9347. I HEAR BASEBALL STARTS ON SUNDAY

I HEAR BASEBALL 

STARTS ON SUNDAY

"I see by your new-found silence this ain't 

clicking. Please don't drink your self to death 

while I'm away. I worry. Still can't understand 

the story of my life, but bouncing bubbles 

bounce together, sometimes pleasant, 

sometimes strife. Just made that up. 

I read that baseball begins Sunday. I'm 

not a sports guy, and I don't know if 

you do baseball or not, Phillies or Pirates 

or maybe Mets or something; but Baseball 

for me has always been pretty particular.

I mark seasons by it. I read stats. I read 

game accounts, here and there anyway. 

There's always such promise, with the

start of each new Spring and season, 

and then  -  of course  -  if fizzles with 

every new season-ending arm blow-out, 

rotator cuff, or broken leg or tibia. Those

guys all have their stories of woe.

Such a sadness permeates. 

Going, going....gone!"