Wait … The Fat Lady Hasn’t Sung Yet!

Did your team just blow the BIG GAME? Afraid they won’t make the playoffs now? If so, then …

It sounds like you’re just having a bad day … just like the rest of us sports fans have from time to time (read: when our team is doing s@#ty)! For instance, last Monday I watched my Phightin’ Phils come back in the bottom of the ninth inning (in which no one ever saw coming … I mean NOBODY) off a Jimmy Rollins’ 2-out, game winning zinger to right center field (note: the Dodgers were flabbergasted, both mentally and physically)! Why am I telling you this, you ask? Well, for starters I wanted to rub it into the faces of the three fools they let commentate on TBS’s national coverage of this NLCS, and then I wanted to show each and every one of you that nothing is over until it’s definitely over!

OPINION ALERT: surrendering while there’s still time left for a comeback is ridiculous, to say the least … why give up so easily when the going gets rough, just like the other 95% of people who would do the exact same thing in your shoes? Why give into mediocrity … that’s not what you really want out of life and you know it (at least admit this to yourself, if not to the whole world, from rooftop to rooftop)! My friend, evolution is born from a long tradition of sweating both blood and tears … and without this steel-gritted determination (that seems to be a scarce commodity in this weak-willed civilization that we currently find ourselves a part of) real s@#t would never get done!

Think about that for a second … things would never change for the better … bridges would never be built … errors would never get corrected! Are you catching my drift? If not, let me put into much simpler terms: once a quitter, always a quitter … you don’t want this out of life, trust me! You don’t want to wake up one morning, and be up to your eyeballs in debt like almost everyone else in this freaking country is, do you? Plus, you definitely don’t want to ever have to sadly say to yourself, in regards to your future, “Well, this is the best I could hope for … better get used to it!” Are you already saying this (God, I hope not)? If so, the time is at hand to change for the better! Get your average a@# up, and punch yourself in the face (ok, that might be a little extreme … no, on second thought, do it! You owe it to yourself for being such a punk a@# for oh-so-long)!

The truth is, you’ve been put on this earth to make it through some difficult times (don’t let this simple fact bother you)! Inside of your body rests perseverance, determination, strength, courage and endurance that you don’t even know you possess, just waiting for the right time when you really, really need them in a clutch situation. Trust me, we all have this staying power, and can outlast almost everything in life … that is, if we don’t crawl up into the fetal position and give in way too soon (read; you can’t surrender when life gets hard). So forget discouragement … that s@#t only stops wimps and crybabies! Face your fears and obstacles … conquer them like only you know how! Victory is deep within your DNA, and it’s flowing through your veins as I write this!

So, if really want to fulfill your destiny and become all that you can be, you better make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how long it takes, no matter how many times you get knocked back down, you are not going to take the quitter’s path! Hey, life throws curveballs at us all (love my baseball analogy?). However, every little setback is also a setup for a much greater comeback. Difficulties in life aren’t meant to destroy you … they’re meant to test you, so you better pass that damn test then (do you hear me now?). They’re there to strengthen you, make you grow, and make you better off than you were before they ever happened … so learn from them!

Dig your heels in, and let “quit” leave you body now! No matter what is thrown at you, no matter how long it takes or how difficult it gets, when it’s all said and done, you will become everything you were created to be. And that’s a fact, Jack (believe that)! So go out right now and turn every stinking battlefield into a chance to shine!

Ok, I just heard the fat lady warming up her pipes … I better get out of here. Good luck, my friend and stay tough! Oh yea, GO PHILS … you ROCK!!!!!!