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Two months in a day
Things we learned in April:
After the first homestand at new Yankee Stadium, it looked like that Ruth guy really would have liked the way the place was built, perfect for his trademark waddle around the bases.
Emilio Bonifacio: Always fun to say, and can be fun to watch, too. (Can’t? Cantu. That did NOT just happen.)
Life’s not fair, and sometimes it just sucks. R.I.P., Nick Adenhart and his friends.
Zack Greinke didn’t get a lot of work in this Spring Training on the whole “giving up earned runs” thing. Just doesn’t have it down yet.
Who needs the Big Apple? A-Rod can make plenty of news while recovering in Vail and taking grounders in Tampa.
Things we’ll learn in May:
Are the Royals for real? The Jays? The Marlins? The Grind’s obsession with Emilio Bonifacio?
Whether Big Papi, kept in the “yahd” all of April, will ever hit another homer again.
If Mannywood, CA 90090 is the address of the early favorite in the National League.
What Albert Pujols will do for an encore to a typically amazing April.
Just how close this comes to the joy Alex Rodriguez felt when someone perhaps once said to him: “Someday, my boy, someone will write a book about you.”
Yakyu Haiku
That’s the American tradition of baseball in Japanese, and here’s an Americanized version of a Japanese tradition:
Calendar pages,
Flip to May, and toss April –
Aim for October
Perspective No. 34
Baseball was back at Angel Stadium. Not all the way, but it was back Friday night.
Nick Adenhart wasn’t there but he wasn’t gone, either, and he won’t be gone. Not this year, not for a long time. He’ll always be part of this team, part of these players’ lives. Part of fans’ lives.
And by playing, his teammates did what they had to do: They moved on. Nowhere near ready to, nothing else to do but to, they moved on and did their thing, did what their friend dreamed of doing, and did.
Jered Weaver did the one thing he could do: As he said, he battled. He put it all out there. He honored Nick Adenhart with more than initials on a cap or scribbled on the mound. He did it by performing their shared art with everything he had — much like the kid himself did it Wednesday night.
Baseball moves on. It always does. And it will this year with the memory of another young man gone too soon — as it has in recent Cardinals seasons. And it moves on with more tough days to come. And more tears.
But baseball keeps on keeping on. And without ever talking to Nick Adenhart, you just know that’s how he’d have wanted it.
Yakyu Haiku
That’s the American tradition of baseball in Japanese, and here’s an Americanized version of a Japanese tradition:
Bullies the baseball,
But has that spring cherub look –
Miguel Cabrera
Nick
Not much to say that hasn’t been said, and no way to say it better than Lyle Spencer, esteemed colleague and friend.
This loss hits everyone hard. Anyone who loves baseball can feel it, whether they’re an Angels fan or not has nothing to do with it. It’s a universal punch to the gut. Brutal.
Young men and women like Nick Adenhart and his two friends should not have their lives cut short like this. There’s nothing fair or right or understandable about it.
Everybody personalizes it, to be sure. From here, the news brought up thoughts of Thurman Munson, Alan Wiggins, Mike Sharperson, Eric Show, Ken Caminiti. Others have other names and faces that popped into their heads, no doubt.
And ultimately we all have tragedies in our lives. It’s just not that often they’re shared like this.
So let’s share one thing: the deepest condolences to the families of Nick Adenhart and his friends in that car.
Peace.
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