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Four Months Without Sports

It's pretty crazy when I think about it. No March Madness. No Opening Day. No Masters. No NBA or NHL Playoffs. For others, there were personal losses. Senior Seasons, gone! A culmination of a lifetime of practice for one last moment of glory, whether at the lowest high school or highest college levels. Gone!

For me, sports have always been my passion, Along with cinema, sports has given me the escape from reality, no matter how bad things have been. I've probably had more ferocious debates with Yankees fans, defending my beloved Boston Red Sox, than I have about any other topic on this Earth. It's true love. In some ways, as unconditional as it gets, as I will stick up for anyone in the uniform, no matter how good or how bad, as long as it pertains to my team. Spring always brought hope. Everything else in sports is just a distraction, while baseball has always been the excuse to shut out the world. From April until the end of October, it's always been about baseball. 

2020!

I don't miss it nearly as much as I thought, but I miss it. Where I live now is nowhere near the baseball town I once lived in. People don't seem to have the patience, despite moving at a much slower rate than those closer to the Big Apple. I still talk with a few and argue, but it's either on the phone or through social media. It's not the same. 

Four months without box scores. Four months without thrills and the true agony of defeat. Four months without driving by a little league field and remember my times coaching. Four months without playing with the children. Four months without losing myself in a TV set, while others talk about things I care nothing about. Four months without sitting shoulder to shoulder next to Yankees fans. 

It's been a crazy year, but of all that has changed, I have a feeling, sports returning will bring a sense of normalcy that has been missing. The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, the thrill of the final out. I don't love apple pie, but I do love baseball. I just worry, that when our distractions return, we'll begin to lose focus on what is really important. We need it, as this reality we've lived through has been exhausting beyond anything we ever could have imagined. For many of us, it's too real. Sickness and death. Racism and riots. Politics and the insanity reality that our world is crumbling all around us. Baseball is what I need. For others, it's something else. We just have to remember, it's all just a distraction. Needed, but unnecessary. If that makes any sense. This year, nothing does, yet everything does. 

2020! 

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