I wish kickball didn't disappear after you got out of elementary school. Where are the professional leagues?

Ohio pros and cons

pros - Cedar Point

cons - everything else

The state is run by idiots for idiots.

I'm an idiot for staying.

In other news Ohio seems to have no real news to report, back to you...

Kotecks: I wish kickball didn't disappear after you got out of elementary school. Where are the professional leagues?

If I remember correctly, the game that gets played on the State lawn is an adult league made up of various corporations, counties, and whatnot. With that in mind, it's not all that crazy to deny them the right to tear up the State lawn for the very mild amount of community goodwill it brings. There are dozens of other parks within ten minutes of downtown Columbus, and like adult kickball players are really going to make a fuss if they have to move.

Klippoklondike: Ohio pros and cons

pros - Cedar Point

cons - everything else

Pro: Birthplace of aviation, the starter engine, James Garfield, the bassist chick from The Pixies

Kierkegaard's Pseudonym: Kotecks: I wish kickball didn't disappear after you got out of elementary school. Where are the professional leagues?

If I remember correctly, the game that gets played on the State lawn is an adult league made up of various corporations, counties, and whatnot. With that in mind, it's not all that crazy to deny them the right to tear up the State lawn for the very mild amount of community goodwill it brings. There are dozens of other parks within ten minutes of downtown Columbus, and like adult kickball players are really going to make a fuss if they have to move.

this, plys peo = football oytside of the USA=soccor

Jonathan Hohensee: Pro: Birthplace of aviation, the starter engine, James Garfield, the bassist chick from The Pixies

Pros: manages to meld the best of the east and south.

Cons: manages to meld the best of the east and south.

They are putting in a giant park next door. Just let it slide till then.

Kotecks: I wish kickball didn't disappear after you got out of elementary school. Where are the professional leagues?

Williamsburg?

Ohio state motto "We're in your way"

Kotecks: I wish kickball didn't disappear after you got out of elementary school. Where are the professional leagues?

Here you go (new window)

There was a protest there today over stimulus spending.

Seriously. Kickball? will all the problems ohio's economy has and more pressing agricultural issues - kickball's the distraction du jour?

Hey, I live in Columbus. Why did no one inform me there was kickball?

/damnit, this is middle school all over again

Klippoklondike: Ohio pros and cons

pros - Cedar Point

cons - everything else

Ride Warriors REPRESENT.

/if there's a better thrill than the Maverick I haven't ridden it
//coaster junkie
///CP is like my favorite place on earth
////Slash-o-rama!

Indigo_X

Went there in 03. Did every coaster I could except the Dragster. My favorite was the Gemini.

but it's okay if we play stickball on the lawn instead, right?

As someone who has played ultimate frisbee on the lawns of the Utah and Tennessee state capitol grounds, I am getting a kick out of these replies.

/in Utah someone had to go to the hospial for stitches
//in Tennessee I almost got jumped on my way back to the hotel
///I hope I spelled Tennessee right, my apologies if I did not

As someone that plays a lot of kickball in Columbus, I'm getting a kick out of...

Last year the statehouse games were canceled quite often. If there was any rain at all they canceled the games because the precious grass might be damaged. The other location for the games had some games canceled, but not nearly as many.

/Finds it hilarious that this is considered worthy of news

Klippoklondike: Indigo_X

Went there in 03. Did every coaster I could except the Dragster. My favorite was the Gemini.

You should go again for the sole purpose of trying out the Maverick. It's not as tall as Millenium Force but it's steeper, has not one but two hydraulic launches, has more twists than a M. Night Shamalan anthology, and has a great view of the lake for about .3 seconds.

It didn't win a Golden Ticket for best ride in the U.S. for nothing. :D

I've lived here my entire life, I was not aware of this kickball league. Now tearing down the goal posts and marching down to the statehouse, I am aware of that.

WilliamLeeTwitch: but it's okay if we play stickball on the lawn instead, right?

Stickball should be played in the street. Dodging cars is half the game.

