Remember that feeling? The sunshine, the fresh cut grass, your mother yelling at you to stop daydreaming and get your head in the game? For me it was soccer (or scoccer as I used to spell it) but for one special season; it was baseball. Baseball is a national pass-time. It's America's national passtime, but there are many little Canadian leagues. Baseball is 9 innings of 9 players trying to score, though not with their balls. Well, I guess with enough balls you can score, but it's not the gentlemanly thing to do. Baseball is about working together, sacrificing a bunt to move a player closer to home. It's about trying to get more than you had by stealing... It's about pennants and famous first pitches and national anthem screw-ups. It's about the love of the game.
Do you remember Toronto's back to back World Series wins in 1993-94-1995? The way all of Canada suddenly erupted in cheers, people filling the streets- without riot*insert raised eyebrow toward Vancouver. Celebrating together, as a city, as a province and as a country. The feeling you get as a little kid watching the adults around you bite their nails in anticipation of the much sought title and trophy with the golden pennants. Watching baseball into October, the leaves falling before we won the World Series. That was amazing, that's what baseball is all about. It's the Love of the game, the Tin Cup, the Natural, Bull Durham, it is A League of their Own.
This season Toronto fans have been treated to a winning worthy baseball team, and lucky us! With amazing outs and a high flying fun, it's coming together... Now, we've been down this slippery slope before, our early season enthusiasm overshadowing the fact that the spring training suntan is fading and the damp Toronto air steals the Jay's verve (which we're already starting to see*sigh). As far as I am concerned, win, lose or tie; I can't remember having a bad day at the Sky Dome. I just love the smell of the field from the 500 seats, starring up through the Dome at the CN Tower, the crunching peanut shells on the floor with a giant lemonade in one hand and a Ballpark frank in the other. As for you my early season Blue Jays, it's important to remember there is no I in team; but there is an I in win.
Do you remember Toronto's back to back World Series wins in 1993-94-1995? The way all of Canada suddenly erupted in cheers, people filling the streets- without riot*insert raised eyebrow toward Vancouver. Celebrating together, as a city, as a province and as a country. The feeling you get as a little kid watching the adults around you bite their nails in anticipation of the much sought title and trophy with the golden pennants. Watching baseball into October, the leaves falling before we won the World Series. That was amazing, that's what baseball is all about. It's the Love of the game, the Tin Cup, the Natural, Bull Durham, it is A League of their Own.
This season Toronto fans have been treated to a winning worthy baseball team, and lucky us! With amazing outs and a high flying fun, it's coming together... Now, we've been down this slippery slope before, our early season enthusiasm overshadowing the fact that the spring training suntan is fading and the damp Toronto air steals the Jay's verve (which we're already starting to see*sigh). As far as I am concerned, win, lose or tie; I can't remember having a bad day at the Sky Dome. I just love the smell of the field from the 500 seats, starring up through the Dome at the CN Tower, the crunching peanut shells on the floor with a giant lemonade in one hand and a Ballpark frank in the other. As for you my early season Blue Jays, it's important to remember there is no I in team; but there is an I in win.
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