You are what the back of the card says you are.............

I watch and listen to a lot of baseball during the season.To me it's like wallpaper. It's there. It is usually playing in the background as I go about all sorts of activities including yard work, cooking. cleaning or sitting at my desk catching up on order writing,bill paying or filing.It's just there.
Often I hear analysts and broadcasters reference the back of a player's baseball card.You pretty much are what the back of your card says you are. 
What does that mean?
Let me explain. As a kid, collecting baseball cards was a yearly Summer time endeavor. Neat bundles held together by rubber bands,carefully filed in a shoe box either by team or in numerical sequence (every player's card had a corresponding number).On the front of the card is your picture in the uniform of the team you currently play for. On the back of each card was the player's statistics and biographical information. Height, weight,,birthplace,hometown and age. All very important details to those of us who followed these kinds of things.
And then there were his statistics. Batting averages,on base percentages,strike outs,wins and losses etc.
All of this information painted a picture and told the story of this person's career. It certainly was a much more relevant picture than the photo on the front side of the card.
You are what the back of the card says you are.
You may have that banner year when everything is just perfect and the numbers soar. There are also years when things just aren't falling your way,when nothing seems to be going right. In those years, the numbers just aren't that pretty.Maybe there is a year with an injury. Who knows? The bottom line is that when you take all of the numbers from all of the years, you can get an average ,an overview of exactly what kind of player each person is..
When I look at the back of my baseball card,there are no real surprises. I am what my card says I am. I have had good years and bad years.There have been high's and low's.
Bottom line,when I look at my averages over the course of my career so far, I have been a consistent contributor with a winning record.
My teams are always in contention. I am a proven winner. I am a valuable asset to the team I am playing for as well as an amazing emissary for how one should go about this game of life.
Has it been a Hall of Fame career?
Who knows?
It's not over yet. The votes are not all in. 
As it is in baseball, there is a lot to be said for a long and consistent dependable career.
So I would rather not even care to discuss the merits of my career up until now. For now, I just want to keep playing,compiling stats and contributing as much as I possibly can. The ballots will eventually be cast, probably log after I am gone. Until then I'll just keep suiting up on a daily basis!