Old Age Day by Day October 25, 2013

We were gratified the Cardinals won last night, and it was a tense, exciting game.  So the next games will be in St. Louis, which will hopefully help the Cards.  My family is from Missouri, so that's why I'm rooting for them.  Boston is too east coast strange for me.  I'm a westerner and midwesterner through and through.  I read an article about how there should be more razzle-dazzle in the games - more belting homers and drama.  I totally disagree.  This is baseball at its best:  closely matched teams, brilliant pitching, so that all the "little" things show up - a catch near the dirt, a swift play, a small hit that advances the teammate.  The commentator should watch football players crashing into each other and injuring themselves or basketball's hyperactivity.  Baseball and soccer are about rhythmn and serendipity and luck.  The whole mysterious game of chance and change and will and powerlessness.  Brute force doesn't win games in baseball.  The fates control what the players can't will to happen.  A great player has an off night, a newbie becomes a star, a bunt saves the day.  I adore baseball.  Like life, it is surprising and changing constantly and joyous in its exuberance.