From: Bdale Garbee Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:01:00 +0000 (-0600) Subject: post X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3d405091a85700a2d859498b9bdf5fea9fde8f8b post --- diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/Colorado_Rockies_in_World_Series.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/Colorado_Rockies_in_World_Series.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f51cc7c --- /dev/null +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/Colorado_Rockies_in_World_Series.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +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. + +[[!tag tags/misc]]