17 September 2008 @ 8:04 category: baseball posted by lephio
During the offseason and the travel of past championships, I had taken the habit of writing notes about the stories and baseball stories of times gone by. I said "you never know," would be a shame to lose all these news.
Fortunately someone more talented than I had thought the same thing and it was already at work for some time. In fact just this year, the sixtieth anniversary of arrival of baseball to Genoa, Francesco Gambaro will leave his book "60 years of baseball and softball in Genoa."
For these two events really exceptional, Gabriele organized a big party at which the great glories of Genoa will play a baseball game reminiscent.
So this Sunday September 21 to 11, all the Carlini for this unique day! Whether to enjoy a nice game, is to give a good signal of support to baseball Genoese!
In my little, I hope to be able to resurrect it again 's installation of audio Carlini order to cheer worthy Kalle with the match to be played by these "diamond wedding".
The baseball and softball were introduced in Genoa in 1948 thanks to South African soldiers in the city after the war. During these 60 years have experienced many moments of glory as the conquest of a shield (later withdrawn), a cup and two Italian Cups' Cup in Europe. Even 6 different teams have Genoese military cooperation in the premier league. The whole city was affected by the mania of baseball and softball and Nervi Voltri to every neighborhood in some time had his team. To celebrate the "diamond wedding" between the city and these sports, Santa Sabina is organizing a big party to be held Sunday September 21 Carlini stadium - the main field. The festival will begin at 9 in the fall when the small players from Santa Sabina engaged in a game demo also open to those who have never played and want to try the sport. At 11 will be the turn of the match between former players who Calcio i "diamonds" Genoese in these 60 years, among them some legendary names such as Vic Luciani, Roger Coppola, Giancarlo Angeloni and many others. At the end of Santa Sabina will offer a buffet lunch to all former players, coaches, managers, referees, binders Genoa. On sale will be placed in the historical book "60 years of baseball and softball in Genoa" by Francesco Gambaro published by Brothers Frilli that tells anecdotes, curiosities and protagonists of the first 60 years of baseball and softball in Genoa. If you are interested in the book can reserve online by sending an email to softball@paroleluminose.org and indicating the number of copies you want.
Well .. for any information or clarification quietly send an email to Gabri on softball@paroleluminose.org or simply leave a comment to this post.
28 August 2008 @ 18:52 category: baseball posted by lephio
And 'now some time since I write about baseball genoa. Many know why, some people have guessed, but I wanted to wait until today to talk about it. The championship is over and it is time to express my point of view, free from emotions "hot" and the situation all round. Given the many misunderstandings, I want to emphasize this is only my point of view. Neither more nor less.
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Fast Flashback: 18 April 2008. I will officially removed from the team.
The picture, although round, but began a few months earlier.
Earlier this year will be convened by a senior management meeting where it is proposed to players a proposed merger with Cairese. Historical opposing team, but close the circle of Liguria. The objectives of the project are two. Place all the players' strengths of the two teams in cairese to go in series B, and all the players "young" in Genoa to play and to escape relegation.
Exchange for captured. Zoom forward. Backstage.
The Gryphons were a team with a strong identity and cohesion. It 'a so-called "untouchable". In the route of the statistics do not find this value. But when down the field, yes. The feel. And, sometimes, we also win games.
Mille why I felt this absurd mergerseparation. Technical, economic, sports. But what touched me most was one he had. Well yes, I admit I was sorry not to play more with my fellow teammates. I am guilty. I have also done a lot of noise and a lot of controversy about it. And I regret. If I had not behaved well, perhaps, at least I would not have been misunderstood.
But the greed of playing in Serie B, has blinded everyone. And the only ones who do not raise your hand because the project began, new excluded, were Coppola and Caponi. Unlike Roger, I have remained.
Anyway, life goes on. As I wrote in the post on baseball Genoese, I tried to farmene a reason and to find new motivations in the team. I brought my volunteer leadership to apologize for my behavior and, although occasionally some controversy dig I always exit out, I started to try to turn the page.
Unfortunately, I was not even given time to digest it. The second league is Cairese vs. Genoa. Match clearly where we are defeated as clearly as the 'huge gap between technical training. The atmosphere in the field, is certainly not tranquil.
Dividend on the field long, fast zoom in on carlinetto. First workout after the game.
If this story is like a circle, it pierces the event as a line that passes through the center.
Due to a discussion on Pitching Machine, which also did not have even participated, for the mere fact that he tried to speak, a person I put my hands on him and sticky to the wall, urlandomi that I do not have the right to speak . At the end of training, the manager asks us not to take these things in training. To which I replied that everything goes well, at least not enough that you put your hands on him.
This person is approached again screaming near me.And this time give me a head.
