She's America's Game

  We're talking baseball, the Hammer and the Mick.. (Much better with music). So the National league championship has moved from the heart of America to Tinseltown. Fitting in a bad way using that perspective, but in that light, one side for each in the shame of our current national divide. But baseball thank God, has remained clean of the filth of politics. Unlike the other game capable of filling stadiums to overflow, which has embraced politics over pure sport. Although some of baseballs players are free to their own political point of view, as a game, baseball has remained far from the source of our divide, that being political correctness. 

  As I write this, game three of the National league has already been decided, and Milwaukee being the winner, takes a 2-1 advantage. The beauty of baseball in particular, and all sport generally, is that when it is played within the rules, and within the confines of the fields and lawns on which they are played, it is a beautiful thing. Sport is the best of us, because sport is pure, and allowing for my bias, baseball is the greatest of all sport. I didn't get to bed last night until after the post game show, and then woke up at 4:45 AM. So what else would I do with all this peace and quiet than read or write? Obviously, I chose the latter. 

  Now baseball in and of itself is a great game, but Playoff baseball brings the game to a whole other level. In playoff baseball, what would seem insignificant during the 160 game schedule, can become the subject of furious debate. October baseball, high drama? You bet. Like most fans of the game after our team has been eliminated, we eventually make our choices of who we pull for of the four teams remaining, and love talking about who we think will emerge as the best team in the world. Milwaukee to all but themselves and their fans are seen as the under dog, and as is our benevolent nature, most Americans find themselves rooting for the under dog. Los Angeles with its big market location and its huge salary could be seen as the mighty Goliath standing in the way of little David. C'mon David!

  As for the American league, there is no such glaring difference, as the two teams are as evenly matched with all the factors of the game, so much so that the winner could easily be chosen by a coin flip. Houston of course won it all last year and look now to become another baseball dynasty. Boston too has won it all, and are quite capable of winning this one. As for me, I have no dog in this fight, and I believe that whoever wins the American league pennant, will become the champions of baseball. 

  In the end of course, it makes no difference what I think or what anyone else thinks as there is only one who knows the outcome, and that is God. For him, because he is outside of time, these coming games, their outcomes and their stories, is a matter of history. I wish he'd tell me, but I'd probably do something stupid like look up my old bookie? Play on you boys of Summer, because winter is right around the corner.