Finishing the Season Strong By Matt Drewes, Thomsen & Nybeck, P.A., Attorneys
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s you may have noticed as you eagerly reach for your copy of the latest Minnesota Community Living Magazine when it arrives every two months, CAIMN has been recognizing the special role Major League Baseball is playing in our lives this year as the state played host to the All Star Game. As a member of the Communications Committee, I can say that our objective has been, and remains, to tie the annual calendar of community association living with the various milestones that occur each year in Major League Baseball’s annual calendar. Admittedly, there isn’t always a perfect fit, but even the late great Tony Gwynn successfully got a hit in fewer than a third of his at bats.
On that note, it’s fair to admit that we linger
behind in one key respect this year. CAIMN’s annual Vision Awards, in which we recognize the stars in the field of community associations, will take place in October, instead of July. But there are other ways in which we can link community associations’ seasonal goals with those of a Major League Baseball club. In September and October, baseball teams are making their final push for the postseason. We in the Minnesota Chapter of CAI unfortunately have to start thinking about our own changing seasons, and making a strong final push of our own. Hopefully you’ve been building momentum you can carry into that season-ending push. But even if there have been mistakes during the year, life, like baseball, is “a new game every day.” We hope to give readers some ideas for preparing annual budgets, getting ready for the winter season, and bracing yourselves and your properties for the arrival — hopefully after October — of colder weather.
“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.”
— Bob Feller
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