Baseball DIY

Quick, visualize the year...

I don't know what you see when (if) you visualize the year, but I see what amounts to a clockface. For some reason, June is at 12 o'clock and December is at 6 o'clock. Why is this the case? I'm not sure, but I think it says something interesting about my psychological attachment to baseball.

See, as the year progresses (counterclockwise), the big hand hits baseball season around 3 o'clock, "peaks" in June, descends in earnest by 9 o'clock (September), then gradually works down to the depths of December. But as the new year turns over, the big hand starts its ascent again. So even subconsciously, I consider baseball season the high point of the year.

This view of the year may have been brought about during my school years, but it has stuck with me into my days of year-round drudgery. It's easier to get up and go to work, to make it through eight hours (or however many), if there are baseball games going on somewhere in the world.