<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="td1"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t2" style="width: 540px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="middle" class="td1"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">The Dugout</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="middle" class="td1"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="td1"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td valign="middle" class="td2"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">They like it here<br>shaded from the sun, drinking Gatorade<br>in the dugout among the solitude<br>of brothers.<br><br>After one strikes out<br>or misses a ball,<br>angry fathers climb the gated fence<br>that separates spectators<br>from players and curse.<br>All night only the male crickets chirp,<br><br>nocturnal and cold-blooded.<br>They take on the temperature<br>of their surroundings.<br>They run the top of one wing<br>along the teeth<br>at the bottom of the other.<br><br>Their wings up and open<br>like acoustical sails, the sound relentless<br>and unending.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Jill Bialosky</div></body></html>