10-22-2004, 12:53 AM
"The Comeback": They'll always own it, no matter how they do in the World Series.
Yes, that's an upper-case C, the capitalization of a common sports word designating something unmatched, something epic, something so historic that when you mention "comebacks" generically, the first thing you'll think of is the 2004 Red Sox.
(Of course, the same can be said of "The Choke," the Yankees' historical burden that is intensified, rather than mitigated by, the franchise's uber-winning legacy.)
Yes, that's an upper-case C, the capitalization of a common sports word designating something unmatched, something epic, something so historic that when you mention "comebacks" generically, the first thing you'll think of is the 2004 Red Sox.
(Of course, the same can be said of "The Choke," the Yankees' historical burden that is intensified, rather than mitigated by, the franchise's uber-winning legacy.)
I realise that I have a past to break with--an accumulation of inertia, wrong, foolishness, rot, junk. A great need of clarification, of mindfulness, or rather, of no mind. A need to return to genuine practice, right effort. Need to push on the great doubt. Need for the spirit. Hang on to the clear light.
Thomas Merton