Baseball

It is approaching the end of the professional baseball season, a time where the reality of what the season could have been will be made apparent, if not already so.  Teams like Baltimore, Minnesota, and Seattle in the American League are just playing out their obligations and looking towards next year.  In the National League, Florida, Houston and San Diego are doing the same.  This is the time of the year the minor leaguers are brought up to see if they have a chance for spring training camp.

My wife, like her Mother was, is a Boston Red Sox fan agonizing with each loss the Sox’s are experiencing this month.  In July, they dominated the AL East and now they are struggling to maintain the wild card slot with Tampa Bay nipping at their heels.  I really don’t have a favored team, but when my mother-in-law was alive I used to follow the Yankees just to give us something to have a friendly argument over.  I’d tell her Boston would always play one great half a season, hopefully it would be at the end so they could make the playoffs.  Unfortunately she passed away before the Red Sox broke the “Curse of the Bambino.”  She would have loved that more than almost anything.

Like Yogi Berra said, “Ninety percent of the game is half mental.”  The game, before steroids, was a game of a little more leisure I think.  Today it seems to be a game of numbers.  There is a stat for everything.  How many times has Big Poppi struck out while wearing red gloves?  Someone knows.  I would like to leave you with this video from my youth, George Carlin explaining the difference between baseball and football.  Enjoy.