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Thursday, May 26, 2011
When: May 28th from 12 - 4 pm. Where: New York, New York, Central Park, Field #8 in the Great North Meadow, roughly even with 100th street. This party is opened up to the Primate masses! There are maps of field locations at the Central Park website. Anyone is welcome, and there’s no cost. Talent and playing ability are optional. Check out the Forum thread to find out which handsome, magnetic Primates are playing
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Have fun, everybody, and don't get hurt!
This would be my plan if I were in NYC.
Would you believe me if I told you we're actually a svelte, good looking bunch? I'm wearing my stegosaurus shirt so I won't claim any fashion sense, though. And Lassus is bringing choral singers. How can anyone not go to this? Shooty, choral singers and Ray!
I have a brontosaurus shirt.
Badass!
I say this unironically, but I'm envious of that shirt. I want it!
edit: Though of course real dinosaur freaks know the proper name is Apatosaurus.
When I found out that brontosauri were not real, it just made me an even bigger fan.
I've never actually ehard anyone say Apatosaurus, but then I'm the only dinosaur freak over the age of 5 I know.
But we digress! Play softball you jokers!
you would need SOMEbody who is curvy, not lumpy/bumpy. who is not pasty, buy glows like heavy cream with a few tablespoons of chocolate. you would ALSO need someone who can, you know, like catch and throw and is sober enuf to remember ball/strike/outs/score - stuff like that
but unfortunately, i gots NO money and SOMEbody around here gots to cook and keep kidz out of trouble. and i gotta work too
youse guys have fun and somebody had best take LOTS of pics. especially of shooty. cuz i really wanna know if it's true if he DON'T got the gut to go shirtless in public
Wait, I know this has come up before, but which chorus?
The big one. St. Thomas.
Shooty, choral singers and Ray!
You are only allowed to refer to yourself in the third person at the game, ala Rickey, and only as Shooty. Especially if your girl is there.
I do find it amusing that one of the most frequent posters on the soccer thread is organizing this thing to take place during the UEFA Champions League final.
Don't know if there's enough of a Bay Area primate population to pull this off, but I'd play a game in SF.
Well, I was worried Tottenham would make it to the final...
I'm genuinely impressed.
I'm genuinely impressed.
The man calls himself Lassus for a reason.
Now...play softball!
Ugh. I knew I should have clarified that. No. I'm good, but not THAT good. Blah. Um, I'm close? I had a great audition? Sigh.
Anyhow, as a member of the semi-pro singers in town, I know many of them quite well.
That makes two of us.
Primate Softball: U.S. Tour 2011.
Make this happen, people!
Primate Softball: U.S. Tour 2011.
Make this happen, people!
Damn it, New York first. I've got more people committing to games that don't exist in mythical places than a real actual game Saturday in this thread. Play softball. Come see just how adorable Team and Black is! See RB in NYC in a wet t-shirt! Doris from Rego Park will be there! Not THE Doris, but A Doris. That's pretty good.
I will play whenever, but I've done such a poor job orgainzing this game I think someone else should take the reins.
I'm a friggin' male model*.
*Of badassitude!
http://www.viceland.com/wp/2011/05/forever-alone-involuntary-flashmob/
I'm playing centerfield, by the way. The rest of you can just stuff it if you don't like it.
I promise on the life of my cats and the gods of beer I will be there at 11:45 am. I will be wearing a stegosaurus baseball shirt and a blue Tottenham baseball cap. This is happening people.
See, that's way better.
Woohoo! This is going to work.
In addition to the autographs, he sings there also.
And I've heard him. He's damned good. We'd have him open up the proceedings with Take Me Out To The Ballgame if it weren't the worst song ever written.
Come on down. The more the merrier. Shooty has hired a photographer as well. She normally does weddings.
Three!
W00t!
Where's Eddie Feigner, now that we need him?
If I could stay the weekend I'd totally refer to myself as "The Insufferable Prick" all day. "Did you see how The Insufferable Prick roped that ball to leftfield, nerds!?"
Alas, I must attend a wedding in Atlanta this weekend.
Have fun!
Will you be using the standard oversized Chicagoland softball?
Godspeed, brethren.
Three!
Four!
One time Flynn, Traderdave, Adam S., and I believe a couple more of us played a bit of whiffleball in the Oakland Coliseum parking lot. But full-on softball on, you know, a grass-and-dirt field would be awesome. Who's going to organize it?
rdf
I think enough people here already hate me.
I'm still up for a beer or six next week though.
Dude, we love you. You're our resident Orthodox Catholic. It's cool.
i was there. steve, i don't remember meeting you. anyway, i'd be up for that. any excuse to run up to sf for the weekend. or ... if anybody wants to try to set up an LA game, i'd be happy to suggest a venue, bring a cooler, etc.
sorry shooty, look what you've started.
Well, no, not really.
It depends on whether you limit the ball, the arc, and the bats.
If you don't limit the ball and bats, you limit the game through the arc and the fences and number of homeruns allowed.
If you don't limit the arc, the fences, and the homeruns, you limit the ball and the bats.
It's really quite simple, and I've played ASA, NSA and USSSA.
