February 2012
14 posts
Belatedly on the death of The Kid: he’s the character most easily-associated with the mid-eighties Swingin’ Mets, the first team I ever hated. He was the most vocal about thanking his Lord and Savior after they won the 86 WS and got the game-winning hit in Game 1 of the 88 LCS which was the peak of the dynasty that almost was.
Keith Hernandez basically admitted he didn’t like...
Spring is training. Matt Holliday & David Freese have been playing squash, Kyle Lohse has a new pitch, and we’re hours away from multiple TBSOML sightings. Ryan Theriot is nowhere, neither is Ryan Franklin, and Jason Motte is The Closer.
I can’t believe we are starting over.
When it came to the Super Bowl I came down hard on the side of the Patriots, for the same reason I do anytime they’re in the playoffs, which is the only time I care enough about the NFL to actually pick a side. The Patriots are, for better or worse, the St. Louis Baseball Cardinals of the NFL—by which I mean, civilian hatred of them approaches Cardinals level, except there’s...