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((NEWS NOW BELOW)) Times During Season: WARM UP >> 2:00 .. GAME >> 2:30 Hastings Park* in Lexington MA Saturdays, April to August (During the summer we play every Saturday) [*Hastings Park is NOT the Lexington Green!!] Please bring a disc and a dark and light shirt (or a red shirt & disc if you support Toodles) Please pick up your poop and flowers. Always check the weather and your email Saturday at noon. Full Description We're a group of really super friendly frisbee players, utterly all skill levels, from age 1 to 99, who've been playing in Lexington, MA, for 12 years (except the 1 to 12 year olds). We welcome everyone everyone everyone. We play every week, warm up 2:00, game 2:30, at at Hastings Park, by the basketball courts and pools, just by the high school track. It has a big friggin' bandstand in the middle that god cursed us with from the days of our births (Fortunately, we play to the side), but at least it makes the field noticeable. It's bordered by Mass Ave, Hastings Rd, Lincoln St, and Worthen. Hastings Park is NOT the Lexington Green! Squish Contact Email me to join or weekly mailing list, or for more info. EMAIL-- frisbee <that symbol> squish7.com Cell 617/816/2525\ Shameless Plugs: Squish7 Writer's Bricks Frangles Blorkk YouTube List Usage / Plugs I encourage plugging at all opportunities! If you'd like me to throw your page link or email on this page or a weekly announcement, please ask. Other uses of the list include asking for a ride (please do!); lost discs, cars, and nuclear devices; invitation to BBQs or parties; invitations to other pickup games, etc! Please email frizzbeee (spelt correctly) <at> squish7.com for that stuff. This is my personal email as there's no way to set up a one-email distribution list with my hosting provider. .. Ways to get here View map.. 1. Online Driving Directions -- Mapquest or Google: 8 Hastings Rd, Lexington, MA, 02420 2. For an online map, go on pickupultimate.com or ultimap.org and and search (or zoom in) on Lexington, Mass. There are a lot of other games listed nation wide on each, too. 3. Directions from Route 95/128 (In either direction): Take 95/128 to Exit 31A [Route 4 and 225-Lexington]. Continue straight off the ramp. Continue straight through three traffic lights. At the fourth light, turn right onto Worthen Rd. (there will be a Starbucks and Walgreens on your right). Continue straight on Worthen through one traffic light. Take first RIGHT onto Lincoln St. after traffic light. Hastings Field with the bandstand is on your right. Free/easy parking on the left at John P Chase Skating Facility. The field is also along MASS AVE, which you can come from as well. The field is near Lexington High, across the street from the Town Pool. Extremely occasionally we may play at the track field or Lincoln field down the street. . Donations We gladly accept donations. For $100 donation (our bronze level), we can buy 10 new discs (even though we only use one). For $1,000 donation (our silver level), we can be lazy and hire a ball boy to retrieve the disc when it goes too far, or to dive into street traffic to save a disc that's about to get run over. For $500,000 (gold level) we can buy our own totally flat, un-hilly, properly marked, long, shaded, and gazebo-free field. News (new to old) August, 2010 Sorry, haven't written an update since we started this summer. So much for obsessive SEO =(. (We're probably on Google's "check back twice a year" list)... But know that I get a bit lazy when we're extremely regular, it's not the opposite. (But no, I shouldn't take attendance for granted) =(. And of course, laziness from going strong is a perfect isomorphism to laziness from lack of attendance given no other information from the site, so sure, my bad. Fortunately, due to more laziness, I'm gonna skip a lengthly comedic masterpiece and just tell you quickly how the summer's been with details you'll have to come play to find out. We've had our usual attendance level this summer... In a phrase, "plenty of people every week to play" (ranging anywhere from 8 to 20-ish), which is why we just play every week during the bulk of our season (warmest 4-5 months of the year), as we've been doing for several years. People ask me for confirmation sometimes if we "still play", and I think we're consistent enough at this point where the answer will almost certainly be yes indefinitely... A lot of people live far away and come home or drop by the area once in awhile, so keep in mind you can probably just drop by on any given warm summer Saturday (May to August almost certainly) of the next several years, if you don't have our contact info or time to confirm, or think of it last minute. Obviously, no guarantees, but this is year 13, and I think my attendance algorithms in combination with my consistent manic obsession with dragging in unsuspecting innocents from surfing or sidewalks gives my prophecy at least a moderate amount of credibility. (Knock on wood... or plastic? acrylic? what the hell are frisbees made of again#$%$)... Few changes-- 1. Our age spectrum is now horrifically eclectic (rather than terribly as it used to be). We've had two or three middle school students attend this summer, and at least one senior citizen that I know of. Our average skill/play level is pretty steady, though, so if you're a total beginner, you're especially welcome if you bring an ambitious attitude to learn and get better even if you find the playing level too hard. 2. We've moved the field lengthwise so that the end zones are toward and away from the gazebo rather than street to street, where all the cars and benches and trees and hills and land mines were on both ends. It was kind of a no-brainer, which says something about our collective level of intelligence. (Particularly mine). 