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Good boy, AL Central
A few weeks ago, the AL Central was officially adopted by The Grind. Got the papers and everything. Took it home, kept it warm, fed it right and doggone it if it’s not thriving and making us proud.
Good, AL Central. Good division.
Oh, they’re not going to lead the world in wins, beating up on each other the way they have. But with three teams — Tigers, Royals, Twins — tied for first and only 4 1/2 games separating top from bottom, this remains a division worth watching this season. Deserves a pat on the head, right now.
Even on an individual level, AL-C, as we’ve nicknamed the cute, little bugger, is shining. You’re looking at far and away the early favorite for the AL Cy Young award in Zack Greinke of the Royals, and you can check up and down the division and find fun players to watch, like Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera and Cleveland’s Grady Sizemore.
It’s all good in the AL Central. That handful of teams deserves a treat about now.
Yeah, attaboy. Good AL-C, good division.
Yakyu Haiku
That’s the American tradition of baseball in Japanese, and here’s an Americanized version of a Japanese tradition:
Stealing and sliding,
Running wild on a spring day –
Speed thrills, Mr. Met
Moving on, sort of
Remember when A-Rod had his press conference back in February and declared it was time to move on, move forward, like it was OK to flip the switch now and get on with our lives?
Remember how empty that felt? For a baseball fan with that sick feeling in your stomach, it’s not OK yet. Wasn’t then, and isn’t now. Might not be for a while.
It was that same kind of empty feeling when he hit that first pitch out Friday night. Maybe Yankees fans are that easy, and nowadays they probably should take what they can get, but it’s going to be a long time before many of the rest of us can watch A-Rod be spectacular like that, smile like that, enjoy the game we all love so much like that, without thinking of the damage he has done.
Not trying to say he should mope or change anything at all. It’s just a consequence. He should know that, and it’s understandable how he wants to build a wall for his “happy place” inside the lines. He’s getting paid exorbitantly, gets to do what he loves and has nine years left on his contract — yeah, he probably should be happy.
But now that he’s back between the lines, it’s not as though all is well and the otherworldly talent is just on display, clean and pristine. There are new glasses we’re seeing him through now, and the prescription isn’t going to improve overnight, if ever.
Good to have him back and all, but let’s hold off the parade, eh?
Yakyu Haiku
That’s the American tradition of baseball in Japanese, and here’s an Americanized version of a Japanese tradition:
No, you don’t, Grady,
Granderson soars through spring air –
Snares like a Tiger
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