Softball: An Overview of Where we Stand
Dear People,
In one of those curiously joyous affairs where the score does not tell the story (except to the extent that it does), Alan Miller’s team trounced my own, 18-10. Now normally I would embrace the glory of our own defeat and move on, yet I have to confess that because it all occurred in the presence of four young and wide-eyed community debutantes (Kevin from Olympia, Uland from Oakland, Amina from Berkeley and Max from Craig’s List), the whole experience just felt a tad tawdry. Of course that’s not to say that I was “embarrassed” when Ehud, Chris Fure and Ellen managed to commit four infield errors in less than three seconds in a singular 7th inning implosion, but I did find myself wondering if those cherished rookies amongst us had had their aerobic innocence so violently shaken that none would ever feel safe within our communal bosom. I honestly don’t know.
In any case, it’s now been a year since Lehman Brothers went bust, and while many of you back then despondently concluded that we as a people were simply too small to not fail, I can report that we have weathered the storm with our typical blend of pure courage, sheer resolve and a frisky seasonal tranche of toxic athletic default swaps. Sure, we’re still barely solvent, our homeland has been contemptibly seized by a city-backed horde of pre-pubescent scoundrels, and of course, player for player, we now clearly suck more than we ever have. Yet despite it all, I truly believe that after 12 splendid years, we are nothing less than a shining shtetl on a hill—exceptional, suggestively moist and fair. And therefore there will be a game at Grove this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning…Ray
9/18/09
Softball: Healthy
Dear People,
There will be a game at Grove Park this Sunday at 11, and as of now there is still one slot left. If you want to play and you haven’t yet committed, there is simply no time to tarry.
Please bring $4 for the field, which for this week only includes either a valid Slovakian passport or a complimentary one-year subscription to the UCLA Journal of Millet, Sorghum and other Exotic Grains. . . Raymond 845-7552
PS: Some Recent Thoughts on the Health Care Debate:
i- From a buffoon extraordinaire (with context from the Daily Show):
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-13-2009/class-of--43
ii- From Santa Monica (my home town!)…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVgOl3cETb4