1 I'm not a serious fan of professional sports, but over the years, I've
2 enjoyed watching a wide variety of sporting events at different times and
3 for different reasons. It can be fun when a relatively local team is
4 doing well, and even more fun when they're doing well with style.
6 For the last week or so, I've been paying attention to
7 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball">Major League
8 Baseball</a> for the first time in several years. Last night, from a hotel
9 room on my current business trip, I watched the
10 <a href="http://coloradorockies.com">Colorado Rockies</a>
11 baseball team take the
12 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_League">National League</a>
13 championship, thereby winning the right to compete in this year's
14 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series">World Series</a>.
16 It's pretty amazing that they've now won 21 of their last 22 games, including
17 seven straight in the playoffs. But there are two other things that captured
18 my attention last night prompting me to comment here. The first is that this
19 really has been a team effort. With due respect to the various players on the
20 team, none of them seem to be superstars... instead, they come across as a
21 group of very good players who are just doing their jobs really well. And
22 second, they really do seem to be having fun and aren't taking themselves too
25 I don't know what's going to happen next. They may win, they may lose. But
26 those two observations last night cheered me up after a fairly stressful day,
27 and left me encouraged that doing what you love as well as you can, and
28 finding others to work together with who care as much about the cause at hand
29 as you do can still lead to <em>extraordinary</em> results.