The title of my blog relates to Daft Punk's song called Touch from their latest album, Random Access Memories (try listening to the song before if you can). Touch can bring you to a new place. To me after spending some time with IT, made me value the sense of touch more. It could help you relive a certain memory or highlight of your life. It can also make you think about all the struggles you've gone through to make you who you are today. Ot it can let your mind drift off as if it was in outer space almost like how the song begins. But for me, it all happened on a bright, sunny day on August 3, 2013, I knelt down on the bench and met IT and suddenly my mind wandered off.
I swing my arm around on the table gently resting my hand on IT. Suddenly I hear the roar of the Giants fans as we make it to the playoffs on the last day of the regular season. My ear catches the sound of Cody Ross' bat hitting home runs against the pirates. It also caught Edgar Renteria teeing off on the Rangers in the Fall Classic. I see the closer, Brian Wilson striking out Nelson Cruz to seal the deal in Texas en route to ending the 52 year drought. These band of misfits gave us a taste of what torture really meant only to foreshadow it for the coming future.
I swung my other arm gingerly across the other table laying my palm on IT. I drown in the battle cry coming from Hunter Pence in Game 3 of the NLDS that propelled us through the series and onto the next one. I see the ball take an awkward curve in midair after it comes off of Pence's bat twice in the NLCS against the St. Louis Cardinals. Were we back again? Everyone was counting us out in this next series. "There's no way that San Francisco gets past this all-star rotation and the Triple Crown winner in Miguel Cabrera," said most of the analysts on the FOX pre game. Could we pull it off again? Ask Sergio Romo after he struck out that so called Triple Crown Winner to get the final out to seal the sweep in Detroit and bring IT where IT belongs.
"Next!" yelled the person telling me to let go of IT. Snapping me out of limbo of being with IT. This is what made me cherish Touch more. As the song goes, "I'll always remember touch.""Pictures came with touch, a painter in my mind," is how I'll remember touch. This is why there lies a place in me, a passion for sports.
Still wondering what IT is?
