10/11/06
Softball: Foley-Free (Credit, where Credit is Due)
Dear People,
In a see-sawing paragon of gritty aerobic excellence, my team crushed Jonny’s in 10 exquisite innings, 20-19. And even more spine-tingling for the local yak and other casual spectators was the definitive emergence of two community superstars whose sudden and inexorable progress in raw hitting prowess has left me scrambling to once again recalibrate our pre-game player weightings. Yes, just a few weeks ago, my top-secret scouting notes read as follows:
Nanci Pecker—Really, really sucks; Gently suggest croquet as a more appropriate pastime. If she stays, balance her off against Steve Seskin.
Steve Seskin—Curiously, slightly more awful than Nanci. Explore new and secret ways for him to cheat.
Well, let it be said right here and now that if our community is not the very essence of the indomitable human spirit in its ceaseless quest for basic self-improvement, than I don’t know what. The fact is that this past weekend, both Nanci and Steve broke out from their previous pattern of countless three-foot dribble-rolls to consistently hit robust grounders, solid line drives and even perky fly balls respectably into the outfield.
Sure, I much prefer to wallow in the compelling joys of recreational schadenfreude whenever our athletes implode in pure unalloyed ineptitude (who wouldn’t?!), but when I see the kind of strides that these two towering symbols of hope-for-the-hopeless offer, I take note, concede the seeds of greatness, and as I did three days ago, I look them right in their darling little retinas and I sing out that ‘ol Norwegian spiritual, “Bad, Bad You once Were, but now You is my Lady.” And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11AM, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning…Raymond
10/13/06
Softball: Your Academic Good-time Sport
Dear People,
There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11AM, and as of now there are still three slots left.
Please bring $3 for the field, which for this week only includes a complimentary one year subscription to the UCLA Journal of Scandal, Prurience and Icky Behavior….Raymond 845-7552
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