10/8/03

Softball: Remembrance of Prophecy

Dear People,

First of all, I’m not going to indulge you in strained euphemistic gobbledygook; Not only did my team flail about in an absolutely humiliating 23-9 implosion of wretched underperformance, but I myself flew out to left five times straight. This means that combined with my previous week’s rally-killing game-ending pop-up, I have now flown out six times in a row, which means that if I were a famished El Cerrito sewer rat with an equivalent record in maze-ball, they’d undoubtedly lock me up in some PETA-approved Pavlovian lab for the humane training of totally retardo rodentia. I’m not proud to write that, but I have to call it like it is, and as I already said, I simply won’t indulge you in drivel-laden gobbeldegook.

In any case, it is now late in the evening and I, like all the world, am watching TV as California recalls its governor, and I don’t mean recalls in the sense of "I recall that when I was a pre-pubescent youth in 1969, I once read in Newsweek that Joe Kennedy was on his deathbed when he told Eunice that he had this stirring premonition that little Maria would one day marry a uniquely skilled thespian of great depth and muscle, and that he’d eventually become Governor of Massachusetts." He basically got that right, of course, and regardless, I have no doubt that many of you are thinking anew about how to rid our own softball-lovin’ community of the parasitic special interests that gnaw away at our aerobic vitality. Well, I think I’ve already addressed these issues with my usual alacrity (http://www.eslnotes.com/ray/073003.html), but I would like to say once again that our athletic democracy is every bit as robust as the State in which we live, and that if you as a people want Frank to take over organizing this league, that’s a valid and mature political decision that I would simply have to respect, wacko as it is. And therefore, there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday noon….Raymond


10/10/03

Softball: The Varieties of Compensation

Dear People,

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

Please bring $2 for the field, which for this week only includes a delightful post-game spread of fine French cheeses and meatloaf, as well as a fully funded prescription drug benefit for the duration of the match…Ray 845-7552

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