opening day

baseball is quintessentially american
in that it tells us that as much as you travel
and as far as you go,
out to the green frontier,
the purpose is to get home,
back to where others are,
the pioneer ever striving to come back
to the common place.
a nation of migrants always, for all their wanderings,
remembers what every immigrant never forgets:
that you may leave home
but if you forget where home is,
you are truly lost......
~ a. bartlett giamatti

seattle mariners / oakland a's
3:10 am
tokyo japan

GO MARINERS!