Bumba Vomits the World

The title of this post is taken from an African creation myth in which a being called Bumba retches up the earth, moon and stars, and eventually men.  Like all creation myths, one can argue with the facts without abrogating the meaning.

After a winter of lies, damned lies, and, not statistics, but baseball players themselves, it is easy to succumb to the cynicism latent in the African Bumba myth.  After all, our heroes have proven to be what we knew they were all along, deep down.  The Mitchell Report vomited up men in all their frailty and evil.  Another persistent theme in creation myths is the creator running like **** to get away from his ultimate creation, man.  Even in the Biblical creation God posts armed guards at the gates to keep the little ******* from re-entering paradise.

Yet every spring man does re-enter heaven when he crosses that chalked line onto the geometrically perfect diamond where baseball is played.