triple play

In my series of baseball firsts, this weekend marked my first series and, consequentially, a further realization of just how applicable and exemplary baseball truly is to my (and any American's) life.

How can I feel a connection to a team I never knew? To a sport that, on the surface, seems so different from my actual existence? And, perhaps more important, what made me think that Bud Lite is worth $6 a bottle?

I'll probably expand on these questions more throughout the season, but for now the answer, I'm finding, is simple:
it's fun.

And unlike any other fun I've ever had.