Softball: A Brazen New Paradigm in the Recreational Arts
Dear People,
First off: I was in contact with Mary yesterday, and I can report that she is well on the road to a full facial recovery after inexplicably trying to catch Frank's blistering throw to home with the lower tip of her remarkably resilient mandible. Indeed, note the photos below in proper comparative context, for they not only capture her raw courage in a time of great ouchy-pooh, but they also suggest that Rothko's greatest post-war purples might have been less inspired by the depths of his inner psychosis than an occasional trip to the local boxing ring.
Or perhaps they suggest that Mary and Frank have inadvertently mastered a provocative new genre of abstract participatory expressionism. Either way, the point is that the Marinater and her chin were up and batting just 10 minutes after impact, and sure enough, she defiantly crushed her own pain with a galvanizing 4th-inning single a full 18 inches down the 3rd-base line! Jim's team was naturally ecstatic with pride, and yet they'd eventually go down, and down hard, 22-14.
The truth is I felt a bit chagrined by our own triumph, for not only was Mary's sacrifice in vain, but it just so happens that two innings later, Jerry brought their side back to a 6th inning 12-up tie with the first and only five-error homer in the history of this community!! Yes, what should've been a solid but playable lineout that smashed directly into Paul Horsepool's glove ended up in the bushes to the left of 3rd, and over the course of the next 27 seconds, it seemed to get somewhat worse. Equine-boy admirably refused to panic, but his throw to Alan Shabel at short was five feet over his head as Jerry sprinted toward second. Alan then tried to make up for lost time by throwing the ball four feet above Kora's head, which Jerry promptly exploited with increased celerity, giggles and general aplomb.
Fortunately, Anthony was backing up Kora in shallow center-right, yet as Jerry pulled into 3rd, the Antman hurled the ball above Paul's desperately outstretched arm. Perhaps sensing a “pattern” in the tactical evolution of the play at hand, Alan was already in place to scoop up the overthrown orb by the left field fence, yet as Jerry now darted toward home, the Shabelator called Anthony's overthrow and raised him $2.50-hurling away our last opportunity for an out, about 15 feet to the right of the plate.
It was, in the end, an admittedly unsightly yet still deeply satisfying collapse, and given that we went on to win anyway, further proof that even the exponential accretion of rank aerobic failure can play out with the stark Rothkoesque beauty of his most magnificent $10,000,000,000 mauves. And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning…Raymond
6/5/13
Softball: Leverage (and Steve Seskin. . .and 20 tongues!)
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, and as of now it is full. As always, please let me know ASAP if you committed and need to cancel, and if you still want in, feel free to get on the wait list or contact me later for news of reopened slots.
Please bring $4 for the field, which includes my personal guarantee to you that no matter how dominant your play, you will retain all the legal benefits of unrestricted free agency throughout the duration of the match…Ray 845-7552
PS: Would you to like to see community hero Steve Seskin play at a local Richmond café this evening? Yes you would, and thus you're in luck since I just received the following. . .
For those of you who might have missed their fabulous show at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley last Sunday, Steve Seskin and Julia Sinclair will be doing a very intimate, special, last minute concert at the one and only Catahoula Coffee in Richmond (12472 San Pablo Ave), on Thursday June 6th from 7pm to 9:30 pm. There is no set admission but the suggested donation for the artists is $15/$20. Catahoula coffee and espresso drinks will be available as will a limited food menu. Hope you can come to their first of hopefully many neighborhood concerts….
http://www.catahoulacoffee.com/
http://www.steveseskin.com/news/
http://www.juliasinclair.com/
PPS: Si J'estais plus intelligent, je pourrais etre comme le mec ici….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km9-DiFaxpU&feature=player_embedded