Despite having seen the whole team, there is still someone who believes that at that time I was "supported the cap on the forehead."Now, try to catch a baseball cap and appoggiatevelo forcefully on the forehead. Let me know if there is a sign like this for several days.
The person referred to above has Massimo Subra. A player that I admired. The captain of Genoa natural Gryphons. A friend.
The line has spent the circle, and from that moment begins the parable descendant.
Everything becomes incredible, incredible, ridiculous. We are both suspended for training on Thursday and we are summoned to a meeting on Friday. The decision of the leadership is, after all, a "these things should not happen, which dates to fine kids. is the responsibility of both to 50%. do not do that anymore. tomorrow we do not as if nothing had happened "(plus a couple of other little nuances that I am not specify)
When we asked if we wanted to say something, he is liquid with a "do not happen again" and Defila on. I will remain and I ask if I can read two lines I had prepared. At that point, understanding that the potato was beginning to become boiling, the "unique leadership" is divided and the two of you Cairese Defila easily, even crossing them the door.
I read that, in my view, such a gesture was a vile, wrong and has nothing to do with the values of sport. And what then seemed unfair that remain unpunished. And then add that even be put on an equal footing with those who put their hands on him seemed really too much.
Again, here, I would have been silenced. Because after that it civilly, took the finimondo.
In a ridiculous and fantomatica dispute between the management and myself, between screams and insults, is improvised un'alzata hand to expel the team. Three in favor, one abstained.
And the following Sunday, lephio watching the matches from the sidelines instead of playing the field.
Small pause. Black screen.
I know that you have put in my all this and that he had personally contributed to what has happened.
Engine ..Action!
Sundays after passing strange. I can not even believe what has happened. Never felt so empty on Sunday. Needless to hide it, I can not of course to give me peace. Every Sunday evening feel Grazialk or Faith to know how the game went, who has played, who does not. When I started the matches at home, I went to see them all. So .. I try to maintain contact. Why is what I feel.
We are straight .. the circle still suffer a shock, before the total collapse that there will be closure.
Some of my fellow teammates, after a few weeks dall'accaduto, spontaneously decide to formally request the management to reconsider their position concerning the decision against me. Thanks to mediation, I made that presenting the "right way" there was a certain openness on the part of management. It is organized as a "meeting" specially for me.
Now. Those who know me a bit, you know what, unfortunately, is proud in various contexts. Orgoglione, to be exact. Thanks to the events of life, I began to learn to know me, and for some years now I have learned, sometimes, put it aside. But this time, after all that, with my complicity, I was passed, just could not imagine at the present at the meeting with the head sprinkled ash.
Even on the day of the meeting, chatting with someone, I felt angry and I never imagined that "gliel'avrei date won."
Then, a few hours before 21. 's charm.
A few words I had to reflect and lightened by weight. I, basically, I just wanted to play. Some of my fellow teammates have given me something, but I ask nothing. In all this manure, I was given something precious. And I came natural to set aside all past issues. Thus, during the meeting, I did not believe my ears when I said that I am sincerely sorry for having made controversy, he had injured someone with my words or to have offended or argue about decisions that were not within my competence. At that moment, I am not at all interested in continuing with criticism, comment or controversy. I just play.
When I left the cus I was happy. Firstly because I was much calmer than before. Secondly because I thought had been given to the management what they wanted to hear. And I was sure I would have readmitted as a team, because I had not had to build a theater to convince the leaders (which, however, I would not be able to do) but I just told them how I felt at that moment, so I was just in peace.
This feeling, however, is short. The day after receiving a phone call from Boccardo, who agrees with Giacomelli, and Ottonello Oneto, I announced that I can not return to the team. To write it now escapes me laughing. If you have not asked myself, I would not even been given the reasons. Probably. The reasons are twofold. One because I have not phoned me to ask for the meeting, but because you have moved some of my fellow teammates. The other is that they return to my team would have undermined the positive climate of the moment.
All this is ridiculous. And do not use this word at random, because really makes me laugh now. Because after that phone call, I was not angry, disappointed or sad. I was saddened but relieved. The absurdity of the answers that were given to me made me realize how much lightness and insensitivity was impegata in managing my eventual return.
After three months of the decision, I have not yet received a written and official of the thing. While they, the day after, were rushed to the field after training a letter on the meeting, where they have distorted my words in the eyes of the team. Moreover, when asked which there was at least one of my fellow teammates in title only a witness, as was comfortable in all these months paint as a "crazy", the leadership has not had the courage to do everything to sunlight .
The nonchalance of the thing, I whale in the eyes when a few weeks later, by chance, I read the letter. "The altleta Capponi, are called. Now .. I do not know by heart a surname that is every Sunday on the route or is this for two years on the site, but at least care to check before you print .. Freudian slip? :)
This leadership has failed to capture the beauty of a sporting gesture of solidarity. And I will not even angry, because the values of sport, not one but three occasions gave a demonstration of not even know what they are. And that for me was liberating. What with people so I do not want to have more to do. Do not you deserve.
