The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day
by chuckofish
“This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be more warming. Most of all, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.”
–Roger Angell, The Summer Game
Yes, let’s keep this in mind.
The Cards have had a rough few weeks, but things are looking up, okay? Can we all just lighten up?

