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During lunch, try Via Matta’s wonderful grilled Paninos—the Prosciutto, robiola, tomato, and truffle ($14) is the perfect combination of crisp bread, seductive cheese, and achingly ripe tomatoes. Accompanied by Tuscan fries—crisp half-moons of potatoes dusted with rosemary and salt—the sandwich makes an ideal midday meal...
...dessert, the pot de crème is a thick, eggy custard with just a trace of espresso. Served with flaky, sugar-dusted palmiers, this is a comforting, undemanding dish. It is perfect with one of the restaurant’s cappuccinos or espresso drinks...
...It’s not perfect...
That attempt is one that to an outsider might seem to be bordering on the futile. JV baseball is certainly not perfect. Each year the members of the team, myself included, begin wondering around the end of March whether or not there will even be a season at all. For the past two years, however, the call has gone out and a squad has been hastily assembled...
There are plenty of things wrong with JV baseball. There’s just enough right about it, though, to make the experience worthwhile. It sounds clichéd, but JV baseball really teaches you crucial life lessons. Where else could one perfect the essential art of covering the infield? We may not have won a lot of games, but we sure got the best of that tarpaulin. Our grounds crew experience is perhaps the one edge we hold over the varsity in baseball-related activities. The speed with which we blanketed the dirt as the raindrops began to fall...