As the 2005 baseball season wound down and the hockey season (fresh off the strike year) began, I wrote this, tounge more or less in cheek:
And while hockey was away (seemingly indifferent, after all those years we had together!), a cute new sport moved in. I wasn't looking, but night after night it was there, mellow voices on the radio. On the weekends it offered sunny afternoons. I didn't realize it was serious until last month, when I woke up every morning needing to find out the games-back situation for the wild card race.Maybe it's a fling, maybe it's the real deal. I have one more date tomorrow, then I guess I'll see about taking hockey back.
The Caps have a wicked new HD scoreboard. They have, in addition to the Alexanders, Nicklas Backstrom, Viktor Kozlov, and Michael Nylander. The rebuilding is done.
And I'm much more interested in seeing what my Nats will do to the Mets.
I've been investing a lot of time in pondering why this is. Last week, an old friend of mine joined us at the game Friday night, and I said it out loud: I like baseball better than hockey.
My buddy has known me for 25 years, though the marathon playoff losses and the hopeful training camps. He took me to one of the playoff games against Buffalo in '98; I'd just had knee surgery and wasn't quite mobile on my own.
He couldn't believe what I'd said. Baseball better than hockey?
Ok, I was pissed about the strike, but three years is a long time to hold a grudge.
Maybe baseball is just really more my speed?
Speed. Funny thing, that. I always said that hockey was exciting...which it is, of course...just look at the speed. Baseball, by contrast, is boring, I always thought. Nine guys standing in a field waiting for something to happen...it's a nice enough way to pass a summer afternoon, but so's a nap in a hammock.
Baseball people would tell me: there's a lot going on. It's just subtle.
This year, I think that clicked. It will be years, if ever, before I join the ranks of the expert fans, but at least I see now how much does go on during a game. It's exciting, it's tense, it's chess and psy ops. It's art and science.
(By the way, when I began typing, the Mets were up 5-0. The Nationals have come back, now it's 7-6. It's never over 'til it's over, but baseball seems much less certain that hockey. Drama and suspense, advantage baseball.)
This doesn't take anything away from hockey. It's a fine sport. And the Caps, as I said, have great potential this year.
I just won't care until after the final out on Sunday.
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