Baseball and politics??

Something so American and yet so true...
c/o Bruderhof

Never Give Up
William Rivers Pitt

You have to capture the mentality of the Red
Sox fan. You start every season and every
game almost completely sure that you will be
beaten soundly. You lick your wounds and
dust yourself off and maybe cry a little into
your pillow. But you always, always think to
yourself, "This could be it. This could be the
year." You do it because you want to be there
at the turning of the tide. When that day does
dawn, when some October night in a time to
come absorbs the victory roar of people who
have watched great-grandfathers and grand-
fathers and fathers live entire lives and die
unfulfilled, when the Boston Red Sox finally
win that championship, it will have been worth
every moment of pain and disappointment.

For the Boston Red Sox, and for those who
followed them and never gave up on them
through sixteen Presidents, Prohibition,
Women's Suffrage, the Civil Rights Act, the
introduction of the Big Bang theory, Hitler,
Stalin, Mussolini, the Depression, World War
II, the Holocaust, the obliteration of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, the long slog of the Cold War,
Korea, the fall of Saigon, the fall of Baghdad,
the attacks of September 11, the assassinations
of Gandhi, Evers, King, Kennedy, Kennedy and X,
the long, strange trip that has been the steward-
ship of George W. Bush, and everything else
that has marched across the pages of history
for the last 86 years, there is a lesson in here
somewhere.


As in baseball, so in life.
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/BaseballWisdom.htm?source=DailyDig

Source: William Rivers Pitt, "Believe," truthout