San Diego Beer Pong

June 13, 2009
(San Diego, CA)

Good times were had at the sketchy Triple Crown Pub for a classic game of beer pong. On a recent trip to the La Jolla area of San Diego for a job interview, Wildman threw out the challenge to Sheetz Bitch for alate night game of beer pong. As a matter of fact, it certainly was rather late and a busy night. Our evening agenda included: Watching the sox game, doing a 4-mile run to the Torres on San Diego, swimming in the pool, checking out the hot babes in the hot tub (btw we couldn't distinguish whether the hot blonde had real or fake tats.) reserving a vanity name on facebook, eating good italian food, having wine and chatting with the Sheetz's woman for two hours and then debating at 12:25am whether or not we should play a game of beer pong.

Wait - - is there ever a question of whether we should play beer pong??? Anyway, we fortunately convinced Andy's date to drive us 10 miles to drive to the Triple Crown Pub for a game. Inside it was packed and the crowd seemed to be on the non-affluent type. But did we really care? No we just wanted pong. The table was perfect, except for one side that had a drop-off and was exceedingly close to a pool table. When we arrived a couple was playing ping pong. With less than 40 minutes of bar-time and a cold pitcher of Blue Moon waiting for us, Sheetz Bitch asked the players when they were going to finish up. Fortunately, they kindly turned over the table for us to get the game.

The downside of some situations with beer pong is playing with glasses instead of plastic cups can be painful. The reason being that pong balls rickichet (sp?) of of glasses like you would not believe and most sinks traditionally hit the inside of the cup enroute to the beer. This generally does not work well with Beer Pong. After speaking with the bar tender, I obtained several mini plastic cups that must have been the size of 5 oz cups. It would certainly take an advanced beer pong player to get any sinks on the small circumference of these micro-cups. In fact, there was one time in Nantucket that a game with Sarge, Eric Healy, Sheetz and myself were playing with a pitcher of some crazy concoction of frozen drink and the only available cups were dixie cups. Eric Healy was on fire then and enhanced his status as an elite player by punishing us back in the late '90's. Anyway, back to the game overall it was Wildman who seemed to dominate the game by sending perfectly arc-ed shots seemingly close and dancing around Sheetz's mini cup. Sheetz was not playing bad by any means, but certainly was not entirely focused on his game having his date by his side. Thus Wildman began to chip a way at Sheetz in a quick 30-minute game of pong. While Sheetz was able to secure one sink, in the end, it was Wildman who secured the San Diego Beer Pong victory.