Meltdown!

Week 6 has come and gone, and I think one thing has been answered. We finally figure out what Your Team Sucks at. No, not kickball, your teams are pretty good at that.

This week Your Team Sucks put up a valiant effort against the Lake Minnetonka Purifiers, but couldn't pull off a win. Maybe it was the unorthodox, overhand screwball pitching, Maybe it was the fact that the Godless Whores nixed Your Team Sucks' theme music, or maybe it was the fact that the Jell-o beans for the incentive program began melting in the heat 10 seconds after they were taken out of the cooler. We're just not sure.

The game started out looking pretty competitive. Both teams used some bunts and well placed kicks to move people around the bases. Unfortunately for Your Team Sucks, our offense melted along with the Jell-o shots.

LMP managed to overcome Seppie's breaking fastball to put a few insurance runs on the board and Your Team Sucks wasn't able to respond despite the fact LMP had some troubles catching Mile High Pop-ups. I think by the end of the game most of us just wanted to hit the air conditioned bar.

The Big-E and the KY Slick move of the game goes is going to go to the same person, and he's on the opposite team. They go to that guy from LMP (Dave?) who slid into first and forgot to tie his shorts... Glad you were wearing boxers weren't ya?

Now postgame was a different story. This is where Your Team Sucks showed where, well, Your Team Sucks. Partying. It was definitely a sad showing this week by just about anyone not wearing black. The heat must have sucked the flip-cuppiness right out of everyone. Team Darkside would not go down easy though, we played some hardcore flip-cup and even made random people join in when we couldn't get enough kickballers. In the only known one on one match of the night, Damon from LMP managed to wrestle the amateur bracket (2 Cup) title from Nick B, Congrats!

The Big-E of the postgame goes to all the other teams who skipped out on Flip-Cup. The KY Slick Move of the Postgame goes to Mike B for actually staying somewhat sober this week.

See you all next week, and you better be prepared for some hardcore flip-cup!

Kickball and a Party!

So week five came and went like all other weeks except for one exception: A big ol' party!

The kickball in week 5 taught Your Team Sucks and important lesson: the only thing the Godless Whores are looser with than their morals is the WAKA Rulebook.

Besides having no less than 4 unregistered players, (A couple of whom I'm pretty sure no one on the team actually knew before the game and at least one was imported from Europe) their kicking order was in shambles, they had several issues with having enough people on the field, taking too many bases on an overthrow, they bribed the refs and Your Team Sucks members with drinks (Luke still owes Nick B a drink, there was a no beer rule) not to complain about calls, and there was this one incident where there were two guys in the kicking box at the same time! Who knew they were into Guy-Guy stuff??? This definitely was a load of sloppy Whore action.

Completely confused by the Godless Whore shenanigans, and also lacking motivation due to not having their Jell-o shot incentive program in place that week, Your Team Sucks suffered a horrible loss of 1 (+6 cheat runs) to zero.

I do believe Your Team sucks has to be in the running for worst ever Run Margin. What are we? -23?

The Big-E award this week goes to Nick B, for thinking that someone other than him might actually bring jell-o shots that week. The KY Slick Move award goes Regis for looking slick in that shirt.

The postgame was ruled by Your Teams Sucks like usual however. As per usual we dominated the flip cup table. Our domination was so complete, that even President Amy was to scared to play us after losing to Nick one on one, that she had to form a splinter group at different tables. The Big-E of the post-game goes to Mike B who decided it would be a good idea to tear apart Carlie's Flip-Cup. The KY slick move of the Post-Game goes to Carlie for dumping Mike's Beer in his Crotch.

You just can't beat the power of the darkside...

...unless they've been drinking for 4 hours straight.

That brings us to the Mid season Parties.

The Warm up party on Friday night was mellow. Huge props to the Your Team Sucks members who made it to the part and also Loren and Florian (sp?) from the Godless Whores who showed up as well.

The Real Mid Season Party was a good time. Your Team Sucks showed who the real drinkers are in the Twin Cities WAKA Division, by having no less than 6 people in attendance by 5pm. No other team had that many representatives until after 8. SLACKERS!

The Darkside showed a crack in their Flip-Cup dominance however. The Nuck Futs team Lost in the finals to a Mutt team of LMP and URR members. This may have had to do with the fact that three of the four Nuck Futs team members had been drinking since 4:30. Just maybe.

The Big-e Award for the Mid Season Parties goes to Seppie, for his team losing in the first round for the Flip cup tourney, and then also reversing a crucial win for his teammates on the Nuck Futs. A second Big-E goes out to whoever that guy was that brought his 17 year old Girlfriend to the Mid Season Warm Up party. The KY slick move goes to everyone who attended. Way to drink for the kids!

Mid-Season Party Warm Up!

Everyone in the Twin Cities WAKA division is hereby invited to a Mid-Season Party Warm Up Party that will also serve as a housewarming party this friday, June 17th. I'll have some beer and liquor there, but do bring some of your own so there's enough to share!

We'll start grilling out at 6. Party will go till whenever!

Talk to Nick B from Your Team Sucks to get directions!

The Streak Continues!

Your Team Sucks won again! We knocked off Uncle Rico's Raiders 5-4 in a come back win! Unfortunately this one's controversial.

The game started a little late because of the close battle between the Godless Whores and Sexy Ball Kickers but once we got our refs, the stupidity began.

