LiveJournal Entry of msweeney_2003
August 18, 2003
I can't sleep. I can't eat. I can't do anything without thinking of my family's safety.
This is so trivial; it's only a game. Part of the time I just want to hang up my jersey for good and spend the rest of my life raising children and grandchildren. But then I remember what I'm playing for. It's not personal fortune, it's not renown, it's not just simply the lack of anything else to do. I do this because I am a Kansas City Royal. Few seem to appreciate the immortality of that. Those that do have filled this stadium for fifteen years, through cold April winds and rain and losing records. And in doing so, they have made themselves immortal. As long as they keep cheering me on, I will always play for them.
That is why this record has to be broken. I want to hit these eleven more home runs, and make the threats end, and go back to bringing the Royals to their destiny. Just make it all stop.