So the unthinkable, the most unlikely and maybe, just maybe, the greatest divisional comeback in baseball happened tonight! after starting September 7 games back from the first place Detroit tigers, the twins made an astonishing run ( 17-4) to not only tie, on the second to last day of the season, and force a 163rd game, but they actually won!
A Game that will undeniably go down as the best game of baseball in 2009 and maybe even one the greatest in the last decade. Read this and this to understand the intensity of the game. This game, game 163, as amazing as it was, hit a more personal and spiritual note for me.
My father who has been in the hospital for the last week or so was finally well enough to get visitors today. Last week he had his leg amputated due to diabetes complications. He loved baseball and while i was growing up he taught me how to appreciate this American pastime, but it wasn't until recently that i actually started to truly enjoy baseball...
Well all day at work i was trying to pay attention to the game, i had friends and family watching it calling me about how epic it truly was, but i was working. When i was done with work, and the game was getting down to the crucial last extra innings, the innings that remind you why you watch baseball, the innings in a game that will decide the fate of two teams, the innings that 162 games before have determined, these were the innings that i was missing because i was on the way to the hospital to see my father for the first time in a long long time.
With the game tied and a game where both teams had been going back and forth for the last 4 1/2 hours, and it about to go to into even more innings me and my mom walked into my father's room.
The second, the very second we walked into the room, like clockwork, like the game had somehow been waiting for us to enter the room, we walked in and that second the twins won!!! we walked in and the twins became the 2009 Central division champs...
I don't really know how to think about that moment, it was spiritual, it was something that i feel happens only a few times in your life... The fact that i hadn't seen my pops in so, SO long, his love for sports now becoming my love for sports, us being able to share the moment, it was something that ill never EVER be able to explain to anyone ever. if there is a god that was the first time in my life i have ever felt him/her.
It was a moment in time i will remember perfectly for the rest of my life, a moment i will tell my grand kids and probably yours about, a moment that is life changing.
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