Danny Kinda’s Crossroads Blog #2

“A” is also for totally AWEsome! Today I ran around the Colorado Convention Center for approximately 19 hours with gigantic orange flags. I must’ve “hand“ed out like 6,000,000 high-fives at least. Even to parents and grandmas, you know, the ones who look all mean like they’ve never slapped five in their lives. And they probably haven’t except to me, Danny Kinda, because I had those really cool orange flags that made me look like a giant line judge.

At our booth we had a sign-up sheet where teams could request a cheering section at their matches, courtesy of Danny Kinda (me) and the Kinda Good Crew. We were responsible for some big wins by some big teams, most notably Texas Image (who knows what age they were. Just take my word that we won the match for them). Oh, if you’re a coach or something from Texas Image could you please email me and tell me what on EARTH your club name means???? Thank you. I’d like to take this next sentence to apologize to that one club team whose game we forgot to go watch. Whoops, sorry, my bad, won’t happen again, where were you when we got there (?), oh well, big deal. And to that team that called a timeout as soon as I got there, thanks a lot. Let me just tell you that you should NEVER call a timeout when I’m nearby (cheering my guts out) because just my very presence will help your team get out of its rut. Are we clear?

I don’t know if you have ever been down the escalator in the Colorado Convention Center, but if you have then you know that it laughs at you. No, I don’t mean it has a weird hyena squeek or something silly like that. I mean that it ACTUALLY LAUGHS AT YOU. I almost punched the stupid escalator in the face. I felt like I was descending into Disney’s Haunted Mansion. WHY IS THE ESCALATOR LAUGHING AT ME????

B is for Bumpset. The Fun-Bonanza that was the Kinda Good Video Booth was pretty awesome all day. We played the Volleyball Alphabet Song all day and drove some people bananas. I loved it. So did all the teams who came over and sang the song karaoke-style. There must’ve been 30 teams who sang. I’m not sure any of them have or will ever know who Zack Barnes is. Do you?? I think they were so happy because the song is made up of volleyball terms and animals.

After selling my tees and handing out BanDannys all day I was pretty happy to go eat some chicken at Bubba Gump’s place that apparently is named after the Forrest Gump movie. What is that all about? That’s like making some internet videos and then going and doing opening ceremonies in front of a million kids. Well, as I was wolfing down my water some kids from LA Fusion came up to me and made me autograph their slushie receipts from 7-Eleven or somewhere like that. After I obliged, they made me and the Kinda Good Crew little sailor hats from their placemats. That was cool. Thanks.

C is for Chicken Wing. Begak!

• Topic: More KG
• By Dan Madden
• March 10th, 2008