Will week 2 be a rainout?

Hi everyone,

It appears the 2nd week of the fall-season might just be a complete wash out!
Preparing for my upcoming tests really doesn't leave me much time for nearly 3 more weeks and consequently certain things regretfully have to be put on a backburner.
(Which btw. I'm running out of, lol.)

Right now there's another heavy rain squall pouring down on us and with the sun not getting a chance to perform her miracles on the courts, it just looks as if tonight might be the first casualty of our young season.

Perhaps it gives me an opportunity to complete at least our night (Thursday) at the BOCCE GAZETTE . <==HINT - click on it

I hope you have been checking it out; I still need some more sponsor information.
Ok, that's it for now, back to my "Honey Do's" with an important soccer match in the background on TV.

(Can think of a couple other places I'd rather be right now, but hey, make the best out of it.

See you Thursday!

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.

SHANNA KEY.info TV SCHEDULE

SHANNA KEY.info TV SCHEDULE

Shanna Key just posted their weekly TV-Schedule on their website.
Remember the Bundesliga starts Friday; let Barry know you want to watch the games.
GOLTV here in Key West - 622 Comcast - DirectTV unknown to me for now, will post later!

Southernmost Bocce League - Reminder

Just a quick reminder that the final team registration is on Wednesday, August 5 at 6 pm. This will take place at "SHANNA KEY Irish Pub & Grill" with the captain's meeting following at 7 pm.

First games Monday, August 10 at 6:30 pm.!

See you all at the Court - BOCCE COURT that is.

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Key West - Bocce and Facebook!

Never in my worst nightmares...

...could I have imagined becoming a "semi"-regular at these social networks. But sometimes this is just the way the cookie crumbles or the dice rolls.

And I must admit, there's actually much more going on than I had expected.

So - why is this subject coming up here and now? Quite possible some of you quick thinkers "feel" already what's coming and yes, you are right.

Soon you can hear again the famous cry "Let's roll" being carried over all the way to Higgs Beach and what better time than now to add another call to arms: BocceManiacs Unite.

Please Note: Captain's Meeting on Wednesday, August 5, at Shanna Key! Check the official site for the latest announcements!

Bocce is without a doubt the most social gathering, ignore the Arts, and most of us play bocce just for that reason, see some old friends whom you otherwise wouldn't see but twice a year on the street just passing by and a quick hello.

Now to this tournament which was posted on the official web site, a benefit tournament for Terry, one can't help but wonder why this has been kept so quiet all this time!

Over 2 month have passed since the announcement and as far as I know the registration for the upcoming season is rapidly nearing, why can't we combine these 2 events? The league would not be involved with this weekend event, for good reasons, but wouldn't it be in teir best interest to support at least verbally this worthwhile cause. And a weekend affair like that would perhaps encourage more people give it a try to learn the game of BOCCE. People who might not want to join the league but would occasionally enjoy a good game of Bocce and learn what it's all about.

If anybody knows what happened, why the enthusiasm faded faster then it was sparked, please let me know.

"BOCCEMANIACS UNITE" - check back at FaceBook for more detailed info within the next 2 weeks.

Have Fun,
boccenut

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!

COWBOY BILL's Wins 6th. Consecutive Title

The Southernmost Bocce League's Spring Season came to the end on Sunday Night.
And what perhaps most players of the League secretly or openly had hoped just couldn't happen. Unstoppable, it appears their in a league of their own, and after winning Monday Night's Division during the regular season, Cowboy Bill's breezed through the play-offs as well as the final unbeaten.

The Play-Off Sponsors who donated Kegs of Beer, Ice, Water and Sodas deserve to be applauded for their continued support of the League; these were:
Don's Place
Green Parrot
Shanna Key
Bobalu's

Another big THANK YOU should go to Dan Evans and Campus Cafe for slaving over the hot grill during the 2 day event which gave us a short preview of the long upcoming summer month.

Congratulation to the 20 teams who made it to the play-offs and of course to Cowboy Bill's who possibly join the GREEN PARROT in the local bocce history books as one of the greatest teams.

BTW, I am still looking for stories, anecdotes from yesteryears for the "History" pages here at Google.

Looking forward to next season!

Key West Clubhouse - BOCCE Play-Offs -

Key West Clubhouse - BOCCE Play-Offs -

Sunday's Play-Off scenario! Follow the link above!

Bocce Gazette FINALS

Bocce Gazette

Just to let you know the final standings are in and you'll be pleasantly surprised by the page I hope! Go ahead and visit each night individually.
Almost feels like the old Bocce days!

There's much more to be added now in the history department.

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 - News - May 2 - 9

Key West Clubhouse - News - May 2 - 9

Just thought I'd let you know this week's schedule is posted at the Daily Sports Telegraph, a subpage of the Key West Clubhouse Notes.

[Visit this NEW SERVICE from the Key West Clubhouse!] Grab the big picture!

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)

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The Race is on!

4 more weeks remain to improve your team's standings,
4x3=12 more games!

And after this Thursday, [ April 23 ], it appears that either the glimmer of HOPE will shine more brightly, or... well, you know the alternative.

There's one more thing I have to mention;

the good folks over CP's are having a "History" making event next Saturday, April 25, even the former owner Charley will come down for the occasion.

The Party should start around 6 p.m. and to find out more about, follow this link below!

Charley's Place

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!

Re-Structuring/Re-building

With the excellent updates Chuck is doing on the official website, it gives me the chance and opportunity to rebuild the Clubhouse pages.

Just click on the links in the sidebar to get to the pages you'd like to follow.

I'll be back somewhen next week! You can also visit http://keywestsports.blogspot.com/

Sports - Local | KeysNews.com

Sports - Local | KeysNews.com

Have you seen the Standing of the Southernmost Bocce League on the web lately?

If not, give it a try. Just follow the Link above.

Hooray - no dragging the Court tonight!

After winning the first game rather easily, the second and third match was quite the opposite. We've lost the second game 15-16 and came back from a big deficit in the 3rd. to win by the smallest of margins, 16-15.
It was the longest game of the night and we were glad as much as lucky to finish the night the way it did.

Hopefully we can keep this streak going for a couple of weeks to see if there's a shot to be in the top 5 for thursday night. I certainly hope so!

See you next week!

Check out this link for the standings: http://kwclubhouse.com/thu4.aspx

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!

Thursday Night BOCCE

As I was busy working on some pages, I realized today was Thursday, and you know what that means - it's BOCCE NIGHT!

Am I looking forward to it? I'm not so sure.
There are a couple of reasons I can think of which makes me less than enthused about the games tonight:

1. These cold days just don't cut it/with the windchill factor it's just about 60F
2. I believe I caught a virus - a real one, not like the one following the morning after bocce.

But hoping to reach the 500 mark again tonight sparks a little bit of interest again in my barely existing competitive side. And besides, usually I'm my own worst opponent.

Trying to force the court to adapt to my kind of playing instead me trying from the beginning adapting to the court.

Well, we all have our little knick-knacks and shortcomings, and since it is now already 4 p.m. I'll better finish up my real work and start thinking of tonight - Bocce + Beer!

Good Luck!