Cast Your Fate to the Wind

you’re a fan of a team, nothing you do can change the outcome of the games, all of your agony is a waste of time

    — darkstar73 in MetsBlog

Dang, that’s haiku-like.

OK, so the Mets had a day game today (we won!) and instead of using my evening in some productive manner I am sitting here reading Mets blogs and message boards. I found darkstar73’s comment strangely liberating. Certainly the players and coaches and managment can act in a direct way to determine the outcome of the season. But as fans we are just along for the ride. We should basically sit back, enjoy the games, and not get so angst-y over every at-bat and every pitch.

I tend to be a worrier; I’m one of those people who worries about the weather. So this uplifting realization was a good whack upside the head. It made me think of a nice jazz piece, which someone had kindly posted to YouTube: