I have a serious love/hate relationship with social networking (mostly hate) but I file it under ‘Necessary Evil’. I must admit though, there are some bright spots every now and then and one of them happened yesterday.  I was wrapping up my work day around 2pm and myself and my boy Zoe were looking for something to do. Well, he was; I’m just naturally entertained 24/7. But I was game for some fun. Joe Budden posted on his Twitter that he wanted to play kickball and anyone in the area that wanted to play should come through. He posted the address a few minutes later and it turned out the park wasn’t far from where I live in New Jersey so we decided to go.

We got to the park at about 4pm with no expectations at all; weren’t even sure if it was real or just a joke. Either way, I was there ready to destroy whoever stepped in my kickball path. Zoe plays basketball professionally so he was ready to compete too. As we pulled up, we saw Joe and an army of fans dangling from his arm like the kickball Rocky. We knew it was on.

My team ended up losing both games so I’ll skip the play by play. What I will say is that losing aside, it was fun. I lost sight of the fact that I was playing kickball. I also lost sight of the fact that I was playing it against one of my top 5 rap artists of all-time. There wasn’t any agenda out there other than some people looking to enjoy themselves on a nice evening. Mission accomplished.

Joe’s current girl is video model Esther Baxter and she was the most surprising aspect of the whole thing. The chick is BAD!!!!!! Good looking females are a dime a dozen but she is BAD!!!!! Phyiscally of course, but also surprisingly intelligent and highly competitive. She treated kickball like Kobe is going to treat tomorrow night’s game against Phoenix. I can safely say she went from “the broad from the Freak A Leak video” to a woman that I respect now.

There’s talk of making it an ongoing thing; in anticipation of that, I’ll be at my local park practicing until further notice.