Don's Place Key West - Sponsor Recreation

Don's Place Key West - Sponsor Recreation

One of the Thursday Night's Bocce Sponsors page with link to their business page. Of course Don's also sponsors a Coed Softball Team.
Check them out!

Tuesday Night Bocce/ Courtesy of Shanna Key

Tuesday Night's Scores and Standings are up!

Find out about last night games at Clubhouse Pages, courtesy of Shanna Key Irish Pub & Grill!

Thursday's updates are posted!

Game Night - Sept. 10:

Week #5: 9/10/09

Last Call vs. Shanna Key's Hell's Rangers 0 - 3

Conch Town Bubba's vs. Southernmost Hotel 3 - 0

Pepe's vs. BAT Construction 2 - 1

American Legion vs. Just For Fun 1 - 2

Charlie's Place vs. Bobbi Jo's 2 - 1

Don's Place vs. Funny Business 1 - 2

DonKeys vs. Schoonfield 3 - 0

Standings available at kwclubhouse.com

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."

Thursday Night Standings Posted

Thursday Night standings have been posted at the Bocce Gazette!
kwclubhouse.com
More on the night later on...

Key West Clubhouse / Bocce News Bulletins

In a news post in the official Bocce page last April a benefit tournament was mentioned, yet nothing has come of it so far.
I've been wondering about the subject as I have heard several comments I prefer not too repeat.
Read more here...

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!

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/

Standings available @.ORG

The League's OFFICIAL Standings are available at:

http://southernmostbocce.ORG

4 Players and a big W

THURSDAY NIGHT BOCCE!

There's 1 more week to the final registration day and our team hopes that we may get at least one more player.
It was rather exhausting playing 3 games in a row, although some people do not consider BOCCE a sport.

Well, anything that is played with a competitive spirit in the recreational world, I would consider a sport.

The court was in sad shape as last night's loser did not bother to drag the court, or so it seemed, and we did not bother with the chore. Naturally, both teams struggled a bit and we split the first 2 games.

Third game became a rather "convincing" victory as Pepe's did not get into double figures. Hopefully we find another player in the remaining week, as I mentioned before, it is rather difficult after 2 complete games to decide in which hand one should hold the beer and which hand the bocce ball!

See you next week!
Remember the official Bocce site is now http://southermostbocce.ORG/

Night Captains -

- This thought might interest you!

Now with the new web page at Hometownonline, which btw. is one of the best league/team host on the web, and people are obviously using their PC or Mac more than just for e-mailing or playing games or browse the net, why not give "CHUCK" some help or assistance.

Why not get involved to have your scores and standings of your game night updated the same night, rather somewhen the following day?
(Depending of course on what kind of night you have had!)

Yes, - I have heard of and experienced 'bocce~lism' several times myself, so who the heck in their right mind would want to punish her/himself by committing to such an "enormous task"?

With 13/14 teams a night, guessing an average of 6 players a team, that's 78/84 players each night, somebody out there might just have the necessary enthusiasm, interest and knowledge that the page administrator would not hesitate to give permission to get access.
It all would still have to be approved by him anyway!

Since Thursday Night is our team's game night, I'll try to stay [unofficially of course] on top of it and have the scores and standings in at that night.

Since 'Sisco' is the only one I know for some time out of the Officers crew, and perhaps the most accessible one, tell him you're interested and see what happens!

Following this LINK, you'll get to the bocce pages of the still somewhat private Clubhouse. And of course to the now 11 year old Bocce Gazette.

Anyway, it looks Thursday Night was the right choice for me - especially sitting out for a few seasons, it's a good group and it looks as if there are a few of the 'boccesaurs' around to enjoy the night of the game we all love - Bocce -.

And where else do you see faces you know for so many years other than the Bocce Courts. And aren't these courts much more tolerable to see or meet your Judge or be judged on, than the one next to "da Bird"?

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....

Beginning of the New Season!

This weekend BWS (the bocce withdrawal symptoms) come to end with the beginning of the Spring Season '09 of the Southernmost Bocce League on Monday, February 9, 2009.

And this time the Cold front which usually accompanies and signals the beginning of the spring season came a week earlier and there's hope for Monday Night we'll stay in the 60's.

Although I haven't played myself for several seasons, the Love for BOCCE can and will never cease to exist. It's been so long ago when I occasionally played, that people looked at me and thought I was either completely nuts or definitely color blind.

The DARK balls were always GREEN during the early days, now they're actually blue, RED is still red - the Pallina was red, now there are several options to choose from!

Anyway, I hope there's a spot open any night but WEDNESDAY!

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!

Announcing: re-opening of the Bocce Gazette

Key West, Florida - January 13, 2009

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Finally - the Gazette is back!

After years of hibernation the Bocce Gazette is finally back in circulation! Last season's mishap was certainly the deciding factor of bringing back the still obscure Gazette, but with the Key West Clubhouse finally officially open, it's quite an easier path than it was before.

So, look forward to the coming season when again the daily updates are being published.

For more info visit: http://kwclubhouse.com/bocce.aspx

Cowboy Bills - A True Bocce Dynasty

Last weekend the Southernmost Bocce League ended their Fall Season with the post season tournament to determine the overall league champion!

The top 5 teams of each night qualified for this competition and again it was the Monday Night's division champion which earned the "Bragging Rights" to be called the Best of Key West!

You can visit the official Bocce page by putting your cursor over the Logo and click on it. You'll find detailed information and an extensive picture gallery is available to browse through. Have Fun while there!

The season will officially end with the Bocce Prom at Dante's on Caroline Street.

Green Parrot Bar on Blogspot!

With much delight did I come across the "No Sniveling" blog which is updated daily by John and Vicky.

John also posted an entry about the first "Official Bocce Championship" which is well worth reading. I admire that he (John) finally got over his complex not to publish on the web. That's a different story though altogether. Something you can read about in my personal google page.

And just John will read this: "I will get even" - promise. It's been 7 long years and it curls my stomach thinking about it. I'm truly sorry!

www.keywestsports.net - Key West Clubhouse

http://www.keywestsports.net-a.googlepages.com/

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