8/5/15
Softball: A New Stage in the Life of the Consummate Attorney-Athlete
Dear People,
In Ben Takemoto's very last game before he inexplicably went back to Maryland-a state of truly dubious import where there simply is no unaffiliated email-organized softball anywhere---his team barely staved off my own, 16-14. Good for him. Still, let the record show that Ben's peeps had jumped out to a 15-1 fourth-inning lead only because of an unsightly infestation of butter-worm contagion within our outfield ranks, and while I don't engage in counter-factual piffle, I think we all know that we would've demolished them from the get-go if it weren't specifically for Frank's 4-error 6-run early-inning reign of interminable center-left sieveage.
I mention all this because the Benister will soon be clerking for the Honorable Theodore Chuang of the U.S. District Court for Maryland, and while I don't know his attitude toward softball (like most jurists, I assume he finds it both puerile and offensive), I do happen to know that he expects his clerks to write opinions with crisp jurisprudential rigor, from the opening statement of facts to the final sassy judgment. And yet I fear that if the Chaungmeister were to read of Ben's team nearly blowing a 14-run lead, he'd undoubtedly start to wonder if he'd chosen the right lad for his no-nonsense chambers.
Indeed, I think most in the community feel disgraced when a captain ceases to galvanize so early in the recreational process, and so I think we all want to ask Benboy that most obvious of queries; With all due respect, do you have the scholarly perseverance to craft the entirety of every opinion with the sublime judicial prose that makes so many case law reporters such irresistible bedtime reading? Sure, it's discomfiting to be so intrusive, but the nexus of history, sport and law demands no less. And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, IF I Get enough commits by this Friday morning . . . Raymond
PS: The post-game Benbecue was bountiful and savory; Thanks to all who contributed to the feast.
PPS: An attached seasonal selection of various fruits and nuts . . .
8/5/
Softball: The Continuing Struggle of Being Us
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday 11, and as of now it is already full. As always, please let me know ASAP if you committed and need to cancel, and if you still want in, feel free to get on the wait list or contact me later for news of reopened slots.
Also: Starting a week from Sunday, the city of Berkeley will be engaging in their sporadic annual hosing of us as a non-affiliated recreational people, by giving away our homeland to the prepubescent hordes of the Albany-Berkeley Girl's Softball League. The ABGSL will apparently be seizing the field at noon for the next couple months, and as of now, it's still not clear if Grove will be available at 11. Assuming it is, we'll have a choice between Grove at 11 and Codornices at 10 (i.e. . . .9:45 sharp), and so if you have a strong preference, let me know.
In the meantime, see ya Sunday/$4 for the field/Courage....Ray
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