Thursday night, the False Consciousness, our departmental softball team, completed our first winning season. We did it by beating a team with a better record than we had (they were 4-2 coming in and we were 3-3) and knocking them out of the playoffs. Rather than composing my own narrative, I will repeat Greg “Coach” …
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“The House” 26, False Consciousness 13
A smaller-than-usual False Consciousness squad took the field against a shockingly large team from the “House” Friday evening. Despite a little rain, nobody slipped and fell, but we were thoroughly routed. Not in the trash-talking, mind you, but in the runs column. For the second game in a row we had an outstanding rookie performance …
Two Wins, One Season
Last night, the False Consciousness needed neither bagpipes nor a team more focused on hot dogs than outfielders to win. The other team tried, and we won anyway, 25-19. It was an offensive game to be sure, with more than a couple 7-run innings (there is a mercy rule in our league for such situations). …
Sweet Victory at Last
Coach Greg predicted it. Yesterday, the rain gave way to sunshine and as the clouds began to part the False Consciousness took the field against a team from Chemistry and Physics known as the Otto Masochists, which is no doubt some kind of disciplinary in-joke I don’t understand. As a bagpipe player droned on in …
I really do love team sports so long as nobody cares if we win
On a not-so-hot midsummer night (last night, to be precise), I had the pleasure of taking the field with the False Consciousness for their second softball game of the season. It was by some measures a success. I set a personal goal that we lose by less than 10 runs. We lost 24-15. We were …
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Back in Effect
It’s been a long month (more like 5 weeks) and I have much to report on. But since my return on Sunday, my writing efforts have turned to the book and a Bad Subjects oped linked below. The blog shall not suffer for long, though, as it is really summer now. Which means, among other …