Boccelism Backlash: WYB!! has joined the movement
February 14, 2007 by karen
Monday night we had our second bocce match of the season against Boccelism. We were down a player this week without Daya, so we knew it would be a tough match, especially because Boccelism is quite good. They may have won the last tournament, but I am really not sure, and quite frankly don’t really care who wins if it’s not us. How’s that for sportsmanship?
The game started off well with both teams keeping within reach of the first match until Alex and I somehow managed to let Boccelism get three points in one turn. Oops. In the same match, Sara helped wrap up our good luck by sniping our two closer balls so that Boccelism had four closer balls instead of zero. Hey, it happens to everyone and it is sometimes funny, but you know what is not funny at all? Having the other team laugh their evil laugh when that happens. The human rain delay* of a bocce player started laughing hysterically when Sara’s throw ended so sadly. Like a weird fifth grader who isn’t able to control his evilness type of laugh. This outburst was followed by “Sorry, I don’t mean to laugh.” Er, but you are. And honesty, we all know you can’t help being a dick.
Which brings me to Boccelism backlash. Last week when we played, we noticed the bathroom walls had two new graffiti additions: “Boccelism are virgins” and “Boccelism have small penis’”
I love this for two reasons:
1. What’s up with the graffiti shit talk from other bocce teams? Let it be known that the average age of the bocce league is like 30 years old–not really an age when you still carry around sharpies. Don’t you have a blog like the rest of us nerds where you can post and own up to your hate?
2. The “artist” made penis possessive.
I personally used to be cool about Boccelism and their weirdness. So they have a warm up routine. And they take themselves WAY too seriously. And they are superstitious about how many times they have to roll a ball in their hands before they actually throw it. And sure, they even get on Daya’s nerves and she is one of the most even keeled people I know. And, when you write their name on the score board as “Boccelism” they erase it so it reads “LISM.” But this laughing at other teams shit is pathetic. You win all the time, is it cool to laugh at teams that don’t?
So in the end, the first game went to Boccelism. The second game went to WYB!! 7-3, though I don’t remember very much about how that happened. The third game went to Boccelism because we were just terrible and only secured one point before they secured seven.
When the game was over, WYB!! pulled up some couch at the front of Floyd, and a few minutes later the human rain delay delivered us a bucket of beers as a compensation prize, or maybe an apology. It was actually very nice, so we won’t be changing the apostrophe on penis’ to an exclamation just yet.
*Borrowed from Rock and Roll Nightmare
Tags: alex, bocce, brooklyn, karen, kevin k., matt s., sara k., shameful
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February 14th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
man, any team that can get on Daya’s nerves has to be something else. i wish i could say that I remember these guys, but given how drunk i usually was during those matches, everything is sort of a blur. let it be known that laughing at another team isn’t cool, and i don’t think buying a bucket of crap beer (Stroh’s??? wtf?) makes up for it. the best revenge will be when you guys beat them in the playoffs, or maybe when you stab the back of their knees with icepicks. either one.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:23 am
I wish I had an evil fifth grader laugh. The sort that starts as a low key chuckle and ends with a pointed cackle. I could hire my self out to bocce teams and laugh at their opponents whenever they fucked up. It would be infectious; the whole bar would be laughing at you* evilly without knowing why.
*out loud, as opposed to now.