Oh Those Pre-Teens...

This must be their first boy-girl party. I remember my first girl-boy party. It was my 13th birthday party. Only one girl showed up. I never said it was a good boy-girl party, but since there was a girl there - it counts. Anyway I'm sure this party went through the usual motions where the guys stand in one area growing into their faces while the girls huddle on the opposite side of the room fiddling with their braces. The only thing that makes those awkward moments worse is when Will Smith's "Big Willie Style" is blaring from a boombox in the corner. So after the music is either changed or turned off the mingling finally begins. Among boys of varying heights we find David Holland - who apparently gallivants around parties without socks or a shirt.

It seems that a wiffleball bat can be summoned, seemingly from nowhere, in moments of sheer boredom to be used as an instrument of violence. Nothing breaks the ice at a party better than inflicting pain on someone using a yellow plastic bat! You can add this to the growing pile of intentionally hitting people with a wiffleball bat. I keep saying to myself that I've seen them all but soon enough another one is uploaded and I find myself wondering when everyone is going to realize that a wiffleball bat does, in fact, hurt quite a big when swung at full force upon someone's body. Why accept facts when you can hurt somebody, right?

I wonder if they used the chandelier as a piñata after everyone was tired of being hit?

Stay-At-Home Dad Wiffle

There is a league/organization out there that has escaped my attention for too long - SAHD Wiffle. The two main guys who play in the league are stay-at-home dads, thus the name Stay-At-Home Dad (S.A.H.D.) Wiffle. I'm not sure if these guys really play in a league format or not but they have done quite a few product reviews on different types of bats and balls. They are definitely worth a visit if you haven't visited them already.

WWL - Year In Review

I've got to say that one of my favorite leagues to watch this year was the Washburn Wiffleball League in New York. They played a lot of games and put out a lot of videos. A lot of leagues don't bother to include playoff videos but WWL is not one of them, they posted it all. But they didn't stop at the championship...they made a SportsCenter parody called SportsCircle that highlighted the season as a whole. Most people can't pull off the SportsCenter parodies without failing miserably but WWL did a splendid job with this video; but don't take my word for it - watch it. They even did commercials.

Missouri Park Seeks Wiffle Players

Hannibal, Missouri ---Aron Lee, of the Hannibal Parks and Recreational Department (HPRD), is doing something rarely seen before - seeking out wiffleball players. They want 5 person teams consisting of either 2 men and 3 women or 3 mean and 2 women. $100 per team. The games will be played on Tuesdays in the Admiral Coontz Recreation Center (that's right...indoors). Registration lasts until September 13 so if you live in the Hannibal area in Missouri, this is your chance to join a league. Missouri is not known for having any stable wiffleball leagues and this project could change that. They plan on playing through the fall and winter so that people will have something to do when it's cold outside. Hopefully there will be some players to meet Mr. Lee halfway and the project will take off. Lee intends on posting game results and statistics on the HPRD website. Perhaps we'll be hearing from them soon.

Source: Hannibal Courier-Post

EDIT: There is no longer a co-ed team requirement for the league. You can have teams of all males or all females.

MLW Schultz Field HR Race

One of the most fun leagues to watch out there is a small group of kids in Michigan that play in a league known as MLW - Schultz Field. They've been playing since 2009 and the long balls are starting to add up. They've got two kids that close to hitting 50 home runs a piece. No league is complete without a little competition in the home run department.