Wednesday, March 26, 2008

NYC Tournament Info

Here is the info that you need for this weekend. Our first match is at 9:30, so make plans to get to the pitch by 8:30 at the latest. Make sure that someone going has your cellphone number and that you have Sideshow, MJ, or Bible's.

CONFIRMED PLAYERS:

Below are the folks that have formally confirmed that they are in for this weekend. We have gotten verbal commitments from a couple guys that need to email Sideshow to confirm that they are still in (Jimmy, Jesse, Firedog, et al).

  1. Sunshine
  2. Koz
  3. Reuben
  4. KJ
  5. The Beard
  6. Grant
  7. Ben
  8. Pat
  9. MJ
  10. Bible
  11. Sharp
  12. Cochran
  13. Peter
  14. Sideshow
  15. Ron
  16. Dain

MATCH LOCATION/INFO:

The Tournament is on Randalls Island, which is an island in the East River, between Manhattan and Queens, directly beneath the Triborough Bridge, most are played on Field 13-14 which is on the northeast corner of the island right beneath a train trestle that runs next to the Triborough Bridge.

www.villagelions.org/tournament/directions.php

DRINK-UP LOCATION/INFO:

Lansdowne Road
599 10th Ave
New York, NY 10036
(212) 239-8020
www.lansdowneroadnyc.com

HOSTEL LOCATION/INFO:

Everyone staying at the hostel needs to have $40 cash for each night they are staying.

Central Park Hostel

19 West 103rd Street
near Central Park West
New York, NY 10025
tel: (212) 678-0491
fax: (212) 678-0453
info@centralparkhostel.com

Directions for Subway, Trains, and Planes:
http://www.centralparkhostel.com/location.html

Driving directions from DC


PLACES NEAR THE HOSTEL TO FIND PABST PRODUCTS:

Chris (our PBR) checked with his counterpart up in NYC to get us the run down of bars that serve drinkable beer. The Ding Dong Lounge is only 5 blocks from the hostel – if you think that we are not going to meet up there at some point, you are very much mistaken.

Ding Dong Lounge
929 Columbus
PBR family of products (including the pounders).

Dinosaur BBQ
2293 12th Avenue
PBR, Schaefer, Schlitz and Lonestar

Lions Head Tavern
995 Amsterdam Ave
PBR 12 ounce cans

Havana Central
2909 Broadway
PBR draft

Radio Perfecto
1187 Amsterdam Ave
PBR 12 ounce cans

O’Connell’s
2794 Broadway
McSorley’s Ale draft

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I will be going up..I will be staying with family and I'm going up early friday morning.


--Dain

West Potomac Rugby said...

Yo! The Ding Dong Lounge sounds like my kind of place, not terribly unlike Jimmy V's; I can't wait to check it out.

Anonymous said...

Before we go to the Ding Dong Lounge, are we sure its not a gay bar?