Final Thoughts After Qualifying for the Post-Season
When your team makes it to the playoffs, you have to celebrate it. Things change. Your team may look good now, the future bright as a headlight, but anything can happen - disasters are almost the rule, not the exception. You can't "sit this one out", assuming that there are at least a few more playoff runs in the foreseeable future. You have to make excuses at work, promises to loved ones and cement commitments for the winter to balance flaking on friends and community now.
This might be the only time, this might be your last time; regardless, this is it. There is only now. Your team is in it. You have earned this, but it is all you have earned. There are no guarantees. A generation or more of your family can live and die under the same roof, going to games of a team that will never surpass second place, never know what it is like to live after a season has died. Your memory of this moment may be all they have, all that ever gives them hope.
This might be the last time. You owe it to yourself, to the past and all you have been through as much as to the future and all you can enrich it by relaying memories of this moment.
Keep a diary, take pictures, spill beer on a friend's lap to mark this moment like a flashbulb popping. Keep this memory until you are the last person who even remembers what a flashbulb is. Because this memory won't be much more than a line in a book or a website or whatever they are recording the important feats on in the future, but like the Titanic survivor you can raise an eyebrow at any time the subject comes up and tell of the glorious or infamous moment, because you were there, you lived it.
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That's it...
Fuck graduating college...
by shiftyeyedgoat on Sep 24, 2007 1:16 AM PDT 0 recs
Well said Rev.
by ligtreb on Sep 24, 2007 1:17 AM PDT 0 recs
BINGO! Just flew back in to Sea this am
by K3YEROUT on Sep 24, 2007 8:16 AM PDT 0 recs
Funny
I can say I was thee in '79 and '86 and '07. and this one was very satisfying particularly against the sea monkeys. While I'd like to get best record, blah blah blah, this has been a GREAT season.
I slept like a baby on the flight home
by Moondoggy on
Sep 24, 2007 11:12 AM PDT
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Follow-up thoughts and observations
Let's hear it in the playoffs....don't take this for granted!
by K3YEROUT on
Sep 27, 2007 10:21 PM PDT
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Nice essay, Rev.
by Higz on Sep 24, 2007 10:20 AM PDT 0 recs
I got to laugh in my Brother and 2 Sisters faces
by acuda27 on Sep 24, 2007 11:29 AM PDT 0 recs
Me too!!!
Revenge is a dish best served ANYTIME!!!!
by red floyd on
Sep 24, 2007 8:36 PM PDT
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Agreed - nice words, Rev
I plan to spill many beers this year to make up for the past 5.
by Big Easy Halofan on Sep 24, 2007 1:13 PM PDT 0 recs
I'm waiting for
by BrickTamland on Sep 24, 2007 2:56 PM PDT 0 recs
Sounds to me like Rev is inviting
by Stirrups on Sep 24, 2007 3:06 PM PDT 0 recs
You guys will tell me what
by Coach Owens on Sep 24, 2007 5:53 PM PDT 0 recs
yea, you guys really suck
by CaLiKrAzY on
Sep 29, 2007 5:42 PM PDT
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my story
My story from 2002 - you know the games and details and emotions of those, so i'll leave all that out.
I live in Phoenix.
For the 2002 ALCS, i headed to Anaheim for Friday's game and said i was gonna stick around town if we kept winning games that weekend. The wife wasn't happy. Well we won. and then we won Saturday. And then for Sunday, my favorite Angel game of all time, i even got a free ticket for it.
I came home to Phoenix on Cloud 9, but she was quite pissed. But i was going to Game 1 of the World Series, no doubt, and took my daughter too. We came home and things were never the same.
I had a ticket for Game 7 , if .....
Saturday i was sitting on my couch in Phoenix when the world changed in Game 6. Moments later that Saturday night, i was off to Anaheim again.
A favorite memory was early Sunday morning before the game, looking at the Big A just as the sun came up. Hoping ......
November 1, 2002, i was kicked out of the house for good. It was a great month and Rev's 100% right, but i'll add this as a lesson - take care of the loved ones too. You may have to make some hard choices.
I did the right thing by not missing 5 of the last 7 games of 2002, but it should have been handled a lot more tenderly on my end with my other obligations.
I'm not complaining - just sharing my experience and reiterating his words of wisdom.
by rbrianc on Sep 25, 2007 12:22 AM PDT 0 recs
Sorry dude.
by Anaheim of Anaheim on
Sep 28, 2007 10:36 AM PDT
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I've seen 1 1/2 clinching types of games
and I saw the game that forced the one game playoff in 1995. That place was electric. I never thought I'd ever see such a great crowd ever again... until I went to some playoff games in 2002.
by thrill000 on Sep 27, 2007 9:15 AM PDT 0 recs
2002
by tanana40 on Sep 27, 2007 1:49 PM PDT 0 recs
Despite ''79, '82 and '86
My mother - however, refused to cheer until the Halos made the World Series.
So I banned her from talking to me during the ALDS and the ALCS, even AFTER they won the league.
I can't blame her too much, as she's also been a long-suffering Phillies fan (Gene Mauch killed two franchises).
Anyway, it'll be fun to see what happens this time around.
by Grichfan on Sep 27, 2007 4:47 PM PDT 0 recs















