Our creative, energetic (and young) youth worker staff have invented a game called Dizzy Ball. It is played with a whiffle ball and bat in the main office among the cubicles. They have come up with some killer rules which make the game quite fun, challenging and filled with strategery. HEY, we are a youth ministry. Refusing to grow up I have become a regular player. I sustain some kind of injury almost every time I play. Right now my big toe is totally black from a game last week. Today, I rug burned the palm print off my right hand sliding into home plate. My 50 year old body has an increasingly difficult time keeping up with my competitive mind and an imagination which has me making one spectacular play after another. Here is our team picture after today's game followed by a second one in which we all tried to look really tough and mean.
I don't think we are going to scare anyone...
it looks like you photoshopped dustin in... same expression in both pics. c'mon dustin -- get mean!
Posted by: chris | March 03, 2008 at 09:12 PM
Dustin just doesn't have the capacity for meanness...
Posted by: Mike | March 03, 2008 at 10:08 PM
haha, he clearly didn't get the memo.
Dizzy Ball - coming to a cubicle near you!
Posted by: andy | March 04, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Dizzy ball is amazing!!!! I hit two home runs in a row last time I played. Other than that I pretty much stink.
Posted by: Billy | March 04, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Billy, I can't wait to see your game... Are you talking two automatic homeruns?
Posted by: Mike | March 04, 2008 at 09:43 PM
Yeah, it is quite amazing how much the same Dustin looks in one to the next
Posted by: Gras | March 04, 2008 at 10:28 PM
I just saw Andy Garlich's dizzy ball injury - oozey side wound...
Posted by: Mike | March 05, 2008 at 01:06 PM
Dizzy ball was the bane of my existence when I was there. But maybe......just maybe.....I miss it....just a little....only maybe a tiny bit sometimes.....*tear*
Posted by: maux | March 05, 2008 at 08:27 PM
So inquiring minds want to know...how do you play?
Posted by: Ty | March 05, 2008 at 09:53 PM
Moe (aka Maux) you could have played... come on you miss the boys... Katy was swinging the bat today.
Posted by: Mike | March 05, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Andy, Aaron, Nick, oh great originators of dizzy ball and keeper of the sacred rules... how do you answer Ty? You have to be there???
Posted by: Mike | March 05, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Yea...it is one of those games that you have to be there to explain. Come on in Ty! There are so many random rules to the chaos, but it all comes together wonderfully in the end to create the most incredible office game ever.
1 bat + 1 ball + 1 base + cubicles + 30 random rules = dizzy ball
Posted by: andy | March 05, 2008 at 10:32 PM
automatic. automatic. above the line twice in a row. but other than that I pretty much stink.
Posted by: Billy | March 07, 2008 at 11:35 AM
hitting back to back homeruns... very impressive... you have a chance to make into the "Bigs"
Posted by: Mike | March 07, 2008 at 12:27 PM