Klippoklondike: Ohio pros and cons

pros - Cedar Point
cons - everything else

Danger Avoid Death: WilliamLeeTwitch: but it's okay if we play stickball on the lawn instead, right?

Stickball should be played in the street. Dodging cars is half the game.

Makes me think of that football movie, "The Program" I think, where the players had to lay on the lines on a busy street to show they were tough. I believe it was edited to remove that scene after some people died imitating it.

Indigo_X: Klippoklondike: Ohio pros and cons

pros - Cedar Point

cons - everything else

Ride Warriors REPRESENT.

/if there's a better thrill than the Maverick I haven't ridden it
//coaster junkie
///CP is like my favorite place on earth
////Slash-o-rama!

Pretty much THIS.

/Love the Magnum XL-200 too...
//Car 1, row 3... "the ejector seat"; back seat is great too

jdmac: cons - everything else

Ok, I'm going to stop here and say "No." The pros are The Ohio State University and the cons are The Bengals? Really? In recent years The Ohio State University has lost hundreds of recruits to other schools, and Marvin Lewis has driven the Bengals into the black again. Black Jesus has maybe one or two more years of above-average-suck-i-tude before he's fired for a mediocre yet profitable coach, making Bengals fans across the land cry with unrepentant sorrow.

Kierkegaard's Pseudonym: ... making Bengals fans across the land cry with unrepentant sorrow.

All four of them?

Danger Avoid Death: All four of them?

I'm one of them, and i know of one other, so "four of them" is probably accurate. I've managed to buy more liquor with my out-of-state license because of my "BENGALS... AWESOME!" wallet sticker than any other. No sane person would attempt to buy liquor with a wallet sticker that says "BENGALS, AWESOME" unless the actually lived in Ohio.

Kierkegaard's Pseudonym: In recent years The Ohio State University has lost hundreds of recruits to other schools,...

Um, Ohio State has been doing very well in recruiting over the past few years. You sound like one of those bitter Cincy people that nobody else in the state likes.

Kierkegaard's Pseudonym: jdmac: cons - everything else

Ok, I'm going to stop here and say "No." The pros are The Ohio State University and the cons are The Bengals? Really? In recent years The Ohio State University has lost hundreds of recruits to other schools, and Marvin Lewis has driven the Bengals into the black again. Black Jesus has maybe one or two more years of above-average-suck-i-tude before he's fired for a mediocre yet profitable coach, making Bengals fans across the land cry with unrepentant sorrow.

I say this with the love of someone who has bengals.com bookmarked right next to Fark and though I have moved to the land of greener grass, I am still a rabid Cincy and OSU fan (I am stoked the Bengals picked up Laverius Coles but think the need a center and a takle in the first two rounds of the draft.. blah blah blah).

However if I had to pick the best team in Ohio, it would be the Buckeyes, and with the number of Bengals who have worn the other kind of stripes, I found the wordplay to delicious to skip.

Whodey!



These guys have the best view in the house.

Do I have to be the first to say it?

State of Ohio to kickball players: GET OFF MY LAWN!

/Suprised subby didn't just put it in the headline

Klippoklondike: Ohio pros and cons

pros - Cedar Point

cons - everything else

This

Jonathan Hohensee: Klippoklondike: Ohio pros and cons

pros - Cedar Point

cons - everything else

Pro: Birthplace of aviation, the starter engine, James Garfield, the bassist chick from The Pixies


