Thursday, September 10, 2009

This is incredible

Gehrig's form appears at the plate. The scene includes the microphone into which he made his "luckiest man on the face of the earth" speech when retiring from the Yankees in 1939 after contracting ALS, a disease that now popularly bears his name. Seeing the great man, if only his holographic image, the crowd unleashes a river of tears. Salty water pours down the concourses, raining from deck to deck and splashing out onto the field. This is rain that no retractable roof, stationed above the crowd, can stop. Only one man(?) can, and does. Jesus climbs from Box G-1, and walks across the flowing stream in front of and into Yankee dugout, his sandals remaining miraculously dry. He embraces the Iron Horse at the plate, a gesture that evinces another wrenching crowd sob and starts another river of tears. Jesus raises his hand. The crowd quiets. The waters calm. "He is with me in a better place," he reminds the Yankee Faithful. "We are all Yankee fans tonight."

1 comment:

  1. I think I read half of Game 1 a while back.

    My prediction: In 2 millenia, these will be the only remaining works and be the basis of 60% of the world's belief system.

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