DMAC

John, beautifully put--you echo Bart Giamatti's "The Green Fields of the Mind" in your piece, and that's high praise. "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." Here's to a mild winter and a couple of free agent signings to fill us with hope again.