Old Time Family Baseball

With the last day of the regular season upon us, I’m doing my best to keep my spirits up and look forward to what promises to be an interesting off season. We cannot, however, fully replace the absence of baseball games with Hot Stove rumors and pictures of Scott Boras in a golf shirt and on a cell phone. In light of this, I’ve compiled a list of activities we can all use to help ease the pain.

- Start a baseball-themed hardcore band (sample names: xxxFIP, Cashman’s Revenge, fWAR Crimes, Willie Bloomquist, OBP Destroyer).

- Gain 60 pounds and show up to the spring training workouts of your favorite team incredibly out of shape.

- Find a Little League team to coach in the style of Tony La Russa. Refer to each of your players as Hank Blalock.

- Complete a full season’s worth of games in MLB2K11, mentally inhabiting the dual role of general manager & manager; subsequently start a blog where you solely cover story lines from that simulated season.

- Respond “Horrible” every time someone asks you how you are. Use this feeling as an excuse to consume several hot dogs and soft pretzels each day.