Southernmost Bocce League Master Schedule

Southernmost Bocce League Master Schedule

Chuck published the new and revised schedule for the 2010 Spring Season!
Just I'd let you know this way.
This link will take you to Monday's Season Schedule.

Thanks Chuck for your dedication and hard work!

Joy of Bocce - Article as it appeared in Merrimack Magazine

Click here for the article!

What was the World like before Bocce and Internet?

With Bocce being one of the oldest games and the Internet really just caught on to the masses about 10 - 15 years ago, I remember my start on WEBTV Nov. '97,

the World seemed a bit slower then. Information hungry topic oriented subjects, there was the Library, but my main source was VALLEDARES.

Now gone, one became hooked, dependend to the net and being without one for just a few days and having to restart most everything, things can become a bit frustrating.

Anyway, glad problems are resolved, (for NOW), but Mercury in retrograde until Oct.10, I hope the effects are fading.

Get this week's updates!

See what's happening this week and listen to the Talk of the Town!

Pages are being updated - though have to do all with this laptop since I goofed around the PC just a bit too much!

See you at the "Clubhouse" and the Bocce Courts, and Bayview Park, H.O.B. now with the AYSO season starting...
Guess I'll be busy for a while!

Notes: GM's quick exit from bankruptcy good news for NASCAR - Sprint Cup, NASCAR - CBSSports.com NASCAR, IRL, F1

A bit out of line and a competely different topic, but..
... after all, CP's is still the official Southernmost Pit Stop for Nascar and a definite HotSpot for NasCar Fans.
Ask the friendly folks how you can join!

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Although these articles and quotes below are a couple of month old and I am by no nor any means a NASCAR Fan, (F1 is more me), but one of my relatives has certainly made some headlines during those days and has since moved to Hendrick motors.

Just a quick quote from the articles from July's editions.

"We've raced Chevys for 25 years," Doug Duchardt said at Chicagoland Speedway. "This is just one situation. We've worked through it and we'll move on down the road."
Duchardt, the former head of GM Racing, was surprised at how quickly the car company escaped bankruptcy. GM notified teams last month that it would cut back spending after filing for Chapter 11 protection.

Duchardt said these changes made to their agreement after meeting with GM officials, but expected no further adjustments to their contract.

"We're happy that they committed to us in the middle of all that," Duchardt said. "Now that the bankruptcy is over, it doesn't really change anything after we had that meeting."

Rained OUT!

First Rain-out of the season!

As strange as it may sound and after the many days believing there wouldn't be any games, it happened yesterday.

After a few heavy thundersqualls the courts were just to wet and unplayable at the time.
So we have another week to look forward to.

First week of Bocce!

Bocce Fall Season started!

This week marks the opening of the Southernmost Bocce League's Fall Season. Forecasts do not look too favorably, but this shouldn't stop anyone from looking forward to the new season.

Check out the new Bocce Gazette while you're here.

What's NEXT?

The Play-Offs are done and over with; the Southernmost Bocce League will now crown their "NEW" city champion during the Bocce Prom which is scheduled for June 20 at the Shanna Key Irish Pub, but these are all known facts.

But what about some details?

Once the regular season was over, so apparently was the enthusiasm by the League Officials to keep everyone just a bit more informed. There hasn't been any information about the finals, any other details are also completely missing.

Is this really necessary, or is it that at the end of the regular season nobody really cares about it anymore?

As we all are aware of the newly formed Bocce League up in Big Pine Key, it would have been nice to get at least in touch with one of the officers of that group and perhaps invite their champion to come down to Key West before the all so famous BOCCE PROM NIGHT,(June20-SHANNA KEY), have a game and then invite that group to the Prom as a Good Will gesture?

Sure, it is a lot work involved for all our officials, especially for the scorekeeper, but what's the sense of having a web site like we did and only a few select have access to it?
Access as in TEAM access - several attempts were made as I understand by various people, but not even team captains were allowed to comment on their night.

Can you imagine how many more hits there would have been, could have been when one had been able to read your opponents "remarks" after the games? I'm positive, some of the comments probably would have never been published, but what's the sense or purpose of publishing a site like we had when no communication ever really was established?

Chuck, our scorekeeper, did a heck of a job on the site and by keeping us up date during the season, but it appears as a Real Estate Agent he likes working with EXCEL sheets, and as I was told by one of the Citizen's editors, it was simply too much information. But the Citizen has been known for the past few years as having their own pet projects.

