Softball: October ’29 (The Varied Intensities of Cognitive Strain)
Dear People,
Anthony’s team pulverized my own without sentiment or mercy, 15-6. In all candor, I happen to think that competitive annihilation and basic human empathy are not mutually exclusive, but perhaps I’m just deluded by my Wittgensteinian faith in the power of aerobic love. I honestly don’t know. What I do know, though, is that the combination of late player arrivals, a renewed debate on the danger of super bats and mid-game grumbling about my apparently delusional team-balancing appeared to throw my fragile little brain into a stressed-out migraine-laden cranial melt, which seems to suggest that despite your incessant pleas, I’m perhaps not the best guy to lead the Treasury Department in this particular period of exciting transition.
Yet for what its worth, I would like to go on record as saying that while $700 billion may seem like a lot of money, in the end, it’s still less than the cost of a mere 200 billion tiny little blue-dot softballs, and I happen to think that’s a small price to pay for a fun and frisky experiment in the intriguing risk-management of financially catastrophic abstractions. And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11AM, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning…Raymond
PS: Funny money, continued: Delightfully British and disturbingly prophetic, originally recorded in the Fall of 2007…
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJmTCYmo9g
9/26/08
Softball: Your official Federal Bailout Sport
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11AM, and as of now there are still six slots left. You are therefore welcome to commit the usual cast of non-community friends, distant family wackos and embittered ex-lovers, so long as you take complete responsibility for their various eccentricites. As best I can tell, the field will not be taken at 1:00, but since I can’t be sure, please get to the park no later than 10:59. Really, 10:59, not 11:13.
This week’s field fee is just $3, and that includes a special pre-game cup of potato and radish gruel, a much loved staple of 1930s-era New York City soup kitchens….Raymond 845-7552
PS: Chris Fure and Frieda invite you to check out their new brand new website, because beyond playing softball with inimiatble grace, good cheer and athletic excellence, it’s also important to at least try and help save the world:
http://eartheffort.com/
PPS: My favorite New York Times sentence of the last 24 hours, perhaps the last 24 years:
“If money isn’t loosened up, this sucker could go down,” President Bush declared Thursday as he watched the $700 billion bailout package fall apart before his eyes, according to one person in the room.
PPPS: One more reason to love Sara (especially recommended for the Hebraic athletes amongst you)…
http://www.thegreatschlep.com/site/index.html