9/9/09

Softball: The Drama of Ensconcement in our Temporary Digs

Dear People,

Let the record show that when we arrived at Grove Park for our seasonal debut, a hostile softball-playing coterie of distant Craigs-list-organized cousins tried to make me feel slimy, heartless and even unclean for claiming the field as our own. Yet the fact is that we reserved it, paid for it and seized it with the imprimatur of both law and logic behind us, and while it’s true that my heart cleaves into 1,000 tiny pieces whenever I have to tell a group of fellow-athletes that vast is the gap between their rights and their dreams, I cannot apologize for the flawless execution of our unavoidable geographic transition. Of course later that evening I called their leader to apologize, and after hearing the angst of my deep Hebraic guilt, he conceded that I was surprisingly cuddly for such an utterly vicious scoundrel.

In any case, my team staved off Chris Fure’s, 8-4, thanks in large part to Enid’s brilliance on the mound and Ramona’s sublime domination in right. Indeed, no fewer than four potential homers soared over her discombobulated little head, and yet each time she snagged those balls with barely an ångström to spare! In all candor, it was as if the raw virgin leathers of Mona’s cherished Mizuno mitt had been transformed into the frisky event-horizon of an intermediate-mass black hole. Yeah, that’s how much pure glory-denying gravitational suckage I’m talking about, and therefore there will be a game at GROVE this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning…Raymond


9/11/09

Softball: Specialized

Dear People,

There will be a game at Grove Park this Sunday at 11, and as of now there are still four slots left. Please don’t forget that Grove is just like Codornices except that it’s actually in a very different location, at the corner of MLK and Russell, a block North of Ashby.

This week’s field fee is just $4, which for this week only includes a complimentary one year subscription to the UCLA Journal of Modern Hungarian Syntax. . .Raymond 845-7552

PS: There is a good chance that in the hour before the game, Chris Fure, Frieda and others in the community will be savoring a scrumptious Thai brunch at the Thai temple, across the street on Russell. They begin serving their weekly feast at 10AM, which should give you plenty of time to digest your Mee Grob with crispy noodle and pancakes before your first swing of the bat.

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