<p>My writing ambitions in general are to write more. I just happen to like sports, which is a stage on which people strut and fret and either accomplish great things, just get by, or create disasters (usually related to sudden wealth).</p>
<p>Golf and baseball seem to attract the most literate writers or maybe I&rsquo;m biased (likely so). Both sports go along at a &ldquo;cricket-like&rdquo; pace (as only Sumo tournaments at 15 days and bike Tours de Something are longer than cricket matches; I&rsquo;ve seen Sumo and remain clueless about cricket).</p>
<p>As for writing/co-writing a sports-themed book, we need an &ldquo;angle.&rdquo; Like finding and telling the story of an obscure player, which, of course, makes the task harder.</p>
<p>I might have stumbled on something with my &ldquo;stat&rdquo; pursuit. We could write about a nobody sports fan (thinking now of the poor guy who disrupted a fly ball in Chicago and condemned the Cubs to another century of frustration; that guy didn&rsquo;t want fame, he just wanted a baseball).</p>
<p>So in our storyline, this &ldquo;just Joe&rdquo; fan has a &ldquo;moment&rdquo; or a revelation and comes up with a new stat that changes a sport (getting a bit autobiographical here).</p>
<p>Maybe it&rsquo;s a Zen moment and the realization that all sports at all levels are played because they are fun, despite all the monetary distractions.</p>
<p>Zen is a three letter word, and so is FUN, which is an acronym for Fundamentally Understanding Nothing (and paradoxically doing everything well). The simplicity of all sports (ball in a peach basket, ball in a hole on a green, ball on bat, gloved fist on face, etc.) makes it difficult for people to understand because they are distracted by adoration of a player, fantasy sports (gambling), announcers creating drams on TV, radio, online, like a dude striking out is akin to failing to find the cure for cancer or a city&rsquo;s demise (i.e., we lost, so let&rsquo;s burn down our town).</p>
<p>We, as fans, seem to believe that sports figures are better than we are. They are only better at one thing for sure: their sport.</p>
<p>Maybe we start our story with a golf fan who gets hit by an errant tee shot and has an Isaac Newton apple moment. The &ldquo;gravity&rdquo; of his situation compels him to speak the truth about sports: FUN. Millions flock to his message and soon he&rsquo;s talking in football stadiums (holds more people than gyms) about FUN&hellip;.</p>
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