<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="position: static; z-index: auto; width: 540px !important; "><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td1"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t2" style="width: 540px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody class=""><tr class=""><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; " class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); " class="">The Dugout</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><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; " class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); " class=""><br class=""></span></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td1"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: auto; " class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><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; " class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); " class="">They like it here<br class="">shaded from the sun, drinking Gatorade<br class="">in the dugout among the solitude<br class="">of brothers.<br class=""><br class="">After one strikes out<br class="">or misses a ball,<br class="">angry fathers climb the gated fence<br class="">that separates spectators<br class="">from players and curse.<br class="">All night only the male crickets chirp,<br class=""><br class="">nocturnal and cold-blooded.<br class="">They take on the temperature<br class="">of their surroundings.<br class="">They run the top of one wing<br class="">along the teeth<br class="">at the bottom of the other.<br class=""><br class="">Their wings up and open<br class="">like acoustical sails, the sound relentless<br class="">and unending.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); " class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); " class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>- Jill Bialosky</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); " class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>