The Bulls Are Grand as the Side of the Sun

The Red Sox lose to the Orioles in 13 innings …

Bill:
Crap. Sox get all the breaks but leave bags loaded in the 7th and 11!? … I'm wasted, definitely not in fan, peak season form.

 

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Doug:
I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space.

 

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Bill:
I ought to give up baseball and become a rodeo fan, specifically bull riding.

 

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Doug:
Cowyboy Up, yo!

 

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Bill:
Yeah, some ballplayers could learn a thing or two about sucking it up from these guys   "a bull rider is injured every 13 or so rides -- stomped by hooves, head-butted in midair, dragged by his own rope, bludgeoned by horns the dimensions of warped baseball bats -- and every year or so someone is killed. "

 

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Doug:
Three o'clock'll be time to get back on the bull like any good "buckle bunnie."

 

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Bill:
Hell yeah it is! If ol' man Scrivener ain't around, I'll fire up MLB.TV on one of unused PCs.

 

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Author's notes:
Title from Charles Bukowski's poem "side of the sun" from the collection Burning in Water Drowning in Flame. Doug's "nut" speech is from Allen Steele's A King of Infinite Space.