135 Days to Opening Day 2008

Opening Day 2008 for the Timber Rattlers is April 3. That is 135 days from today. This off-season, the countdown will be based on books. Each day between now and Opening Day 2008, I will pick a random book out of my library and excerpt a passage off the page number corresponding with the number of days remaining to the first pitch of the new season. I will try not to repeat a book during the countdown.

Today’s excerpt is from Rouge Warrior by Richard Marcinko.

Marcinko’s memoirs are a good, vulgar, action-packed read. For example:

They thought of war in the conventional way, as a static affair in which the lines don’t shift very much. They thought of Vietnam as if it were Korea, or Europe in World War II – a war in which one side attacks the other, territory is taken, and the war is won. They had no concept of guerrilla operations; of wars being won or lost on the squad level. Worst of all they wanted SEALs to be passive.

Not me. I wanted to go ------- hunting.

Put today’s excerpt in a baseball context.