Green Fields of the Mind

by tcjhawk on Oct 6, 2007 9:33 PM CDT

As the game ended and I had to figure out what to do next my mind wandered to the A. Bartlett Giamatti article Green Fields of the Mind. I hadn't read it since high school. What struct me is that regardless of whether or not the Cubs had won the World Series, the baseball season would have come to an end. It breaks your heart because it was meant to break your heart. Even if the Cubs had won the World Series, the baseball season would have come to an end and I (all of us) would have to find something else to occupy our thoughts and time with.

So the euphemism "Wait 'til Next Year" would (and hopefully someday will) apply to us after a World Series victory and we will be left with facing a winter, but we face it with the knowledge that baseball will begin again and the law of averages dictates that eventually, a team that plays on the North Side of Chicago will win the World Series.

And when that happens I know I will have my heart broken, not because of a World Series victory to celebrate, but because I have to wait until April for baseball to resume.

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Well put

Yeah, I'm not happy the Cubs lost. But I'm even more upset about not having a game to watch tomorrow. And having to wait four-plus months to see the Cubs play again.

Each winter seems to get longer and harder.

by Not Bruce Froemming on Oct 7, 2007 3:02 AM CDT reply actions

Not me

I could use a break from baseball. When you put more time and energy into something than maybe you realy should, for seven or eight months, an extended vacation seems attractive.

I wonder when this feeling will change. Next month? Or tomorrow?

Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there? ~Larry Anderson

by JohnM on Oct 7, 2007 5:18 AM CDT up reply actions