Rock Bottom?

The temperature continues to rise outside and things are really heating up in our little league as well. After a kumbaya-tastic weekend of outdoor play in the beautiful weather and a picnic that looked like it was more fun than any of the after parties this year (where was our invite???), tempers seemed to flare-up this past Monday. Perhaps it’s the lack of newbies or that the vets have all hooked up with each other already, but the after parties this season have been… lacking.

On the courts there was some great drama though. Eagle and Duplex went head to head for the first place slot and it was a great game. Endre and his sweaty sexy arms really dragged Duplex along, but Eagle wanted it too much and pulled through for the win. Sorry Duplex… no undefeated season for you. Although in a bizarre twist of fate Project Sandwich, or as they have dubbed themselves "sand-bitches" (how fitting), took down the once mighty Eagle for a surprise win. They were almost as surprised they won as we were. Also, we will never complain about having to hang around to shag late again.

We got to hear Jason K. of Woody’s and James the Ref go at it. Jason K. was not happy with James’s performance as a ref last night and lit into him. To which James replied to his rants by saying he was going to throw him out of the game. Jason K., sounding like a privileged Upper East Side celebutante, threw down his board status and told James there was no way he was leaving. Dearest Jason, buying a few pizzas doesn’t mean you get to behave like that. Even though James was probably high as a kite when reffing, he is still the ref and deserves some respect. And James, we agree with you: if someone is being a bitch on the court, toss their asses out (it makes for a better post)!  Plus, we like it when you act so butch.

Then when we finally got to Rock Bar, we learned there was drama there too. By the way, we aren’t too thrilled with that space for after parties, are you? It was small, dark and it smelled worse than Leven’s arm pit in back, but hey, we have to pay our dues to the people on the back of our shirts right? Apparently, there was live music at the bar when the dodgeballers started to roll in and one of the performers was upset that they weren’t paying attention to him and his ukulele (no joke). He started singing a song where he screamed at the bar to “shut the fuck up”. Now, I know they banned smoking in bars, and now you can’t dance without a license, but talking? Luckily the guy realized that no one was listening to him and that no one wanted to listen to him and stormed off the stage. That’s show business!

With that tragedy off stage, they reverted back to real music and it was about time that Rock Bar earned its title. The tunes were pumping and not your standard dodgeball fare of Whitney, Britney Gaga, and Madonna. We’re talking some fierce 60’s, 70’s and 80’s tunes. We saw Stacey and her attached at the hip partner Jeremiah rocking it out to Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary” so hard that they made all us Mary’s proud. Although Stacey why the long face after what seemed like a bitchfest with Erika outside? We couldn't hear, but judging from your face, we are guessing you girls weren't discussing puppies and rainbows. Over at the pool table the ladies were knocking balls with some of the boys. Sergio was up against some fierce girls like Cyn, Tamika and Nicole. He got beat harder than Ike beat Tina on that pool table. Sergio, you’ve been voted the flip cup champion. Maybe you should stick to that. We also saw Jerry hanging around too and, we must say, we are happy to see him with those piercing blue eyes and a smile that would melt even Ricky Martin’s newly gay heart.

After the feeding frenzy of pizza (so much for that Fire Island diet, huh boys?), the table was cleared off and prepped for flip cup. It was a little improved from last week, but not much. We didn’t play much at all because the corner they stuck the table in was about 100 degrees and smlet like a mix of must and dust. We heard ladies were taking off their bras and Mezzano was putting them on. We thought we all agreed that it was better when Mezzano was wearing less clothing, not more (same applies to Endre, Conti, Lukus, Trevor, etc, etc). We heard that after we left, spin the bottle came out and some vets and newbies were mackin’ it up. We need to learn how to weight the bottle so it’ll land on Andreau. Also, Andreau, who was your special guest? He was quite the tall drink of water. You have hot friends; keep supplying the parties with fresh meat, we really appreciate it!

The flip cup table played a very quiet second fiddle to what had our attention: the NCAA championship game. We are a sport league, right? So we put on our best butch face and pretended we knew what was going on. Everyone seemed to be going for Butler except Southern newbie Adam. What’s his story by the way? He catches like a pro on the court and he catches our eye at the after parties. He has that sexy deep voice, those gorgeous eyes, he's friendly to everyone (shocker we know) and that adorable smile. Adam, your North Carolina team won the championship and you’ve won us over with your charm, so keep it coming!

