Is Life Ever Good Enough?
Monday, June 22, 2009by Geoff Young
I use baseball to mark the passage of time. The memory of specific events helps keep me grounded in a world that often makes less sense than I'd like it to make (forgive the fact that I grew up rooting for the Dodgers):
1981 -- Fernandomania; Rick Monday's homer off Steve Rogers in Montreal
1988 -- Kirk Gibson and Dennis Eckersley (actually, I remember taking a girl named Cindy to dinner in Old Town instead of watching the game)
1996 -- Steve Finley and Felix Rodriguez; Ken Caminiti's "Snickers game" in Monterrey; sweep of the Dodgers in LA to win the NL West
1998 -- Steve Finley and Felix Rodriguez [so much for memory; thanks to reader Jake for the catch]; Kevin Brown and Greg Vaughn in ...
