Last night’s game was all about UNITY and hand-holding! The Revolver dudes flaked, and KQED was down by 6 team members, so we joined forces with the Hyphy Hyphenators in a seriously dangerous game of Capture the Flag.

HYPHQED vs. FROGGERS!

GOOD TIMES!

Co-Capt Christine “Big Boss” Vilar sports our newly designed T-shirts. Which she actually designed and inked with just two no.2 pencils. INCREDIBLE!

Trying to shake the loss from our previous whiffle ball game, we tried a new pre-game routine, by drinking some Sparks.

KQED brought Elmo as their mascot, so we brought Rocket, look how vicious she looks!

As you can see there are not many pictures of us playing the game, but mostly drinking.

We conceded victory to the superior bats of KQED. They played a hard fought and clean game, mucho respect from us.

We may have the lost the battle, but we won the bar wars. Elmo* jumps ship and parties with the Hyphen crew.

*disclaimer hyphen magazine does not encourage underage monster drinking.

Elmo lost his eye in a knife fight at the bar, so we more than gladly provided an eyepatch.

The final game of San Francisco’s Saucony Originals Summer Office (SOSO) Whiffle Ball 2008 season pitted last game’s triumphant winners and sulking losers against one another in a last-chance effort to earn inter-office respect– and oh how sweet is the scent of victory! With a guerrilla DJ providing the games’ soundtrack by blasting hopelessly mediocre reggae music from the top of San Francisco’s beautiful Dolores Park, reigning champions Frog Design Pizza on Fire and Revolver USA/Midheaven Sloth duked it out on the Winners field, while on the Losers field Hyphen Magazine CentaursSt. Elmo’s Fire and KQED grappled to see who would walk away victory-less.

Tensions began early when Hyphen, fueled by the better-than-electrolytes energy of Sparks, sauntered in wearing–yes–eyepatches, but KQED, no strangers to intimidation, were unshaken. Emboldened by their blue-shirted Elmo mascot, KQED sent the Centaurs home with heads hanging low in a mighty 6-3 win.

Meanwhile, Frog, who began the game one person short of a full team, encountered some trouble mid-game when their rookie starter, Dave Hoffer, lost a motherfucking toenail when a Revolver runner, in a haze of speed and adrenaline, slid into his foot. But Hoffer, never one to admit defeat, battled on, and, with the blood slowly soaking into his socks, he stepped back on to the field and led the green-shirts to a 10-8 victory over the tenacious and creatively dressed Sloth.

All enmities were brushed aside after the games however, and, with heads held high, the teams trekked over to the Beauty Bar to end the evening in a flurry of tequila shots. In all, the night proved to be a glorious celebration of unbridled athleticism and uncensored drinking. And if anyone in the San Francisco area happens to find a toenail, please bring it to the Frog offices directly….

More pics, less captions below:

We have to give a big THANK YOU to Aaron and all the awesome bartenders over at The Beauty Bar for putting up with a bunch of whiffle ball jocks and serving us copious/responsible amounts of boooooooooooooooze.

They have this awesome Jim Beam and PBR special on Wednesdays where you get a shot and a beer for only $5. You could drink like, 18 of those if you were irresponsible and not affiliated with Saucony Originals :–)

Anyway, we’re rolling by after our game today, but before we go, we wanted to post some pics from last time.

(though after a few of those Beam and PBRs, you’re pretty too!)

(well, he has nice hair…)

Hyphen vs. Frog Design

Our half-hour whiffleball game against the formidable Frog Design must have set some kind of record for speed. Five innings in 30 mins! In the end, PBR and Sparks gave Frog Design the gusto (and extra warmth) they needed to win by one run. We were bummed. But the resilient Team Hyphen quickly shook it off and headed to the bar as fast as possible to enjoy post-game boozing and booty shaking. Balls schmalz.

TEAM HYPHEN: “WE-FIT”

HIT IT

WUT

BOOTY SHAKING