Softball: The Season of our Banishment
Dear People,
Tony Mac's team crushed my own on the last hit of the game, 8-7, and while I'd love to say that the final score was as unfair and random as the annoying uncertainties of quantum theory (to be sure, what losing captain wouldn't?), the reality is that their contingent was simply more driven when it counted most. I refer you to the penultimate play of the game, where Jim McGuire's apparent two-out single to left was suddenly transformed into a breathtaking double on the sheer force of will that stirred deep and true in his cheetah-like gams.
The fact is that McSpeedy's slide into second was a paragon of pure kinesiological splendor, and while he paid dearly with an utterly atrocious ouchy-pooh, it was precisely this act of intrepid celerity that set him up to score the game-winning run. In all candor, just seeing it play out made me reconsider my own 40-year policy of rigorous slide-avoidance. Yet reason soon prevailed, of course, for I think we all know that my gorgeous and buttery skinnage is way too delicate for such quixotic contemplations.
The point is that life is trade-offs and while I truly believe that we could successfully employ high-pressure water hoses to fend off the Berkeley-Albany Girl's Softball League from their planned all-day occupation of our cherished homeland (for the next two Sundays), such justified but brazen tactics could pose potential damage to our already dubious reputation. Yes, my friends, the Department of Parks and Rec has once again forced us into our annual aerobic Diaspora, and while they undoubtedly hope to break us once and for all, I'd like to modestly suggest that we as a community will still be thriving and sliding well after the City of Berkeley itself is lain low, hard and forgotten in the dustbin of municipal history. And therefore there will be a game at SAN PABLO #2 at 4PM IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning...Raymond
PS: SP #2 is at Oregon and Mabel, a couple blocks Northeast of San Pablo and Ashby. And 4PM is just like 11AM, except that it's actually five hours later.
10/13/11
Softball: SP2@4, as in SP2@4
Dear People,
There will be a game at SAN PABLO #2 this Sunday at 4PM SHARP, and as of now there are still four slots left. If you show up at Codornices at 11AM, you will have humiliated both yourself and arguably everyone you know, so I would suggest you don't do that.
Please bring $4 for the field, which for this week only includes a complimentary Brittany Lobster with Candied Fennel and Carrot Purée, lovingly brined in Black Thai Tea Sauce….Raymond 845-7552
PS: San Pablo #2 is at the corner of Mabel and Oregon, a couple blocks Northeast of Ashby and San Pablo, just 30 seconds from Anthony's house!