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Roxies tonight!

CitizenConnelly — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:46:17 +0000

So the Roxie Awards are tonight and I’m pumped…the Sofa Kings are nominated for a few things listed below…most notably team of the year and tonight we hope to bring that home!

Team of The Year
1) Average Joes
2) CR Hooligans
3) HAC Team
4) Saved By The Balls
5) Sofa Kings

Team of The Future
1) Butter Balls
2) The Crew
3) Hit It Then Bounce
4) Moving Targets
5) Sucka Ma Balls

Community Award
1) Debbi Lutes
2) Erika Kurtz
3) Kimberlee Frerichs
4) Lindsey Ostafy
5) Pete Capriotti

Oh Captain My Captain
1) Amy Garahan (CR Hooligans)
2) Chris Connelly (Sofa Kings)
3) Dave Haley (Duke Wayne)
4) Donna Deldeo (Saved By The Balls)
5) Jon Cuprak (Sucka My Balls)

DSL MVP Award
1) Dave Mulvena (Bob’s Boys)
2) Debbi Lutes (Sofa Kings)
3) Justin Jones (Catherine Rooney’s)
4) Matt Farina (Saved By The Balls)
5) Pat Burris (Sofa Kings)

Sofa Kings Kickball Awards

CitizenConnelly — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:09:58 +0000

Sofa Kings Kickball Awards:

Golden Leg Award (guys): Bob (minus the playoffs and overall just when it counts sans the game against Kick in the Box)

Runner up: Adam, Chris

Golden Leg Award (girls): Jess

Runner up: Every other girl that got a double during the season

Golden Hands for Excellence in Fielding: Adam, Eric, Bob, Jess, Pat, Lovejoy

Most Improved: Nicole, Donna

Runner up: Lovejoy

Most Surprising: JC, Jess

Least Surprising: Pat, Adam

Best defensive duo that just-so-happens to be married: Nicole and Pat

Best defensive duo not married but could be some day: Eric and Bob

Runners up: Bob and Jess

Crutchtastic player of the year: Beth

Runner up: JC

Worst “good luck” charm ever: Aubrey

Runner up: Dave McElvain

Most likely to be forgotten when I/Jess write the lineups: Jayme

Most likely to get impregnated during the game: Kelly

Most likely to hit on the opposing team members: JC, Kelly

Most likely resembling the guy from CashCab: Bill

Most likely to get their hair did over attending a game: Beth

Most likely resembling a Broadway star on the field: Chris (for his Jazz Hands pre-catch action)

Most likely to take balls on the chin: Jess

Most likely to total their car during the game? Donna

Most likely to play while still having the flu: Chris

Most likely to leave us for her dad’s…I mean Boyfriend’s dball team: Jess

Most likely to suffer an off-the-field injury while drinking: Beth, Bob

Most likely to still get lost trying to find Rockford park: Gabbie

Best first base coach ever to rarely make first base: Eric

Golden Liver Award: Lovejoy, Gabbie

Oldest player to make it through the season without hurting themselves: Adam

Runner up: Debbi Lutes

Team Dedication Award: Kelly, Debbi, Lovejoy

Bar Dedication Award: Lovejoy, Beth

Most Valuable Person to never show up: Brooks, Erin

Most Valuable Person to show up and never play: Beth

Most Valuable non-person to never show up: Shamus the dog

Sofa King Toe Touch Champion Award: Lovejoy and Bob…since none of us really care that much which one outdoes the other.

Sofa Kings 10vs. Super Heroes In Training 7

CitizenConnelly — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:35:46 +0000

Sofa Kings 10vs. Super Heroes In Training 7
Sofa Kings were slightly short handed on the men’s side as Brooks Hall decided that education was way more important than his kickball teammates, Eric Bland was trying out for pep squad and Bill Czachorowski was stumbling up and down Route 1 somewhere between Jimmy’s and Hammerheads. Have no fear Sofa King fans, Bob Spring and ‘A-Rod’ Adam Hardt really stepped up their games in their absence. Adam did it offensively with a two run homerun while Bob covered the ENTIRE outfield. Heck, on some plays, he even covered the infield. I think it’s the red cleats. On the ladies side, Jessica K-a lot of letters-ski displayed her matrix-like moves as she dodged a bullet up the middle while she was on the mound and Nicole Burris did all kinds of scoring. For Super Heroes In Training, they are officially changing their name to Team Wendell. In his first at bat, he collected 2 RBI’s as he drilled a long shot to the wind tunnel in right field. In the next inning, Mike Clendaniel added a two run shot of his own. Carmen Eoppolo deserves some props for his running shoe string catch on a dying quail down the left field line. In a supporting role, Replacement Steve had a good night too

Sofa Kings 9 vs. Where My Pitches At? 6

CitizenConnelly — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:22:52 +0000

Sofa Kings 9 vs. Where My Pitches At? 6
Yet another Sofa King match-up with some pre-game trash talk. Bob Spring with his near broken but still working wrist belted a loooooong 2 run homerun to put the Sofa Kings up.
Jayme Fields would have added to the lead if Marshall wasn’t 10 feet tall. Pitches mounted a comeback to tie the game using small ball. Staples got things started with what quite possibly may have been the worst kick in all of kickball not just DSL history.
Consecutive singles by Jim Marshall, Bridget Garvin and Carrie Wolf continued the rally. In their next at bat, Sofa Kings went up for good on a perfectly place ball down the third base line off the foot of Erin Ott. JC Hughes added to the lead with a triple. But his shout out doesn’t stop there.
He didn’t screw up in left field and made a phenomenal catch to end the end an inning and save at least one run. Debbi had a horrendous night offensively including a foul out but she made up for her lackluster batting performance with a STELLAR night defensively at first base! Sofa Kings would like to thank The Hershey Company and the distributers of Twizzlers as the two pre-game bags appeared to have stepped their game to the next level.

