I loved Tony Pena when I was a child. When I was ten or so years old I loved baseball. I'd listen to the pirate games on the radio as I feel asleep each night. I only remember once managing to stay awake till the end of a game. I remember I'd always wake back up in the middle of the night and the radio was suddenly so loud yet when I had turned it on I put it as low a volume as I could and still hear it. I remember watching the games on TV too and Pena's special stance.

The lack of a salary cap killed baseball. I don't watch it at all anymore. At work someone told me I looked exactly like Roy Halladay, supposedly the best pitcher in the league this year. Never heard of him. Couldn't care less about baseball now. But as a child my first hopes and dreams shone so brightly tied into baseball.