Summer of Excitement - Kickball - [a case of the summer]

Have you watched last week's Summer of Excitement #ZRvsDZ video?  It was a fun little mission and hopefully an entertaining video, so give it a look if you haven't already!

This week's Summer of Excitement event was a flashback of sorts, as my firm participated in a charity kickball (that's right....KICKBALL!) tournament.  They did one last year, too, but I wasn't able to attend (i.e. I wasn't invited).  This year i made my desire to go be known, and was able to join 9 others in taking on other local firms in some kickball fun.

I don't know about you, but I haven't played kickball since high school.  Maybe even middle school.  So it's been a while.  The rules were relatively simple -- the ball has to bounce at least twice before cross the plate on a pitch (should you choose to bounce) and no pegging in the face.

Unfortunately we only ended up playing two games before getting eliminated.  The first game (which was a preliminary round) we absolutely dominated.  We played great.  I even managed to make a catch (sounds easy, but those red balls are bouncy!)  In the second game, we got off to a rough start.  At one point we were down  7-0.  This was compounded by some truly shoddy officiating (yes, I'm going to be "That Guy" right now).  The referees were just volunteers no older than we were.  They repeatedly missed calls (including a very crucial out, where I tagged a player going to third but they called safe).  Half the time they didn't even know how many outs there were.  Nonetheless, we were able to turn things around and brought the game to 7-6 (with them in the lead) going into the final inning.  Unfortunately, we weren't able to keep the momentum going and we ended up losing in a very competitive and frustrating game.

The real kicker (ha), though?  When we were eliminated, we went upstairs to the viewing room where there were drinks and refreshments -- and the keg had just been kicked!!  Thankfully another was on the way, but we were the first to get served so all we got was foam.  Talk about insult to injury!

Overall, it was a really fun day.  Now, I just need to go play some dodgeball.