On Monday afternoon, my beloved New York Mets resume their annual quest to reach mediocrity. Once again they will try to win a few more games than they lose. They haven’t done that since 2008. But tomorrow someone will actually shout “Play Ball” in Washington D.C., where the Mets start their season against the Nationals, […]
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Some people say that baseball is no longer America’s game because it’s too slow for the twenty-first century. Well, I’m here to celebrate it for that very reason – and how its occasionally glacial pace makes it a great game to watch in person. This may simply mean that I’m a dinosaur (I do have […]
The other day I contemplated the possibility of making a drastic change to my life, and turning 2011 into a year of serious transformation. We’re talking a change so radical that my wife would have been left reeling and my pastor would have been shocked. This had the potential to be a tsunami of a […]
