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B Cox
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ATLANTA, GA - Many scientists, with very little else to do, theorize that the universe started with a bang, an explosion; a rapid acceleration of matter, resulting in a reverse-apocalyptic expansion of mass from a hot, dense state to the vast collection of galaxies we know today, all in a relative instant; approximately 14 billion years ago, give or take a business person's special. Whether or not this theory is true - we'll never know for sure - the fact remains that so many things begin that way - instaneous, powerful, life-changing. Like the universe, we're all shaped by finite moments in time that grasp us by the shirt, shake us, and change our lives forever. Some are personal and close, others global, but the impact is always swift, and irreversible.
For my father it was Pearl Harbor, or the moment later on in Italy where a friend died and he didn't. Or the instant he met my mother. For this generation, globally, it might have been Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles, or September 11th. On a lighter note, Al Pacino arrived the moment Michael came out of the bathroom at Luigi's and plugged Sollozzo and McCluskey.
For all of us, who we are today, all our pains, forms, joys, and contradictions, most likely emerged from singular moments. The first time you sat on the beach at nine in the morning, and heard the gulls overhead. Or the time you happened to catch a grainy film noir on an old UHF station, in the middle of the night, and knew right then and there that you were destined to worship black and white movies forever. Or maybe it was a religious experience.
On this site, led by the Matts, our hairless beacons of light, we share a love of sports. I know when it started for me. It was the day I saw perfection.
It's been written that the one true moment of sports perfection was Secretariat at the Belmont. Hard to argue, so I won't. But for me, the epiphany came from a man - a man who played a boy's game.
It was 1967. The Braves were new to Atlanta, having arrived from Milwaukee the year before. I didn't know anything about baseball, and didn't care. My father was given tickets by a business associate, and he wanted to bring me to the game. I wasn't really interested, but thought it might be fun, even though the Braves weren't very good (they would finish seventh in the NL that year). He bought me a soda, and a hot dog, and we settled in, up the first base line, in the third or fourth row. Close to the field.
The game started, and the visiting team went down in order. In the bottom half of the first, with two outs and nobody on, I caught sight, for the first time, of number 44. He was different. Majestic. He walked to the plate slow, and looked out on the field. There was a poetry, a softness, about him. I noticed that he stopped, on the edge of the batter's box, and put his helmet on there. No one else did that. Then he stepped in. He seemed completely at ease. The pitcher went into a quick wind up, and fired. The romantic in me pictures Bob Gibson or Ferguson Jenkins, but I honestly don't recall.
This man, who seemed so relaxed, so calm, quickly popped into action. He snapped his wrists and the bat sped blindly through the zone like a whip. There was a crack. Louder, more precise, than any sound I had ever heard. The ball took off on a line, and hit the wall ferociously, never more than six feet off the ground. I watched as number 44 loped into second, once again almost without effort or strain, arms pumping smoothly. He was a ballplayer, just a ballplayer, and yet years before he became the home run king of all time (a title he should still rightfully hold), I thought he was the greatest thing in this expanded universe.
The first time one sees Henry Aaron, one sees perfection. For those of you a bit surprised, we all wear masks. From "The Tempest" -
"These are actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself;
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve."
I'm interested to hear your first memories.
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ANGRYWARD
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| What the F-??? If B. Cox wrote this then I'm Yankee Joe. This post smells like the work of a bald, blue suit clad, former English major. |
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PhillyPhanatic
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All I can say is WOW. Where did that come from? It really is Phriday the 13th. Not only did #13 blow his third straight save yesterday, the Phirst time a Met pitcher has done that since Franco in 1993, but B Cox has shocked the world.
He was certainly up to the challenge, far exceeded my expectations, completely blew away Yankees Suck’s lame post from last Phriday and has set the bar very high in the June Phriday Phil-in competition.
Did I mention that the winner will recieve 2 Phillies/Mets tickets for Monday July 7th, courtesy of Meet the Matts.com?
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TheMatts
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| ALL: We assure you that this is indeed the work of B.Cox and we are as INCREDULOUS as the rest of you... Dare we say it??? Well done, Mr. B. Cox! Just when we thought we knew you and WHAM!!! |
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B Cox
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...it promises to be a car wreck of epic proportions ..."
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david
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| yeah this is no b.cox. not my b. cox anyway. this is fraud. my b. cox would have made aaron live an interment camp and only let him out at game time. |
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