Winter 2012- Week 1

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The reigning Dogtown Champs started the season strong as the Ladies of Balls Deep came up big in their 9-1 win. Kristine Torres took balls to the face at 3rd for a nice out.Dani made a great play to tag out the base runner at 2nd and Miranda and Jenna both made catches in the outfield while stiff arming Zack who was ready to swoop like a vulture. 

 Find the Kleat

The Week One match-up of Find The Kleat and We Never Tebow started off with guns blazing. Find The Kleat pushed in two runs to start the top of the First inning, and We Never Tebow answered right back with two more of their own. In the next inning with some crazy fast base-running, a questionable send from the third-base coach and a botched peg, Captain Dan went from First to Home to take back the lead for Find The Kleat. The game was much closer than the 5-2 Final Score appeared. In the bottom of the Fifth inning, We Never Tebow had two runners on base and the tying run at the plate with no outs. It would have been a great opportunity for We Never Tebow to do some Tebowing, but it would have been in vain. It would have taken a lot more than a nudge from The Jesus to keep the steel-trap defense of Find The Kleat from holding the runners and clinching the victory.

We Never Tebow

Jiminy Kick It

Shoelace/Shoeless Josh being thrown up to the dish with his cleats barely on and jacking a 3-run shot. Unbelievable... this is the stuff legends are made of.

Vik pegging girls ever so gently/gentlemanly at 1st base.
 
Thomas embracing the nickname "Token Black Guy" then bashing a 2-run triple. 

Good Reegan: Made several nice plays at 2nd including one where she stood her ground and the runner ran into her and fell over... while she stayed up. Amazing. Also, spoke her mind to the 1st base ump after he called her out on a bang-bang play at 1st.

 

Not So Good Reegan: 2 oh so graceful slips in the field, a near headbang into the dugout pole and a memorable exit from Busby's into the cool night air underneath a starry night and a gorgeous full moon.

Ashley's orange slices were pretty clutch, too! I'm just eating mine now. Better late than never. 

Pondering mixing orange slices and Big League Chew... imagine the possibilities.

Tramp Stamps

It's pretty simple...

We lost on the field but we definitely won at the bar. 

TRAMP STAMPS! 

WHISKEY KICK MEDIA DAY A BUST

After all the drama that went down last season- kidnapped captains, commando raids by Crosby, being attacked by robots, forced by a corrupt administration to play brother against brother; Whiskey Kick looked forward to the off-season to regroup for some much needed R&R.

Once the season ended, WK hopped aboard our even newer private jet- the aptly titled “Whiskey Kicker” and headed off for Whiskey-Con 2011. Ever heard of it? If you haven’t you never been invited, and chances are you never will be. I’m sorry but in the Whiskey Kick By-laws it specifically states that at no time will non-whiskey kickers be invited to Whiskey-Con. It’s where we unwind, I’m sure you understand.

Anyway we came to some conclusions about the direction Whiskey was heading. Decisions were made and we’ve re-focused. Here are some of the changes Whiskey Kick has made in the off-season:

1. We’ve closed the doors on our charitable organization “Beers for Babies”. The charity never really got the message across that we would trade cases of beers for newborn babies. Everyone seemed to think we were trying to give alcohol to minors when in fact we were really just trying to obtain cheap, impressionable labor for our Whiskey Disitillery

2. We closed the distillery. With a workforce of toddlers nothing was really getting made and none of us wanted to do it.

3. We sold our Himalayan retreat. It’s cold, we hardly go there anymore, and everyone knows it’s all about Mallorca these days anyway.

4. We bought an 18 trillion sq ft villa in Mallorca, replete with houses for individual Whiskey Kickers and their families. We also have several miniature condos available for time share opportunities.*

5. We promoted Mallory “Pittsburgh Sucks” Oberts from co-captain to General Manager/Crosby Wrangler. She already made some big personnel  moves.

6. Her first day on the job Mallory:  Obtained Adam Gard and Damon Tedesco on waivers. Called up John Albinger, Dayala Ghazal, Gregnald Lacy, Cristina Lepisto, Rebecca Neuren, Kerry O’Keefe, Ali Quilter, Melanie Suddath, and Pamela Wilson from our minor league squad “The Kalamazoo Kickers”. All eager to prove their worth and win an invite to Whiskey-Con 2012.

A pretty eventful off-season for us, and yet during Media Day on Tuesday all anyone can talk about is procreation.  Namely current GM Mallory “Seriously the Steelers are the absolute worst” Oberts and co-captain Kellen “Just try not to get lost in my eyes” Oberts have decided to start the next generation of Whiskey Kicks. Check out this interview we had with Dan Patrick:

Dan Patrick- So a pretty big off-season for you guys.

Me- Yeah it sure was, a lot of changes. Good changes, but big changes. We’re here to compete this season.

Dan Patrick- I was actually referring to GM Mallory Obert’s pregnancy.

Me- Well yeah that is definitely the biggest part of the off-season. It’s fantastic because the new generation of 

Whiskey Kick is starting to take shape. But but it takes a seasoned vet off the field and we lose that leg on offense.

Dan Patrick- Was this part of the plan?

Me- (to Kellen and Mallory) One of you guys want to handle this one?

Kellen- Well you see Dan, sometimes a Mommy and Daddy love each other so much that they create even more love by having a baby.

Dan Patrick- That’s not what I meant.

Mallory- Wasn’t it Dan? Wasn’t it? We’re out of here, this guy is a twat.

That’s pretty much how Media Day went, no one wanted to ask about off-season moves. No one cared that Addison Bath’s album “Addy Sings the Blues” opened at #1 in Kyoto, or that Macey Tate kicked a pretty serious online Pai Gow addiction, or even that Melanie “CAPSLOCK” Murphy wants everyone to stop calling her after 11:30pm on weeknights. So we ended the day early and prepped for game night. And that extra few hours of prepping helped. We ended up beating the valiant Big Swinging Kicks 11-3, sure they’re new and learning the ropes. But those were earned runs people, coming off of strong kicks. Ryan Adams scored his first run, Birdsall had himself a homerun and Connor Murphy and Melanie Suddath distinguished themselves in the field with some major defensive plays.

Next week we’ve got Ball’n on a Budget. Do they want to meet up and have some drinks beforehand? I don’t know we’ll find out.

*Interested in a Mallorca time share? Ask a Whiskey Kicker.

The winner of the DEAD BEAT award for getting me their recap way too late is...

"Team"


"Team" has started the season off right with a victory. We had a blast playing and relearning the rules of kickball, a sport most of us have not played since we were 9. We ended the night right with some epic games of flip cup and skeeball at Busbys! Excited for what is looking to be a very fun season! 






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