Softball: Across the Ages (13 Decades of Tripletude)
Dear People,
In a rare 9:45AM match that tested our communal courage, tolerance and Nimble Athletic Determinations (our NADS, if you will), my team lured Chris Fure's into a good ol' fashioned tushie-trouncing, 16-15. Now in fairness, the Furinator's contingent was actually quite crisp from the get-go, and no one more so than Dave “the venerable” Ross. Indeed, he smashed another staggering 1st-inning triple to left, which is something worth noting given that he undoubtedly hit his very first three-bagger when Alban Barkley was Vice President, and I'm not saying that just because I happen to know that Bark-boy is the last American Veep that you've never heard of.
In any case, Dave's septuagenarian dominance got me thinking a couple hours later, when the first of those 5-year-old modern-day moss-troupers took to the field. As I observed them in the totality of their athletic ABGSL innocence, I couldn't help thinking that at least one of them would go on to live a long and aerobic life, and then smash her own kick-ass triple on that very diamond, in 2079. Yeah, do the math; My narrative arcs are grounded in the pulchritude of multi-generational pattern, and for that I make no apologies.
The point is that Dave still ended up stuck on the losing side, for my own contingent had the even greater Nads of Rob, and I'm not saying that just because The Nads of Rob sounds like it would be one of the finest American novels since The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger's classic 1951 yarn of a struggling Armenian shortstop who's demoted to a life behind the plate). In any case, just one inning later, the Robster matched Dave's triple with one of his own, but because he unknowingly hit it with a composite bat, it was quickly declared illegal. Fussy.
All rules are bogus, of course, but enforcement of that one proved particularly fateful, since over the next four at bats, our suddenly goaded hero unleashed another triple, two doubles and an 8th-inning single that gave us our final go-ahead RBI! To be sure, I still get chills when I think of the propitious goadability of the human spirit, and therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning. . .Raymond
10/9/14
Softball: Contemplatives
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 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.
This week's field fee is just $4, and that includes a complimentary one year subscription to The UCLA Quarterly Journal of Pre-Time Cosmology, Quantum Entanglement and Shrooms . . . Raymond 845-7552
PS: The Onion: Masters of Edgy…
http://www.theonion.com/video/braindead-teen-only-capable-of-rolling-eyes-and-te,27225/
PPS: Trigger warning: Edgy squared…
http://www.theonion.com/video/onion-talks-hypothetically-it-would-be-okay-to-hav,36687/