People often ask me how I can like Baseball as much as I do. I mean look, I even capitalize it. These pair of quotes are a good start to understand why I watch all 162 Giants games, every year. Why is baseball, you ask? Because it is like charity--- it never faileth. It is always there, except on Mondays or wet grounds. And the man who is too old to keep up with the attempt to civilize football, and too young to need to soothing a sedative as golf; who works hard when he works and wants to rest hard when he rests; who wants a drama that is as full of surprises for the actors as it is for the audience; who wants a race that cannot be fixed like a horse-race; who is so genuine an American that he wants something to kick about without meaning it; and something to yell about that everybody around him will think more of him for yelling about- to that man baseball is the one great lifesaver in the good old summer-time. - Los Angeles Times, 1916 -------- Baseball suits the character of this democratic nation. Democracy is government by persuasion, it requires patience and compromise. Baseball is the game of the long season, where small incremental differences decide who wins particular games, series and seasons. In baseball, you know going into a season that the best team will lose 1/3 of the time. The worst team will win 1/3 of the time. So its about that middle third. Its a game you cant like if winning is everything, and democracy is that way too. - George Will -------- Opening day is around the corner...
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:03:34 +0000
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