Ever since seeing him inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2009, it’s been a dream of mine to meet Rickey Henderson and invite him over for tea and pie. Last week, my dream was finally realized. As you can see, Rickey had a really awesome time at my house!
Rickey don’t buy into that Bill James nonesense.
As an Astros fan, this is the most depressing world series scenario imaginable for me. On one hand, the St. Louis Cardinals: our greatest division rivals, who have already won the second-most World Series titles in history. Everyone hates a winner, right? On the other hand, the Texas Rangers: potentially the first Texas team to win the World Series, a title the Astros obviously covet, and by no objective but by every personal measure deserve. Not to mention that I live in Austin, where the bandwagon is overcrowded with Rangers caps where there once were just ironic mullets and burnt orange.
I’ve come to the inevitable conclusion: instead of watching the World Series, I will commit seppuku.
Texas Rangers pitcher Derek Holland, whose twitter name is Dutch_Oven45 (let’s just leave it), posted this tweet last week:
fantasy football can deff make u very frustrated at times, few guys had awesome days today on my bench , so happy
My interpretation of these fine words is above, the first in what will be a series of me taking things literally on paper.
I realized that I felt sorry for CC Sabathia the fifth inning of game three of the ALDS Detroits/Yankees series . He had allowed five hits and walked the same number, and was about to be seen as partially responsible for the end of the Yankees season. C.C. begins intentionally walking Miguel Cabrera in the most awkward game of catch I have ever seen. One of his terrible throws to Russell Martin got away and Ramon Santiago advanced to 3rd base. At this moment, CC had this very specific look on his face in that moment that provoked a visceral, maternal reaction in me immediately.
🙁 🙁
You ever watch a kid try to do something and not be able to work it out? They just watched some other kid do the same thing, but they just can’t get their chubby, tiny hands around the pieces to do the thing themselves” Or when an older woman starts digging for change in a tiny coin purse and she just can’t pull the pennies out because her hands are shaky? That look. Helplessly watching someone struggle with something they know they should be able to do is in my all time bottom five of feelings, right next to when I make a special trip to 7-11 and the coke side of the slurpee machine is broken.
