It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
A. Bartlett Giamatti ~ The Green Fields of The MindWith the dust settled on the 2010 baseball season I have struggled to add purpose and meaning to my life. Much like banging your head against a wall, it hurts not to have baseball around. All this talk of free agents, arbitration, and winter meetings is doing little for me. All talk. No action. It is not disguising the fact that there are still over 3 months until it begins all over again. Alas, life goes on. Or so I'm told. I must do something to bide my time. Give me a moment to think about this...
OK. My thinking grenades are used up. This off-season I could:
1. Grow A Mo.
In the spirit of MOvember I could grow a moustache. Like this man, Rollie Fingers.
Ya, no. While I am all for supporting charitable causes, my stache would indeed be trash.
2. Learn to do The Dougie
Ya, still no.
3. Run.
OK, getting warmer. I like to do this. It hurts, but I like it. We might be on to something.
4. Eat food.
Warmer still. I like to do this. A. Lot.
5. Come up with my own cologne.
It worked for Gustavo Chacin.
6. Blog more.
7. Pen a Sonnet. HUH?!
Only 7 things to do over the next 3 months. It's going to be a long off-season.
