The Mets have an off day today, and for the first time in the last few weeks, it's pretty quiet around the blogpshere.
My Google Reader isn't overflowing with news of Johan Santana and Pedro Martinez and the Mets and the Braves and everything else I track in my RSS reader.
It's nice to step back and look at the team as they are, a group of men who go out almost every day for six months to preform and entertain millions. They're a small team of players, mostly barely over 25-years-old, who lead lives millions of kids everywhere dream about. We may get on them for a bad game or a slump, but we have to remember how impressive these men really are. They've made it through the ranks of baseball, something only a few percentage of people do.
Major League Baseball players are a special breed, and we need to remember how amazing they are at what they do. They keep so many people entertained and give many kids (and even some adults) people to look up to and things to look forward to every day.
A baseball game. For some people, it's an escape from daily life. For others it's a profession and a passion, be it they're playing or they're writing about it. Baseball is truly America's past time.
