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If kickball is simply too sporty for you, you've got two new ways to drink a whole lot and not feel guilty about it. The city's growing bocce league has announced that their fall season will take place indoors at the American Legion and Pour House on Capitol Hill. Instead of forcing participants to actually walk from the usual outdoor fields of play to the bar and then drink, the new arrangement -- on astroturf and with lighter balls -- will allow both to happen at once without the peskiness of Mother Nature or laws regulating public drinking to get in the way. Similarly, Frozen Tropics is reporting that a Skeeball tournament will be starting up at the H Street Country Club this Sunday, with a complete league set to kickoff this Winter. With only two Skeeball machines at the bar though, we have a hard time imagining this will be able to include a lot of people.
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Yes! It's about time they put those Skeeball machines to good use. I've been hoping they'd do something like this, since the machines are especially useless right now in that they don't spit out little tickets I can trade in for bouncy balls, army men and Chinese finger traps.
Indoor bocce league? Skeeball league? These quasi-sport and drinking leagues are really starting to push the envelope of remotely sport-like activity. Maybe a chapter of World Rock-Paper-Scissors should be next? Or maybe human chess?
what's the point of playing a sport if you're going to bastardize it to the point it's not recognizable anymore? why not play baseball in the bar with ping-pong balls and spoons for bats?
I couldn't agree more. Bocce isn't bocce unless it's being played outdoors by old Italian men. These kids are doing it all wrong!
well, engineergirl, i was complaining about the lighter balls, but i see your point too! :)
Light balls!
Eye-Oooh!
Maybe soon we'll see DC's first baseketball league.
Don't see why not...you must have seen those idiots playing Quidditch on the Mall every weekend.
Oh, look, someone's been to Brooklyn. We're all very proud of you. Now remind me which bars I shouldn't be going to again.
An aside: Brooklyn's hipster bars feature only the most authentic, regulation, clay bocce courts.
If Chicago gets the 2016 Olympics, can Skee Ball be a "demonstration sport?"