Kickball: Totally Extreme Soreness

Last Sunday night, The Creek met for two hours of Totally Extreme Kickball. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this nation-sweeping craze, let me explain what makes it totally extreme:

1. We have six bases instead of four - base 1.5 and 2.5 are in right and left field.
2. There are five outs per at bat (at kick?)
3. There are no force outs except for first base.
4. You can have as many people on one base as you want.
5. You can pass the runner in front of you.
6. You don't have to go back to the previous base if a ball is caught.
7. There is a wild ball. It sits behind home plate and can be used by the defense once per inning to get more people out as necessary.
8. I am the ultimate arbiter and judge of all the rules at any given time...including during the game. Cry about it all ya want.
9. People's heads often blow off the top of their necks during play because of the extreme awesomeness involved.

There is one other thing that makes Totally Extreme Kickball totally extreme: the extreme amounts of pain I still feel in my sore muscles. Who knew that kickball (an extreme version) could be the greatest physical and aerobic workout of all time in the entire history of the world? Not me, until now.

"Chris, you are just getting old." you might say. "Kickball is a game for the young, not the aged."

"Fie on that!" I say. "Run thee upon yon six bases, whether strapping young teen or mature oak of a man, and thy upper thigh muscles will burn with the fire of the blacksmith's forge!"

Somehow, it also makes you talk like you live in a small Icelandic village in the year 1647. The power of this game!!!