The Miami Marlins are the hottest team in baseball. You could actually have awakened Wednesday to say that, and without sarcasm or irony. They'd won four games in a row and six of the past seven, the only loss by one run. It wasn't a mirage. Might not last, or signify a turnaround. But it really happened.
Grab onto it. Grab it like a man lost at sea would a floating plank of driftwood. Or like Tom Hanks with his volleyball friend in Cast Away.
The woeful, start-over Marlins picking themselves up off the floor reminds us anything is possible, and maybe more so in sports.