Try

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Twenty-eight more days until I feel like I’m ready for Spring.

The NCAA Tournament will begin and all will be forgotten.

Not sure I can make it!

Six degrees when I got in the car this morning, but at least the sun was shining.

I continue to read novels, but time is passing slowly.

Trapped in horrible imaginations as I think about social security being robbed…

…so I went back in time.

I picked up the autobiography written by Yankees legend, Mariano Rivera.

What a great story it is.

Rivera was a fisherman who was aspiring to be a mechanic when he was spotted by a Yankee scout in a tiny little village in Panama.

Rivera was an outfielder in amateur ball, who made his pitching debut on the very day that the scout showed up.

He threw nothing but fastballs, and admitted that he had no idea how to pitch.

The Yankees gave him two grand, and the rest his history. 

He is, without a doubt, the greatest relief pitcher ever and the only man who was a unanimous choice for the Hall of Fame.

Really think about that!

He was fishing for sardines, and playing rec ball as a right fielder.

Just a few short years later he was a huge part of a World Series winning team.

He wasn’t even a pitcher!!

Just happened to enter the game the Yankees scout was at because the guy the scout was there to see got roughed up and had to be yanked in the first inning!

The manager didn’t know what to do…

…called Rivera in and said, ‘Give it a shot.”

“I’ll try,” Rivera said.

There’s certainly a lesson there, and it’s one I have preached to my boys for years:

Do the best you can no matter what.

No matter the circumstance:

TRY!

Even when you aren’t in your comfort zone…

…try anyway!

So, the days seem long right now.

It’s cold.

It’s dark.

The back hurts and the joints are aching.

We are in what can only be described as uncharted territory as the politics of the day are unlike anything we’ve ever seen.

Just try.

You never know who is watching.

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