"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when...

"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 evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."

- Former MLB Commissioner Bart Giamatti

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someone should write a "People's History of Baseball"

just focusing on the pain of the game. The book could unravel gut-wrenching examples of the 95% painful situations that happen every year for all teams but one- from cellar dwellers to world series losers. It would seem to be a more accurate history of the game, as opposed to just focusing on the glory. The 2010 Padres could be a beautiful chapter in the book.

by recorddigger on Oct 4, 2010 10:25 AM PDT reply actions

Look out my window at work into Petco Park

It is dark and drizzly outside the day after a season ending loss. I told my girlfriend last night that I can’t believe I have to wait six months to see the Padres play again. Just heart breaking.

This is a terrible thing for the Padres. - Jerry Coleman

by Padres_Hobo on Oct 4, 2010 2:22 PM PDT reply actions