Possible MLB job over the season?

Ok.  So I know this is really, REALLY reaching for the stars.  But hey, what do I really have to lose?

My mom (and sole official follower of my blog - yay Mommy!) told me today about an opportunity to be a correspondent/writer/viewer of the 2011 baseball season for Major League Baseball.  The dream job.  The only coveat is that I would need to live in New York City for the duration of the season, thereby take at least a semester off of school.

However, this is really the opportunity of a lifetime.  My mom assured me that she would support such a venture: school isn't going to go away.  I am blessed to have the means to take school off and come back later, to have supportive parents who always allow me to follow my dreams, and a family who has bestowed upon me a love and passion for the game of baseball.

Working for Major League Baseball is just that: a dream job for me.  There is not much that would propel me to leave school and take a semester off, but I am not thinking twice about applying for this.  Baseball is my lifeblood - as illustrated by my last blog post, I would not be the same person without baseball.  It has taught me and provided me with so much in my life.  I'm getting emotional just writing this, thinking about the profound effect this past season especially had on me.  In all honesty, the Giants winning the world series this year was more than I needed.  It saved me in many ways.  I was going through one of the hardest periods of my life, and just when I was ready to throw in the towel and spiral out of control, there was baseball.  There was my team, the plucky underdog throughout the playoffs, grinding it out everyday against "superior" ball clubs.  They beat the odds and won their first world series ever in the city of San Francisco - this inspired me more and touched me in ways other people may never fully understand or even be able to comprehend.

The ability and opportunity to surround my life, even if just for a season, with the game that has saved me over and over again, that has picked me up when I have been down, that has stayed with me through both the good times and the bad, that has never for an iota of a second let me down, would be a dream come true.  I would relish the opportunity to give back to the game that has given me so much.

So...look for updates on my application!  It's a real shot in the dark, but nothing in life isn't worth a good 'ol try.  :)