GOD AND MAN AT THE BALLPARK

Washington Post baseball columnist Tom Boswell, who hasn't looked like his accompanying picture for at least a decade, waxes poetic (as he is wont to do) about yesterday's game:

The breeze at game time, as the Washington Nationals took the field for the first time, was 5 mph, just enough to flutter the nerves that weren't already dancing. If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then what does 34 years produce? What is the tingle along the spine when a sport comes back to life after a third of a century in its grave? Resurrection is too strong a word, but resuscitation hardly does justice to the power of the emotion.

Is resurrection really too strong? Perhaps not. Here's Red Sox outfielder Johnny Damon telling Boston Magazine what he thinks of being compared to a deity, as noted by the Nats Blog:

"It's incredible. What more can you ask for? Even being mentioned in the same sentence as Jesus or God ... I mean, those guys are awesome. I'm just a knucklehead."

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posted by WWB at 11:28 AM |