Baseball DIY

I just got back from the Cardinals game, where I saw Albert hit two home runs. Not that the MVP is a meaningful award or anything, but if anyone has to win it, it should be Albert. I'll go into this in more detail tomorrow or Saturday, but it's Albert's award to lose this year. Actually, if I were going to give it to anyone, I'd give it to Barry Bonds for not playing this year. I've really enjoyed his absence.

I don't know where to go with this thought, but yet another thing that I like about baseball is how each season spreads over two school years (except for those freaky trimester schools, I'm not sure how those work). I think I've mentioned before how I graduated high school at the beginning of the '98 season and watched McGwire's 62nd home run in my freshman dorm. It just seemed like, each year, there was external evidence that you had matured along with the baseball season, and you got a chance to talk baseball with two different sets teachers and classmates. I don't know, maybe you can help me out with this, or maybe I'm just high on a great game. I guess maybe it was that baseball feels/felt so overarching and connective.

I'll probably have more on this in the future too, but since Busch Stadium will go the way of the Kingdome, only to rise again as Newer Busch Stadium, I wonder how you would design a new ballpark. What would the dimensions be? How many decks? What color would the seats be? Would you allow space for a Jumbotron? More on another day...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I want football to go away.