For the Love of Baseball!

Now that's what I call "heart" fast ball!
Instead of "hard." Get it?

Oh, blog I love you! But now as much as I love you [insert list of things I put off instead of blogging] come first.

One of my personal goals for this year is blog at least once a week and ideally 3 times a week. A task which I have performed woefully bad. 

But, for now, I’m back. 

Today I want to talk about the subject that started it all. Baseball. In my previous blog (now defunct) the happiness that welled up inside of me due to opening day was more that I could contain. 

The world had to know. 

Well another opening day is upon us and my heart if filled with joy at the first win of the season for the Phillies. At the moment nothing can deter my hope that the Phillies will eventually win the World Series. But nothing is certain. 

The lack of certainty in the world is what gave me pause to think of some other ways life and baseball are similar. 

1. There’s no timer. You play the game until you can’t play anymore. 
2. What you do as individual is important but ultimately it’s the team that prospers. 
3. You can lose today but still have a winning season. 
4. It not how you start but how you preform over the long haul. 
5. When you’re down sometimes you just have to trust your teammates. 
6. Just when you think you've seen everything something you don’t expect happens. 
7. Anyone can be a hero if given a chance. 
8. Chances for redemption happen all the time. 

It might be a little sappy but think about it; why are there so many movies about baseball? It’s because you can get all of these great themes. All the great things about life, the victories big and small, are all found in this one amazing game. 

That’s why I love baseball.