baseball fodder
We all can’t be John Lennon or Jack Kerouac. Not Gandhi, Michael Jordan or Jackson Pollack. But there are those amoung us who salivate for the urges of something new. A transcendent social vision found in the spirit of inventors Nikola Tesla and Buckminster Fuller and in progressive revolutionaries Martin Luther King Jr. and Salvador Allende.
And then there are the heroes without name. Who are understanably more dificult to define or label. But we do so with opinion polls, strategic marketing and ID numbers. I am a hero with out name.
I need the new. I guess you could call me a seeker, maybe even an adventurer, definitely a materialist. The cities, the mountains, the bees. All of IT, give me more, all the time.
My dream as a suburban little leauger was to play baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers. I high school I was a minimalist. In college my dreams have become extra vivid and insignificant. Soon I will be a professional.
I am going to take the GRE exam in the fall to apply for masters programs in Archaeology or Geography. I think this lifestyle will suit me well. I enjoy field work, research and travel to unpopular locales. But professional baseball could be an equally exciting and rewarding endevor.
I envison myself playing baseball in the winter leagues of Mexico and the Dominican Republic. I am a starting pitcher with a 93 mph fastball, a deceiving curve and devastating circle change. I will also be a feared hitting pitcher, like a Mike Hampton circa 2000.
After two winter seasons in Latin America I will secure a contract with the Yomiuri Giants in the Japanese Professional League. In Japan, I will become a dominant second baseman leading the league in doubles and the team in RBIs. I will also practice urban archaeology during the day, as all weekday games are at night.
On a day in my twenty fifth year I will be approached after a game in Tokyo by Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scosia who will offer me a three year contract to play with the Angels. Tommy Lasorda gets rumor of Scosia’s offer and guarantees a 4 year deal worth 25 million to play second base for the Dodgers as future Hall of Famer Jeff Kent retires.
After two consecutive World Series titles, I will retire at age 32 and enroll at MIT and complete my Ph.D. in the Anthropology of Space, Time and Conflict at age 37.
I am the U.S. president at age 53.
And then there are the heroes without name. Who are understanably more dificult to define or label. But we do so with opinion polls, strategic marketing and ID numbers. I am a hero with out name.
I need the new. I guess you could call me a seeker, maybe even an adventurer, definitely a materialist. The cities, the mountains, the bees. All of IT, give me more, all the time.
My dream as a suburban little leauger was to play baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers. I high school I was a minimalist. In college my dreams have become extra vivid and insignificant. Soon I will be a professional.
I am going to take the GRE exam in the fall to apply for masters programs in Archaeology or Geography. I think this lifestyle will suit me well. I enjoy field work, research and travel to unpopular locales. But professional baseball could be an equally exciting and rewarding endevor.
I envison myself playing baseball in the winter leagues of Mexico and the Dominican Republic. I am a starting pitcher with a 93 mph fastball, a deceiving curve and devastating circle change. I will also be a feared hitting pitcher, like a Mike Hampton circa 2000.
After two winter seasons in Latin America I will secure a contract with the Yomiuri Giants in the Japanese Professional League. In Japan, I will become a dominant second baseman leading the league in doubles and the team in RBIs. I will also practice urban archaeology during the day, as all weekday games are at night.
On a day in my twenty fifth year I will be approached after a game in Tokyo by Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scosia who will offer me a three year contract to play with the Angels. Tommy Lasorda gets rumor of Scosia’s offer and guarantees a 4 year deal worth 25 million to play second base for the Dodgers as future Hall of Famer Jeff Kent retires.
After two consecutive World Series titles, I will retire at age 32 and enroll at MIT and complete my Ph.D. in the Anthropology of Space, Time and Conflict at age 37.
I am the U.S. president at age 53.
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