Change!
John Edwards is talking about it.
Ditto Hillary Clinton.
Barack Obama? You know he's never shy with the C-word.
Change. If you've watched a minute of presidential coverage this past week, chances are you've heard a thing or two about change. If you haven't -- here's a quick crib sheet:
You get all that? I counted it up... 19 uses of the word "change" in 2 minutes and 49 seconds. 20 if you count one that Hill only half spoke because Charlie Gibson cut her off. So yeah, change, it's not just in your pocket.
Anyway, don't worry, Sip -- I'm not going to bore them with thoughts on the presidential primaries. There'll be plenty of time for that after the 2008 season ends in bitter disappointment.
Just the same, I've got change on the brain something serious. It started with the presidential coverage, and it continued yesterday, shortly after the Brother Eli had led the New York football Giants to a convincing victory over the Tamba Bay Bucs, when I switched on over to SNY for an UltiMet Classic.
They were showing a game from early April 2007, a barn burner between the Mets and the lowly Colorado Rockies.
It got me thinking of a little idea we had in the early days of the 2006 season. It's cute. Back in those days we thought the Mets were "looking at a dogfight for the National League East crown or, failing that, the Wild Card spot."
So we developed an idea that we would keep track of all the games the Mets played with an eye towards whether we won/lost games we "should" have lost/won. At the end of the season, we'd look at the final result and, I don't know, gain a little perspective on baseball, or something.
"At the end of the season, the games we piss away or undeservedly win figure to loom especially large" is how we put it then.
The idea was right, the season was wrong.
As I watched an inning or two of the UltiMet Classic yesterday, I kept thinking about all the other games from 2007 they weren't showing as "UltiMet Classics", like all 74 losses that doomed our season, any 1 of which would have meant, at least, a one-game playoff in Philadelphia.
Change any one of those losses around who knows? Maybe our season doesn't end in disaster. Maybe we don't enter this offseason with this overwhelming sense of foreboding hanging over our heads. Who knows, maybe it's not the lowly Colorado Rockies who represent the National League in the World Series?
Normally I try not to think about the 2007 season too much. Maybe that's the way to go.
- A.F.O.M.G.
Ditto Hillary Clinton.
Barack Obama? You know he's never shy with the C-word.
Change. If you've watched a minute of presidential coverage this past week, chances are you've heard a thing or two about change. If you haven't -- here's a quick crib sheet:
You get all that? I counted it up... 19 uses of the word "change" in 2 minutes and 49 seconds. 20 if you count one that Hill only half spoke because Charlie Gibson cut her off. So yeah, change, it's not just in your pocket.
Anyway, don't worry, Sip -- I'm not going to bore them with thoughts on the presidential primaries. There'll be plenty of time for that after the 2008 season ends in bitter disappointment.
Just the same, I've got change on the brain something serious. It started with the presidential coverage, and it continued yesterday, shortly after the Brother Eli had led the New York football Giants to a convincing victory over the Tamba Bay Bucs, when I switched on over to SNY for an UltiMet Classic.
They were showing a game from early April 2007, a barn burner between the Mets and the lowly Colorado Rockies.
It got me thinking of a little idea we had in the early days of the 2006 season. It's cute. Back in those days we thought the Mets were "looking at a dogfight for the National League East crown or, failing that, the Wild Card spot."
So we developed an idea that we would keep track of all the games the Mets played with an eye towards whether we won/lost games we "should" have lost/won. At the end of the season, we'd look at the final result and, I don't know, gain a little perspective on baseball, or something.
"At the end of the season, the games we piss away or undeservedly win figure to loom especially large" is how we put it then.
The idea was right, the season was wrong.
As I watched an inning or two of the UltiMet Classic yesterday, I kept thinking about all the other games from 2007 they weren't showing as "UltiMet Classics", like all 74 losses that doomed our season, any 1 of which would have meant, at least, a one-game playoff in Philadelphia.
Change any one of those losses around who knows? Maybe our season doesn't end in disaster. Maybe we don't enter this offseason with this overwhelming sense of foreboding hanging over our heads. Who knows, maybe it's not the lowly Colorado Rockies who represent the National League in the World Series?
Normally I try not to think about the 2007 season too much. Maybe that's the way to go.
- A.F.O.M.G.
posted by A Friend of Mr. Glass' at 8:06 AM
2 Comments:
So, A.F.O.M.G. wants to move past 2007. That would require you to, like Hillary said, change. And, like Hillary (and all the other clowns running in the presidential circus), you (and all of us) can make with the verbal good intentions, but at the end of the day, the change isn't going to happen.
The game that bothers me is one that I was at - 6/7/2007, Phils at Big Shea. Good guys up 3-2, top 9, the as yet unbesmirched in 2007 Billy Wagner on the mound, arch-nemesis #2 at the bat. In typical fashion, the game goes to the 10th (Wagner's first BS of 2007, can't expect him to be perfect on the year), Shoenweis implodes, Mets get swept. If Wagner gets it done in the 9th, then the Phils come up a game short.
There's only one cure for this malaise, and it's 6 weeks away...
Not to get off the subject of Baseball, but Hillary's use of the phrase "Making Change" makes me picture her standing behind the register at McDonald's wearing a paper hat and counting back $3.93 after someone ordered off the dollar menu and handed her a five. I had to laugh because it's such an way to phrase it.
I just can't wait for the season to get here and we can put the nightmare of 2007 behind us, only to be dredged up during better times as a "remember when?" to put a slump in perspective.
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