So I’m watching the Mets game (it seems like most of my blog posts start out that way), and commentator Gary Cohen says that the pitcher from the Pirates, Yates, is from Hawaii.
That’s such an interesting concept…being from Hawaii. First of all, if you lived in Hawaii, would you ever get sick of living in Hawaii to the point that you would come live in the continental U.S.? So, I’ve concluded that the only possible way I would move out of Hawaii and into the continental U.S. would be if I were the pitcher from the Pirates. Because the only thing more awesome than being from Hawaii is to be a professional baseball/football/basketball/tennis/golf/chess player. I knew someone from Cornell who was from Hawaii. Why he left Hawaii for Ithaca, NY is borderline psychotic.
But, professional athlete aside, I suppose one can become “bored” of living in paradise. I mean, there are the obvious perks of living in Hawaii. There’s no traffic when you are commuting to work via surfing on the Pacific Ocean. There aren’t any lawyers, businessmen, or accountants in Hawaii of course, just surfing instructors. And everybody is eternally jolly, hula dancing, tanning and being genuinely chill.
Then again, if you live in Hawaii, you really have to be eternally delighted, because if things somehow become depressing, you have nowhere to go. You can go to American Samoa, I suppose…or you can become a professional baseball player.
By the way, as the I write this, Duaner Sanchez just loaded the bases in the 8th inning, and walked in a run, after coming into the inning with a 4-2 lead. The New York crowd does not take kindly to not playing well…and we don’t care if you’re season has been great thus far. We have short memories, short tempers, and a lot of angry people who aren’t looking forward to leaving the game and sitting in hours of traffic.
In Hawaii, you could always just go surf…problem solved.
(p.s. He got out of the inning giving up only one run, but it’s a looong season. I’m watching you Duaner.)
(p.p.s. Billy Wagner just blew the save…this is why we don’t walk in runs).
