“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
It just hit me that the baseball season is really over. I had been mourning the Astros’ NLCS loss and was just coming out of that funk when the Sox swept the Cardinals. The World Series was over and done with so quickly that I barely noticed it was happening at all. I thought it was going to be a good series, a competitive series, a seven-gamer…and then it was done. And the winter is here.
Three and a half months till pitchers and catchers report for spring training!
My new lens got here yesterday, and it is so cool. It’s a 75-300mm image-stabilized zoom. I wish I’d had it while baseball was still going on — my shots would have been even better. I wish I’d had it Wednesday night for the eclipse too.
Last night’s softball game was excellent — I had the game-winning hit! Me! Woohoo! That kind of stuff never happens to me, but it did last night. The game started out well because I got to play first base (since Katie was out), which I love. The other team jumped out to a 3-0 lead, but we battled back to tie it 3-3, go up 5-3, and then allowed two more runs to leave the score tied at 5-5 going into the 7th inning. We held them scoreless and then it was our turn to bat. Jen and Gavin both got on base, and I came up with one out, Jen on third, Gavin on first. The other team actually moved their infield in. (Does double play depth exist in coed rec softball?)
All I needed was a hit to score Jen and we’d win the game, and on the first pitch I managed to knock one over the first baseman’s head into right field. We win! Yay! I felt like Jeff Kent in Game 5 of the NLCS; if I’d had a helmet, I would have tossed it as I jumped into the pile of teammates. 😉
Seriously though, it was cool.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041029.html
nice pics
Hi! So, I just came back from a lecture by Burt Rutan here in Austin and I must say I’m inspired. He said some things that might be true, but he does have something fierce against NASA! I think he needs to let go of his anger and go about his business of making space ships 🙂
Anyway, just wanted to say hello to you and everyone at the office. I hope things are wonderful in Houston.
Sorry I missed the game. However, 1) if I’d been there, it’s possible it could have turned out differently (i.e., we lost), and 2) I desperately needed and thoroughly enjoyed my night “off”.
So, congratulations! Way to go. 🙂
Slugger Sarah! It was way cool 🙂
And, hi Bini! Yeah, I’d like to hear him speak. I think it’s too bad he feels jaded about NASA.