The dopey little kickball organization that started up once upon a time seems to be turning to the dark side.
Posted by John at March 2, 2006 05:34 PMI like that comparing something to Microsoft is defamatory.
But, really, kickballers arguing "intellectual property?" Isn't this recreational? Is someone somewhere profiting from WAKA? Is getting drunk and goofing off a patented activity...because I owe royalties. Substantial royalties.
All three kickball sanctioning bodies (god, kickball sanctioning bodies, wtf) should have drafts. There should be a double-elimination round-robin tournament held on consecutive Sundays to determine a regional champ, with a 3-legged sack race to determine the winner.
/Baseketball, what
Posted by: Chris at March 2, 2006 07:20 PMAnd to think, Judy almost worked for this awful, awful organization that gave lots of us reason to drink excessively while playing a children's game. What ever is this world coming to?
Posted by: Mike at March 2, 2006 07:52 PMKickball's changed, man. It used to be about the game, but now it's all penthouse suites, private jets to Cabo, and discrete 16-year old blondes.
So WAKA co-founder makes up rules based on his little league team, and then sends cease-and-desists to a league in bumfuck Louisiana for doing the same thing? Dumb.
Posted by: Rick at March 2, 2006 11:06 PMWow. "Intellectual property and trade secrets?" What the hell? And the $60 a season registration fee - was it that high when I was still living up there?
Do any of you still even play kickball?
Posted by: Fatboy at March 3, 2006 10:00 AMI think it went up from $25 to $60 right after you left. I heard that almost all of that was due to cover WAKA's insurance costs.
Some of still play kickball - this is going to be my first year not at WAKA, but I'm doing BSSC, which is the Baltimore club (they have seven sports, with different skill leagues in each one). BSSC is just closer, otherwise it's pretty much the same deal (sponsor bars and such).
John is VP of the Bethesda Division this year. So I'm kind of hoping that he 'peppers' someone with a kickball to the face, and then gets the victim to apologize to him.
Posted by: Rick at March 3, 2006 10:09 AMI plan on playing in the Golden Gate Division this year.
Posted by: Chris at March 3, 2006 01:02 PMPer Rick's desires, I will try and 'Cheney' someone this year.
Posted by: John at March 3, 2006 02:22 PMThen, after that, you can run a campaign based on homophobia while pretending to love your lesbian daughter.
Then, you can make over a hundred million dollars through a company you're not supposed to be associated with thanks to a war that was supposed to be over in 90 days.
Then, you can get political revenge by outing a man's wife as a spy, hoping maybe she'd get rubbed out in Jakarta or somewhere.
Then, you can target your Death Star at California and New England and make a million voices suddenyl cry out in fear...then silence, which may be the next plan for Dick.
Posted by: Chris at March 3, 2006 02:59 PM