The party disbanded a bit and we saw a few vets leaving together, but we think it was just to share cabs. The recession has totally messed up our ability to discern whether people are going home together or just sharing cost of transport. Damn economy!! We watched all the cute boyfriends act, well, cute. Dom and his boyfriend, who has been hanging around a lot lately, were caught smooching innocently throughout the night. We even caught Steve with his arm around BBahr. It really pangs us to say it but that was actually pretty endearing to see. Maybe we were wrong when we said it wasn’t going to last… When we realized we didn’t have anyone to put our arm around except another $2.50 Alabama Slammah, we knew it was time to make a hasty exit. xoxo

Spotted: Just Bearly

Spotted in a sea of bears, and with famed photographer Terry Richardson no less, was Eagle's very own Eric. If this was a forest, or a Grim's Fairy Tale, we would under the occasion for all the fur. Judging by all of the leather, and um lack of shirts, we are guessing this was the remnants of The Black Party or something. Whatever the reason, any excuse to get a shirt off of our favorite otter in the league is good enough for us. xoxo

Who's Your Daddy??

When Leven isn't blogging on his website Knucklecrack, he's always fighting for everyone's rights, and lesbians are no exception. He, and several of the ladies of the league, participated in the Dyke March on Saturday and we were surprised to see he was featured on Manhunt. Well not the Manhunt we usually troll late at night, but MANHUNT Daily profiled the hottness we have talking about for seasons! Woof indeed. xoxo

Balls to the StoneWall

We don't even know where to begin about the shit show that was the end of the season party for BAD! on Monday night at Stonewall. There was dancing, there was hula hooping, there was making out, there were awards, there were shirtless boys, there was beer pong, there were rubber balls pelting people in the face, and there was a whole lotta drinking. BAD! celebrated the end of the season as only they knew how to by drinking the place dry!

The night started out innocently enough. Mixing and mingling for the happy hour special, noshing on some catered food, and flirting up a storm. Poppi and Niki served as the hostesses with the mostesses by MC'ing the Trophies (#1st for Gym Bar, #1st for Eastern Bloc for winning tournament), MVP's, and the "fun awards".

You wonder what the "fun" entails? Some of our favorites included the biggest flirts going to Scotty and Ruby, best hidden talent going to Mikey for his amazing, um, skill, best six pack going to Ken, most likely to have team orgy going to WOOF!, and our personal favorite most likely to end up on gossipgays going to one of our favorite newbies Carrie 2.0. Although our favorite line from Poppi was her commenting on Esther's new haircut. We knew you were the funniest person in BAD!

We know those dodgeballers like to throw balls at each other when they are the Tony Dapolito Center, but god, can't you stop throwing them at each other when you are at the after parties? We narrowly avoided our death from all the little red stress balls that were being torpedoed at our faces after the awards (great idea Niki!). While we know everyone in the league has more than a little stress and aggression, perhaps next season we can think of a less dangerous way to take care of this?

We know the night might get a little hazy from this point on for some of the dodgeballers, but we saw Mikey and Mr. Wind, Carrie 2.0 and Danny, Carrie 2.0 and Scotty, Vat and Craig the ref getting quite friendly. We saw Ruby dirty dancing her pretty little heart out with various boys and girls. We gasped at the shirtless hotness that was Leven, Mr. Wind, and Cutrone. Although nothing in the night could quite top the "Thriller" dance performed by Shane, Vat, and a mystery cutie. We are still shaking the glitter our of our hair.

We have give the drag queen downstairs some credit where credit was due. She got the league's resident straight boy Kelly to take off his shirt for a shot. Every time we go to Stonewall, she harasses all of the boys, and usually she gets one to crack under pressure. We are happy she saved the best for last. We saw Gilbride and Erika in deep discussions downstairs either having a heart to heart or plotting away (we believe in the latter), and it was about that time the party started to move on to the after after party at Eastern Bloc.

