Softball: Musings on our Perilous Relations with the Fourth Estate
Dear People,
In a dozen grueling innings of exquisite aerobic excellence, Pace's team stunned my own, 8-5. The Pacemaker was an admittedly superior and enchanting captain, providing his own side with both consistently mellifluous leadership as well as the game-winning 3-RBI triple in the top of the 12th. I, on the other hand, was still dealing with my intractably sprained ankle, and was thus feeling somewhat jejune, gelatinous, and in all candor, even a tad Djibouti. I obviously don't say this to merely marvel at the orthographic promiscuity of a single lowly phoneme, or even to excuse the lame-ass groundouts that resulted from my last three trips to the plate. Yet I would gently suggest that had it been Pace nursing my tender little talofibular ligaments (unsightly an image as that would've been), then his side would've lost, and lost badly. Yeah, like the debt ceiling, a couple of my ex-girlfriends and annoying ßskeletal injuries, facts are stubborn things.
The point is that like most of you, I was initially shocked by reports that Robert Murdoch's News Corp has apparently been involved in a systemic policy of wiretapping, bribery and criminal harassment, for as a long-time Fox News viewer, I obviously look to Slimedoch's companies for the highest standards of balanced journalistic integrity. Of course, with the most recent revelations, many of you have questioned whether Fox can really cover our games in a way that's truly accurate and impartial, and the fact is, at this point I honestly don't know. But I do know that over the last few days I've been watching O'Reilly and Hannity and they haven't uttered a word about any of this, so we can clearly surmise that this so-called 'scandal' is hardly as important as the lamestream media implies.
In the end, of course, we're just an unaffiliated email-organized softball league, and while I realize that one can never expect the press to treat us with the respect that we deserve, I'm not about to cancel our recreational future just because we have to now assume that some of our biggest stars will inevitably have their phones tapped and their emails hacked and perhaps even their naked little bodies furtively photographed as they smoke a relaxing doobie of steroid-laden devil's weed in the private sanctity of their marbled bedroom showers. Indeed, we as a community do not quiver before the tawdry sunshine of scrutiny-fair, illicit or otherwise-and therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning….Raymond
7/15/11
Softball: Sartorial
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, and as of now there are still five slots left.
Please bring $4 for the field, which for this week only includes a special post-game exhibit of my personal new line of handwoven corsets, lederhosen and genuine Bavarian jockstraps…Raymond 845-7552