Heroes

Post Reply
DOUGHBOYS
Posts: 13088
Joined: Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:00 pm

Heroes

Post by DOUGHBOYS » Wed May 13, 2020 8:42 am

I'm not gonna lie. I feel sorry for myself.
Life without sports is crappy.
Classic baseball, simulated baseball...C'mon Man.
Axe throwing, bean bag tossing?
Those are as close to sports to sports as I am to being a porn star (trust me, you don't want to see it)

There's a void in our lives.
I'll still look at the clock at 5 PM on weekdays and 11 AM on weekends and think that games should be on.
We should be talking about the play Trout made or the long homer that Soler hit last night.
Instead, this.
Nothing.
We talk about no players.No plays. No games.
The only working scoreboard is broadcast every day in the news in how many have died in the world and U.S. from the virus and how many have contracted the virus.
Our new 'Runs, hits, and errors.
Disgusting and depressing.

We took our lives for granted.
I want to shake a strangers hand again. Go to a restaurant. Go to a ball game.
I'm a scorekeeper for our local minor league team.
I want to get yelled at again for ruling an error instead of a hit.

Everyday, the news throws around the 'hero' word.
In the past, reserved for the military members, it is now given to doctors, nurses, really anybody in the medical field, grocery store workers, mailmen, UPS workers...really, just about anybody who has contact with the public through their jobs.
In our hobby we have heroes.
It isn't Greg, or Tom, or Derek. It's nobody in the Hall of Fame. It's not you or I.
It is our wives.

Right now, our wives are suffering because we are suffering. They want what makes us happy.
And they know that right now, there is a big void in our lives.
They try to cheer us up.
My wife bought me "The Big Bam', a book about Babe Ruth.
She even asks if I want to watch some rerun of a baseball game or a pseudo sport that is on.
Makes me smile.

Our wives support us through the worst kind of hobby that wives have to endure.
Wives understand gardening, or coin collecting, or stamp collecting.
Fantasy baseball?
Really, the only folks who understand our game is us. Nobody else.
Everybody on the outside either wants to poke fun at us or shake their heads as if we're Champion time wasters.
Not our wives.
They know it is on our minds constantly.
They know it consumes us.
They know we love it and they STILL love us.
I almost feel sorry for 'normal' baseball fans. You know, the folks that follow teams but don't play fantasy.
Their wives are probably a little happy that their husbands are kept from their teams. Honeydo's abound.
Fantasy players wives are different.
In exchanging texts with NFBC players last night, one text said It's too bad our wives couldn't help the owners and players hammer out an agreement, they'd get it done in an hour!'
He's right.
They know how much we love the game and feel our loss because of the void in our lives.
With us when we are winning or losing. Or worse, with no game at all.
THEY ARE HEROES in my book.
On my tombstone-
Wait! I never had the perfect draft!

Post Reply