What's the Best Inning of Life?
There was a realization on today’s episode of KFC Radio that a baseball season and life mirror each other quite well in that they’re both super long. So long that you can’t put too much stock in the first games of the season or innings of life because they’re marathons.
Being that life and baseball are so similar, I figured there’s nobody better to be the voice of reason on what inning of life is the best than me, a 22-year-old intern working his first true job this summer with absolutely zero real-life experience. We’re gonna be optimistic and give ourselves about 90 good years so it shakes out to be this:
1st Inning: 0-9
2nd Inning:10-19
3rd Inning: 20-29
4th Inning: 30-39
5th Inning: 40-49
6th Inning: 50-59
7th Inning: 60-69
8th Inning: 70-79
9th Inning: 80-89
I really only see two possibilities from the list:
2nd Inning (10-19)
Probably the biggest whirlwind of a decade to choose from on the list. At the beginning of it Mommy and Daddy are still packing Go-Gurts in your lunch box, and by the end of it you’re waking up face down in a Sigma Chi basement praying you didn’t send anything regrettable the night before. It’s an incredibly formative time in life. Maybe Susie from third period geometry starts throwing you signals, high school sports roll around and you begin to play varsity sports (or warm the bench. That’s definitely not something I did but it’s fine if you did), and it finishes off by you taking one of the biggest steps of your life, moving away from home for the first time.
8th inning (70-79)
You’re fairly new to retirement at the start of it and just crush the golf course every day (Little break from the ol' ball and chain too am I right?) and then rip cigars with the fellas in front of the clubhouse like you’re Tony Soprano in front of Satriale’s. Once you reach about 75 I’ve decided that nothing you do to your body can impact it anymore so I’m going in, eating anything and everything. Might even be a bit of a bad boy and not wear sunscreen. Sure, you could go downhill a little at the tail end but then you just sit on the couch watching old episodes of Entourage or something. Still sounds pretty sick.
Winner by a slim margin: 8th inning (70-79). Gimme 5 straight shutout innings so I can get here immediately.
Listen to today’s episode of KFC Radio with KFC and Feits to hear the discussion on the Mets that led to the discovery of just how much baseball is like life!