Sigh. Good riddance 2012 Red Sox season.
Saddened that the baseball in Boston is over for the year, but happy that the circus has disbanded.
Heard them read this passage during the closing moments of tonight's Red Sox coverage on the radio, apparently an annual tradition, and thought it poignant enough to re-post here:
Quote:
The Green Fields of the Mind by A. Bartlett Giamatti
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.
Anyway, congrats to RSS' Detroit Tigers & MM's NY Yankees on advancing into the postseason. Additional huge congrats to Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers on acheiving the first Triple Crown in 45 years. His chase for the Crown has been criminally under-covered by ESPN, et al, and the contention that Mike Trout deserves the AL MVP over him is fucking insane.
BTW, great article on the significance of Cabrera's Triple Crown -
http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/29576/miguel-cabrera-dons-well-won-triple-crownAlso the stunning seasons for Oakland and Baltimore have been a joy to watch. I am a Red Sox fan, but I am also a baseball fan and I enjoy a great story as much as anyone, which those two teams provided in spades. Looking forward to the wildcard play-in games, which will surely be awesome.