A good chunk of the dodgeball crew headed from the west to the east and got their karaoke on. It was rip-roaring good time of a night. We saw a lot of familiar faces, hula hooped with the best of them, and eventually called out sick on Tuesday as anticipated. We have to say we might shed a tear next Monday when we have no one to play flip cup with, but alas fall is right around the corner. But let's be honest, our livers would break up with us if we continued to abuse it the way we have this spring, and god knows we need them for next season. xoxo

Just Dance!

To say that the XES after party on Monday was the most dancing those dodgeballers have done all season would be an under- statement. The tournament may have been quite stressful for the whole league, but most of the teams headed to the after party and danced their tails off to take off the edge. We are guessing the cheap drinks and flip cup helped with that as well. We were quite surprised how many people came out, and since it was the first time an after party was at XES we were a little leary at first. Madonna changed all of that!

We are of course referring to the Vogue-off that happened between Salcito, Carrie 2.o, Leven, and Shane. It was like we were in the House of Ninja in the 90's tripping on E! The DJ was slamming Top 40 hit after hit after hit. Britney, The Pussycat Dolls, Kylie, and the list goes on and on. Once the huge patio closed after 10, everyone got together, had some pizza, and started dancing. There was no stopping them either, they used the tables as their own personal runways and as Paula Abdul stated danced like there was no tomorrow.

When the dodgeballers weren't dancing, they were partying. We saw Eastern Bloc taking some shots to celebrate their tournament win, we saw Eduardo getting quite cozy with Leven and V canoodling with Mandy, Weeks showed us a picture of his new cute boyfriend, we finally saw the WOOF! team half naked including Esther who was one of the first ladies in the league we have ever seen in a bra at the bar dancing, and lastly we saw lots and lots of confetti.

When XES kicked the dodgeballers who were raging at 2 AM, Osada led the pack to View Bar for WOOF! and it was all a little hazy from there. Sadly the dodgeball season may have come to a close, but the league has one last chance to live it up at next week's season ending party at Stonewall. We can only imagine the insanity, and inevitable hangover that will haunt us on Tuesday, but they are nothing compared to the season ending party. We can't guarantee you won't get blackout drunk, but we can guarantee you will have the best time of your life. xoxo

Sexy Can I?

We can't say we are surprised, I mean we have been obsessed with him since God created dodgeball, but he can add another trophy to his already crowded mantle. Gilbride housed the competition to become the Sexiest Male Vet of Spring '09, and the competition was fierce. What started out a two horse race between Gilbride and Endre, quickly became a fight to the finish as Leven came out of nowhere and commanded the poll over the weekend. But Gilbride fought back, gritted his teeth, and texted his all of his old tricks to vote for him. We could have called it from the beginning. He was the cutest vet last season, and we profiled him back last fall, so needless to say he is one of the most popular, hottest, and loudest people at the Tony Dapolito Center on Mondays. All in all, he has earned his crown and we hope he can defend his honor next season.

What did surprise us was the drama going on in the comment section. We thought we were nasty, but you queens were hitting, amongst other things, below the belt. There were some not so nice things said, but it did open our eyes to the fact that you guys want a little more input to these, so gossipgays listened and we are giving you a voice. Our next poll is for Best Dodgeball Player on the court and you get the chance to pick who you want in the poll. You have until tomorrow Friday May 8th at 5pm to either comment in this section (try not to be so anonymous this time) or send an email to BADgossipgays@gmail.com. We will pick the top 10 entries. If you send us an email you can also send us a photo, because Tyra said it best when she said, "Sometimes only you know your best angles". Now if we could only figure out how to smile with our eyes. xoxo

Sexiest Male Vet

Mirror mirror on the way, who is the hottest of them all?

Now that we know how you feel about the lovely ladies, let's get to boys in the league. Understand us when we tell you, we couldn't put EVERY guy from BAD! on here, but we thought we would pick some of the more popular ones with our readers. If there someone you feel is totally sexy and not on the list, tell us!

JT may have brought sexy back, but these boys are totally keeping sexy around. xoxo

Pour Some Stripper On Me

Monday night started out normal enough. At the Tony Dapolito Center Gym Bar continues to dominate the league, and since it's getting towards the end of the season, it looks like they could pull off being first place in the league. That is if Pieces or Bamboo 52 doesn't knock them off their pedestal. With only two weeks left of regular play before the tournament, the dodgeball season is winding down and the heat is on. Can we also just mention we are not loving the fact that there aren't enough balls, what's the deal??

