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….

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