Passions and Pastimes

Times change, and people change with them. In the '40s and '50s baseball dominated the sports pages. Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and many others excited our minds with dreams of game winning home runs. Its hard to remember that today, as high speed internet brings video clips to your home computer and twenty four hour a day sorts news covers everything from Archery to Zen Basket Weaving. Our National Pastime just can't keep …

…to leave my kids unconscious on the drive home. Times will always change. I sorely miss those dusty summer days with dad, brothers and sister. Today's world just isn't the calm, enjoy-what-you-have type of world I grew up in. ESPN's Chris Berman captured it best, I think, when he spoke of the changing times in this country as it related to sports. He said, "Baseball will always be America's pastime, But Football is America's passion".