I was doing my routine web surfing today and found this "diary entry", if you will. The guy is a minor-league pitcher in the Padres organization and he muses about the daily goings-on of a professional ballplayer. This story was really touching though:

Non-Prospect Diary: Dirk Hayhurst

If you get a chance to read the rest of his entries and are a huge baseball fan, you'll enjoy the reads there.

 

Baseball. The only sport where you can play and sleep at the same time.

 

Did you read the F'n story?!?!?!

The sports gene skipped me. . . went to my sister. Regardless, it was a great story. . . it has little to do with baseball, and more about judicious use of time for the right people and the big difference a little bit of compassion (and passion for your profession) make.

 

That is a good story.

I heard a quote one time about why people get so enraptured and excited at concerts and sporting events, and that story pointed it out a little indirectly, but it said that "The reason normal people love to see athletes or celebrities, is because for that moment in time they lift up our dreams and the human race entirely"