Softball: An Anthropological Gloss of Athletic Distinction in Context
Dear People,
In one of those rarified matches of nearly flawless competitive excellence, my team offed Jim McGuire's on the last hit of the game, 11-10. The fact is that I still get chills in knowing that we can paint such a dazzling aerobic canvas, and that's especially true when one considers that we remain stuck in the world qua world, replete as it is with its power-mad sociopaths, dumbass bureaucrats, Fox News blowhards, nutcase jihadists, and, of course, the usual annoying exemplars of the modern American landscape (I'm obviously not going to name names, though Donald Trump and Sarah Palin do come to mind).
Yeah, I think we can all agree that our weekly adventures in cardiovascular renewal are a justified metaphorical escape from the broader homo sapien gestalt to which we're so hopelessly cleaved. Of course I mention that because this particular match was so nearly perfect, with crisp hitting, robust fielding and basically no errors. Well, technically one error if you count the fact that Dave Snyder's game-ending RBI-grounder to left darted exactly half way through the curiously gaping space between Jay's confuddled little legs-what we in the Euclidean arts call bisection. Or perhaps bisexual. I honestly don't remember.
The wider point is that no matter how wondrously we play as a communal whole, ours is not a league that is hermetically sealed off from the dilemmas of the human condition. Indeed, I actually found myself having to defend our very homeland from the encroachments of two men (and their cackle of not-so-darling little tykes), both of whom claimed that they had the authority to frolic in center-right because they were “immediate neighbors . . . and kids gotta play.” This was, of course, a somewhat strained argument in light of both the match in progress and the field reservation that I was defiantly brandishing, though in retrospect, our diplomatically delicate interactions made a solid contribution to my personally cherished catalog of Validating Vasectomy Moments. And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning . . . Raymond
PS: For both of them . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_QkUVZGPc
8/15/14
Softball: Appraised
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, and as of now there are still two slots left.
Please being $4 for the field, which for this week only includes a personally xeroxed print of an authenticated counterfeit Warhol, robo-signed by the artist himself . . . Raymond 845-7552
PS: Another look at aging. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-gfxjAaZg0