Baseball

[Daniel Stein]

>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.


No, not so much like a Python sketch but a bit of Kinsella.......and amen
to that


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