Baseball as life

Well the World Series is set. My Yankees will square off with the Philadelphia Phillies and it should provide an entertaining series. Each game will probably be a nail-biter. There will be momentum shifts and lead changes. Baseball is different from other major team sports in that there is no clock. The game is over when both teams have exhausted their allotment of 3-out innings. This, and the fact that if a player leaves the game he may not come back means that the tension of a close game may take a while to build but the whole complexion of the game can change with every swing of the bat. Folks who do not care for baseball say that it boring and that the action comes too sporadically, but I beg to differ. I say that baseball is more like life than any other game. In life, we go day after day in seeming inactivity. We eat, go to work, hang around, do stuff. Then suddenly, in the midst of our normalcy, something happens that changes the whole landscape. Maybe it brings cheers, maybe it causes us to groan. But it happens, and we've got to react to it. We might have to change what we are doing. We might have to stay with what we are doing, but try harder. But we never stop trying until we have taken the last swing in the last inning. Falling behind is not losing. Quitting when we fall behind is the worst kind of losing.