Baseball

[RICHARD ROMEO]

If one had the choice:  having a catch with Willie Mays, knowing you will 
never know the full details of some obscure system called life;joining 
them it would seem, or having the chance of having yourself injected with 
the full brunt of their wisdom within you-the system and all its 
vagaries, thus joining the likes of (excuse me here) Jim Morrison, Rilke 
(a suicide?), Kurt Cobain, Sylvia Plath, in their mad rush to suicide, 
well I'd have to say I'd rather have a catch with Willie.  Does this make 
me as guilty as Heidegger?  What position would Martin or I play in this 
game of theirs-catcher perhaps, wearing the tools of ignorance?  Well, 
this is starting to sound like a Monty Python sketch...I guess what I'm 
saying is sometimes ignorance is bliss.

And I agree with Bonnie-I have always found baseball to be the most 
civilized of American sport compared to the inherent violence of the 
others.