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