5/18/05
Softball: Across the Generations
Dear People,
My side beat Jeff W’s in a splendid won-on-the-last-hit 16-15 paragon of see-sawing aerobic majesty. And if that isn’t glorious enough, this game was the first in our community history in which a grandson (Marcellus, age 10) and grandpapa (Marciel, age a lot older) bridged the disparate athletic stages that help frame our otherwise dreadful lives.
The kid played with particular grace and vigor, perhaps because his very youth still shields him from the harsh adult realities of flab-gut, suck-knee and existential despair. Of course, I personally feel that the adorability of "innocence" is way overrated, and thus if I were Marciel, I’d tell Marcellus to wake up and smell the gerontological coffee.
It’s true that when I was his age, I didn’t get to play that much softball because my sicko pre-pubescent classmates would always call me scornful names that impugned my athletic integrity. Yet the real point is that when Marcellus is my age, I probably won’t have any athletic integrity left to scorn, and even more pertinent, when his future grandson is the age that his grandpapa is now, every person on this mailing list will have been dead for at least 50 years.
OK, fine, call me a morbid little sourpuss, but I make no apologies for enjoying demographic truth in its bluntest actuarial form. And therefore there will be a game at San Pablo #2 this Sunday at 11AM, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning…Raymond
5/21/05
Softball: Options
Dear People,
There will be a game at San Pablo #2 this Sunday at 11AM, and as of now there are still five slots left. Please bring $2 for the field, which, in fairness, is a small price to pay for such verdant splendor.
ALSO: Peter will be having a potluck barbecue at his house from anytime after the game until that night, and you are all invited. His address is: 890 40th street (near Adeline), in world-famous Oakland.
A bientot…Raymond 845-7552
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