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It is designed to break your heart...

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

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I love that quote

But the one I had stopped at “and leaves you to face the fall alone.” How perfect that it actually ends with “when you need it most, it stops.”

So very, very, sadly true. Thanks for the post.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. -Georg C. Lichtenberg:

by rockhead on Sep 28, 2008 10:13 PM MDT   0 recs

Thank You

I’ve been a little sad that this season was coming to an end. And made more melancholy by the fact that this season was so disappointing. This quote really sums up my feelings in far more eloquent words then I could ever do.

As my father said after several times: “We’ll get ’em next year!”

Thought Clint Hurdle should be fired before it was cool.

by Redhawk on Sep 28, 2008 10:32 PM MDT   0 recs

I love that quote

because it’s chillingly true to life. This season was disappointing and aggravating for Rockies fans. But I’ll take bad baseball over no baseball any day. The playoffs will be interesting, but I’m already counting down to spring training.

“when you need it most, it stops.” I myself had never heard the end of the quote until I looked it up for cut-and-paste purposes. If you want to read all of “The Green Fields of the Mind” you can find it here. I also like the “[you] rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive” line. Baseball is the essence of summer, and to an extent, America itself. Despite all the good and bad memories from this season, the sad truth is that summer is gone and baseball with it.

Aut Vincam Aut Periam

by PioneerSkies on Sep 29, 2008 2:18 PM MDT   0 recs

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