October 1, 2010
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The Daily News
1 SOOOO sorry DN lovers! But for Bay Area sports' sorts, this entire week is amazing.
2 I promise I'll get back to all my droll folderol quite shortly.
3 But for the time being, if you will so humbly abide, it's all about the Giants right now.
4 Honestly, if I were an A's fan, you'd be getting the same stuff.
5 It isn't even about the Giants.
6 It's about ANYTHING we are all into, if that makes a moment of sense.
7 It's just that the time's trigger finger has finally highlighted my own stuff.
8 And my stuff lately has been the Giants.
9 Now clearly, if you're a Giants' fan, you KNOW what I'm talkin' about.
10 But if you are a sports' fan, then you REALLY know what I am talking about, especially if your sport is baseball.
11 But if you are sort of marginally interested, then I have to write at that level.
12 I understand this.
13 Baseball, like anything else, is an acquired taste.
14 But what separates baseball from all other sports is that from April to October, it runs a span of one-hundred sixty-two games, which is exactly eighteen days fewer than the days I must spend teaching. You gettin' it?
15 Now, that's an AMAZING commitment of one's time.
16 And to be honest, at the beginning of this baseball season, I thought the Giants were simply "posers". If someone told me they'd be three games up on October 1, I would have laughed.
17 But as I listened to the games, struggled doing a patio, sweated in the hot summer sun, I had my Giants right next to me, being stupid, swinging early, and causing absolute TORTURE with the amount of times they would ground into double-plays.
18 That was then.
19 We got some new, amazing players.
20 Our young, idiotic pitchers started to "get it".
21 Honestly, I'll leave you alone in just a second.
22 Yesterday, we won a game we were losing, and it was amazing. And then the team we have been behind ALL season, the wonderful San Diego Padres, LOST.
23 Lots of struggles, lots of things going on in my own life that paralleled my team's struggles. Lots of ennuii. and LOTS of TORTURE with this team!
24 But to me, it really wasn't torture. Oh, at times, yes, but somewhere in this season, and in any season in baseball, there is a reason, and perhaps a life lesson or three.
25 I refuse to go further on that, because people need to read, and then to expand.
26 <Hippy snaps...snap...snap...snap>
27 Anyway, I learned I guess to be much more patient with things. The team wasn't, so I learned. I also learned to stay completely focused, no matter what happens to me on a daily basis. I look to Lincecum's concentration, and how it faltered, and how he now has the killer instinct.
28 I have stayed much more focused on things this year.
29 You get my drift. It seems stupid that a kids' sandlot game can bring life's lessons to a person who should have learned these things years ago, but maybe that's why I enjoy watching these young idiots turn into a monumentally professional organization, and in the process, into absolute winners!
30 Well, it's Friday; we win tonight and we take the National League West. Should happen.
31 So thank you for listening. It's just that my team is on the brink of what seems to be a miracle, and I haven't had a miracle in quite sometime.
32 I need a miracle every day.
33 Have a GREAT weekend everybody.
34 And GO GIANTS!!!!
35 Peace.
~H~
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