The Manute Bowl was a very interesting match to say the least! For all you young 'uns out there, the bowl is named after Manute Bol, an NBA basketball player back in the 80's. He was a tall, gangly looking dude standing about 7'6" and was mostly a defensive player. Hey, all he had to do was stand there with his arms raised and he was a freaking wall! (Ok, history lesson over!)
As the Dragos took on Just For Kicks for the trophy, uh...they decided not to give a flip about who wins and SHOOK. THINGS. UP!!! The rules changed and things got a little interesting! The ladies had control of the game! (I'd like to stop here and suggest that we rename this game the Powder Puff Bowl! It certainly had nothing to do with some ugly basketball player, that's for sure...) All the ladies played infield positions and were placed at the top of the line up. Ladies could free kick and the dudes could only kick away.
I must say that the ladies did well pitching! Albeit, a little on the slow side but most were strikes! Ok, some of them were strikes and a lot were kicked in the foul zone, but who cares?! If memory serves, every lady on both teams got on base at least once. Then it was the dudes' jobs to kick away and bring the ladies home! It worked for the Dead Kennedy's but the Dragos men fell kinda flat. I mean, where the heck were they as backup for the infield, right?! Come on, everyone knows how girls throw! Oh wait...
Anyway, the dudes on the Dragos team did their part in the outfield making tons of catches. Brad Gault and Brent Obershaw made some super ones on the run. (By the way, the Dragos have been given for-your-eyes-only double secret authorization and were all briefed on why Brent Obershaw plays in blue jeans! Wanna know? Ask a Drago! Then DIE!!!!!!! That's Russian national security need-to-know and you don't need to know unless you want to spend the rest of your life in the Gulag!) Speaking of catches, the Silent Killer (3rd person alert!!) came through once again. She put some pepper on the ball (bwahahahahaaaa!!) and pitched a screamer to Jen "Nard Dog" Nardi where she promptly kick the CRAP out of it. However it didn't have a lot of distance and it popped up close to the 1st base foul line. The Silent Killer took a dive and caught it for the final out of the inning. Scott Duncan was talking sh** nearby and as the Silent Killer came up from her catch, she proceeded to cock back the ball fully intent on making him EAT IT. However, he then backed down and said good catch and gave her a high five. Emergency WKEFHT averted! (WKEFHT=WAKA Kickball Extraction From Human Throat) ;) P.S.-The Silent Killer suffered a bruised left butt cheek from the dive but it is reported that her sore arse will be nice and healed up before the fall season.)
The game ended early with the score at 8-0. Really?! It didn't FEEL like anyone's butt was getting kicked?! The JFK ladies held the infield more solidly (yeah, thats a word! Because I said so!) It ended early, you say? What the heck, let's keep playing!! The Dragos felt like there thunder was stolen last week when the game was called short for time in the 4th inning when playing against their rival team America, so they were more than happy to continue playing. A full 6 innings were played and the Dragos finally got a run in with Bryan Peña coming home from a double kicked by Jesse Jones. But Jesse didn't want it to end there so he kept running! They caught him in a pickle between 2nd and home and tried to throw at him for the tag but missed so he went to 3rd...and kept going! He got caught again between 3rd and home but finally got tagged out for the final play of the game! Woohoooooo!! WHAT.A.FUN.GAME!!!!! Here's hoping the league would consider all teams doing this at least once a year, or maybe it could be done as a fund raiser of some sort?! Who knows! All we know is that was the coolest game of the season!
Peace out! See y'all in the fall!
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