Archive for February, 2012
2/18/12 – NO GAMES!
Feb 18
GAMES ARE OFF!
The parking lots are already too muddy to drive on and the rain has just resumed resulting in standing water on the fields.
Today’s makeup games from December 17th will just disappear now, we’ll play next week as scheduled and the tournament the weekend after that.
Laissez les bons temps rouler… you know, just not at the fields this week…
Alex
Updates For February 11th
Feb 10
Only three weeks of games to go before the tournament, make sure you’re out there every week to help your team get prime seeding! It will be quite chilly tomorrow, so be sure to bundle up!
If for whatever reason you cannot make the games this weekend, please let your captains know IMMEDIATELY! Big D In Little D is taking place tomorrow and Sunday and we don’t want decimated teams to be caught unaware with only six people out for the week having to play savage and a man down.
Rec players, bear in mind that from here on out all games will be played according to the revised rec schedule which can be found here: http://dallaswinterleague.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/rec11-12-v2.jpg
Food this weekend will be Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwiches! Please be considerate of your fellow ultimate players and only take one. If there are sandwiches left over after everyone’s gotten one then, AND ONLY THEN, you’re welcome to get a second.
I love dogs, I really do, I even had a dog once, so I can appreciate that some of you want to bring your dog out so you have someone to help you break down your performance for the day once you get home, but if you bring a dog out, be sure to have your dog on a leash at all times and have the leash staked to the ground the entire time you’re on the field please.
Please be courteous to our hosts at the polo grounds and continue to drive slowly through the parking lot. I haven’t seen too many egregious violations, that’s a good thing!
Finally, a note about SPIRIT OF THE GAME:
I won’t bore you with a giant copy-paste of the premise behind SOTG, though I recommend you read it, but please remember the cardinal rule of not only spirit, but a pretty good life lesson as a whole. DON’T BE A JERK! Nobody wants to play against jerks, nobody wants to be on a team with jerks, jerks tend not to play well in a crowd. If there’s a foul, feel free to call it. If you disagree with a FOUL CALLED ON YOU, contest it! There is absolutely ZERO reason for anyone other than the players involved and perhaps the captains to have any say about a call on the field.
Captains, I’m taking to you. Show your experience and some maturity when dealing with calls and questions about the rules please.
There’s a method to the madness here, folks. The reason captains have been asked to turn in spirit forms all year is because *drum roll please* THIS YEAR WE HAVE FIVE, SAVAGE AND VC ON BOARD WITH DONATIONS TO THE LEAGUE WHICH WILL BE GIVEN TO THE SPIRIT WINNERS! Monitor your behavior, think twice before you open your mouth, and so forth, and you may be in line to get some sweet, sweet ultimate swagg just for being cool people.
As always, please support those that support us, Hard Eight BBQ, Sea Blue Travel, Nationwide Overspray, The Idle Rich Pub, Dallas Natural Childbirth, and the aforementioned apparel companies. Keep an eye out for a more fleshed out e-mail detailing what these fine folks do for the league and what they can do for you!
Everyday word jumblin’,
Glenn and Alex
Freelance Poobahs At Large
Feb 4 – All Games ON!
Feb 4
Welp, despite the best efforts of a few showers around 8 last night the fields didn’t get over saturated and all games are on and playable as scheduled.
PLEASE BE SURE TO PARK IN THE GRASSY AREA OF THE PARKING LOT! As the parts with exposed dirt are more muddy than last week and will very likely suck your car in like quicksand.
Captains, be sure to walk your fields and if the back happens to be too wet, don’t be afraid to make the call and move it up ten or fifteen yards.
See you all at the fields!
Glenn and Alex
Dancing Poobahs Extraordinaire
Well, it’s February, so as usual it’s 70 degrees all week and the April showers are upon us… Wait… what?
Yeah, this time last year we had to call games due to the snowpocalypse and this year we may be calling it due to a freak tropical storm in our tropical north Texas climate.
In the event of continuing rain today we will almost certainly have to call tomorrow’s games off.??We intend to have a message on the rainout line (214-654-5478) by 10:30 at the latest.
Make sure you check it before you head out, and listen to the entire message to ensure you’re hearing the announcement for this weekend. Remember, just because it’s raining where you are, doesn’t necessarily mean it rained in Oak Point and vice-versa.
Food this weekend will be fresh grilled hot dogs with all the fixin’s and chips.
Doing an anti-rain dance,
Glenn and Alex, Dancin’ Poobahs Extraordinaire
