Mon, Oct 26
City of Santa Monica Adult Basketball League
The gym on Olympic has a Monday-night rhythm that has nothing to do with anybody's day job. Teams of adults who were decent in high school and have made their peace with it, playing seven, eight and nine o'clock games in a municipal building, with a scorekeeper and real referees and a forfeit bond that makes people turn up. It is the least glamorous basketball in the county and some of the most competitive. The fall season runs into January, which means by the time you read this the standings already mean something to about two hundred people you have never met. Go and stand at the side for an hour. There is something genuinely restorative about watching a sport played at a high level of effort and a modest level of talent by people who have work in the morning, and nobody will ask you why you are there.
The gym on Olympic has a Monday-night rhythm that has nothing to do with anybody's day job. Teams of adults who were decent in high school and have made their peace with it, playing seven, eight and nine o'clock games in a municipal building, with a scorekeeper and real referees and a forfeit bond that makes people turn up. It is the least glamorous basketball in the county and some of the most competitive. The fall season runs into January, which means by the time you read this the standings already mean something to about two hundred people you have never met. Go and stand at the side for an hour. There is something genuinely restorative about watching a sport played at a high level of effort and a modest level of talent by people who have work in the morning, and nobody will ask you why you are there.
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The gym on Olympic has a Monday-night rhythm that has nothing to do with anybody's day job. Teams of adults who were decent in high school and have made their peace with it, playing seven, eight and nine o'clock games in a municipal building, with a scorekeeper and real referees and a forfeit bond that makes people turn up. It is the least glamorous basketball in the county and some of the most competitive. The fall season runs into January, which means by the time you read this the standings already mean something to about two hundred people you have never met. Go and stand at the side for an hour. There is something genuinely restorative about watching a sport played at a high level of effort and a modest level of talent by people who have work in the morning, and nobody will ask you why you are there.
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