5/31/06
Softball: Your Really Low Barrier to Entry Sport
…as the morning sun shone bright and I scanned the usual gathering with which I had to work, I heard a lowly Yak bray in the distance. And then it suddenly struck me. Yes, virtually all of our most powerful players—Broh, Chris Fure, Matt, Tom O, Jeremy, Jonny, Ken, Raul and J.T. were all God knows where, leaving just Don and Frank to carry the burdens of our athletically brilliant elite (and unlike the others, Frank is among our absolute best and worst simultaneously, so it’s not like his presence eased the pain of our lackage). As team-balancer, I secretly trembled, but when another lowly Yak brayed in the distance, I found my moral-compass and vowed to carry on. To weigh. To try. In short, to seek equilibrium from kinesiologic chaos. It was all I could do…
Dear People,
On the day that Bobby Bonds passed Babe Ruth as the second greatest home-run hitter in history, we of the best unaffiliated email-organized softball league West of the Sacramento River happened to assemble the most objectively pitiful cast of cumulative athletic talent in the history of our community. Now look, I’m sorry if that’s aerobically incorrect, but the harsh reality is that when one finds Nikki in left, Alex at shortstop and Nanci and Mark as part of the game’s vital “middle tier,” then we simply have to accept that this reflects a certain fragility of depth in the overall roster at hand.
Having said that though, this week’s match was a masterpiece of reasonably limited ineptitude, so even though Jeff’s team staved off my own, 18-16, my bitterness is tempered by the broader triumph of our communal wit. And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning…Raymond
6/1/06
Softball: Indulgence
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11AM, and as of now it is full. As always, please let me know asap if you committed and need to cancel, or feel free to contact me later if you’re looking for newly opened slots.
This week’s field fee is just $3, and that includes a post-game brandy and cigar with either some industrial grade sniffing glues or pure cocoa botox…Ray 845-7552
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