Jess: you’ll have to report in and tell us how the screening went!

I have to admit, I’m still sort of pretending there’s still baseball going on, somehow. It started with going to the parade, and now I’m rewatching the games, analyzing them all to death, wearing Sox shirts all the time.. My friend and I are going to the film screening tomorrow night, and I feel like I might have to realize the season’s actually over now. But I’m glad there’s still stuff like this, just so we can savor the season a little longer.

Again, best freaking passages about the offseason, ever.

That passage is a brilliant and beautiful way of summing up exactly how I feel when the season ends.

However, I don’t consider the Offseason upon me until I know for sure if Clay is going to stay with the Sox. All the trade-talks about trading him for Santana are killing me slowly. Until I know he’s safe, I’ll always be on the edge of my seat.

That last passage is stunningly gorgeous:

Of course, there are those who learn after the first few times. They grow out of sports. And there are others who were born with the wisdom to know that nothing lasts. These are the truly tough among us, the ones who can live without illusion, or without even the hope of illusion. I am not that grown-up or up-to-date. I am a simpler creature, tied to more primitive patterns and cycles. I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun.

As the days shorten into December, it’s a comfort to know others have walked this lonesome road, and others still will walk it after we are long gone.

And thanks to sites like this one right here, the time between now and spring training won’t be quite so unbearable! :)

Time to get the other Mike re-signed now.

Although you still have AggieLonghorn football and basketball to get you through until the first day of spring training.