In the words of Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh, A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.

Sometimes, though, it feels like a little more than a win. Maybe, sometimes, you get shut-out through six innings, facing an agonizingly slow fastball and a curveball that just…slows a bit more, and spins slowly into the mitt. Maybe you come up to bat down by four in the seventh, only to score a run on a fielder's choice, then load the bases, and have your catcher—0-3 by this point—punish a ball over the scoreboard in left-center for the go-ahead grand slam. And maybe sometimes—sometimes—your ace walks back up to the hill in the bottom of the seventh and puts his weary arm to the task of fanning the side to win the game.