Friday, December 9, 2011

Joe Say Can You See?

Several years ago, Shanna, Carrie, Jason, Mary and I attended our first Major League baseball game together. We spent a little extra to get good seats, seats you could embrace the possissibilities that for one summer evening your chance of catching a pop fly was a good as anyone else's. A nine-year-old softball player with soft hands a hinh

Shanna was dancing around.n the aisles that May, her pale skin, the most blonde hair I'd ever seen and those untellable turquoise eyes making me nervous as if she as going to trip and begin a fee fall  that would land her begise one oas sometimes what we were sure would happen, does not. We sit at the kitchen table as somebodys favorite baseball player and a team parted ways, the player the happy, happy, camper.

Look at it this way: Today is a fresh start for the St. Louis Cadinal. For the first time in 11 years, they are in need of a few first basemen.  The long career of Jose Pujoles ended in St. Louis. I spent the next 20 years or so as I rememberedit rooting for the Braves to little availab,.

But on this one special night, as Shanna screamed "Let's go Joe Seeeee. Heck, say it he

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