Summer Season is Over

The Summer Kickball season has come to a close and free agency officially began 12:01am yesterday – meaning teams could officially extend offers for the fall season. After sifting through the offers and weighing our options Matt and I have reached a decision. We will be forming a new kickball team focused on winning on the field and on the table NOW. This is not a project, not a “team of the future”, not a team looking to develop and contend later on – the time is now.

One very serious offer we had been considering was to re-sign with I’d Hit That and try and rebound from a kickball season worse than the all-midget high jump team. However, the final 3 weeks of the season we had a total of 9 people show up. That’s right, 3 games, 3 people show up at each. That kind of showing, regardless of our current standing, led us very much away from re-signing. The members of the team – when they did show up – were great people and fun to hang out with. Not always the best ball-kickers (or catchers, it was kind of like watching those kids in the outfield of the MLB HR Derby), but pretty much always the best cup-flippers. We had a fun season, and a successful bar season, but we are moving on.

During the latest weak showing Matt took it upon himself to unite members of other teams in order to field a team for a game just for fun. I don’t exactly recall the outcome, but word on the street is that Matt was able to unite the rainbow team and lead them to strong showing. This comes as no surprise; he has always been skilled at rallying up the rainbow cause and does it often. So with Matt’s rainbow skills he will assume the role of Captain for this new team. I will be taking on the role of Co-Captain/President of Kickball Operations – to my understanding that will include scouting, recruiting, contract negotiations, and most importantly, making sure Matt’s “leadership” tactics are effective by giving better motivational speeches when he’s not around. We have commits from a very solid core and will be making a very serious run at the title. The name of our new found team will be…. revealed in Matt’s next post – after all, he is the Captain and the team name was his idea.

As kickball free agency is now in full swing it will be a very busy time, but we are looking to do whatever it takes to field a winning team and to provide a fun experience for our fans. We are looking at options to acquire public funding to perhaps build a brand new stadium for the team – most likely to be paid in full by collecting one year of Marion Barry’s bail and court costs. We are looking to acquire the best 3-tool players available (1 – Kickball skill, 2 – flip-cup skill, 3 – physical attractiveness …in reverse order of importance) and will make our team the best it can be. If you have any questions, funny pictures of Matt, or just general things about how I’m all-around better than him, email them to us.


See you in the fall,
T Rock