Friends, it's opening day for most of baseball (did that spurt in Japan really count?), and I think it's a good time to note that Baseball really is the most conservative of sports. Actually, I always shy away form using the term "conservative" to describe things that are outside, or beyond or transcend politics. But Baseball is leisurely, and realistic, and philosophical, and funny, and whole heartedly American.
These are blissful days, but they'll be gone before we know it. As A. Bartlett Giamatti, former baseball commissioner, once said:
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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, you 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.
