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As Peyton Manning and Andy Pettitte can attest
They are extraordinarily wealthy and famous, with lovely wives and school-age children and plenty to keep them occupied beyond shining their trophies and playing Angry Birds.
So why risk everything? Why would Peyton Manning bother putting possibly his legacy and definitely his health in such a precarious position? Why would Andy Pettitte slip out of a comfortable retirement and return to the heated, sometimes nasty cauldron that is the New York Yankees?
Better question: How could they resist the lure? For some, it's a seductive drug, a vice-grip that never unclenches. As Jim Bouton, the noted poet and bubblegum chewer who couldn't escape the itch, wrote in Ball Four: "You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
The drama trailing Manning and, on a slightly less hysterical level, Pettitte just bends the mind. So many outsiders can't fathom why either would risk embarrassing tumbles when already they've scaled mountains few of us could ever imagine. But remember, twice Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan and Brett Favre and Roger Clemens left and then returned,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and those who benefited the most are the fans who prefer their sports laced with spicy intrigue.
So as we tilt toward baseball's opening day,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], consider that Pettitte might again reach October heights with Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, and who are we to tell him that's a ridiculous dream?
"I don't think I'm going to fail," Pettitte said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "but I'm not scared to come back."
Good, because we all can use a fresh reminder that the possibility of failing is hardly reason to avoid trying.
As Manning ponders his own future-should he sign with the team that's already just a few pieces away from winning a Super Bowl (San Francisco), or return to the state where his legend took birth (Tennessee), or put his golden arm next to a Hall of Famer in Denver who won two Super Bowls late in life?-it's impossible to begrudge the prolonged process,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because the surrounding plots are so bloody fascinating.
Manning update: Niners making big pitch for QB
The moment Manning and Pettitte appear in games, both will be examined through magnifying glasses-Manning because of the cervical fusion that holds together his neck, and Pettitte because he admitted using banned human growth hormone in previous seasons with the Yankees.
We won't belabor that tired refrain, except to note that HGH was (and still is) illegal without a doctor's prescription,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and also that it was in the early part of this century (and still is) illegal by the rules of baseball,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though it wasn't policed during that shameful era rife with performance-enhancing drugs. Pettitte knows he'll always be doubted by legions who wonder how his soon-to-be 40-year-old body recovers, and not all of those skeptics are Red Sox fans.
The signing of Pettitte to a minor league deal for $2.5 million was an unexpected thunderclap out of a clear blue sky. He retired following the 2010 season, saying he craved more time with his family and admitting he no longer had the drive to put in the time and effort required to maintain his fitness and preparation. Weeks ago he swore he wasn't contemplating a comeback, but then he covertly worked out for the Yankees, and afterward Rivera pinned him to the wall and pleaded,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "Let's go!"
Pettitte stunner: Left-hander returns to baseball with Yankees
Apparently the allure of again wearing the pinstripes proved irresistible.
"I think I told y'all, when people asked, 'Would I ever come back?' I said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'You know what? I would probably be too embarrassed to come back because I'm retiring and I'm announcing a retirement,' " Pettitte said. "That's where I've been over the (past) three or four days. I am embarrassed that I'm coming back. What can I do?
"Things have changed. My desire to do this has changed. I sure in the heck don't want to look back 10 years from now and say, 'Man,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I wish I would have done that.' "
Wouldn't we all like to live the life we've imagined,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and then do it all again? All endeavors are sweetened by risk,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though this was a no-brainer for the Yankees. Never can a team have too much pitching-Bouton might have coined that, too-and it should be compelling theater watching Pettitte try to squeeze into an already crowded rotation.
From SI: Pettitte gives Yankees enviable pitching depth
Quipped Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine: "Is he going to be a starter or just pick people off? I thought they had too much pitching before. Now what do they have? Too, too much pitching."
Pettitte doesn't have to mirror his last season-an 11-3 record and 3.28 ERA over 129 innings and 21 starts before a groin injury and then back problems intervened. But if he does, and if the maladies that plagued him remain at bay (and there come the skeptics),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], won't that be something?
When Pettitte testifies as a key witness for the prosecution in Clemens' perjury trial this spring, that should add an extra layer to the spectacle. Sure, it would be easier for Pettitte to appear in court and truthfully say what he knows about his old pal's alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs, then head back to his Texas abode and away from the spotlight,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but easy isn't much fun.
Red Sox react: Shock and respect
Many more eyeballs than usual will watch Manning, soon to be 36, as he puts his neck on the guillotine for our enjoyment. What will happen in that first helmet-to-helmet collision? What if he's concussed or worse, paralyzed? The Romans had their lions and we have our own gory amusement.
For now, the entertainment veers in odd directions, with the revelation that Manning and Alex Smith, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback for seven years, share the same agent. Considering the 49ers cleverly worked out Manning under the radar, and considering the 49ers have low-balled Smith,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a free agent, after a season in which he finally began to realize his potential-well, it's hardly shocking that Smith is considering firing Tom Condon, the double agent,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and changing teams.
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