As part of the 15th Anniversary celebration for Natetheworld.com, I am hosting a 24-hour writing challenge. Starting in January 2024, readers began submitting essay prompts. My goal is to tackle as many of these prompts as possible in a 24-hour period.

Baseball is a heartbreaking and miserable sport.

It is filled with fleeting highs and impossible lows.

You must be a Cleveland Guardians fan, as you stop me short.

They have brought me joy.

They have brought me pain.

Baseball is a heartbreaking and miserable sport.

Yet, I return each year with renewed faith.

A faith that defies all logic and reason.

You must be a Cleveland Guardians fan, as you stop me short.

I have seen them reach the mountain top.

Inches and moments of glory from winning it all.

Baseball is a heartbreaking and miserable sport.

But I can become consumed with the day when the misery ends.

I see fans filling city streets and tears in my living room.

You must be a Cleveland Guardians fan, as you stop me short.

March and April can’t come soon enough.

This year will be our year.

Baseball is a heartbreaking and miserable sport.

You must be a Cleveland Guardians fan, as you stop me short.

Be good to each other,

Nathan