View From the Bushes

Just as I was leaving for work, not one, but two kids started throwing up at almost the same time. Besides delaying my departure, it gave my wife an excuse to keep score. My number one daughter was holding a lead of one for most of the day over my number two son, but then just recently, she really pulled away. For awhile I really thought my son was going to close the gap and take the lead, but I guess he just wasn't as sick. I suppose that's a good thing.

Unless you've gone out of your way to avoid all forms of sporting news, you've obviously heard that at long last the Red Sox routed their arch-enemies the Yankees and managed to do the unthinkable and come back and win a seven game series after being down three games to nothing. Of course, they will have to go on to win the World Series if they truly want to exorcise their demons and put Bill Buckner behind them.

As I've tried to explain to people, it's not that I enjoy baseball, particularly during the regular season there are very few sports I enjoy watching less. But there is a historical factor to baseball, particularly when talking about the Red Sox (or in my case, the Cubs) which transcends the somewhat dry nature of the sport. Though to offer a counter argument, one of the things about baseball that is interesting is that it's really not over till that very last out. In football or basketball, develop a sufficient lead and the chances of a comeback eventually become non-existent, but that's never the case in baseball, which may be the one thing it has going for it -- that and historicity.

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Ross