The Daily Ping

FROM: Rob
DATE: Wednesday June 21, 2000 -- 10:56:34AM

Kickballs are born, fully grown, from a gym teacher's rectal cavity. Kinda like Athena, only... not. :)

FROM: Dave
DATE: Wednesday June 21, 2000 -- 4:14:40PM

We need a monthly kickball game at my job...only it should be the Marines against everyone else. Should be even, I think... :)

FROM: Robert
DATE: Wednesday June 21, 2000 -- 9:48:54PM

I used to go between the first and second type. Once, in the 10th grade, we were playing in the wrestling room. I actually managed to whiff, which only counted as one strike. Everyone laughed at me, which provided me enough high school rage to BOUNCE THAT FUCKER OFF THE BACK WALL!!!!! SO WHO WAS LAUGHING THEN, HUH?!!!!!!

FROM: Matt
DATE: Wednesday June 21, 2000 -- 10:58:53PM

Not this school year, but last year towards the end of the college year a group of us had grown tired of 4-square and decided to play a kickass game of kickball at school

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Thursday June 22, 2000 -- 8:22:01AM

Robert -- good story. :) My all-time kickball highlight was also in high school. I wasn't really the jock type, though I was pretty fast and had some minor athletic skills, so kickball was a pretty good, mindless way for me to even out with the jocks. There was one time I kicked a home run (grand slam? I'm not sure...) and the ball actually travelled through the openings in the beams in the ceiling without hitting the actual beams. Pretty surreal.

FROM: Old Fezziwig
DATE: Thursday June 22, 2000 -- 2:32:12PM

I LOVED kickball. Although I had some shining moments on offense, my real strength was on defense. I loved the fact that you could throw the ball at someone and get them out. I was the king at doing this, although I had to sit out a few innings on occasion for throwing at people's heads. Totally accidental, I swear.
-Old Fezz
www.oldfezziwig.com

FROM: Paul
DATE: Thursday June 22, 2000 -- 3:49:21PM

Ah, you know, I was going to post on this earlier but wanted to be sure of the sport in question. We played this in grammar school all the time, except it was called Bohemian Baseball.

Our basement had support pillars everywhere, so you had to watch for those. I usually kicked balls into right field. If you had a really good kicker, they'd hit it just left of center - all the way to the counter/bar in the front of the basement. :) Those were a pain to field!

FROM: Matt
DATE: Sunday June 25, 2000 -- 3:47:58PM

I played kickball on friday night for an hour and a half. I love that when I would step up to kick everyone on the opposing team would tell their teammates to "move back"

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Tuesday February 20, 2001 -- 9:35:38AM

Holy crap: The World Adult Kickball Association.

FROM: Robert
DATE: Tuesday February 20, 2001 -- 9:49:16AM

I was disappointed that "Adult" didn't mean what I thought it did, but this is still cool.

FROM: Robert
DATE: Tuesday February 20, 2001 -- 1:13:51PM

Somebody--Please listen to the "Kickball Song" and tell me that it's not as awful as the lyrics suggest.

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Tuesday February 20, 2001 -- 1:44:32PM

It sounds like it would have been a good sequel to "Pac-Man Fever" or prominantly featured in an 80's high school movie.

Apparently the guy that wrote it had a bit part or something in Hannibal...

FROM: Robert
DATE: Tuesday February 20, 2001 -- 2:25:55PM

"Pac-Man Fever" and "The Curly Shuffle" are rock classics.

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Tuesday February 20, 2001 -- 4:34:20PM

I have the former on LP... the entire album is based around video games. The one for Frogger is the absolute best.

FROM: Matt
DATE: Tuesday May 22, 2001 -- 12:02:18PM

www.eteamz.com/darkvictorykickballclub

Anyone ever play with a yellow ball instead of red? If so, who made it/where could I get some???

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Tuesday May 22, 2001 -- 1:28:38PM

A yellow kickball... it's hard to even imagine such a thing!

FROM: Rob
DATE: Friday June 22, 2001 -- 9:54:27AM

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/weekend/A28767-2001Jun21.html

FROM: Ella
DATE: Thursday February 12, 2004 -- 3:24:28 pm

Kickball is cool....
but the younger kids like elementry don't like cussing.

FROM: jk
DATE: Thursday February 12, 2004 -- 5:16:03 pm

Hmmmm, I never saw this topic before.

At my elementary school, the strongest kickers would often sail the ball (red) right across the playground and into a window-well that you could only access through the basement. Thus was born the phrase: He kicked a weller. Ask anyone who attended my school and they'll know exactly what you mean.