Baseball

[wildhorses]

What will yo do after the boys of summer are gone?

[MissHoneychurch]

1. What happend to your poll?

[wildhorses]

5. I had to leave. I started it killing time til my date got here...

you know you are addicted to DU when you would just as soon start a poll as go out on a date:wow:

[Shakespeare]

2. Here's a snippet from the best essay ever written about baseball:

It's A. Bart Giamatti's "Green Fields of the Mind", and here's the opening paragraph:

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. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone.

If you want to read the rest, go here:

http://mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giamatti.html

[reyd reid reed]

3. Oh. My. God.

I can't wait until I can get to work tonight to read the rest (I hate, hate, HATE dialup. So do links).

[wildhorses]

6. *sigh*

thanks for sharing that...

the greenfields of my mind


very nice

[Arkham House]

8. I knew Giametti, a little...

...and I get weepy every time I read, or think, of that essay...

[Broken_Hero]

4. watch football, and then hockey!...:) nt

[wildhorses]

7. watch out that your eyeballs don't get bleery and your belly

doesn't get bloated:P

[Va Lefty]

9. Curse violently as Yankees buy up top talent available

[wildhorses]

10. curses!!! How I love to hate those pesky Yankees!!!

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