Famous Ohioans
Neil Alden Armstrong astronaut, Wapakoneta
George Bellows painter, lithographer, Columbus
Willard H. Bennett inventor, Findlay
Ambrose Bierce journalist, Meigs County
Albert J. Beveridge political leader, Highland
Erma Bombeck columnist, humorist, Dayton
Bill Boyd / Hopalong Cassidy actor, Cambridge
William Jennings Bryan U.S. presidential candidate, Salem
William Meriam Burton inventor, Cleveland
Milton Caniff cartoonist, Hillsboro
Nancy Cartwright voice of Bart Simpson, Kettering
John R. Commons economist, Hollansburg
Hart Crane poet, Garrettsville
George Armstrong Custer army officer, New Rumley
Dorothy Dandridge actress, Cleveland
Doris Day singer, actress, Cincinnati
Clarence Seward Darrow lawyer, Kingsman
Ruby Dee actress, Cleveland
Hugh Downs TV broadcaster, Akron
Thomas Alva Edison inventor, Milan
John Evans physician, educator, Waynesville
Clark Gable actor, Cadiz
James Abram Garfield U.S. president, Cuyahoga County
Cass Gilbert architect, Zanesville
Lillian Gish actress, Springfield
John Herschel Glenn astronaut, senator, Cambridge
Ulysses Simpson Grant U.S. president, Point Pleasant
Zane Grey author, Zanesville
Warren Gamaliel Harding U.S. president, Morrow County
Charles Martin Hall inventor, Thompson
Rutherford Hayes U.S. president, Delaware
Benjamin Harrison U.S. president, North Bend
Robert Henri painter, Cincinnati
William Dean Howells author, critic, Martins Ferry
Charles F. Kettering inventor, Loudonville
Kenisaw Mountain Landis first baseball commissioner, Millville
Maya Lin artist, sculptor, Athens
Dean Martin singer, actor, Steubenville
William McKinley U.S. president, Niles
Toni Morrison author, Lorain
George W. Norris U.S. Senator, Sandusky
Paul Newman actor, Cleveland
Jack Nicklaus golfer, Columbus
Annie Oakley markswoman, Darke County
Norman Vincent Peale clergyman, Bowersville
Roy J. Plunkett chemist, New Carlisle
Tyrone Power actor, Cincinnati
Judith Resnik astronaut, Akron
Eddie Rickenbacker aviator, Columbus
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. historian, Columbus
Donalee L. Tabern inventor, Bowling Green
William Tecumseh Sherman army general, Lancaster
Steven Spielberg director, screenwriter, Cincinnati
Gloria Steinem feminist, Toledo
William H. Taft U.S. president, Cincinnati
Joyce Kimberly Tatro educator, Toledo
Tecumseh Shawnee Indian chief, Oldtown
Ted Turner broadcasting, Cincinnati
Lowell Thomas commentator, author, Woodington
James Thurber author, cartoonist, Columbus
Ernest H. Volwiler inventor, Hamilton
Raymond Elwin Weber webmaster, Toledo
Orville Wright inventor, Dayton
Cy Young baseball player, Gilmore

There has never been any kickball. Look around at our precious sod: does it look like any kickball has been going here? Kickball? Next you'll be saying there's any kickball in, uh, Ohio.

Kotecks: I wish kickball didn't disappear after you got out of elementary school. Where are the professional leagues?

There are plenty of adult rec leagues. It's a totally different game when you're old enough to drink.

In 1968, after watching the Buckeye football squad defeat Michigan and lock up the national championship, the Ohio State student body rushed the field, tore down the goalposts, carried them two-odd miles down High Street, and dumped them on the Statehouse lawn.

/your useless trivia for the day

serial_crusher: Kotecks: I wish kickball didn't disappear after you got out of elementary school. Where are the professional leagues?

There are plenty of adult rec leagues. It's a totally different game when you're old enough to drink.

There's more falling down.

rustylite: Jonathan Hohensee:


Nice list, but needs moar Macy Gray, Marilyn Manson, and John Holmes.

Ohio is where famous people were born and then left in order to become famous. :/

Good. We need to protect our children from these dangerous sports and the government does not have the right to promote them. They should also ban Football, soccer, track and baseball since all can result in serious injuries.

But the KKK rallies on the Statehouse lawn may continue.

Indigo_X: rustylite: Jonathan Hohensee:


Nice list, but needs moar Macy Gray, Marilyn Manson, and John Holmes.

