10/31/12

Softball: Fragile

Dear People,

Chris Fure's team shot out to a 7-0, 2nd-inning lead on a frightful series of blood-curdling line drives, and while my side soon stabilized and even rallied, we eventually succumbed to the scarring emotional trauma, 11-7.* Now look, I'm not one to bandy about asterisks as if they were nothing more than tawdry semiotic skeezers imported for show and tell. Still, the hard reality is that we suddenly realized in the 3rd that the Furinator's most manly and well-marbled sluggers had consistently been using Steve Powers' double-walled composite bat, which, as you all know, is both a technical breach of our own 2010 moratorium on the lethal stick in question as well as a clear violation of the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. So sure, Chris' team “won,” but like the 1919 Black Sox before them, tainted is the triumph that's so awkwardly soaked in scandal.

The point is that I happen to know quite a few people back East who are now muddling through mother earth's latest act of misanthropic terrorism, and in thinking about all of them, I find myself wondering anew why I get universally skeptical sneers whenever I gently point out that all things considered, nature essentially sucks (cuddly mammals exempted, of course). In any case, such events make me even more determined to have us get in as much joyous softball as possible before the contemptible Hayward Fault tries to pull off its own local hissy fit, and therefore there will be a game at Grove Park this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning. . . Raymond


11/2/11

Softball: Fall Back!

Dear People,

There will be a game at Grove Park this Sunday at 11AM, and as of now there are still two slots left. Assuming the City Department of Parks and Rec doesn't hose us again, this will be our last game at Grove before returning to our Codornices homeland.

Please bring $4 for the field, which for this week only includes a post-match Buttermilk panna cotta with roasted Black Mission figs and biscotti…..Raymond 845-7552

PS: This Sunday morning is the end of Daylight Savings, which means you will need to set your clocks back one hour before going to bed Saturday night. If you forget to do so, you'll likely arrive at the park a full hour early, and if that doesn't make you feel like a total chrono-dufus, then I don't know what.

PPS: As you know, Nanci Pecker was the moral backbone of this entire community from 2003 until 2009. I mention this because if somebody you know is looking for great room to rent in a fab Emeryville house, they could now live with her!!. . .

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