The league slowly made it's way over to Henrietta Hudson's in the rain for some drinking. There was pizza to be had, and since it was 4/20 we saw some glazed eyes and very hungry dodgeballers make their way to the food. We also saw a raging game of flip cup starting so naturally we were excited. We also saw Ruby tearing it up on the pool table, and we approve of her tactics to distract the other team when they were shooting, show some skin!

What do you know, put on a trashy 80's rock song, and the bar turns into Rock of Love: Tour Bus. The 80's song in question was Pour Some Sugar on Me, and we swear no poles were harmed in this dance-off. Dom started off the dancing, was joined by Carrie 2.0 and Mikey who promptly gave him a run for his money in pole dancing. We can't say we are surprised the pole made it's comeback, but we were surprised there was no stripping accompanying the dancing.


The dancing didn't stop there. Dom brought some much needed attention to the cage and Niki and Ruby quickly made sure it was well used. With the girls basically ruling the front and the boys chilling in the back, it was great to bring everyone together no matter how it got done. We thought, well nothing can top this, but we were oh so wrong.

Paul the Commissioner pulled a jump rope out of nowhere and with the help of Monica and Leven got an old fashioned jump rope hoedown right in the middle of the bar. Who does that? It slowly went morphed into a crazy 8th grade party and everyone started doing the limbo. It showed just how low some people can actually get, and from the looks of it some of those dodgeballers (and Flo-Rida) know how to get low.

All in all, quite the crazy night. We are actually sad it's going to be ending soon, just 3 weeks left of dodgeball, drinks, and debauchery. We are sure next week at Gym Bar will be insane, but there is nothing like a crazy night at good ol' Hen's. She's like that wild trick you keep in your phone, and sometimes you forget they are there, but when you go back you realize there was a reason you only go back every so often. xoxo

Way Back Wednesdays 4-15

Back in the second season, there was a certain team of veterans that conquered the courts on a little team that cried WOOF! aka View Bar, but they came oh so close to cinching the trophy for Best Team in the league by...... this much.... in the finals. We think they lost to Boy Butter ultimately, but our memories are so hazy from all that flip cup we can barely remember our last names.

Sanchez, V, Leven, Thom, Sergio, Danny, amongst others ruled on the courts in Spring 2008. They were the fiercest in the land, with an affinity for neck ties, but it was the sea turtle moves that really won us over. You know the sea turtle move is where you put one hand over the other and rotate your thumbs to imitate one of our favorite underwater waterlife. And to think we thought it was just an easy solution if you get tired in a threesome. xoxo

She's Having A Baby!

So first and foremost, a congratulations is in order as most of the league found out on Monday that Robin is....going to be a mom! Don't freak out at the fact that she was doing shots, she's not a boozing it up while pregnant, her partner is the one having the baby. And boy were there shots to be had, we don't understand how Robin stumbled home after Gym Bar, but kudos for still being alive and concious at the end of the night!

So back to the dodgeball of it all. According to the standings Gym Bar is still dominating on the court and narrowly beating Stonewall and The Legally Blondes by 1 match. It is still anyone's game and our MVP award would go to Poppi. We know it's hard to catch Eduardo's balls on the court, but she not only caught it, but she caught it in her vagina. No lie, she caught it and it somehow ended up between her legs. Also keeping the tradition going, Bryan B. of Eagle team hurt his finger really bad. We hear it's something called Mallet Finger, and we think Mandy of Pets at Play has the same problem! Looks like they have something to talk about.

Everyone headed to Gym Bar for the raging after party. They were met by pizza, pitchers of beer, and championship basketball on the television (did we mention this is a gay league?). The flip cup started and it was all down hill from there. We saw some heated runs as the flip cup table was the longest we have ever seen. Technically it was two tables, but still that's a lot of flip cup!

We also saw a lot of making out happen in the evening. We of course saw James and Vinny getting all lovey dovey, Monica was smooching some guy in the corner, Sergio was getting his groove on with a non-dodgeballer, and Kelly was making out with some girl. Did we also mention somehow his shirt magically flew open and he was a little, um, exposed? Not that we minded, we can never pass up a shirtless Kelly opportunity.

