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+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 
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball">Major League 
+Baseball</a> for the first time in several years.  Last night, from a hotel 
+room on my current business trip, I watched the 
+<a href="http://coloradorockies.com">Colorado Rockies</a> 
+baseball team take the 
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_League">National League</a>
+championship, thereby winning the right to compete in this year's 
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series">World Series</a>.
+
+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 <em>extraordinary</em> results.  
+
+That's pretty cool.
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