它最终会发生。经过几个月的猜测，分析和事件，它都将结束。\ nno，我不是在谈论布什，戈尔或任何其他误用的人的选举。尼姆谈论棒球赛季结束。\ n别担心。这一切都会很快。\ nit的不像我对美国的消遣有些怨恨。我喜欢棒球，我可能总是会。\ n，但是，我长大的游戏中缺少一些东西。我无法弄清楚，直到几周前的事情是什么，而且它发生了。\ n小联盟世界系列。\ nit在星期六结束前大约两周内猖獗。委内瑞拉脱德·德克萨斯队3-2队，但是每场比赛都会出现在冠军赛中的游戏很棒。\ n小联盟世界系列让我意识到为什么棒球是如此伟大的体育奇观。它让我想起了为什么我有一种奇怪的习惯，可以注意失去队伍的反应。 \nThe bad thing about winners is they're predictable; they jump, they cheer, they celebrate. \nThe team that couldn't locate any more outs is more compelling. And 12-year-olds aren't any different. They're actually more interesting.\nThe young team of sluggers from Texas looked despondent after its loss, and some of the members cried. \nThey wept the tears that not overflowed their eyes, but the ones that caused them to wrap their watery hands around their windpipes. And watching those kids cry the tears of champions made me realize something about myself.\nI'm not 12 anymore. \nSomewhere along my demented timeline I grew up. And my baseball soul died in the process.\nBaseball is only meant for kids 12 and younger. \nThat is what the game is all about.\nIt's not about arbitration, free agency or ballparks named after companies. And it's not about "players to be named later" or trading your best player to help another team in its playoff run. \nBaseball is about sliding just to get your uniform dirty. It's about learning to eat sunflower seeds without your hands. It's about cheering for the kid who hits the cut-off man for the first time.\nIt's about having a favorite player and emulating everything he does. It's about trying to get number five because it might make you hit like Nomar Garciaparra. It's about wearing your socks in the old style because they could give you the grace of Joe DiMaggio.\nBaseball is about being allowed to play pepper on the field. It's about always loving the smell of the leather in your glove. It's about jumping over the foul line because you think it will keep the errors away from the shortstop.\nBut most of all, baseball is about the look on a little boy's face when he picks up a bat for the first time. It's about a father feeling goosebumps when his child hits that first home run. And it's about sisters desperately wanting to throw with their brothers.\nBaseball to an adult is none of these things. It is a business where players have more worries than organizing a carpool for the season. Players have families and mortgages and contracts to sign. \nThey can't just focus on baseball because ... well, they're not Little Leaguers anymore.\nIn a few weeks, I will watch the playoffs and the World Series as I always do. But I don't think I'm going to enjoy it as much as I have in the past.\nAfter all, the true baseball season doesn't really conclude at the end of October.\nThe real boys of summer finished playing Saturday.
