So, the 2013 major
league baseball season draws to a close the day before Halloween. Now, those occasional Christmas commercials
on TV won’t bother me as much.
With the Red Sox
winning, Tim McCarver will take his profound insight into retirement. Who will ever forget him criticizing Boston
for holding the runner on with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and the Sox
two runs ahead in game four? I mean,
that run didn’t matter, right? Oops, the
game ends with Red Sox pitcher Koji Uehara picking off pinch runner Kolten Wong. What do you say to that, Tim?
Or how about the length
of the games, the shortest one clocking in at 2:52. That was game five, 3-1 Red Sox, with a total
13 hits and walks between both teams. Just
for fun, take a look at game seven of the 1960 World Series, Pirates over Yankees,
10-9. One of the most exciting games in
Series history, featuring 29 total hits and walks, took all of 2:36 to play,
from first pitch to Bill Mazeroski hitting his walkoff homer. Someone tell Bank of America or Fox Network (“Almost
Human” premieres Sunday….)
For me, the end of
this season marks the start of the next two.
In a little over three months, catchers and pitchers report, and, a
month after that, spring training will be in full swing. By then, we should be in Florida, watching,
waiting, hoping to see 12-inch softballs fly over the fence. I shouldn’t be too much of a wreck by Opening
Day.
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