Good read. Mauer related, but has a greater touch to it.

[ShouldaCouldaWoulda]

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=28952#commentMessage

 

Appears this Baseball Prospectus writer lives in Minnesota. Read this article somewhat about Mauer, but more so about the recent passing of the authors young son. Made me cry and hug my 2 year old son. Thoughts and prayers to his family. 

 

Enjoyed this perspective below, especially since many of us here allow baseball to "steal" a lot of our time. I think that is obvious by our posts and evidently too thought out ideas and opinions. But, sometimes it's worth it.

 

Last paragraph:

 

"...the moral: this game pays you back.

 

That’s some Field of Dreams bullshyt. Baseball mostly steals from us, steals our money (tons of our money), steals our time, steals the passion and intellectual energy we ought to put toward more important things. Every now and then, though, if you come to understand the game and the people who play it, come to know the inner workings of everything and the histories of all the figures filling up the uniforms, you do get a moment, a chance to feel something stretching beyond analytical interest or fanatical excitement. When those moments come, and I say this with some authority, I think, it’s worth it."

 

Anyway, thought some of you might take something from it.

[GP830]

Beautiful and very sad. Thanks for sharing!