A brief note on last nights win. I enjoy come from behind 9th inning wins very much. Though they are slightly less dramatic when you are the away team, it's no less exhilarating to see the 83-mph fastball go sailing over the fence.
That's the beauty of the slow game of baseball. For 3+ hours it languishes on in April. Where in basketball, football and hockey the action is always continuous, always occurring, baseball lacks that consistency. And in there is why it is so magnificent. Without the slow doldrums of the game, the apexes would lack actual peaks. Constant scoring minimizes the point of scoring sometimes. Scoring 15 runs only means you have to keep the other team from scoring 14. Scoring 1 run means you have to do everything to keep the other team from scoring. While being down a run makes a base runner seem more like water in the desert than a kid at the candy store. And so that run to tie and homer to win was a monumental thirst quencher after the parching length and pace of the game.
That's the beauty of the slow game of baseball. For 3+ hours it languishes on in April. Where in basketball, football and hockey the action is always continuous, always occurring, baseball lacks that consistency. And in there is why it is so magnificent. Without the slow doldrums of the game, the apexes would lack actual peaks. Constant scoring minimizes the point of scoring sometimes. Scoring 15 runs only means you have to keep the other team from scoring 14. Scoring 1 run means you have to do everything to keep the other team from scoring. While being down a run makes a base runner seem more like water in the desert than a kid at the candy store. And so that run to tie and homer to win was a monumental thirst quencher after the parching length and pace of the game.
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