Seconded ... in *either* direction!
[edit] Although ... since it doesn't seem possible to set up a California BBTF meeting at a game, either North *OR* South, I don't have much hope for anthing resembling an active show of effort ...
agree, agree, agree. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but my vision of this game is not one of which will be checking bats, balls at the plate. Who's sanctioning this?
Obama and his Criminal Chicago [edit] COMMUNISTS!!!
Who else?
Jebus, just say ASA approved. It's printed on the all the damn bats and the balls. Holy ####, it ain't ####### brain surgery ...
Things we could use for Saturday:
Bases of some sort.
Scoresheets, we need a full accounting of the game to post somewhere. Maybe we can show up on a secret BBREF page. Or not. Anyhow, we need scoresheet(s), or someone can bring their iPad to do so there.
A left-handed glove!
Anything else?
(reposted in forum thread)
I admit, I don't mind no fences, but mrams, if it means you might not show up, I promise there are fences in these fields. Really.
I will be there, with lefty glove*. I can play pretty much anywhere on the field, although I'm Todd Hundley like when it comes to judging fly balls, so you're better off with me as an infielder, all things considered.
*Just the one though. I only have one pair of hands, unfortunately. Unless some of you are genuinely elfin and can use my glove from circa 2nd grade
well, broth, i have tix to the july 4 dodger game. i was going to offer one to tripon -- he's a teacher, so i give it to him for free. that would leave me with one more. would you be interested?
Of course ... if we're talking a SoCal game!
Where?
As far as the league final, can't one of you modern people buy it to watch on your phone or something? Might make for great comedy if someone gets hit in the head watching a header.
I have the day off. Do you need an umpire?
Of course. And Hutcheson won't be there, so your neck is safe.
Not that I post often enough for anyone to remember who I am, but I'd drive down from Milwaukee to play. I'd prefer you kept it on the north side (it's not the distance, I just hate driving through Chicago) but I'd do what I could to be there.
ya, this is the first opportunity i've had to make the offer.
where? dodger stadium. :)
if you meant where are the seats, its field level, first base side -- away from the riffraff. they're good seats.
Hope everyone makes it through injury free.
Is anyone planning on setting up a camcorder?
I assume you guys have learned from the big leagues and the game will be blacked out in New York and its suburbs (which comprise all of New England and down to DC, of course).
As if I wanted to be on your team anyway, hippie. I'll print out one of these scorecards, and bring that.
Don't try this grammar at home, people. I was referring to someone else who was lefty, where I grew up they just threw you in the river if you were born with that defect.
This thread is great and all, but nobody has yet said they're going to play. What the hell?
Now now, we may have gotten Rob's Alter Ego and a random umpire, it's working. Patience, grasshopper.
All I ask is for a limited running position. C, 1B, P something where I won't hurt/embarass myself too much.
Sure Sam. When you in?
I was chatting with Shooty, T&B and Ray about some drinks.
Excellent! You can play wherever you want! Just remember, I'm centerfield. We will all embarrass ourselves but we'll make sure you don't get hurt. In fact, we can work out some pinch running thing for you if you'd prefer. This is just a friendly game, after all.
All I ask is for a limited running position. C, 1B, P something where I won't hurt/embarass myself too much.
All the lawyers and investors we have at BTF will make great doctors on the field. ;-) Please be careful.
This should be interesting, I basically think of you guys over there as Morlocks, with the pasty skin and weird limbs and buggy eyes.
Oh, RB, I would, but I don't have a printer, so I think multiple scoresheets would be a good idea, never know, could go 19 innings. COUGH
CF Shooty
SS Lassus
P Ray
C/1B/P Snapper
No fences. But don't worry; there will be plenty of fans milling about the outfield to make it challenging for the outfielders.
I suspect your Jeter-like range will play well at shortstop. New Yorkers are used to weak groundball singles up the middle, at least.
If it's a small field, I could probably fake 3B. On a full diamond, my arm won't play.
Gotta be smaller, softball on a 90' basepath would be hell.
I still think for someone recovering from surgeries 1B/C is way better, though. Less movement.
We've got the field for 4 hours and we're not playing the Red Sox. We'll be fine. We could probably play 2 if the sentiment is there.
If it's a small field, I could probably fake 3B. On a full diamond, my arm won't play.
The fields are small. You think I would subject you lot to 90 foot bases? It'd kill you all!
Definitely. I just don't know if we have any older primates joining who'd need it more than me.
And if you ever saw me play 3B, you'd know there's not much movement involved ;-) Basically one step and a lunge.
Where do you play softball that has 90' bases? I think "regulation" from ASA or USSSA is 60 or 65 feet.
I know this because I play 3b, and like you snapper, I don't have much arm strength. It's never been a problem for me though. I used to play 5-6 steps behind the bag, but becuase of field conditions where I play league (half way through the season there would be a ditch right in front of me because of drainage problems), I started playing even with the bag. Been playing even with 3b for years now, so that helps my "arm" out.
I didn't know if we were just playing on a baseball diamond.
Tu-Fr of next week.
Mine too, (Randolph) I'm just greedy, I love fielding.
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