"Keep your eye clear and hit 'em where they ain't." Wee Willie Keeler, Baltimore Orioles outfielder, 1898.

This statement comes from 114 years ago. Still as accurate as it ever was, baseball is a timeless sport that blends the centuries together. Watching the hard slide of Matt Holiday into Marco Scutaro in last night's NL Championship series, reminds you of just how little the game has changed. The rules, the players, the uniforms, the teams...allso very much the same as they were in the late 1800's. See ball, hit ball. Of course, 100 years ago there were no TV interviews where analysts and managers and "experts" debated endlessly on the legality and morality of Hollidays takeout slide. Instead, it probably would have been handled under the bleachers after the game, or the first pitch to Holliday in the next game. Somewhere around his ear I would imagine that ball would be directed.

As your day unfolds before you, as the twists and turns of the week or the month distract you, remember Wee Willie Keeler. See the ball, hit the ball. Hit 'em where they ain't.