NO HITTER

Madison Bumgarner missing pitching a "perfect" game last night hardly is up there with the problems and issues of the world: world hunger, massive migration, terrorism, politics, Donald Trump's hair. But, for us baseball fans, Susan Saradan in the baseball movie, Bull Durhan had it right. She says to Kevin Costner, the aging minor league catcher of the Durham Bulls, quoting Walt Whitman, "Baseball is America's game." It is! When my fellow Notth Carolinian, Madison Bumgarner lost his perfect game when the opposing team player hit a single up the middle, it was the eighth inning. A collective gasp from baseball fans across America. "F..K," nothing else to be said. Baseball is America's game. 

After the hit, the game went on. Great metaphor for America, with setbacks, facing world problems, politics, whatever, we are going after the prize, the no hitter; if we don't get it, we go on. Madison came right out and pitched the ninth inning. Baseball is America's game.