Baseball 2005!!

[RICHARD]

ps If the Astros win the World Series, I made a deal with Collin that I would get the Astro star tattoo!!

Thank God you aren't a professional wrestling fan!

This year I am rooting for the best team.

The Sox, because they haven't won in 80 some odd years (next year?Cubbies!!!)

The 'stros, cause they never been....

And the Cards, I love a good comeback!


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Baseball is a frigging religion.


THERE IS NOTHING LIKE being inside a stadium when the home team hits a tater like the one that Pujols hit last night.

On the road it's a sudden slap to the head of 40,000 people. Have you ever untied a balloon and let the air escape on your face?

There is something scary about a homerun that absolutely ruins a crowd.
It's flying a kite and watching it crash to the ground. It's one good lick to an ice cream cone and watching the scoop hit a hot July sidewalk.
It's starting the washer and remembering your red sweater is among your white pants.


You can stand there and stare all you want, you can't do a danged thing about it.


If you think that is bad, try walking among the zombies filing out to the parking lot-they came looking for life-Instead they are destroyed by a horsehide ball out of the park, and a white ash bat deep to the heart.


The nice part about baseball is that there always is tomorrow.

And after that is the off season.

[RICHARD]

go baseball!!!

Baseball god,

Keep the fans out of their seats, their vocal cords moist and the experience that once-in-a-lifetime kick where you can say, "I remember that game!"

Keep the players safe, the umps on the up-and-up and the jalepenos on the nachos zippy.

Please make the great plays, greater, the great players, legendary and
Give us nine innings of great baseball.

amen.