Play Ball. People Will Come.

I am so beyond excited for this baseball season. I am excited for the Chicago Cubs. They had a phenomenal season last year; and now great expectations lay in wait for them as Opening Day looms near.

This will be the first Opening Day played where I will not be in the States. In between racing our tuktuk from one city to another in India, we will need to find a bar that telecasts the ball games. Maybe I can get a bartender to change the channel from a cricket match?

I am reminded of one of my favorite movies “Field of Dreams” and one of the best scenes from the movie when James Earl Jones tells us why baseball is so great, why it’s important.

“Ray. People will come, Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. “Of course, we won’t mind if you look around”, you’ll say, “It’s only $20 per person”. They’ll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they’ll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They’ll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again. Oh…people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.”
― James Earl Jones

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