What a great week for WAKA Peninsula! I've said many times that longevity at the bar is only one aspect of evaluating teams for the amount of buzz generated on any given week, but since it is the area that I excel in, I can't help but to be excited to see the number of people in both the AMP and the kick out photo.
I want to highlight a couple of people from the kick out photo that mean a lot to me. First thanks to Jimmy Rogers for sticking it out with me so I wouldn't be the only Death Toe standing. Jimmy isn't a regular late nighter but another group of great guys is. The core of the Smoking Bunts social team, Casey Heck, Shane Chambers and Tim Nellis. I didn't actually see Tim in the photo as I was doing my research, but I'm sure he was there. They are roommates and carpool buddies so you always see them together, but individually they each have contributed volumes to my personal kickball story. I know there are many of you out there that can say the same. You never see any of them without a smile, a word of encouragement and a willingness to bring the party wherever they go.
Like Schrodinger's kickball, everything in this league isn't about partying, yet everything in this league is a party. Our WAKA Kicks Cancer team made great strides on Saturday with many people attending Jillian Simms' yoga fund raiser. Then responding to a last minute call our tireless leader Brent along with Erin Small, Kat Annese, Chris LeBlanc (Bundy), and Georgios Kiriaz...I don't know how to say it...George gathered at the Funkfest at WMS and sold beer at the event and gave their tips to the league charity fund as well. Almost a thousand dollars was raised and I have no doubt that everyone had a good time doing it.
If you have been following along with the social posts this week, you might have noticed that the Alcobalics have made a no holds barred announcement that they are coming after the belt again. Both the Alcobalics and the Fireballs have been taking us along with them as they have taken the WAKA party on the road to all points peninsula and maybe a little beyond. Are we prepared for the party they plan to bring this week? Can anyone top them? They seem to be able to take command of the party once they set their sites on the belt. We shall see what happens this week.
The only team so far that has really challenged the Alcobalics are our reigning belt holders the Fireballs. I wonder if there will be a dance off. If there is then you can bet that Rumspringa will be forced to show these newbies how it is done! You will often times see a team choose a week that everyone takes off work on Thursday and they go all out to get the belt. I really hope that happens this week and these two social stand outs get a run for their money. Last week, before I released my write up, many Fireball players were messaging me asking what they had to do to get the belt and letting me know that they planned to give it their all to get it. I couldn't tell them that they already had it. Even early on at Tapps many of them were gearing up to party down and still didn't realize that they already had the belt. Fortunately for us, specifically me, they chose to not be satisfied and continued with their plan to go hard last week. They had a huge number of the team out to close the bar down.
They dominated the flip cup table, they danced to whatever rhythm was going on in their heads. Dangerous pyramids were created. Both the AMP and the kick out photo were orange blurs of crazy people. Yet again, when the party refused to stop the belt made it onto the stage at the Katt and continued to travel the rest of the week.
I'm too lazy to double check, but I'm pretty sure that this will be the first time that we have back to back back to back belt winners. Fireballs, keep the belt polished and sanitized, or not, since you get to keep it for yourselves one more week. Since it didn't work out so well on the Alcobalics second week, I re-challenge everyone to get a picture with the belt and as many Fireballs as you can this week. |
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