Unfortunately, only three out of the seven girls on the Your Team Sucks squad made it to the game so we had to discuss this with the other team. Originally, Uncle Rico's Raiders said it was no big deal, we'd play and it would count. They did make the stipulation that one guy had to wear lipstick (Mike Belsky volunteered) but changed their minds after a couple minutes. Katie, their acting captain (Who also proposed the lipstick thing) agreed while the Ref (Sayeed (sp?)) was standing there that the game would count even though we had three girls. We offered to get a fourth to play, but they said it was fine. Five minutes later they were claiming we lost by forfeit. So which is it URR? Lying poor sports or a good clean game?

Once the game got going it started slowly, but turned out to be a very good game! Your Team Sucks started out well, getting several on base and sending one home, but that one was called back because the kicker was not in the box.

The Raiders put the first official run on the board with a solo homer. Two innings later they scored a few more on a couple well placed kicks. Overall though Your Team Sucks played some good bend but don't break defense letting URR fill the bases several times, but not letting them get much in the way of runs.

YTS managed to battle back though and got one run on the board with a flurry of bunts and short kicks. I dropped ball by the Raiders gave enough time for that one run to come in.

The real excitement came in the fifth inning. Your Team Sucks had all but given up after they racked up two fly-outs in a row and being down by three runs, but then out of nowhere came a flurry of offense! Jell-o bean after Jell-o bean got eaten on first base when a few well placed kicks dropped in on URR. Three runs made it in to tie up the game and we had a man on third. Could YTS take the lead? You better believe it! A good kick right to the left field gap brought Tim scootin' home for a 5-4 lead!! A pop fly would end the top of inning and some great defense would end the game and give Your Team Sucks their second victory!

The Big-E of the game is going out three times this week. One is for URR for going back on their word to make it a real game, the second goes to the four girls on our team who didn't show up and the last goes back to the man who started it, SEPPIE! Way to miss that line drive brotha!

The KY Slick Move award goes to Mike Belsky again for that diving slide into home. Yes, it got called back, but damn it was a nice slide!

Post game started just as slow, with people choosing to eat instead of drink. Most of the Godless Whores were too good to show up. Props to Dan and Devora who did though. Most of the Sexy ball kickers left early as well. Without their fearless leader Amy, Uncle Rico's Raiders seemed afraid to have some fun.

Your Team Sucks could not let this be however and decided we needed to have some fun. With the KY Slick Move of the post-game Nick B ran over to Lund's and bought some cup and the Flip-Cup began!! At first it was only Your Team Sucks flippin' it up, but eventually we got some Purifiers and Raiders in the game.

then came the Epic Battle! Black Vs. White. After much trash talk the one on one challenge between Nick B and LMP-Member, as he shall now be called, was on. In a two out of three match, the first round screamed by. Somehow Nick focused the power of the dark side and flipped all four cups on the first try. The second round turned the tables and LMP-Member bobbled on the first cup and almost gave up, but battled back to take the win. After a breather, the truly epic final battle was on. Head to head, four cups ready, all the glory on the line. In a finish of four cups to three, the dark side proved too strong and Nick B was crowned the Flip-Cup Challenege Champion!!


Flip-Cup RULES!

Stats:
Wins: TWO!!!!!!!!!
Losses: Nada! (Alcohol solves that)
Jell-o Items Eaten: 2.15 tons
Flip-Cup games Dominated: All of 'em baby!

Zeroes No Longer!

That's right, Your Team Sucks is no longer a zero in the win bracket. With some great defensive strategy and a little bit of offense, we picked off Number 1 Spot 5-4 leaving them the sole team with a zero in the win column.

We got off to a late start since Your Team Sucks had to few women and Number 1 Spot had too few men, we had worked out a truce only to find out that we had no refs. The refs eventually arrived and so did the other players for both sides so we got going.

With the new upgraded Jell-o shot incentive program in place (Jell-o beans on First and Jell-o Cubes on Third/Home) Your Team Sucks lit up the phantom scoreboard first methodically chipping away to move into a 2-0 lead.

Number 1 Spot was able to tie it up very quickly, but then our defense started clicking. We actually made a defensive game plan for this game and it seemed to work out well. So well that on three occasions we had two teammates catching the ball in unison! We're talking red rubber ball sandwich! Damn tasty!!!

With a couple big kicks from each side the score bumped up to 5-4 in Your Team Sucks' favor. The last inning was a make or break for both teams and the stakes were high. Who was going to get their first win?

Your team sucks started it off and was unable to put any insurance runs on the board so it came down to defense.

With the pressure on in the botom of the fifth, Your Team Sucks didn't crack. The team did allow one double, but they held on to get three outs and their first victory of the season!

Watch out, a win streak may be starting!

Play Kickball!


This week, the Big-E award goes to no one. There was one dropped ball in the beginning of the game but it was more tham made up for by a couple red rubber ball sandwiches. The KY Slick move of the game goes to Mike Belsky Number 1 Spot's pictcher was throwning heat, but he still booted Your Team Sucks' first ever homerun! Watch - him - round - all - of - the - bases!

Way to go team!

The afterparty was good like usual and Your Team Sucks did dominate some more Flip Cup. Team darkside working together is almost unstoppable. In one other amazing battle two Darkside teammates faced off to see who was the Sith Lord of Flip cup. Nick Beattie was victorious and faces a challenge next week by a member of the Lake Minnetonka Purifiers. Can it be any more Epic (yet cliche!) than this? Dark vs. Light, Black vs. White. It's ON this week!

Stats:
Wins: ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Losses: We Lost?
Jell-o Beans and cubes consumed: 291
Flip Cup games dominated: 51