Westcoast Kickball League

We concluded our 6th season of the mighty Westcoast Kickball League saturday, the premiere Independent Kickball league in America!

All hail the might Darkside as league champions!  After years of clawing, bitching, pummeling and assassinating (though never proven), they finally took the vaunted Championship trophy!  It took them three victories to do it, but they outlasted the booze and the sun to stay focused enough to down the pyriffic Pirates in a 4-1 victory.

Bluetooth Fannypack took the 1st annual Best of Taunts award, and received the incredible Yodeling Unicorn Trophy.  I would expect the competition to heat up a bit next year for the right to display that awesome trophy for a year.

Awesomtown!!1! won the Festival of Losers, and would have received a trophy if Lindsey Baker had not stolen it two years ago.

Tha Tang finally overcame all my bad calls and won the 1st annual Match-up of Mediocrity.

It was one heck of an after party, and the first one I can actually remember leaving (it was a personal goal of mine this year)!  Mindy had awards for most everyone!  I will list out the team awards and get this all posted on the web site soon.

Spirit of the WKL - Bluetooth Fannypack

Raunchiest Team - Ball Deep

Git Sum - 24 hour Party People

Awesomtown!!1! - Silliest Team

Danger Moustache - Hot Mamas

Sex Moves - Nudiest Team

Darkside - Most Macho

Tha Tang - Drama Queens

Beyond Thunderdome - Scariest Team

Pirates - Sweetest Captain

Barry Vail (the Nuge) won the Lindsay award

Matt Hodge was the inductee into the WKL Hall of Fame.

It was one heck of a season.  I want to personally thank all of you for your participation and help keeping it all together this year.  We still have the Nada Mucho band night on Friday, September 5th to look forward too. Please keep posting events, plays, bands to the league and we will keep everyone updated.  We might actually get a couple of winter events planned and done this year, but don’t hold your breath for them.  We also need to talk about a Solstice Parade planning committee.  I hope to see you all soon, or at least next June when we ramp it up again!

11:00am Tha Tang vs. Sex Move!

11:45am Taunt: Bluetooth Fannypack vs. Git Sum

12:00pm Git Sum vs. Bluetooth Fannypack

12:45pm Taunt: Ball Deep vs. Sex Move

1:00pm Darkside vs. Ball deep

2:00pm Beyond Thunderdome vs. highest seed left

2:45pm Championship Taunt!

3:00pm Pirates vs. lowest seed left

4:00pm Danger Moustache vs. Awesomtown!!1!

5:00pm Championship Game!

1^st Pirates

2^nd Beyond Thunderdome

3^rd Darkside

4^th Bluetooth Fannypack

5^th Git Sum

6^th Ball Deep

People.

As I sit alone, blown-out achilles, high on painkillers, I ponder. And as I ponder I reflect on kickball days of yore.

“We say ‘kickball field’, but actually there is no such thing. Sincerity itself is the kickball field. The sights we see from the plate will change, but we are always running on the same field. And there is no beginning or end to the field: beginningless and endless field. There is no starting point, no goal, nothing to attain. Just to run on the field is our way. This is the nature of our practice. But when you become curious about the field, danger is there. You should not see the field. If you look at the field you will become dizzy. Just appreciate the sights you see from the plate. That is our way. There is no need for the players to be curious about the field. Someone will take care of it; Bud and Mindy will take care of it. But sometimes we try to explain the kickball field because we become curious if something is always the same. We wonder, ‘How is it possible for the kickball field to always be the same? What is its secret?’ But there is no secret. Everyone has the same nature as the field.” —Shunryu Suzuki (with apologies)

love, todd