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“A predictable disappointment” – Harvey Pekar

Every year at Christmas time I open my heart to the endless possibilities of human kindness, and the benevolence of the universe. I’m also a baseball fan, and the San Francisco Giants are my heroes. Fortunately Oregon doesn’t have a Major League Baseball team, so I can retain my cherished Giants roots.

In both cases, baseball heroes, and the benevolence of the universe, and the endless possibilities of human kindness every year at Christmas time, I am predictably disappointed.

I try. Really. I cast aside resentments. I wipe the slate clean, and I shake the dust out of every rug I’ve walked on in the previous year, and I wait for the goodness that is scheduled to arrive. Predictably I am disappointed.

I don’t hate Christmas, and the Holiday Celebrations this time of year anymore than I hate the San Francisco Giants. The truth is that I love the Giants. Every year the Giants will lose in some new way; they will fail to win the Championship in some fresh, and unpredictable manor. I love the Giants. With all my heart.

I love Christmas the same way.

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Filed under: Fab Crimbo — Written by Father Luke at 2:45 am on Thursday, December 17th, 2009

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Don goes like this...

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Dude.

Christmas is mixed for me but I have no hard memories to bring it down. It just focuses another year’s worth of a certain kind of failure, and the stupid traps of sentimentality. It’s my wife who has memories more like yours.

I was just gonna say Go Giants. I’m a lifelong fan too, win or lose. Didn’t know we had that. Hey, I saw Mays and Mac play once, back in the 60s. Barely remember it, of course.

Rodger Jacobs goes like this...

Monday, December 21st, 2009

As a native San Franciscan I must shamefully confess that I gave up on the Giants many years ago, surrendering my loyalty to the Dodgers, who find new ways every season to make it to the divisional playoffs and then choke. My second favorite franchise? The Cubs. So there you go. Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio …

Dr Zen goes like this...

Friday, December 25th, 2009

I hope you are able slowly to replace the bad Christmases in memory, dude. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

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