This collection of entries is from October 25, 2003.
Well, the Florida Marlins won the World Series over the Yankees. Good for them! I have one complaint, though. At least, I think it's a complaint. We listened to the postgame on ESPN radio on the way home from the hockey game. All I could hear in the background is the sound of New York New York by Frank Sinatra, being played over and over and over... Now, somehow it feels wrong to me to hear this. I associate this song with the Yankees. It's like they're drilling this into anybody within earshot to say, "Hey, screw you, this is New York", trying to either 1) soothe the absolutely shocked fans who just couldn't believe that their damn team lost or 2) put down Florida saying, in a way, to hell with you - it should be the Yankees who won. The flip side to this is a specific line of the song - "If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere" which, actually, is a tip of the hat to the Marlins. I'm just so conflicted right now...
But, now it's over. My clock has stopped - that invisible clock that quietly ticks inside of me to the beat of the baseball season has gone silent, and won't be heard again for months. This is an extremely melancholy time for me. Baseball is life for me. It's weird. I can't explain it and I don't think I ever could. My body follows no other clock. No other sport has this effect on me. Not even the passing of the seasons have this kind of effect.
My clock waits silently for the first pitchers and catchers to return to their spring training facilities months from now.
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Back at the Allstate Arena tonight for the first-ever meeting of the Chicago Wolves and the... Toronto Roadrunners? Apparently the management group used to be from the Phoenix Roadrunners in the old IHL (I remember them!), they just didn't change the team name. Like there's roadrunners in Toronto... Impressive team... I think. It was really hard to tell because we were getting out-shot (41 to 20) and they were always in our zone. Now, I don't know if that's because of their aggressiveness, or perhaps the Wolves are slipping on defense. We got our first chance to see our rookie goalie phenom - Kari Lehtonen. He stopped almost everything, and he did it so effortlessly. He always saw the puck, his reflexes look way good, and, like I said, when he made a save, there was no panic, just a a nice fluid movement. Remarkable. Had some fighting in the game, like these teams have seen each other before. They look good. We'll have to keep an eye on them.
(Boxscore - Gamesheet)
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