Irony.
Irony fills our lives every day. A moment from our past comes full circle and one again we see the irony in life.
Irony.
Choosing to take Sally instead of Sue to the prom and then fifteen years later you are married to Sue instead of Sally.
Irony.
You choose to play baseball instead of football because baseball is a safer sport and three years later you ruptured tendons in your knee sliding into second base.
Irony.
Our lives are full of irony.
This is what I am thinking as I dress for my first ever professional baseball game. I am in Florida, where I played some games as a member of the Rice University Owls.
But that's not the irony I am thinking about.
I am thinking about the irony that tonight's opponent is the Tigers.
The team that chose me a year ago.
With the first pick of the 2018 Amateur Draft.
Tomorrow I am playing against them.
Well, one of their Gulf Coast rookie teams that is.
I, Robert James, catcher for the Gulf Coast League Mets, failed to sign with the Detroit Tigers one year ago and today I make my pro debut against the team that I probably would have been assigned to if I had signed.
That is my irony.
