8/25/10
Softball: The Varied Origins of Gagging
Dear People,
Jeff W’s team edged past my own on the last hit of the game, 18-17. This was despite a heroic performance by Alan Miller, who pitched 9 grueling innings for my side while still suffering from both food poisoning the prior night and your basic existential despair. In all candor, the Millster looked drained under the broiling East Bay sun, and after both Tony M and Alan S blasted his signature 3-knuckle slider into the sloped bush-laden tundra beyond deep left, he grew notably weary (or wary, or worried, or perhaps just utterly farblondzhet —I honestly don’t remember).
The fact is that if our roles had been reversed and he had ordered me to the mound as my own innards convulsed under the strain of a contemptible Staphylococcal assault, I would’ve simply cracked from the stress, ripped off my woolen skivvies and fled unabashedly nude to the nearest vomitorium. Of course Alan is a more stoic breed of athlete than you or I could ever be, and so, like Hannibal and his ancient-world cackle of majestic war-lovin’ pachyderms, he valiantly led his team against great odds, only to succumb at the end to a stirring phalanx of brutal Romanesque power-hitters. Yeah, I happen to like historically strained analogies with a certain florid panache, and for that I make no apologies.
The point is that I was going to hold off organizing a game this weekend because I assumed that most of you would be flying to DC in order to join Glen Beck and Sara Palin in taking back our country. But then, in writing this letter, it occurred to me that our own bush-laden tundra is a more convenient and proximate locale in which to fully and discretely hurl. And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning…Ray
PS: An equine perspective on proposition 8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSM8Okj_4TI
PPS: For those who take their baseball really, really seriously…
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/29/magazine/rivera-pitches.html?ref=magazine
8/27/10
Softball: Another Scholarly Niche
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, and as of now, there are still four slots left.
Please bring $4 for the field, which for this week only includes a complimentary one year subscription to Fashion Horse: The UCLA Journal of Kilts, Lederhosen and other Suggestive Attire…Raymond 845-7552
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