8/9/00
Softball: Aspirin
Dear People,
Congratz to all on last week’s drama-drenched 16-11 paragon of scintillating unvarnished aerobicism. Once again, I left the park dazzled by the beauty of the game itself, with its magnificently nuanced athletic structure, the cerebral rigor of its awesomely varied cadence, and of course, the grace and dignity of the gentle persons who choose to play it.
Indeed, I was already flush with pride as my own team collapsed anew with no fewer than three errors in a single 5th inning play, and yet just a few minutes later, I was suddenly the reluctant coxswain in the grisly cranial beaning of a perfectly innocent base runner. Nevertheless, I must confess that as that ball ricocheted off the lush occipital region of her feisty little skull, my concern for her long term health was overwhelmed by the sheer joy of participating in the most sensual pickle that I have ever had the privilege to witness.
I later asked our cherished second basemen if he had miscalculated the inherent risks of hurling the ball as he did, and he quietly confessed to me that as a UC neurologist, his professional opinion at that fateful moment was that even if he accidentally struck her, the odds of long-term impairment were no more than 2 in 5. While I initially found this comment unsettling, he reminded me that if he had not thrown the ball at all, she would have clearly scampered selfishly back to first, and given that our team was down by eight runs at the time, who was I to call the ethical kettle black?
Yes, I now understand the rectitude of his perspective, and more than that, I look to our little tete-a-tete as yet further evidence that in the 800,000 year history of human recreation, no sport has been more steeped in the statistical quagmire of the Kantian moral imperative. And if that is the subconscious reason that we all come back every week, that’s still good enough for me. Therefore, there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11AM, followed by another delicious round of ultimate frisbee, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning…..Raymond
8/11/00
Softball: The Ceaseless Process of Recreational Amelioration
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11AM, and as of now, there are still three slots left. The field fee is $2.
There will also be an ultimate frisbee match afterward, and both events will feature the debut of 10 resplendent flaming-red border markers that will redefine the conceptual load of environmental performance art (although I suppose that the philistines among you will only "see" Ace Hardware sand buckets)..…Raymond
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