Ohio is where famous people were born and then left in order to become famous. :/

rustylite: Jonathan Hohensee: Klippoklondike: Ohio pros and cons

pros - Cedar Point

cons - everything else

Pro: Birthplace of aviation, the starter engine, James Garfield, the bassist chick from The Pixies


Famous Ohioans
Neil Alden Armstrong astronaut, Wapakoneta
George Bellows painter, lithographer, Columbus
Willard H. Bennett inventor, Findlay
Ambrose Bierce journalist, Meigs County
Albert J. Beveridge political leader, Highland
Erma Bombeck columnist, humorist, Dayton
Bill Boyd / Hopalong Cassidy actor, Cambridge
William Jennings Bryan U.S. presidential candidate, Salem
William Meriam Burton inventor, Cleveland
Milton Caniff cartoonist, Hillsboro
Nancy Cartwright voice of Bart Simpson, Kettering
John R. Commons economist, Hollansburg
Hart Crane poet, Garrettsville
George Armstrong Custer army officer, New Rumley
Dorothy Dandridge actress, Cleveland
Doris Day singer, actress, Cincinnati
Clarence Seward Darrow lawyer, Kingsman
Ruby Dee actress, Cleveland
Hugh Downs TV broadcaster, Akron
Thomas Alva Edison inventor, Milan
John Evans physician, educator, Waynesville
Clark Gable actor, Cadiz
James Abram Garfield U.S. president, Cuyahoga County
Cass Gilbert architect, Zanesville
Lillian Gish actress, Springfield
John Herschel Glenn astronaut, senator, Cambridge
Ulysses Simpson Grant U.S. president, Point Pleasant
Zane Grey author, Zanesville
Warren Gamaliel Harding U.S. president, Morrow County
Charles Martin Hall inventor, Thompson
Rutherford Hayes U.S. president, Delaware
Benjamin Harrison U.S. president, North Bend
Robert Henri painter, Cincinnati
William Dean Howells author, critic, Martins Ferry
Charles F. Kettering inventor, Loudonville
Kenisaw Mountain Landis first baseball commissioner, Millville
Maya Lin artist, sculptor, Athens
Dean Martin singer, actor, Steubenville
William McKinley U.S. president, Niles
Toni Morrison author, Lorain
George W. Norris U.S. Senator, Sandusky
Paul Newman actor, Cleveland
Jack Nicklaus golfer, Columbus
Annie Oakley markswoman, Darke County
Norman Vincent Peale clergyman, Bowersville
Roy J. Plunkett chemist, New Carlisle
Tyrone Power actor, Cincinnati
Judith Resnik astronaut, Akron
Eddie Rickenbacker aviator, Columbus
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. historian, Columbus
Donalee L. Tabern inventor, Bowling Green
William Tecumseh Sherman army general, Lancaster
Steven Spielberg director, screenwriter, Cincinnati
Gloria Steinem feminist, Toledo
William H. Taft U.S. president, Cincinnati
Joyce Kimberly Tatro educator, Toledo
Tecumseh Shawnee Indian chief, Oldtown
Ted Turner broadcasting, Cincinnati
Lowell Thomas commentator, author, Woodington
James Thurber author, cartoonist, Columbus
Ernest H. Volwiler inventor, Hamilton
Raymond Elwin Weber webmaster, Toledo
Orville Wright inventor, Dayton
Cy Young baseball player, Gilmore

Ben Roethlisberger, football player, Findlay
LeBron James, basketball player, Akron

Kaw Valley KickballLink (new window)

Jonathan Hohensee: Klippoklondike:

Pro: Birthplace of aviation

Since when was Kitty Hawk, North Carolina a part of Ohio?