Enough of this rambling on - I wholeheartedly applaude all the officials' hard work they have done, especially one name comes to mind - "CISCO" - or Francisco if you'd prefer, as he did not only put together a great play-off weekend with some help of course, but his dedication during the season to keep the courts play-able just deserves all the credit he can get and I hope his enthusiasm and dedication will rub off on others for the upcoming season.

Good Night for now, or should I say Good Morning, it is after all already 5:43 am on Saturday, June 6, and I'm having a World Cup Qualifier in the background LIVE on TV; not much of interest personally, but it's good to be up-to-date with certain things.

Enjoy your weekend and hopefully I'll be seeing you at the PROM!

Southernmost Bocce - the daily Bocce Gazette - Thursday week 12

Southernmost Bocce - the daily Bocce Gazette - Thursday week 12

THURSDAY NIGHT!
All but 2 scores are in - so if you'd like to check it out, click the headline.
Only 1 more week in regular season and as disappointing as our team's season was, it was a great fun season and really did enjoy Thursday Night's.
Thanks everybody!

Key West Clubhouse - Southernmost Bocce - Week 10

Key West Clubhouse - Southernmost Bocce - Week 10

Our dream of sneaking into the post season possibly ended last night (Thursday, April 23); follow the link to see complete standings of the Southernmost Bocce League!

(click on Headline)

Key West Clubhouse / Bocce News Bulletins

Key West Clubhouse / Bocce News Bulletins

During this week's bye week due to the Easter Holidays I had the chance to play a bit on the Bocce Gazette for "BocceManiacs" - unfortunately I could not get any updates yet on how the Bocce Documentary is coming along.

What? You haven't heard about it yet?
Check it out here: http://boccemovie.com/
See you Thursday. And HAPPY EASTER!

Sad Day in Paradise

In loving Memory!

Some people are trying to do the Daytona 500 on Eisenhower Drive just to catch the green light on Truman - and that ended a short and sweet and loving relationship with my little buddy pictured here.

So forgive me if I'm not much in a bocce mood.

Everytime I was sitting on the computer she made herself comfortable on the shelf next to me, where she made herself some room to be close and to watch my fingers slowly move across the keyboard. Sometimes she even helped me typing!

Our First Night

Going out to the Bocce Courts thursday night was a good move as I landed on the team I hoped I could be playing on. It's somewhat more comfortable for an "intro" like me to be around familiar faces to start on a night I had never played before.

Good in the sense as only 2 people of the team showed up and would have had to forfeit the game and as mentioned earlier, it was the team I hoped to be on. And thanks to SANDY who made it possible for me to be playing that night.

Our night started off with a bang as - even with only 3 players - we kept the other team pretty quiet for a while and even took a 13 to 1 lead. Things changed drastically; not being able to get the pallina and playing with only 2 balls on my end, we found ourselves in the jinxed position of 14-11 and finally lost 16-14.

The second match is certainly not worth mentioning as it was a walk over and we got clobbered 16-2 or maybe we got even 3, but that was it.

Finally we made the necessary changes and I played on the other side with Michael as my partner, hoping to be able to give the lone player the chance for the leading ball.
A good setter can keep the damages to a minimum and that's exactly what CYNTHIA did - and more. By winning 2 crucial points in a tight match she made it possible for us to get ahead and kept us in a game that was close to the end.

We finally prevailed and won 16-14 and the praise and respect from our opponents. It was a nice crew to play against and the introduction to Thursday Night's division was quite pleasurable.

Stinky Fingers, our opponent for the night, were one of thursday's play-off team, so all in all, our night definitely could be considered a success.

Before I ramble on too much longer, just remember, the GAZETTE is back and you can get to it by clicking either on the GUINNESS PINT or go to directly to http://kwclubhouse.com/bocce

Have fun!
And YES, you can spread the word - look for BOCCEMANIACS at BLOGSPOT!

It was a START!

After all these years of playing Bocce, last night was a first for me to be playing on a Thursday!
And since it was the beginning of the season I thought I may have a good chance to get on a team without any problem. And so it happened! And it turned out to be quiet an experience.
More on this later....

boccemovie.com - A documentary film about the southernmost bocce league located in Key West, Florida.

boccemovie.com - A documentary film about the southernmost bocce league located in Key West, Florida.

Change is good - not always welcomed, but in this case I wholeheartedly support the project and try to point everyone to this page!

I hope you'll enjoy this project as much as I do and hope you will spread the word!

Messenger Cafe

Messenger Cafe