SEXY BASEBALL

A relationship lasts as long as the sex holds up. So an old adage goes.

NOT TRUE!!

As a ballplayer once said after hitting a ball four hundred feet along a sweet upward arc, "Man, that feels better than sex and almost as good as eatin’ watermelon."

Despite Mr. George Bernard Shaw’s remark that the only advantage Baseball had over Cricket was that "...it was sooner ended," you will find that the game rewards the patient observer and he/she whose senses have been made subtle.

"You see, there’s no guilt in Baseball--And it’s never boring. Which makes it like sex. Making love is like hitting a baseball--you just got to relax and concentrate."

-Annie Savoy (from the movie Bull Durham)

All of which may never answer the age-old question of which came first, Sex or Baseball; But ask any guy who’s tried his hand at both games. He’ll remember his first sexual encounter, surely--But he’ll remember in exquisite detail about that 400 foot Home Run with a couple of runners on base in the bottom of the ninth with the score tied and the game on the line. He’ll remember who the pitcher was, the count, the names of the runners on base, the umpires, stadium, day, date, time, temperature, wind velocity and what he had for breakfast before he came to the ballpark that morning.

Even if he married that girl of his dreams, he goes to sleep at night replaying that Home Run day, what was, what is, and what might have been if time and circumstance hadn’t gotten in the way.