Anaheim, California - We had spent enough time to go - then stomaching - inevitable.
We had spent many years to accept the inevitable, and then forgive sorry.
Baseball had its decade-light of tomorrow, unworthy stumbled against the curb.
Large, round numbers came and went, men expelled from the soil and lack of conscience. Corner and bought their capacity was exceeded only in their talents and self-absorption of deception. Appropriately, it has become part of baseball, too.
We applaud, and then vomited.
Not that I do not care if there is something to touch steam. They worry that the next day.
Well, tomorrow came and looked like this:
Derek Jeter (notes), 3000 hits.
Jim Thome (note), 600 home runs.
Michael Young (notes), 2000 hits.
Paul Konerko (notes), 2000 hits.
Morning came more than six weeks in the summer of 2011, the game itself healing your reputation.
I do not know the game is cleaner. Or one of these guys are.
But it feels cleaner? It is not true?
Do not you feel closer to the truth?
On a night in a hotel room in Los Angeles last week, the mobile phone blipped Konerko.
"Congratulations," to read it. "I'm very proud of you, as always."
Two thoughts came.
How can such was his high school coach - 68 years, Jerry Dawson - think of him.
And Dang, his high school coach, a part of the text.
"Yes, I have a lot of smart-aleck comments," Dawson says. "Can I use a computer, so you know."
Dawson retired from the School of High Chaparral in Scottsdale, Arizona, after 37 years of coaching varsity baseball. The local newspaper asked him what he hoped to release hundreds of young men who have gone through his program.
"I hope that the work ethic," he said. "I hope honesty."
A year later, he said, adding, "accountability."
Baseball has some problems with these values. Hell, everyone seems. So it was nice to spend a summer refreshed by them. It was good to believe in the celebration, the waves of the crowd, tears families in private boxes, and the words that followed.
It 'been nice to go back, to stand in a corner of the clubhouse - is 5 meters, of which Michael Young had been a few days before - and feeling Konerko hit the side of 2000, where they came from and what to say.
"You just do well," he said, "and sometimes you get them and sometimes get. If you do not go well, do it again."
It 'pretty damn respectable career somewhere in these words. Something to work, accepting the results, and then through the work again. Something about honesty.
"It's wonderful," he said to reach an important milestone, "but it is far from what others have done in the game. I have no ego about it. If I came to 2000 or 3000 or 4000, I believe I did it the right of every day. "
As Young said, "I ran and play."
Clean as.
"I just want to be able to say that there was no difference in the way he went about his business for the match tomorrow," Konerko said. "I wish there was a stat for it. You're the only one who knows. Must be taken into court with you every day.
"I'm not talented enough to have gone through the motions and make it up elsewhere. Maybe I could, but I do not want to know."
This was a guy who had 15 portable opposing pitchers, he would probably never see again.
And the guy who sacrificed themselves to 16 "rounds ego" of batting practice in front of professional scouts to work on his bunting and swings opposite field.
And the guy who was notified that he is a recipient of the Dodgers, when the minor league coach left first base gloves in her lap, and the evening was the rupture of a high school diamond.
"How do you teach this?" Dawson. "He just got. It did from Day 1. He always made good decisions. His mom and dad did a great job. They instilled good values. His older brother was the same way. They were well-bred children by good people. "
July 9 afternoon, Jeter homered in the left field seats on Aug. 23, the night Konerko struggled through seven points to serve an individual scoring race in right field, baseball has some dignity.
Jeter then pushed beyond 3000, Young 2000 and past Konerko and Thome last 600 home runs. They do it on tired legs against the pull of time and punishment.
It will show you how it should look like, how young people get older and begin to measure what is left and what it might look like tomorrow.
It will probably be a bit 'as it is today, and just as precious.
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