Ai Kickball Makes its Debut
Here at Ai, we’re always down for a little competitive spirit. Our newest competitive release comes via NYC Social Sports Club’s Wednesday night kickball league. We’ve signed up to humble the competition under the moniker “Browser-Compatible Ball Busters”.
Our campaign for kickball world domination came out of the gates a bit inauspiciously last Wednesday though with a 17-6 drubbing at the hands of perennial powerhouse “All-Pro Un-Pro”.
The game was not without its highlights though. Offensively the team was intimidatingly strong at the top of the order with the first three kickers going a total of 6 for 7 on the day. Geoff “The Panther” Fellows started the game with a home run to deep center and ended up going 2 for 3 with 2 runs for the game. Jess “The Paleo Pulverizer” Levy went a perfect 2-2 from the dish and drove in one run. At third in the order, John Childers (hey, that’s me) launched 2 home runs in his 2 at bats, kicking in a total of 4 runs. Also netting hits were Marcie Quintana and Abbey Laufenberg.
The team struggled to get its bearings a bit defensively, but there were some impressive catches made by our outfielders.
Photos of the match can be found on our Flickr feed.
The team is looking for an inaugural win this Wednesday night in its 7:45 match at the field on Delancey and Attorney streets on the Lower East Side. Come on down and watch us mourn the end of the shuttle program by sending some (newly-)Unidentifiable Rubber Objects into lower earth orbit.
Welcome to Kickball, AI!
Thank you, Matt, for having us!
John, that silhouette is you, isn’t it?
*blushes*
I’d like to add that the only reason the final score was 17-6 was because the opposing team insisted on playing out their inning at bat even though the game was over for us.