Sure, I mention their professions since we all know that while accountants, bankers and engineers are the foundational clay of modern society, it's easy to assume that the team which has the one true phenomenologist is always going to trounce. Well, yes and no.
The fact is that Alva's debut featured a galvanizing cognitive buzz that was undoubtedly responsible for our 10-run break-out in the bottom of the 6th, though ironically, the Alvinator himself suffered a certain lack of perceptual rigor in the treacherous grasses of empirically deep right. I say ironically, of course, because all his grad students certainly know by now that to accurately “perceive” an external object-say, for example, a ball, qua ball-is a subtle yet dynamic epistemological process that depends on our contact with the real world and the skills we possess for navigating its inherent structure. Yet good ol' Professor Bananapeels let several balls dart right past, through and under his scholarly little limbs, and if that isn't deliciously ironic, then I don't know what.
The point is that as this community enters its 17th year, we continue to evolve in new and wondrous ways, and while perhaps no one can ever really know where a bouncing orb is at any given time, or, for that matter, why there is so much awful and evil all around, we will continue to serve as a weekly source of exercise, escape and solace while never wavering in our relentless drive to master the nearly inscrutable nexus of brain, mind and ball. And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning….Raymond
PS: I will soon be in a distant and exotic land, so don't panic if it takes me a few hours longer than usual to reply to your emails.
4/19/13
Softball: The Craft of Seduction
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, as always, includes all taxes, gratuities and valet parking as well as a complimentary pre-match cocktail....Raymond