I tend to be a guy who does not dwell on sadness and the grim reality of life-on-Earth but today’s events have rocked me.

I’m sure most of you have heard about the very untimely death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenheart. The 22-year old was fresh off his arguably his best day as a professional baseball player, only to have his life taken in a horrific traffic accident.

It’s rare in my job as Sports Anchor for KNBR 680  that I have to actually “break” hard news that pertains to the sports world. We run an intentionally light-hearted Morning Show and most of the bad sports news can be sprinkled in accordingly.

Today’s jolt was far different.

I guess for me it hit home extra-hard because the man was on the cusp of truly realizing all the dreams he had worked so hard to achieve.

The nature and violence of the accident reminds me that all of this “life we get” is such a tremendous gift and can be taken at any moment that it must be appreciated and then appreciated again.

I want to say that I take nothing for granted and live every moment but that’s not entirely true. I’m just going to spend the rest of the monets of this one day trying to experience and really “feel” everything, knowing that it could be the last “now” at any time.

MASTERS BEGINS

As I debate whether or not to bring my kids to the yard for Giants-Brewers, I can’t wait for Masters coverage to begin.

Nothing like the opening montage of foliage and play-you-missed from earlier to satisfy my golf Jones. I’ve intentionally eschewed internet coverage since Tiger teed off, making that opening all the sweeter.

Again for the record, my cash (proverbial) is on Jeev Milkha Singh.