2/08/06
Softball: Way before Seinfeld
Dear People,
Despite a confluence of events that have thrown me into an emotive and civic tizzy, I have decided not to give up on our game. The fact is that I don’t really understand why Berkeley found it necessary to kick us off our chosen homeland for some annoying two-bit pipsqueak league that is supposedly ‘city-affiliated,’ especially given that we’ve paid essentially extortionist park fees for almost every week of the last nine years. Yes, rare is the justice that seeps from the calcified innards of any indifferent bureaucracy.
In any case, the abuse that we as a people have suffered seemed to make the sudden deaths of Coretta Scott King, Betty Friedan and Al "Grandpa" Lewis all the more poignant. In all candor, the latter’s passing was probably the hardest for me to bear, precisely because my greatest childhood passions were kickball, World War II and The Munsters. Seriously, that’s not a joke (nor is this: www.mannoandcondon.com/grandpa.gif ).
In fact, I still get midnight giggles thinking about the episode where Herman and Grandpa go to the bank to make a withdrawal, but instead are mistaken for bank robbers and handed $18,000 in cash. I’m sure you all saw that one, but just in case, I won’t leave you hanging; As you’d imagine, Eddie is delighted by the whole thing, though naturally Marilyn insists they take the money back, and when they do that very night, they both end up stuck in the bank’s vault!
The point is that I’m admittedly not trained in the thespian arts and don’t pretend to be a "critic," but I do happen to think that along with Sir Lawrence Olivier and possibly Brando before his BlubberBoy decline, Al Grandpa Lewis was one of the most technically gifted actors who ever lived. And thus in his honor, there will be a game at CODORNICES this SATURDAY at 11AM, which is just like Sunday at 11AM except that it’s actually 24 hours earlier…Raymond
2/10/06
Softball: A Sartorial Offering of Problematic Value
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codornices tomorrow (Saturday) at 11AM, and as of now, there is ONE slot left.
This week’s field fee is just $3, and that includes a complimentary 100% cotton T-shirt featuring the smiling bearded face of the prophet himself, just so you can be sassy and topical…Ray 845-7552
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