This is a word-for-word quote from a news source: "Something tragic happened today, Mark Fidrych was found dead at his farm. Fidrych was 54 years old and was not expected to die any time soon. Mark was a former baseball player for the Detroit Tigers.Mark Fidrych was the American League rookie of the year in 1976 when he went 19-9 with a 2.34 ERA." This intrigued my mediocre, male, middle aged mind. Besides the obvious, who of us are expected to die any time soon? If we are "otherwise seemingly healthy individuals," are we looked at and expected to die any time soon? I know what the writer meant. I've been as analogous. Our way of writing can be odd at times. * As a side note, Fidrych was found trapped under a dump truck he had been working on that apparently fell on him.
Fidrych facts: Before every inning, Fidrych would get on hands and knees and smooth the mound dirt with his hands. Before each pitch, he would bark at himself to stay focused; a habit often misconstrued as ‘talking to the baseball’. After good or bad plays, he would run full speed at his teammates to exuberantly pat them on the back. If you weren’t a baseball fan in 1976, you would have a hard time believing the legend of ‘The Bird’. (nick named because of his resemblance to Big Bird of Sesame St) If you were a baseball fan in 1976, you will never forget Mark Fidrych. And then, in a flash, it was over.
So maybe this odd use of words seems to fit here. It's unique and as different as Fidrych was.
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Most of us live as though we're not going to die, even though we know we are going to die. We live to survive here on earth, but we hope when we die we will survive in a heavenly state. Would it be easier to know when our time is up? Maybe a message from Heaven telling us that it is time to start being good, because on December 31, 20?? you're going "HOME."
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