"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and the evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone."

--Bart Giamatti--

That's an awesome quote.....its true too.

Giamatti was one of the great baseball purists who was a commissioner of baseball. I don't believe that, during the All-Star game a few years ago, he would have ended the game in a tie the way Selig did.

reading that just gives you goosebumps.

My annual post of Bill James' thoughts on the final day of the MLB season is coming this Sunday