by Bigguy » Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:29 pm
In life, as in baseball, we must leave the dugout of complacency, step up to the plate of opportunity, adjust the protective groin cup of caution and swing the bat of hope at the curveball of fate, hoping to hit a line drive of success past the shortstop of misfortune, then sprint down the basepath of chance, knowing that at any moment we may pull the hamstring muscle of inadequacy and fall face-first onto the field of failure, where the chinch bugs of broken dreams will crawl into our nose.
-- Dave Barry, U.S. columnist