Forty-Two.

Tonight, I saw 42.

I loved it from the minute it started.

In the first two minutes this truth was uttered:

"Baseball was proof positive

that democracy was real."

And then for two hours,

I watched my love for baseball

play out on that screen,

my love for this land,

and for its heroes.

Now let me say,

I hate clapping at the end of movies.

Umm, hello.

The people who made the movie

aren't in the theater.

They can't hear you.

But tonight,

not only did I want to clap,

I wanted to stand up

and praise God in heaven

and applaud His children

one and all.

Because despite any and every wretched thing

ever done in this land,

there is still that firework that bursts overhead

and promises that life is still good,

and people are still good.

The bottom line is this:

See it.