Sofa Kings tonight!

CitizenConnelly — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:53:46 +0000

Me and Mr. Smith after the loss to Kickballs in the Mouth

A game against Swift Kick in the Grass in a rematch of last season’s playoff game.
We won 7-6, off of my game-winning single in the bottom of the 7th. These guys were good and we’ll remember not to take them lightly like last time.

Should be a grand time, Sofa Kings record: 0-1 (1-1 with the scrimmage).

Sofa Kings take the first game of the season

CitizenConnelly — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:31:39 +0000

Sofa Kings 17 vs. 16 Ton Gunz 11

After a two week hiatus, Sofa Kings were ready for some kickball. They had the cutest cheering section as Debbi’s nephews Benjamin and Gannon came to root on their favorite aunt. Fresh of ankle surgery, Beth Hayes hobbled to the Riverfront to manage the rowdy squad. Captain Chris Connelly, Bob Spring and Jessica Kraszewski didn’t disappoint as they each connected for homeruns. Bob’s first shot almost landed on MLK Blvd. He was pretty impressive defensively as well. He displayed a move where he just about impregnated Kelly Toton at second base. Then there was Pat Burris who made an amazing attempt to haul in a shot at short stop. He jumped an astounding 2 inches off the ground.

Down big early, 16 Ton Gunz mounted a late game come back. They were led by Ryan Troutman who is picking up the reigns from former captain Gary Castelow. Troy Thomas proved his kicking leg is just as strong as his dodgeball arm. Man can that kid fly around the bases too! Tim Frick looked like Chris Brown with a nice slide into second base. Michelle ‘The Future Mrs. Captain’ Peto was stellar defensively but their come back came up just short.

Sofa Kings start Kickball Season 2 tonight!

CitizenConnelly — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:09:33 +0000

Sofa King Bar Crawl

Tonight the Sofa Kings play at 6pm, at the Riverfront in the DSL Kickball Season 2 opener against 16 Ton Gunz. After a 5-1 and 1 season that took us to the Elite 8 in the playoffs we start fresh again tonight.

I’m really looking forward to seeing these guys, playing some kickball and having some fun.

Like any other season our family has changed, loosing a few and gaining a few, but all in all we’re going to be a tight group. We’re a family in kickball and in life and I utterly love these guys!

Cheers, raise your glasses high to what is going to be another great season!

Sofa Kings on FB

CitizenConnelly — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:09:00 +0000

The Sofa Kings now have a group on FB here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=99692714405&ref=ts

Aside from that; we play Tuesday Rockford 4 against the Slow Rollers (5-1) in the Elite 8 of the DSL playoffs

Sofa King tonight up with Kickball!

CitizenConnelly — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:55:47 +0000

6pm Alapocas against the Scratch Attack….this should be fun. These guys are going to give us a run for our money.

Sofa King Undefeated

CitizenConnelly — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:28:01 +0000

We won last night’s doubleheader and Tuesday’s lightning storm game making us 4-0!
woo hoo!

Sofa Kings tonight

CitizenConnelly — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:06:53 +0000

Tonight we play against our good buddies We Got the Runs in what will likely be an epic battle of strength, determination and folly.

Or just a great game with some buddies we got to know from Dodgeball…in any event, go fn’ sapphires!

Kickball ’09 Starts Tonight!

CitizenConnelly — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:01:23 +0000

I’m excited for the start of DSL Kickball 2009. Many of our guys are coming back, some bring additions, others bring themselves and hopefully a decent leg.

A year ago we weren’t a team, in fact many of us played for Washington Street Ale House. Some played for other teams, others didn’t play at all.
But, over the past year we’ve grown in to a solidified family…an actual crew. A medley of individuals that make up something wonderful.

Here’s to the start of another great season, another fun spring with the family.

Seeing friends

CitizenConnelly — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:27:01 +0000

Last night was great, I got to see my old buddy Krumm, Rob, Erica & Lauren…sans Michelle it was the old Ale House crew from last spring. Later we saw Jen & Andrew, Beth and a few others. Its just good to hang out and drink with true friends.

I’ve never been very good at keeping up with friends. I have this terrible habit of loosing contact. Its not personal but I’m such an socially independent person that I don’t need a high level of interaction. I’m don’t call friends out of the blue to say hello; I rarely keep consistent contact with friends unless I see them often.

It had been a few months since I had hung out with them so seeing them all out last night was just something special and I truly value it all.

Pics from Saturday, That’s What She Said Party

CitizenConnelly — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:25:54 +0000

That’s What She Said rocks harder than you do

Quick updates on life – 9/19/08

CitizenConnelly — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:13:43 +0000

I haven’t had the time, nor the energy to blog much so here are some quick updates on life in general:

Today is Major’s last day…Major is my manager and now its just me and Verna doing the web work for the time being…which only means I’ll be busier than ever.
We won our 2nd playoff game the other night in kickball!
Next game is Saturday at 10am, and if we win that one we’ll play at 11am for the championship!
Major’s goodbye is a Buckley’s, followed by Summer’s goodbye luau
New Flickr photos up soon, hopefully from kickball and random life
Kickball BBQ at Pat’s later on Saturday
Oktoberfest Sunday if I can make it over there
Hanging out with Nat sometime after the luau
Still awaiting word from Jnr Posse regarding their site
Doing some work for Roger Girke over the weekend
Today is International Talk like a Pirate day…obvious exclamations go here: _______
So far so good with Dad living with me; its actually pretty peaceful around my place minus his unquenchable thirst for watching westerns
Awaiting further word from Rhina regarding young professionals blog, which is ok since I’m going to be very very busy very very soon