12/16/15
Softball: The Dangers of Skimming in Scientific American
Dear People,
First off, and for the record: I did not blow it! Michael Davey and I trekked up to our beloved Codornices homeland late Sunday morning, and as I feared, the despicable downpour of the previous hours had battered our baby, and battered her hard. There were vast malarial lakes at home plate, the pitcher's mound and even down the right field line, and much of the outfield was a mud-laden suck-swamp of unspeakable filth. Let me say that again: a mud-laden suck-swamp of unspeakable filth.
Sure, she has some of the best drainage this side of Fairfield, but she's still just a park, goddam it, and no park I know could survive unscathed from such intensive hydraulic abuse. Of course with a little more sun, time and simple aphidic loving, she will soon be in all her verdant glory and totally playable again. Nevertheless, and for what it's worth, I also think that the essence of 'nature' has been starkly exposed yet one more time-awesome, to be sure, but still an inimitable force of mystery, terror and never-ending annoyance.
The point is that although nature could destroy our game with her insensate cruelty, she can't, ironically, eliminate the richly ergodic quantum memories that she herself inadvertently protects. I know that sounds like a taunting contradiction in terms, but it so happens that I'm now surprisingly well-read in the holographic fundaments of 7-dimensional string theory, and thus let's peruse what would've been last week's roster had we not been so totally hosed:
Ray Anthony 'Antman' Weatheroy
Michael Davey Steve Powers
Jim 'Snakeboy' McGuire Jimmy Powers
Frank Chris Fure
Dave Snyder Adam
Stefano Noah
Jerry Steve Bedrick
Kris Rohman Jay 'Hircine in the Abstract' Jurisich
Maria Ali
Brian Meredith
Aaron Vinnie
Now look, I'm well aware that the Multiverse has its detractors due to its supposed lack of falsifiability, but take a gander at the two teams again and I think we can all agree that in an alternate time-space continuum-more specifically, where all our athletic doppelgängers defiantly reside-my team crushed Anthony's on a stunning 5-run 9th-inning rally, 14-13. That the Antman's posse crashed and burned on Jay's curiously dropped game-ending can of cosmological corn only adds to the painful interface of triumph and failure, and that's something the Jayster's going to have to ponder, and ponder hard, for the rest of his tragically flawed life. And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning . . . Raymond
12/16/15
Softball: Gamblers
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11 and as of now it is already full. As always, please let me know ASAP if you committed and need to cancel, and if you still want in, feel free to get on the wait list or contact me later for news of reopened slots.
Also: If climatic conditions are ambiguous that morning or if it rains a lot in the day before, you will need to check email. Of course, never assume we're not playing unless you get the word, since, as you know, we are of hearty stock, Codornices has wondrous drainage and is already in full recovery, and, for what it's worth, Cal closes down this week and thus there may be some astroturf fields we can retreat to if it comes to that.
Finally: Please bring $4 for the field just in case, BUT, if all goes according to current plans, your bitterly resented field fee will be fully waived because, for the first time, we will have 21 relative winners (of which 11 will be on the triumphant team), and just one truly wretched and pitiful loser. Details at the game . . . Raymond 845-7552
12/20/15
Softball: Sunday 9:55AM ;-]....and 10:02 :-[
Dears,
Yes, there's a slight terroristic drizzle in the air, but I've now scoured every weather-relevant website-a contradictory gestalt of meaningless climatic nothing-and every fiber of my being says that the true game-destroying rain won't be arriving until about 1:09.22!
Moreover, Frank is driving from the Sac as I peck these very words, and finally, why on earth would you want to give up the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the face of either Frank or Michael Davey after they've just lost $88?!
In brief: Unless it start to actually rain in a game-destroying manner between now and then, please try to get there by 10:45ish so we can finish up by the 1:09:22 deadline.
I have so much faith in the sun, the field, you and this entire community that I'm sobbing as I peck. Courage...Ray
PS Update: 10:02AM: I'm getting phone calls that it's sort of raining at Codornices. Stay tuned/Further update in 20 minutes. Friggin' nature...
Softball: Sunday 10:24: Let's tell Nature to go to Hell! Game on!....
Dears,
I'm having email problems so quickly one more try. I've been told the rain is drizzle and we can play so let's do this! If it turns into a malarial catastrophe, Jim and Jay are to blame.
See you at as close to 10:45ish as possible !....Ray 759-6819
PS: Please show upl The Davey-Frank gamble is on life-support.
PPS: Anthony, you're in!....
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