Baseball

The grass was green and freshly cut. The parking lot was overflowing and people crowded the stands. The smell of popcorn brought back thoughts of younger days when you could get a cheap seat at a major league baseball game and actually see the faces of the players. It brought [.....]

It doesn't matter how old you are, or how smart or how rich. We all have something in common. Every night when we go to sleep, we will inevitably dream. Some of our dreams are good and some are bad. Some only happen once, while others come back time after [.....]

"But what exactly is failure? Does a sub-par season rife with losses constitute a failure? If the season is a failure then, are not the individual losses that caused that season to be a failure, failures in and of themselves as well? Yet even the most successful teams, for example [.....]

"As a spectator of sports I don't understand the home field advantage. I constantly say to myself that nothing changes about the game regardless of where in fact the competition takes place. In baseball the bases are still ninety feet apart and the pitcher remains at any field location sixty [.....]

The field was spotless on one of the prettiest days of the year. It was sunny and 70 degrees as the Flyers took the field hoping for their second home win of the season. The only real problem with this scenario was that it was April 1 and they had [.....]

"On days such as these I tend to get up at seven thirty in the morning, no small feat for your average college student. Even more noteworthy is the fact that no alarm is required for I am awakened by own initiative. No alarm is needed because my mind knows [.....]

"I always wondered what rock bottom would feel like. I thought it would be dark, damp, slippery, hard, and lonely. I always thought it would have the dungeon-like quality of a closed off bedroom. It is not any of these things. In fact, when I discovered rock bottom this weekend [.....]