{"id":131,"date":"2014-03-12T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T21:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=131"},"modified":"2014-03-12T13:38:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T21:38:19","slug":"thoughts-on-springtime-rebirth-and-the-return-of-baseball-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/thoughts-on-springtime-rebirth-and-the-return-of-baseball-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on springtime, rebirth and the return of Baseball season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/thoughts-on-springtime-rebirth-and-the-return-of-baseball-season\/\" data-text=\"Thoughts on springtime, rebirth and the return of Baseball season\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Well&#8230;mostly the return of baseball season. \u00a0People who know me know that I am not a big sports guy. \u00a0I express enough interest to keep my guy card current, but I am no fanatic by any means. \u00a0I am however, a big baseball guy. \u00a0And the reason I am a big baseball guy: to me baseball is more than a sport.<\/p>\n<p>Defined strictly in terms of entertainment (wasn&#8217;t there a movie by that title? \u00a0No wait. \u00a0That was Terms of <em>Endearment<\/em>), for me it is the ultimate reality television. \u00a0Certainly there is a plot. \u00a0There is drama, conflict and resolution.<\/p>\n<p>It is by turns a marathon, a soap opera or a science experiment. \u00a0It&#8217;s comedy, drama and tragedy. \u00a0It&#8217;s \u00a0biography, it&#8217;s fiction and truth that is stranger than fiction. \u00a0It is all of these every day from the end of March until October &#8211; dozens of episodes occurring all across America, the outcome of each individual contest having some effect on the others being played and on still others yet unplayed. \u00a0Dozens of possible outcomes that are decided on the random path of a hit or thrown ball. \u00a0Unscripted, and without a clock. \u00a0As <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yogi_Berra\" target=\"_blank\">Yogi Berra<\/a> famously said, &#8220;It ain&#8217;t over &#8217;til it&#8217;s over&#8221;. \u00a0Managers and players can plan and strategize but once the ball is in play anything can happen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_154\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?attachment_id=154\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-154\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-154\" alt=\"Like I said, anything can happen\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/black-cat-game-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/black-cat-game-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/black-cat-game-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/black-cat-game.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Like I said, anything can happen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some negatives. \u00a0There is the spitting&#8230;.no one likes that. \u00a0But you can&#8217;t chew tobacco and not spit. \u00a0I suppose in another generation or so that will be a thing of the past. \u00a0And the crotch adjusting. \u00a0You must wear a cup to play baseball (if you don&#8217;t the ball WILL find &#8220;you&#8221;. \u00a0It&#8217;s like it <em>knows<\/em>) and it&#8217;s going to need adjustment from time to time. \u00a0The tight pants can be a plus &#8211; my wife likes looking at those.<\/p>\n<p>A common lament I hear from non-fans is that baseball is so <em>boring<\/em>. \u00a0I am here to tell you that if you&#8217;re bored, it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re not paying attention. \u00a0There is always something happening, and that applies to more than just baseball. \u00a0Like so many things, <em>you&#8217;ve got to pay attention<\/em>. \u00a0You see where I&#8217;m going, don&#8217;t you? \u00a0A baseball game is an experiment in life. \u00a0It begins, it endures and it ends. \u00a0And then another begins and ends and so on and so on&#8230;&#8230;and the events along the timeline from beginning to end are often strange and unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more here than meets the eye, one must only look.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Well&#8230;mostly the return of baseball season. \u00a0People who know me know that I am not a big sports guy. \u00a0I express enough interest to keep my guy card current, but I am no fanatic by any means. \u00a0I am however, a big baseball guy&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}