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Show THURSDAY. OCTOBER 12, THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE U Runners Prepare Baseball Not Inherently Magical .; oii daring a game when I was 7 years T-ba-U . st and the expressions of disbelief cemented to the faces of the adulri in attendance. , Looking back on the experience, I find it surprising .that I managed to actually miss a stationary bail" Not only did I miss the ball, I missed the bail several times. That was the end of iny b?scbail career. The way I is basically baseball with looked it it was this: aarl--a- s told I wheels, my young niec just the training Jundie can't ether you training wheels, theie's handle the can reaj thing. jio way you Th;re' is no question that ray.T-bai- ! experience starred m-- for iife. On my death bed; when I utter hoarsely, "the horror, the horror!" I will, no doubt, be reliving that horrifying experience once again. AU this trauma has led me to ask What tiie hell was L a ?year-o!highly impressionable child, doing on a oasebaU diamond? i can't fault my parents. I would never risK the cliance that they roay cuv off ties of financial support forever Besides, they were only doing what they thought was appropriate by throwing me to th5 lions of competitive sports. My parents had been convinced that it was good " T-b-ali day-f-i- f d, The American population is bombarded with propaganda. Every day. the fact that baseball is an anuiwngsport.K eiewtei by the most eclectic group of people. Poets, journalists and celebrities are always praising th gaice tor its: beauty and grace its 'order and'the complexity inherent in its simplicity. Political and social convenentator George F. Will even wrote a book about baseball V"har is is. about b&cebaU that attract? z staffed shirt, stifi nki Will? If 'Will has ever played baseha$? n;ore thsr? 20 mimics steisht, theh J will nut his tie: It cant fee his love ofjJiying baseball that pro-baseb- bow-cv?ari- In fact, he makes the same error that my parents made when they fed me to the lions. Will confuses the ' mythology of baseball with the sport ifel Baseball, stripped of the patriotic glory that has been bestowed upon it and the mythic aspects that have reen connected io it, is nothing mots than s game for chil" dren with notisirtg better to do. . One erajxsple that springs to mind that illustrates my film, "field "of point quite' nicely Is the cheese-feDreams" On the surface. "Field of Dreams" is a movie about baseball. This surface perception couldn't be further from the truth, however. "Field of Dreams' has absolutely nothing to da with baseball The movie is about a sen trying to make some wrt cf connection with his father, Baseball serves as the vehi- cle by which that connection is made. There's nothirsg inherently magical about baseball that endows the sport with the supernatural qualities that make such a connection possible. Nothing . Baseball was simply the, first sport that reached point of cultural saturation. The longer the sport is a part of American cuhure, the greater the mythology and . baggage thai accompany the sport will get. f BasketBaseball had becter ketp its eye out, ball is getting closer and closer to reaching its own pinnacle of cultural saturation. Just recently there have been movies released that specifically address basketball Or do they? Spike. Lee's "He Got Game." Occ "field of Di earns; has nothing to do with the sport it apparently features. , Ji . It is, however the exact opposite of "Held of Drearns," ' m that it tells the story of a father, trying to make &oae connection ,vith his son "using you guessed it basketball 6S a vehicle by which that connection is made. There pre two reasons to love baseball or any sport for that matter. One, the sport is a blast to play Two, the mythology ihat has been built around the sport is as ' ' runerional a? it is beautiful, The next time you hear someone go off on how great baseball is, hstetrqlosely and see if he or she Is really talking about the ?port, or just the baggage people have . attached to it You'U be surprised how many people ioyer ' baseball for things net Inherent in the sport , ! remember the looks of disgust that my peers showered on me as I s?0uched my way towards the dugout - , WilL like so many others, makes a fundamental error. Chronicle Managing Editor &ut - ject WATTS I struck for inspires him enough to write a lengthy book on the sub- BRIAN alt ug - -- - i " 2000 tl '.,. Saturday Meets ERiC WALDEN Chronicle Sports Editor After enjoying its top finish of the season last week at the Long Beach Invitational, the Utah cross country team looks to keep up the momentum in its final competition before the upcoming MWC Championships. The men placed first at Long Beach, and the women were sec nd, and now both teams will be trying yet again to register solid performances this week. The men will be participating in the meet in Ames. Iowa, while the women will be running at the UNLV Invitational in Las Vegas, Nev. Both meets take place on Saturday, Pre-NCA- A Oct. 14. In the meantime, coach Mike Jones and his athletes remain excited about the success the team enjoyed at Long Beach After solid finishes at Boise State and Colorado State, both the men and women suffered a bit of a setback when faced with some of the top national competitors at the Roy Griak Invitational in Minneapolis, Minn. Consequently, Jones was pleased to see progress from both squads. He was especially happy about the men's side, which had four runners finish in the top 10 overall "I was so excited about our performance," Jones said. "We accomplished what we've been trying to do all season, and that is run together in a track." He was just as pleased with the women, though, who, in spite of having five freshmen on the roster, still put together an impressive team performance. Jones added that while the finish was good, there is room still for those athletes to get better. "The women had some tough competition, but they rose to the challenge," he said. "They ran well as a team, but our goal next time is to have a top-1- 0 finisher." In the meantime, the Long Beach meet paid one last dividend, as the e Utes' B.J. Christenson, a transfer, won the MWC Cross Country Athlete of the Week Award. Christenson received the honor after being the first collegiate runner and second runner overall to cross the finish lint at Long Beach This marks the third time this year that a Utah runner has won the award. Junior Teren Jameson has received it twice after winning at Both Idaho State and Colorado State. fast-pac- junior-colleg- - Corns visit acres of towering earn dstignod to Q$t you lost! F 5 p.m. - Mid. 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He allowed one run and six hits in eight innings on an afternoon of brilliant sunshine, improving to 0 with a 1.22 ERA in post2-- 7-- season play. But as twilight turned to dusk, it seemed like the Yankees' hopes for a third straight World Series title Y RON CLASSIFIEDS CH DISCLAIMER Chronicle 0 I COPY n, This was the reason York Mets were so eager New the Mike to get Hampton. Pitching every bit like an October ace, Hampton won for the first time in the postseason, leading the Mets past the St. Louis Cardinals 2 Wednesday night in Game 1 of the NL championship series. The Mets extended their postsead son scoreless streak to a 26 innings, allowing two ST. LOUIS 6-- team-recor- TOP ninth. Hampton kept the big guy deluxe Mark McGwireon the St. Louis bench, and left after the seventh with a 0 lead. Relievers John Franco and Armando Benitez finished up. And it was a good-luc- k victory Mets the past for the wild-car- d seven teams to win the NLCS opener went on to reach the World Series. 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