on the bright side...

For the most of us not earning a living from professional baseball, baseball and life are NOT co-extensive!...
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On the other hand...

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time..."
[Terence Mann in the 1989 film, Field of Dreams]