2/16/00
Softball: No Time for Pleasantries
Dear People,
This will be quick since my internet connection is down again, and thus I’m forced to write you from deep within the belly of a secretive underground campus safehouse, used primarily for the storage of highly toxic gunking powders; There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 1PM, if I get enough commits by this Friday noon…..Raymond
2/18/00
Softball: A Desperate Appeal to History
Dear People,
It is now Friday morning and remarkably, we are still several players short of a minimum quorum for Sunday’s game. Given that we were rained out last week, the idea of having to call off such a critical opportunity for cardiovascular renewal leaves me both mystified and sullen. No, I am not a whiner by temperament or trade, but this morning, as I watch the socially progressive peoples of South Carolina prepare to cast their ballots, I fear for the vigor of our own Athletic Democracy.
Perhaps it is something I said or did, and in fairness, I am well aware that of late, my appeals to you have occasionally been perfunctory, terse, and even jejune. But this isn’t about me or you or even the game of softball, and I think you understand that. For the simple fact is that this weekend, the entire nation will be celebrating the majestic 268th anniversary of the day before the birth of George Washington, and thus by refusing to play this Sunday, in certain ways, you’re choosing to diss the claim of our Colonial forefathers to athletic liberty itself.
Yes, I know this is Berkeley, and most of you remain a bunch of Utopian Ecosocialist weirdoes who can’t relate, but I would just gently remind you that a full 219 years after the Continental Army ensnared General Cornwallis and his tyrannical pimply-faced kidney-pie-loving British troops at Yorktown, the Brits STILL do not play baseball on that cursed and distant isle.
I think you see my point. So please, make that commit before it’s too late; Do it for George Washington, whose life long disdain for rugby helped form the recreational freedom upon which we still thrive today….Raymond
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