What's Cooking? The All-Star Game!

The annual Center City Softball League All-Star Game and Cookout and Ritual Bad Dating Decision Jubilee will commence on Tuesday, Aug. 7 at approximately 6 p.m. on the historic grounds of Edgeley 8.
You can bring some beer if you like or snacks, but General Manager Chris Brennan has instructed that the team cooler be filled with the priciest brews I can find, so we'll have that going for us. The league provides the grill stuff like burgers and hot dogs. Brennan is considering chateaubriand for us, but, well, we do that all the time.
There will also be a softball game during which no one will keep score and the rules for entry and exit are somewhat looser than during the season. It will be the Dairy Division teams versus the Edgeley Division teams, so we at the Pen & Pencil Club are teaming with South Philly Tap Room, Bishop's Collar, Fleisher Art Memorial and Old City, against the team culled from Catahoula Refugees, Art Museum, the Zoo, Franklin Institute and Please Touch Museum.

Our official representatives are Brian Donlen, Mark Nevins, Steve Lynch and Sheila Ballen. The Management will captain the Edgeley team, even though the honor usually falls to the Division champion. The Collar asked me to take the job, because it is such an honor and because it is such a pain in the ass to try to get 20 people into a softball game. But it's another chance to hang the clipboard on the S-hook and you know how much pleasure that gives me.

As is the custom, don't feel left out. If you show up -- even if you show up wearing only flip-flops as McElhatton no doubt will -- and feel like playing, you'll get in there. The only thing better than working 20 players into a game is working 30 players in. Fortunately, we usually only recognize the boundary of total darkness, not the boundary of seven innings.
Still working on my deep thoughts for the season wrap-up. Catahoula swept the Collar to win the championship. That team -- the old Franklin roster -- has now won six of the last seven CCSL titles. Kinda greedy, if you ask me.

The Pen & Pencil turnout at the 2011 All-Star Game, except for Danny who refused to get into the
picture. Let's have an even better showing this time. (Yeah, that's Hickey back there.)