11/30/05

Softball: Singles of Distinction

Dear People,

My team rallied late, hard and frisky in order to overcome a crushing 22-11 7th inning deficit, and thus when the dust finally settled, we had beaten back Frank’s side with a bracing wave of tacit schadenfreude, 27-25. Ultimately, though, this was a match of competing personal triumphs, and if I may be so brazen, I think this is best exemplified by my own challenge to David Seskin, shortly after he blasted what was probably the longest, most explosive homerun I have ever seen at Codornices Park. By the time this 4th-inning rocket touched back down to earth, it had shot over 300 feet from the Seskinator’s bat to the top of the central slope, where a suggestively coy butter tree marks the border between center field and the yak-laden tundra of the great beyond.

Of course in our game, homers come in all shapes and flavors, and thus I’m delighted to say that I personally answered this breathtaking feat with TWO four-baggers of my own—both blistering 15-foot grounders which appeared to expose a certain fragility in the cohesion of Frank’s infield. True, 15 feet is less than 300, and they’re not "technically" home runs if they require no fewer than three throwing errors to complete, but the bottom line is that I scurried around those bases with as much sheer manliness as any player alive, and if that makes Seskin or Matt or Vince or any of those other beefy power-hitters feel dissed or unclean or whatever, I think it’s time that they wake up and smell the aerobic coffee; Raw, brute strength is a gift from the Lord, but it’s neither necessary not sufficient on the perilous path to home. And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11AM, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning…Raymond


11/30/05

Softball: Booked

Dear People,

There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11AM, but alas, it is already full. ;-(

$3 for the field/Please let me know ASAP if you committed and you need to cancel/Also, you will need to check email/voicemail Sunday morning if it rains a lot between now and then/Back to sleep (symptoms of contemptible flu-thing coursing through my veins)…Ray

Softball: Sunday Morning: An Impassioned Call for Peoples of the Rake

Dears,

Codornices is officially open and glorious and even close to dry. However, the dawdlepolitan city of Berkeley has yet to drag the infield, and thus Broh will be out there by 10:30 with a couple hoes (not hos, you pitiful pervos). Do the right thing and join his heroic lead by showing up early with a practical garden tool, in order to help till our cherished soils….Ray

BACK