3. Weekly emails are now "announcements" rather than "reminders." I know, big whoop, but really, even if a lot of the information is redundant (where we play, what happened last week, blah etc), please read them carefully if you regularly attend, as I sometimes mention important things about field etiquette and so on. (Like I said, you can almost always just drop by without being on the email list, except for early spring and late fall when we take headcounts via email) confirming if we still play. Note that September-ish is when people start to drop off and we take headcounts for awhile, so if you plan or might want to play with us after next month, please jump on our email list because otherwise you won't know when we're playing! See you on the new un-obstacled field. April, 2010 Games have started (yay). Lots of people (yay). Come out and play whenever it's a nice day. One issue to note lately. When this group started over 12 years ago, we all sucked. That's why we started playing frisbee, cause we were horrible and wanted to get better. But now a lot of us (not all) are pretty competitive and keep getting so, but everyone else is still equally and infinitely welcome, despite any false appearances. So if you're a kid on a tricycle or a philosophy professor who's never played a sport, know that we are infinitely welcoming, we just might intimidate you a little on the field. (Although that's always the best way to jump into a sport). Some groups stick the cliche "everyone welcome" but play at a level where no beginner would feel comfortable. It's fine for a pickup group to play at a certain level, it's just false advertising=(. When we say "all ages & skills welcome", we do mean it. It's just that being so versatile is kind of tricky. It's hard to trample the football captain and give the girl on the tricycle a twinkie as you're running by, so just assume the twinkie is implied telepathically. It's like how frat houses beat up the pledges a bit, the very people whom without which there wouldn't be a frat house at all! So if you're a girl on a tricycle, just be ready to bulldoze the football to get a little playing time in, and maybe someone will give you a twinkie at the end of a game. (Did that make any sense?) March, 2010 (Update on Toodles) It's been months since this page has been updated, and I think many outsiders thought it was because Lexington ultimate pickup doesn't play in the winter. It's true we don't, but this was entirely coincidental. Those a little more informed in the Lexington / Burlington / Boston area know that our page was frozen because many of us Lexington-ers traveled overseas along with a handful of mobilized soldiers and Marines around the Boston area to bring back Toodles the Lexington Frisbee Factor Canary from capture upon learning he was alive in November. We weren't able to send word since then because we hadn't had desert internet access (most of our messages were sent back by petroglyph and carrier canary straight to the Pentagon), but we're finally back home to the Boston / Burlington area and can afford a moment for a blog post. We're still pressed for time, though, so be aware it could be entire weeks before another post. In short, we found Toodles, but the situation was far too evolved for us to grab him back easily. We spent three months tracking him down with the help of various US government agencies, and as time went on we discovered more and more about what was going on and why Toodles felt it necessary to leave everyone in Lexington & Woburn in tears by staging his death. (Until the end of last fall most in the Lexington/Woburn area thought he'd committed suicide by flying into the mouth of Mangles the Lexington area cat. A few of us didn't believe it, and our faith turned out correct: the Lexington media staged the rumor of a suicide to induce the appearance of a minor media cover up as a decoy to the major media cover up of the international crisis!) As I said back then, we knew Toodles had been developing filter algorithms for the global SIGINT network Echelon from the obscurity of Lexington Massachusetts when he detected a foreign nuclear threat that would not only threaten the Lexington/Woburn and Boston area but the entire country (birds are obviously excelent spies because they can blend into a crowd, and can monitor suspicious military activities from the air). Once deployed overseas, he located the source of the threat, but he also discovered there was no time to fly back to Boston for reinforcements. Our noble little Lexington factor canary went in alone and unarmed, and alas, was captured. When we found him, we were able to kidnap a flock of enemy geese and arrange an exchange, but as it was happening the entire flock flew away before we could finish the exchange. Toodles realized we had nothing to trade for him, and seeing his only chance to return home to Boston, took his only chance at escape. Toodles flew with inbirdly haste straight for us, but the sheer number of BB guns firing at him was just too overwhelming to evade, even for him. He was forced off to the mountains to the West deep within enemy territory, and we had no choice but to fall back. The last thing we saw was Toodles falling out of sight after a BB pellet nicked his left wing and brought him down. We believe him to be alive but he's almost certainly been captured again for more torture and interrogation. We were all ordered to return back to US Lexington/Woburn soil and told that another rescue mission couldn't be risked unless we found more volunteers and trained harder on the field. We've sent scouts from the Boston area all over the USA in search of volunteers to bring our little Lexington buddy back, and this post is our plea to the world to attend our games here in Lexington, where you will receive field training that will benefit you your entire life as well as help bring back our noble Lexington friend. It's urgent we begin our season as soon as possible, so everyone willing, please email me when you're willing to start playing. As soon as we have enough people, I'll be taking headcounts weekly until we get going, after which point we'll surely have enough numbers to play every Saturday, warmup at 2pm, game at 2:30 sharp. Cooler weather is better than mid-summer heat, so starting soon is a perfect time to start. (Woburn pickup frisbee played all winter to help give more practice to Lexington players who stayed behind). So hit me back soon when you can start playing. The life of our little friend depends on it. --Squish (email-- frisbee <that symbol> squish7.com) |
