Claremont Insider: Bring Your Balls!

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Bring Your Balls!

We are not making this up.

The back pages of the Inland Empire Weekly are always good to educate the person and to stimulate the...brain cells. Ads abound for offerings from the "Medical Marijuana Patient Center" in Riverside to "Madison Burbank Medical Center Inc. Medical Cannabis May Help!"on Indian Hill and San Jose to "Sassy Cassee at Larry Flynt's Hustler Club: Little 2'9" " in Redlands. But this ad, for "Full Contact Softball Sunday at Cahuilla Park" in Claremont especially caught our eye:

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Wow!
We knew Jeff Porter and Mercy Santoro in the Claremont Human Services Department were developing new and innovative programs for Claremont kids, but we'd never seen anything like this. We are fortunate that the current city council is working so hard to light up every park in Claremont so that your neighborhood, too, can have Full Contact Softball from noon to 3 a.m. (so reads the ad) on a warm summer afternoon and evening, and night. Don't forget the post-game show!

Be sure to make your plans: Cahuilla Park, corner of Indian Hill and Scripps, just north of the high school, Sunday at noon for some real infield action. Bring the Kids! The Insider will definitely be there!

Looks to us like the Claremont Fastpitch girls are growing up.

[The above ad was scanned from page 50 of the July 10-July 16, 2008 number of the Inland Empire Weekly, available on the rack outside the Home Kitchen Cafe on Foothill between Towne and Garey. (We have seen racks at Heroes, Raku, The Press, and Rhino in Claremont.) The ad is on the same opening as ads for "Red Panties: Come On In Your Fun Shop", the "Pimp 'N Ho Party", the "Pole Princess Contest", "Looking for a hot date? Free to Try", and of course that amazon of small proportions, the above-mentioned Sassy Cassee. Oh. We almost forgot. "Every Wednesday the 10 min Teaser in the VIP room $50". Notwithstanding our usual practice of taking great liberties, we made no changes to the ad other than to slightly increase the contrast for better readability.]