Softball: A Somewhat Implicit Argument Against Cantonese
Dear People,
Alan Miller made a superb managerial debut on Mother's Day, leading Enid and her cherished filial seeds, McCabe and Grady, to an 18-11 triumph over my own disappointing contingent of mama-bereft torpor. After falling behind 9-3 in the 3rd, the Millimeter dug deep into his inner childhood strategist, brazenly moving Dave Snyder to 2nd, Paul Fine to Center-left, Jim to left and Frank to Vallejo. Such a mid-inning shuffle was fraught with peril, but it paid off big, and as my most lethal hitters began to wilt under the stress, I found myself wondering what had gone wrong. Indeed, were we suddenly crashing under the power of raw tactical sagacity or the inscrutable moxie of protective maternal love, or perhaps simply an unusually virulent strain of Non-gonococcal Suckorrhea? It's 84 hours later, and in all candor, I still don't know.
The point is that I failed to galvanize my own team, which is clearly related to the fact that I am now a full year into my renewed attempt to nail down Spanish, once and for all. On the positive side, I got through all eight months of El Rostro de la Venganza, and my comprehension is actually fairly respectable (As long as native speakers are willing to write down everything they say to me-hardly an unreasonable request given I'm a Gringo). Yet the command mode is simply too complex, and I think somebody needs to break the silence and point this out.
Unlike English or even French (my true phonetic love and first foreign tongue), mastery of the simple present tense gets you nowhere in the Castilian imperative, where anomalous forms of the subjunctive are also required just to say something as simple as “Do this” or “Don't do that” or, for example, in the context of my team-leading duties in last week's game, “We're down by five; So really, stop sucking.” Nope, I'm not there yet, so I would've had to say something lame-ass like “Ya know, we're down by five, so it would be a really good thing if we stopped sucking.” Perhaps Pace, Saadia and my other peeps would've gotten that memo, but in the end, that's nothing more than the coarsening tease of rank speculation. And therefore there will be a game at Codonrices this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning….Raymond
5/16/13
Softball: Shameless Promotion, Sincere and Unafraid
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codorncies this Sunday at 11, and as of now there are still seven slots left. You are therefore welcome to commit any honorable non-community people you know, including, but not limited to, your beautician, your broker and your past life regressionist.
Please bring $4 for the field, which I think is a small price to pay for scandal-free mirth…..Raymond 845-7552
PS: Big news!: Jonny has updated his Baseball Coin iPhone app to include the 2013 season! Sure, he's now stuck in Melbourne and you'll probably never see him again, and on a list of things that matter, the salary and payroll information of today's professional baseball players is arguably close to the inverse of negative infinity. But still, why the heck not?!....
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/baseball-coin-2013-baseball/id530112507