All in all, it was one of the craziest and loud after parties we have been to. As the night winded down we hear that some of the boys continued the after after party at Barracuda, but we were far too tired to keep it going. Guess it means we just can't keep up anymore, or maybe it means that we started partying too early. xoxo

Woofing It Down

So as we head into week 5, it looks like Gym Bar continues to dominate the league, see here. We could assume the large amount of veterans on the team might be an advantage in this newbie filled league, but we are sure the power arm combo of Kelly and Sanchez certainly doesn't hurt either. Speaking of hurt, why was everyone getting injured on Monday? First we saw James the Gym Teacher hurt his ankle in open play, and then we saw Dennis's finger get broken playing for Pets at Play. It's a league of hurt we tell you.

After the games the dodgeballers headed over to WOOF! for some much needed flip cup and $2 drafts. The flip cup was flying, as well as the peanuts (courtesy of Leven). We swear we haven't seen so many soggy nuts since the Black Party. Speaking of Leven he was getting quite cozy with a group of bears that were rather grabby, and we saw the biggest smile on his face that wouldn't stop. Eventually his smile faded when there was a heated exchange between Hank 2.0 ensued. We don't know what was said, but it didn't look pretty.

What did look pretty was when newbie Brian decided to start his flip cup game by swapping shirts with a fellow who's name we never caught. Who knew that boy was stacking under that Eagle jersey? We think it's a fantastic way to start our next game as well. We have never laughed harder than when we saw Vinny, who was sitting in a fragile chair, crash to the floor because Dom sat on his lap. Who knew those two could bend metal with their asses?

After WOOF! the after after party headed to Barracuda where some smooching started and some pouting happened. The pout was courtesy of a very somber Monica who apparently lost both of her games earlier. Honey we all like to win, but don't be Pouty McPouterson when you lose. There is always next week!

We didn't see any of our usual lovely ladies at WOOF! which makes us think there was an alternative after party. We hear the Cubbyhole is to blame, but then again who can blame the ladies for trying to get their dance on? The boys may like their flip cup, but we know those ladies sure love to dance. xoxo

Party Crashing: Jew-topia

Two of our favorite hairy dodgeballers are hosting a party tonight, and there is free manischewitz? Consider us converted. xoxo

The Gloves Are Off!

There were a couple beatdowns last night that happened, and we are still kinda shocked what went down. Let's get to the on the court beatdown which was brought by the still undefeated Eastern Bloc team. Three weeks in a row they have won all of their matches to take first in the league, but they better watch out because Stonewall is right on their tail. Both of the teams are fighting mad, and both won 5 out of 6 games, but Stonewall is still beating them game-wise. All it takes is for one slip-up and we may just have a tie for first.

While we know we are totally in a recession, times are tough, no one has any money, etc etc, we sure do love those dodgeballers love to get the most out of their Tony Dapolito gym membership. That bike looks like the perfect place to gaze at the cute newbies this season.

We headed over to Stonewall for some flip cup and fun. While the flip cup was in full effect, it was an altercation that looks like it came out of an episode of Rock of Love that really got us scratching our heads. Imagine one minute you are dancing with Kelly while he shows off his white boy dance moves, then the next minute you are scrambling out of the way of hair pulling, name calling, and a what, a what, a girlfight.

Yup, just when you thought BAD! couldn't get any more crazy, leave it to the girls to really shake things up. We don't know specifics of the fight, or who even started it, but what we do know is there is an all love, no hate policy in BAD! Let's hope the two girls kissed and made up, otherwise count on some majah tension on the court when the two play each other in the coming weeks.

After the altercation, we continued to salsa dance with Eduardo, double dutch with Leven (who brings a jump rope to dodgeball?), and we were introduced to a new game from James the Gym teacher. He started a little game of spin the bottle, but if the bottle lands on you, you have to dance with the person instead of kiss them. There were definately some interesting partners, and all in all some people got down and dirty.

While we grabbed our coats and headed home from another exciting evening at BAD!, we happened to walk by two guys who were getting hot and heavy by the bathrooms. It reiterated the all love, no hate policy in the league and our own personal policy here at gossipgays. Make love, not bar fights. xoxo