We've dealt with death on this blog before, and surely it is no easy task. Prior to the NHL season, we had to cope with Luc Bourdon's passing after a motorcycle accident. Just recently we learned of the death of Taylor Pyatt's fiance in an automobile accident in Jamaica. Now, we sit here coping with a death that is even more close to home. Nick Adenhart has always been referred to as "Andrew's Boy" around the LSF, but in reality we all wanted him to be a successful pitcher after the kind of story he came up with.
I went to Nick's MLB debut last year, and while it wasn't his best performance, he showed flashes of brilliance in that game that impressed the heck out of me. Watching him pitch, you just knew this guy had the right stuff. In the game Wednesday night against the A's, Nick was masterful in his six shutout innings, proving his potential was coming to fruition. However, as Torii Hunter said yesterday, this is well beyond baseball. This is real life. The story has been read and reread plenty of times over the last 24 hours, the pain of losing someone like this is hard. It gives us a chance to take a look at our lives and how our life is so out of our hands. It gives us a chance to take a look at how we're living our lives and realize that we may not have time to sort things out the way we would like. It gives us a chance to step back and get right with our faith and with our God. Most of all, it gives us a chance to just pause and realize what life is all about.
Farewell Nick.
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