why... wait...

It didn’t take me long to learn, it really wasn’t the game I enjoyed as much as the narrative, the story that was unfolding as we watched the game and each long season unfold over time all around us. Baseball, and it’s slow n’ intricately unwinding of a story, unlike the games played against the clock could, in theory, play on forever if the story so demanded. Kevin, my baseball buddy and I never once left a game before the last out was “in the books”, swing and a miss, a called third strike or a long lazy fly to the right field fence...