The Yankees are now the fastest team to 100 wins. And best of all, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, two gentlemen heros of baseball, are battling for the home run record. Those of us who follow baseball are enjoying an alignment of forces which has brought America's most wonderful sport to the forefront of people around the world. Baseball is patience. Baseball is statistics.
Baseball is a gentlemen's sport.
Please take this opportunity to watch baseball, if you have never paid attention to it before. Feel the crowd. Think about what the pitcher is thinking, what the catcher is suggesting the pitcher throw, what the batter is thinking the catcher is suggesting and the pitcher is accepting, and then, think about what the umpires say actually happened. But even so, their job is actually not to be right. Their job is to be fair.