A Note from the VP

So where do I even begin?  When I was  “elected” (read: volunteered) of Vice President for DCMD in August (Here is a lesson for you kids, if you don’t want to be on the board, don’t go to the Board Elections Happy Hour), I had no idea that I would have a chance to see how much effort actually goes into planning every season.

Now that we’re off the ground and running and I may have done more than any other VP in Monument history, I have to say that I’m really glad that things are going so well.  I am also very glad that since both Marvin and Harlan were out of town last weekend, no one decided to do anything crazy that required me to show any kind of drunken leadership (outside of the normal crazy things that I am sure both our divisions are oh so good at doing).

We at at that point of the season (Monument veterans would usually expect us to have our “Mid-Season” Party now) where all of the new players have discovered that deep down, we’re really all alcoholics with a kickball problem and they have to make a decision: continue to be lured in by the siren’s song of the X or  conspicuously be “out of town” every weekend until the season is over.

However, this season, we have a new phenomenon, as we are embarking on a new experiment of a grand merger, similar to what happened during WWII when the AFL and the NFL merged temporally. While we may all have the same uniforms (except for my team’s sweet Construction Worker Orange “throwback” jerseys), we’ve forever changed the fabric of both of our divisions. (pun intended)

If bar turnout (and late night shenanigans) are any indication, Monument and Star are breaking out of their normal routines and starting to mingle more–think of the scene in every coming of age movie in the past 2o years where the guys are on one side and the girls on the other and it takes some kind of corny plot device for them to start dancing together–except for us, our corny plot device is Miller Light. (Does WAKA send me a check for the name drop?)

(As you can see, I share Harlan’s penchant for parenthesis.)

Now that Harlan and Marvin are back, I will revert to my assigned duties as Vice President for Beer Consumption and head of the Big Green (sometimes Orange) Machine, Looking to Score.  Come find us, we’re the really loud team in Kelly Green/Bright Orange (depending on our moods) and we promise not to bite and always are down for flip cup, in whatever way you like it best (That’s what she said.)

Anyways, here is to 6 more weeks of poor life decisions, trips to Heidis’ (we go every Sunday, join us!), and scrambling to catch the last train home.

–Andy
DCMD VP