Monday, July 31, 2006

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

TBF is inconsolable. The title of this post was the subject line of the email that sent me this piece of information.

So this brings me to something I have been thinking about: acts of God (accidents), acts of stupidity (like sports players who engage in extreme sports during the season), and acts of bravery (think: the Beltran-Cameron Collision of ‘05).  Everything can be rolling along fine and then disaster strikes.

This is something you cannot plan for. As a former manager of mine used to say, “Unfortunately, this work is being done by humans.” It’s the inexplicable force, brought by the human factor, that makes the sport and the performance of it such a joy, but it’s also the same thing that can make it an almost-tragedy (and realize that I am exaggerating in the case of Duaner for effect here, but also, it’s not like he was a trivial force in the bullpen).

It would drive me insane. A sports team is project management on the grandest scale.

TBF’s t-shirt (scroll down) hasn’t even gotten here yet.  Glad we made a shirt instead of a jersey. =(