7/21/10

Softball: El Norte (Considering the Path Less Trod)

Dear People,

Pace’s team exploited subtle fragilities within the fabric of my side’s defensive cohesion, and that’s all it took for them to trounce us, and trounce us good, 16-10. Alan Brill not only snagged the win, but facilitated his own moundage by tapping a 5th inning single to shallow right field—a genteel pop up that quickly transmogrified into the stupidest three-throwing-error homer in the history of Western sport. Tragically, several perfectly innocent players were making their community debuts, and while I can’t know for sure, I have to assume that the emotional scarring that they suffered from either witnessing or causing the aerobic spectacle in question runs both deep and raw.

The point is that I just happen to be perusing the latest issue of The Economist when I came across a tantalizing ad in their executive focus section, seeking a President and CEO for the Canadian Postal Service. Yeah, the whole dang government-run service, and one can even apply online with the executive recruiters of Odgers Berndston, at www.odgersberndtson.ca/en/careers/9327. Of course I don’t normally respond to these types of recruitments, but truth be told, I do like both postage and Canada. Moreover, I think we all know that I am uniquely qualified to run this deeply cherished but troubled symbol of creeping Canuckian socialism.

Does this mean that if chosen, I will be moving our venerable league directly to Ottawa? I honestly don’t know, but I do know that of all the great North American capitals, she is where the thirst for email-organized softball is most widely bred in the bone. And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning. . . Raymond

7/23/10

Softball: Choices

Dear People,

There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, and as of now, there are still three slots left.

This week’s field fee is just $4, and that includes either a pre-game berry granita with nectarine sherbet or a complimentary colonoscopy with nitrous oxide and whiskey…Raymond 845-7552

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