/knows the Wrights were from Ohio
//knows also that North Carolina will always be First In Flight
///Go Tar Heels
////Duke sucks!

dustman81: rustylite: Jonathan Hohensee: Klippoklondike: Ohio pros and cons

pros - Cedar Point

cons - everything else

Pro: Birthplace of aviation, the starter engine, James Garfield, the bassist chick from The Pixies


Famous Ohioans
Neil Alden Armstrong astronaut, Wapakoneta
George Bellows painter, lithographer, Columbus
Willard H. Bennett inventor, Findlay
Ambrose Bierce journalist, Meigs County
Albert J. Beveridge political leader, Highland
Erma Bombeck columnist, humorist, Dayton
Bill Boyd / Hopalong Cassidy actor, Cambridge
William Jennings Bryan U.S. presidential candidate, Salem
William Meriam Burton inventor, Cleveland
Milton Caniff cartoonist, Hillsboro
Nancy Cartwright voice of Bart Simpson, Kettering
John R. Commons economist, Hollansburg
Hart Crane poet, Garrettsville
George Armstrong Custer army officer, New Rumley
Dorothy Dandridge actress, Cleveland
Doris Day singer, actress, Cincinnati
Clarence Seward Darrow lawyer, Kingsman
Ruby Dee actress, Cleveland
Hugh Downs TV broadcaster, Akron
Thomas Alva Edison inventor, Milan
John Evans physician, educator, Waynesville
Clark Gable actor, Cadiz
James Abram Garfield U.S. president, Cuyahoga County
Cass Gilbert architect, Zanesville
Lillian Gish actress, Springfield
John Herschel Glenn astronaut, senator, Cambridge
Ulysses Simpson Grant U.S. president, Point Pleasant
Zane Grey author, Zanesville
Warren Gamaliel Harding U.S. president, Morrow County
Charles Martin Hall inventor, Thompson
Rutherford Hayes U.S. president, Delaware
Benjamin Harrison U.S. president, North Bend
Robert Henri painter, Cincinnati
William Dean Howells author, critic, Martins Ferry
Charles F. Kettering inventor, Loudonville
Kenisaw Mountain Landis first baseball commissioner, Millville
Maya Lin artist, sculptor, Athens
Dean Martin singer, actor, Steubenville
William McKinley U.S. president, Niles
Toni Morrison author, Lorain
George W. Norris U.S. Senator, Sandusky
Paul Newman actor, Cleveland
Jack Nicklaus golfer, Columbus
Annie Oakley markswoman, Darke County
Norman Vincent Peale clergyman, Bowersville
Roy J. Plunkett chemist, New Carlisle
Tyrone Power actor, Cincinnati
Judith Resnik astronaut, Akron
Eddie Rickenbacker aviator, Columbus
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. historian, Columbus
Donalee L. Tabern inventor, Bowling Green
William Tecumseh Sherman army general, Lancaster
Steven Spielberg director, screenwriter, Cincinnati
Gloria Steinem feminist, Toledo
William H. Taft U.S. president, Cincinnati
Joyce Kimberly Tatro educator, Toledo
Tecumseh Shawnee Indian chief, Oldtown
Ted Turner broadcasting, Cincinnati
Lowell Thomas commentator, author, Woodington
James Thurber author, cartoonist, Columbus
Ernest H. Volwiler inventor, Hamilton
Raymond Elwin Weber webmaster, Toledo
Orville Wright inventor, Dayton
Cy Young baseball player, Gilmore

Ben Roethlisberger, football player, Findlay
LeBron James, basketball player, Akron

about Time Someone Mentioned LeBron

jasonbondshow: Jonathan Hohensee: Klippoklondike:

Pro: Birthplace of aviation

Since when was Kitty Hawk, North Carolina a part of Ohio?

HELLO MCFLY! Ohio is where they did the hard engineering work, they only flight tested in NC

jasonbondshow: Jonathan Hohensee: Klippoklondike:

Pro: Birthplace of aviation

Since when was Kitty Hawk, North Carolina a part of Ohio?

/knows the Wrights were from Ohio
//knows also that North Carolina will always be First In Flight
///Go Tar Heels
////Duke sucks!

Really? My Ohio license plate says "Birthplace of Aviation".

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina's moment of fame in having the first test flight would have never been possible if they did not design the first working airplane in their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio.

How many things in Kitty Hawk are named after the Wrights? In Dayton, there is Wright-Patterson AFB and Wright State University. Even the name athletic teams of the University of Dayton are the Dayton Flyers.