Yesterday, one of my favorite passions got underway again, and it is not the political bickering between Obama, Clinton, and McCain. Even though I had to wait an extra day due to heavy rain in St Louis, the Rockies 2008 opening season game is now official.
Baseball, despite all the steroids scandals of last year, continues to take one back to their youth, and times when the world wasn't such a scary place to live in. There is something about watching your favorite team pitching, hitting, and catching, that if you squint just right, you can see yourself back when you were in your teens, doing the same thing in the vacant lot down the street.
You may not make as much money as those professional players you are watching on the big screen, but you can close your eyes, listen to the commentary, and almost see yourself standing at the plate in the top of the 9th with the bases loaded, 2 out, and the game tied 1-1. Watching baseball, for all it's player's faults, the mega money, the occasional scandals, still takes one back to their youth, where the world was safer, the air was a bit cleaner, the sun shone just a bit brighter, and your very first girl friend cheered you on from the stands.
There isn't anything complex about baseball. You pitch the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball. All the complexities of modern life fades away into the simplicity of the game, and you can forget the report due to the boss next week on the 3rd variable derivatives of the sub-prime mortgage lending practices.
Baseball is a game, a simple game, a game of our youth. A game that can keep us young in spirit, and heart, if we just close our eyes, and imagine.
Oh by the way... The Rockies beat the Cardinals 2-1. One game down 161 games to go. :)
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Finally, something other than Politics
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Hello, Sark...I've just escaped from City Hall, I go by the handle of Rocx over there...and I have a couple of blogs over here. One to rant on, and one to attempt to amuse people with...
Anyway, I couldn't agree more about baseball. There's something about the game that tends too erase the years, so to speak. I remember a Peanuts cartoon from many years ago, where Charlie Brown and Linus are both eating hot dogs. Charlie Brown makes the remark, "Hot dogs taste better when there is a baseball game in front of them." Well, good luck to your Rockies, and see you around the forums!
Thanks.
I loved the Charlie Brown comics when they had baseball going on :)
How will the Dodgers do?
I think the Dodgers are better simply because of Torre. I have been predicting that the NL West champ is going to have to win 100 games to take it this year. :)
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