However, I am so happy. I have a clean conscience rather than what me and this has opened the eyes of people with whom I had to do in recent years.
Last Act, Title as in silent films. "The great fraud."
I am convinced that things often do not happen by chance. And I like to think that for the second league (back) against Cairese visited an avalanche of water because this circle is closed.
After the last day of the championship Cairese is fourth in the standings, out of some playoff Sunday, while Genoa is the last in the standings. At that time downgraded to C2. Except that there's still this game, just against Cairese. The Genoa still has a chance to equalize the Sant'Antonino and Play off for relegation.
That the Genoa, 16 lost and 1 win, will be able to win with Cairese, it is almost impossible. As I said upon we lost 11-1 in the seventh inning. The technical gap is unbridgeable.
But here's the infamous decision. The Cairese will win the Genoa.
Shame.
I would own at least that these people are shameful, but unfortunately as I said, do not know what are the values and even think of being smart. Everyone has prepared its "justification" for what has been chosen to do.
But the reality is this. A lot (championship) stolen, Tarot. A lie, a scam. A farce, a fraud.
Sometimes we should pause a moment and ask "why play?". Why play? Play. When you sport, it brings into play.The players, decide spontaneously to give the rules and play towards them. E 'from the mists of time that man play.
Breaking the rules means stop playing. And being of the players. manager. executives. = sports game. and in a sporting association, all together, there is at stake.
If I were a player does not play. If I were a manager does not manage. If I were a manager does not approve.
Giving a game is an infamous act. And above all, lack of respect for one's opponent. respect. honor. empty words, for those who sell its stake.it's easy to tirarle half when mentioning "the unwritten rules of baseball, both by Bull, with pride if I do bunt above 10 points you shot him." But then when you need to really show the honor to say and take responsibility for a final spot in the standings, we appeal to these sick games.
Needless to say that all this is for me aggravated by the fact that the beginning of the year, about the merger, when asked "but what will happen when play against?" We were assured that "both teams play to the best of possibilities and will do everything to win. "
Sunday, August 3, Genoa 7 Cairese 5.
The worst thing then is the 'humiliation opponent. An opponent, among others, which paradoxically is also your companion. Require the receiver to eliminate a runner stealing walking, offend the batter regalandogli unreasonably base on a ball and leave your bench Batters stronger.
Stuff from vomiting. I'm not going to see this game (again lit at the last minute) because I would have done a rotten blood free and I said these things on the field, being sure once again misunderstood.
Fortunately, my time is valuable and I had no doubts in choosing between the day that I lived and what I could live.
In all this, the other opponent, sporting true and not fake as genovacairo could really be penalized by this scam. Even in this there is no respect for 'opponent. With this farce, the Sant'Antonino'll have to play a match that should not take place. Unfortunately, I have to hope that the New Panthers win, because find that really unfair, especially to them that after seasons of C2 have managed finally to rise and stay in C1, should suffer the consequences of the impropriety of Genoa and Cairese.
Black screen. Music.
This trip is over. The circle is closed and I am serene. Now I rest a bit. And then leave. For a new destination.
30 June 2008 @ 0:59 category: citations, my bDiario posted by lephio
M: "You are sad because you have not played?" L: "Yeah." M: "Yes, but if you go to see them all the time .." L: 'It is a way to stay in touch. "
It 'a term that I can not express well on what keyboard I circulates visceral. Question of inspiration, someone made me understand a little while ago. Then place a verbal summons rare. Very briefly, but spontaneous.
15 June 2008 @ 4:37 category: baseball posted by lephio
After a week of postponements and various preparations, today we finally managed to go on air on Radio Play.it with our broadcast on baseball. The title and the idea is to kalle: "Baseball and music."
Sights and insights (and short stories) alternating with songs in delicious issue with what was just said. Each episode ends with "Deep Basebal l", edited by Joe. Pure passion.
I would invite everyone to hear this first episode, even baseball who do not even chew a little. We pledged a casino and I would much like to know what you think about the people.
The last photo is dedicated to drawing of acrobatic connection with which we recorded the block of Joe 2 hours after transmission! (unforeseen: windows vista and xp blocked, high electromagnetic waves, moving under way, no surprise cables, transfers to and from short linux .. .. that stramaledetta law murphy!)
I conclude the post by pasting a thought that I have already written on playitusa forums:
I wanted to warmly thank the entire "family" and in particular playitusa joe for his "stunt", because alex thanks to its Slice gave us a great inspiration and especially kalle that for my delusions baseballistici is always present.
