8/15/12
Softball: A Brief Gander at the Conceptual Perils of Certainty on Paper
Dear People,
In the minutes before last week's game began, I appointed Chris Fure as the enemy captain, presented him with the opposing rosters, and then, in a rare moment of stark organizational angst, concluded that I had dramatically errored in the solemn and delicate process of algorithmically-enhanced team-balancing. “Look, I blew it” I told Chris with sincere regret, “so let's make a serious tweak or we're going to totally crush you guys.” The Furinator looked up at me with those forlorn yet beautiful baby blues, and then back down at the score card, with its two objectively lopsided contingents of 11 athletes each. “These are my peeps,” he said to me sternly, “and I simply will not trade them around like a disposable cackle of overly-ripened street hussies” (Truth be told, I'm sort of paraphrasing). I implored him, he resisted, and resisted still more, and so I walked away pensively, already feeling the first waves of deep Hebraic guilt for the imminent slaughter to come.
Curiously, and for reasons I don't pretend to understand, his side decimated my own, 21-9. And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning….Raymond
8/17/12
Softball: A Cure for the Munchies
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 medicated post-match Snickerdoodle with kush wax, keif and pure cannabis-infused butter….Raymond 845-7552
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