The Beginning

For some teams it's the beginning of the pennant run, others the beginning of a season, and for a select few the "unprecedented fall from No. 5 to unranked" (Associated Press Sept 5). This is one of the most exciting and eventful time in sports for just about anyone who likes sports. Players getting into their grooves, players losing their groove and helping their team plumit, and players that are always in a groove that just keep on the note. For a good amount of people, though, it's the beginning of the school year, college or high school. The other way you could look at it is that it's the end of summer, however great or terrible it might have been. Just like anything else, beginnings have to do with people trying to get into their grooves, people losing their grooves, and people never having missed a beat. It's always exciting to get back into what you are doing, whether it's football, baseball, or school. People never want to get out or stay out of a groove. That could mean the end of a lot of good things that have been given to you, whether they be scholorships or just someone putting their hope in you. Any way you may want to put it, beginnings can help or hurt toward in the long wrong. A good start can put you where the Red Sox and Mets are, comfortably ahead of the pack and you can coast. Or bad starts can put you where the Phillies, Yankees, and Cubs are, clawing with all you have just to make it where you were supposed to. So in all, there are plenty of different beginnings in the world. Which one would you rather start strong at?