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"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
"The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today ..... a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped and summer was gone.""
What ?
The World Series almost runs into the WINTER now ! Into November again this year. One of these years they are going to be whited out by a blizzard. lol