I’d hop in the car, narrating epic sagas of on base heroics, grand slam home runs, and breaking the record for most unassisted triple plays in a row (four).  And because they weren’t there, they couldn’t just tell me I was remembering it wrong or blocking stuff out again or didn’t have a firm grasp of “…how baseball is played.”

It was so weird.  That’s why its a bit of vindication to know that professional athletes suffer the same sort of condition.  The Reading Phillies just finished losing nine of their last eleven games, including a seven game losing streak.  Manager Mark Parent explained why the coming road trip will help:

“Guys aren’t in front of their girlfriends or wives or family when we’re on the road.”

The vacation is brief, as the R-Phils are back in town by Thursday for a brand new collection of shameful performances in front of increasingly humiliated relatives.  The stadium employees are boycotting free giveaways until the team is respectable again.