Agreed. And so continues the rhythmic turning of the seasons - one of the most endearing, yet at the same time frustrating aspects involved in the love of baseball. This too shall pass.For the record, I'll be sad if Mookie is traded or doesn't re-sign, but I want no part of some ridiculous $350m - $425m mega-contract that's an incredibly disproportionate allocation of resources, especially considering he'll be pushing 40 at the end of it. So if he leaves, I'll be happy for him and wish him well, while simultaneously breathing a sigh of relief. Similar to how I felt when Pedro signed with the Mets (more due to Pedro's health questions than the money involved).
For some reason, this reminds me of a well-known funeral poem by Henry Van Dyke:
I Am Standing Upon The Seashore
I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white
sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until at length
she hangs like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky come
to mingle with each other.
Then, someone at my side says;
"There, she is gone!"
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight. That is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull
and spar as she was when she left my side
and she is just as able to bear her
load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at the moment when someone
at my side says, "There, she is gone!"
There are other eyes watching her coming,
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout;
"Here she comes!"
And that is dying.