Then those Goldurn Mets started platooning in 1969 and it’s been “all about the match-ups” ever since. I say if Jake is hitting well, DH him anyway.

He’s doing everything wrong. Every single thing that could screw with your control is there.

they’d just run him out of the game, no explanation necessary. Jimmy Piersall had his problems but, still, people thought of him just as a “nut.” It wasn’t really until Jim Eisenreich was stricken with Tourette’s and panic disorder that the game really started thinking about caring for its players who had head problems.

Willis seems like such a nice guy. I hope he gets through this.

So I suppose theres light at the end of the tunnel

Mrs. Cubnational has “head problems” that have changed our lives so unbelievably I can’t get into it. That’s the way it is and I’m dealing with it. We deliberately have to stay out of the limelight of my chosen vocation to help her with it and that’s forced changes I never thought would occur into my life. But that’s how it is.

Fans don’t give a rip. They expect baseball players to be gods or machines who pander to our every armchair taste, feed our tribal egos, and make us feel superior.

They don’t give a rat’s rear end that their raw human talent is encased in raw humanity itself which nobody gives a flip about .. all they want is results so they can crow or cuss about it. Pro baseball gives them a shot, and when they fail, we crap on them.

That’s all people are worth nowadays to us. It’s why the world has a head problem .. that begins with the heart.