Sunday, July 19, 2009

A Year for The Ages

Over the last few years I really haven't followed baseball. I grew up in Southern California, and have always been a big Dodgers fan. My dad used to take me to games on his shoulder, and I used to enjoy the spectacles of the park within Chavez Ravine. Through my high school days I even found myself being a die-hard fan.

The years to follow High School, I started to lose interest in the Dodgers and in baseball. Probably most likely because I went away from it all, and started working towards my career. I worked hard and graduated in life and eventually got a job that was not the best organization, but it has benefits and a good retirement program so I've stuck with it for longer than I have cared too. At the end of last year, they notified me that they had lent me out for a year to a far away Eastern country where I was to do work.

The year I was finding hard. The work has been long hours and not very fun, and this place of now unfamiliarity and loneliness had started to get to me. With no friends outside of work colleagues, I decided that I needed a new hobby. I started to research the upcoming baseball season one afternoon in curiosity of a lost passion. I read up on all they had done the previous years, and what they were doing now.

I could see with last years finish, that this was a season where they had been picked as the front runners of their respective division, which hadn't happened in awhile. The season picked up, and I began to watch, though not actually see a game, of this 2009 Dodger team.
As the year went along, the Dodgers proved that they were the team most people picked them to be. Despite the pre-season hold out by slugger Manny Ramirez, and even after his 50 game suspension for violating Major League Drug Policy, which I find as a joke; the Dodgers continued to thrive and do well.

The more I've sat here and thought about, got my mind back around the game, the team I love, I felt I could no longer keep my opinions to myself. Present online publication that can relay my stream of consciousness to anyone, it's always a choice, who wants to read it.

You can call me, Mr. Blue

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