Bull Durham never mentioned off-days

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains. - Bull Durham

Well, Ron Shelton, what the hell do you do during off-days?! Ah well, I guess it's more of a problem for the rabid fan than the players themselves. You know what they're doing on the off-days! Or at least I can think about what I would be doing if I had Bud Selig-mandated days off.

Whereas in early April, you wondered, what the hell are they doing taking a day off after a lackadaiscal ST, now you know why they need it. The dog days are here.

A ball team at this stage of the season is nothing more than a glorified multimillionaire MASH set, marching marauders to city after city, destroying other ball clubs (Hello, Cincinnati!) or simply being plundered (CinCin, once again.)

It's easy to wax poetic about baseball -- put Walt Whitman, Ken Burns, James Earl Jones on your bench, and there you go. Bench of Dreams. But the more appealing aspect to me is the hardnosed, dirty uniform -- here's 25 guys that are probably tired of luggage and hotel rooms, and just want to take that agony out on some(other ball team) and have a modicum of fun doing it.

Not all teams have the luxury, of course, to get psychologically healthy by beating the crap out of a baseball and other Major League ball teams, but the hometown side, if your hometown has an Arch in it, is one of them. A club that gives a shout out to Freud every time they come from behind to lay out another opponent.

Come to think of it, maybe they deserve that off-day after all.