pinder, is a professional photographer and has volunteered his services to shoot photos for a sexy 12-month Dogtown Calendar. Ideally, we'd love for each team to represent a month. However in order for this to happen we need all of you to volunteer! If you'd like to model for this calendar and represent your team, email J at jbpinder@gmail.com. Check out his portfolio here. Calendars will be sold online and at EOS. All proceeds will go towards our charity.
  • Charity Date Night Auction. We are also hosting a Charity Date Night Auction at our EOS! To volunteer to be auctioned off, please email Julie at julieleupold@gmail.com.

Week 6 Results



Week 7 Standings



Team Recaps

Kick in a Box= Winning!!

With one of our best attended games this season, we achieved another underdog win against One Kick Wonder. Our victory was based on strong defense and a killer home run by Nick Goffi. 
                    
Nick at Right
After a rough Labor Day weekend, team Kick in a Box had to forego attendance at Brennan’s for the week. We look forward to a joyous reunion and much flip cup this coming week! Go Team!




Whiskey Kick


Whiskey Kick 4- Two Girls One Base- 7
A dark cloud loomed over Oakwood Park last Wednesday. Earlier in the day Whiskey Kick HQ received another ransom demand and was sent another photo of our beleaguered and kidnapped co-captains:

“Dear Whiskey Kick,



Just as long as you keep losing games in the regular season your captains will remain safe. We even took them, as torture mind you, to a Steelers Bar somewhere in Europe.
Signed,
Unnamed Dogtown League Official”
This note was all we needed to go on. We fired up the Whiskey jet and sent Crosby and some team members on a mission to find this torture den. The 11 of us that remained vowed to play the best we could until we had word that our captains were safe.
We started the game out strong; our line-up was mixing it up at the plate and making some things happen score wise. Adam B, in a stunning example of self-sacrifice, bunted and began running bases. He wasn’t the only star out there. Ashley M dedicated herself to moving players around.  Addison and Miles brought some heavy feet to bear and helped WK score some runs.
Defensively we held strong, Ryan A made the grass field his bitch as he ended kicker after kickers attempts at getting on base. Miles and Addison again proved their worth by scoring out after out. Carrie G was all about keeping the ball in front and throwing smart when she saw where the base-runners stood. Alex M continues to further his knowledge of this uniquely American sport. Mel M showed her support for the squad by constantly telling us what we needed to do and then showing us if we didn’t perform to her satisfaction. Chris B and Rachel M brought kickball sexiness to a new level of awesome with some heads up playmaking.
Things were looking good for us. We were up 4-2 and looking at a win, confident Crosby and Strike Force Team W would have our captains back. Then sometime in the 3rd or 4th inning tragedy struck; we were alerted via our Whiskey Kick Wrist Communicators that Strike Force W had seemingly just missed our captains and their kidnappers. Seeing that our leaders were still in enemy hands WK had to make a fateful decision. We decided we would go ahead and win the game since that’s what Mal and Kel would want us to do. Fate had other plans however as easy mistakes turned into a 2G1B rally. The end result being a 7-4 route of Whiskey Kick who retired to the Flip Cup table where domination was once again imminent.
Our search for our missing leaders continues and we pledge we will not rest until they are returned to us safely.
Find the Hole

Week 6 brought FTH against a very good and very good looking, Looking to Score team. Fortunately for FTH, Looking to Score only had 8 players at the beginning of the game. With only 8 players in the outfield FTH was able to fill the holes and successfully score runs. With aggressive base running and even more assertive defensive dominance an MVP style catch buy Sara (I love catching fly balls)Weiner confirmed the win. FTH was able to penetrate Looking to Score’s holes. Unfortunately for FTH, Amie Barber, their star motivator and cosmetology specialist lost her arms. Please see below for more amazing pictures of great looking people.
Game 6 – Looking to Score = Holes Filled



Los DP's
3-1 Los DPs over Toot it and Boot it

            Why do the DPs look so tired?

            Last week’s throttling by then-#1 ranked Balls Deep had them heads-between-tails, dubbing the contest “SHART NIGHT 3-D.” This is the same team that put up this season’s single-game scoring record and sh*t talked their way through the post-Penmar GMOT. (FTH still wants to “perscribe” theirs—but our 3-man representing at pub-crawl-golf still won us a few allies)
            This Wednesday’s victory was played solidly. But cardinal red didn’t seem totally in it. Crapping out with bases loaded, the power squad went virtually scoreless until Greg finally made it home late in the 2nd with some strategic RKI-ing by… (hell, I don’t even remember. Someone whose mother loves them.) And yet hints of the lackadaisical appeared off the field as well. Players strolled in later than usual. Only six (minus the umps) went to Brennan’s afterward. Warm-ups were unenthusiastic, and people opted to squawk about their non-kickball lives rather than practice kicking.

There is no life outside kickball.         - Sun Tzu

            One could presume the wind was taken out of the DP sails. But Damon’s impressive debut at-bat, a nice sac kick by Lori, a sassy catch by Julie (Luke caught all the other ones) and other solid fundamentals demonstrated the team’s prowess, while new words like “chunt” and “vag-ball” only contributed to the donkey-punching vocabulary. This is a talented team, giving up only 1 run to the much-improved TIABI team less their newlywed captain(s).

            The problem now is motivation. With the bloodthirsty FTH on deck, and a rematch with undefeated Hot Box on the horizon, Los DPs have to really look at themselves and consider: do they want to win this season? They certainly have the capability.
            But do you yell and scream in the moment, or do you actually think about what you’re doing as you play? Defensively, what balls got past you in the last game? Without considering fault, what can you do to prevent it? Offensively, do you care whether you’re an automatic out? Or do you want to learn what’s happening with your kick in order to improve? With a big 25-player lineup, the game is often won by what mix of players show up on a given night.
And when a lot of your players aren’t into it, against a solid opponent you’re going to lose.
            Approaching the end-of-season and playoff kickball, this win brings Los DPs firmly back into the competition. But it also serves as a wake-up call, and a reminder of a few undeniable truths:
1) No team is invincible.
2) You have to be in it to win it. 
3) In Dogtown, no matter who you are, respect is earned.

Post Game at Brennan's