A game overlooked for the excitement and flashiness of football and basketball, baseball is a game of moments, endurance, struggles and triumphs. The best baseball players fail 7 out of 10 times, but the 3 times they exceed are always memorable. A walk-off homerun in the bottom of the 9th, a hard throwing closer shutting down the best hitters with a heater painting the black, the little things, make the game brilliant. 162 games a year, people say this draws out the excitement, but that is just what brings the beauty. The season doesn’t start in the spring, it starts when it ends. A team sticking with each other over such time shows companionship; better yet, a brotherhood. If you throw at my player, I throw at yours harder, maybe even at his head; if your guy charges the mound, my catcher will be there before you have a chance to step toward the mound. But don’t worry, we will go back at it the next day. This game can never be played to perfection, what sets apart the greats from amateurs is the realization of this. There are so many philosophies and ideas on how to play, no one coach will tell you the same thing. Of course there are basics everyone should inherit, but in the end it is your feel toward the way you do things that makes you successful. This game is said to be to slow, but in a blink of an eye the best decisions must be made. A 94 mph fastball is sent to the plate in 0.45 seconds and leaves the ballpark even faster. Oh, and don’t forget October, when a staff’s two aces come out for the 7th game of THE series, their whole season, lives on the line. Their fate can be determined by an error a player makes the 99th of 100 times he’s done it. Who knows what will happen when these beasts step between the lines. Believe me, extraordinary memories will be made.