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So there's another game today. Another game against Milwaukee. Another game where a win signifies a series split and a constant entropic flow back towards .500.
Sigh.
There is a lot of literary bloviation that imagines baseball as metaphoric for life, and it's moments like this that I kind of wish the metaphors were a little less compelling. The 162 game season is a persistent slog, albeit often an enjoyable one, and when the analogies all end up looking like "x is just like a marathon; is like putting one foot in front of the other; is like a regression to the mean," you can start to see why its analogy to a human life is more wistful than winsome.
Still, we press on, boats against the current. It's possible, anyway, that today will be another victory -- for the Phillies and for you. And don't forget: in the long calculus of the thing, even an oppressive baseball season is a majestic and wonderful thing. It's certainly true also of life. That's the flipside to the sad analogy: it's reversible.
Discuss tropes and my disconcerting turn to existentialism below!
Current Series
Brewers lead the series 2-1
| Thu 06/06 | WP: Tyler Cloyd (2 - 2) LP: Wily Peralta (4 - 7) | 5 - 1 win |
| Fri 06/07 | WP: Francisco Rodriguez (1 - 0) LP: Jeremy Horst (0 - 2) | 4 - 5 loss |
| Sat 06/08 | WP: Tyler Thornburg (1 - 0) SV: Francisco Rodriguez LP: Kyle Kendrick (6 - 4) | 3 - 4 loss |
Philadelphia Phillies Sunday, Jun 9, 2013, 2:10 PM EDT Jonathan Pettibone vs Kyle Lohse Mostly cloudy. Winds blowing in from center field at 5-15 m.p.h. Game time temperature around 70.
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